A Sangoma is a highly respected healer among the Zulu people of South Africa who diagnoses, prescribes, and often performs the rituals to heal a person physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.
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I need to go see a powerful Sangoma.
Kenya's capital and East Africa's tech hub, with thriving startups and wildlife parks.
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Nairobi National Park offers safari experiences just minutes from the city center.
A term Xhosa people use to refer to those small cellphones with no internet. Those phones you just use for calls and sms. They call it lepopotane in SePitori.
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Yho mntase I saw his tilili hidden in the spare wheel of his car. Caba he didn't want me to see that he uses it for his hoes.
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I'm coming from Rankuwa.
Pardon me. Particularly in an official and formal setting e.g. in a meeting or when asking for forgiveness from the elderly.
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"Ngxe, bantakwethu." - Pardon me, my kin.
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