Tuesday 4 August 2015

Creative statements & matatu art

This is very brief! For more than 10 years, I have been involved in translating Swahili statements (locally known as "methali" in Kenya) to English and someone else does it in Japanese. As Japanese company buys Lesso/Kanga from Mombasa and make products preserving the written statements.

As you move around in Kenya, you will see interesting writings on local public transport vans locally known as 'matatu'. Yesterday, somewhere in South coast in Kwale County, I spotted a matatu written 'maskini hafilisiki'. That means....a poor person does not get bankrupt.



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