SHENG DOT CO DOT KE-The Best Thing To Happen To Us Since Sliced Bread And Butter

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You should check out this very innovative Kenyan made website that is run and maintained by RasDunkie sheng.co.ke. It is not only a marvel in technical design but also a very functional and easily navigable website. The black background blends extremely well with the stark earth hues making it aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

But wait that is not the half of it, for those of you who might not be familiar with the word sheng, here goes. Sheng is a compound word that is derived from the words Swahili and English. It is a patois that is the language of choice for Kenya’s, especially Nairobi youth, a distinct lingua franca that cleverly blends and merges English and Kiswahili to come up with a unique inimitable slang.

It has spawned an entire genre of music,genge the Kenyan hiphop popularized by jua cali the master and a vibrant counterculture that revolves around it. This website is a portal to these world and to the language that is spoken and understood by over 90% of Kenya’s youth making it easily the most widely spoken tongue in the republic if not pardon my projection the entire region, with over 15 million strong speakers and people who can understand it in one way or another.

Sheng.co.ke is a repository of our fast evolving counterculture and it boasts of over 3000 members who interact exchanging and enriching its vocabulary more so in the popular language of jesting native to sheng known in these parts as mchongoano. It boasts of a vibrant forum a kamusi/dictionary of sheng words and a lyrics section. Sheng is a unifying language that can be used to heal the wounds of a fragmented nation still smarting from last years post-poll chaos.

Sheng in my opinion is the healing of the nation, being as it is the majority of the people who bore the brunt of the fighting were the youth, if only we can harness this collective language tool we can learn to speak with one voice and to listen to each other and flow with one spirit. So sign up and see you at the forums and lets speak sheng.

Poa wasee ebu tuchekiane asapo na tukule maristo zetu poa tumakesure sheng ina stay alive,mimi niko na 16A vile ni smatta, wazi Ras Dunkie na crew big up man. Wacha niambae.

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