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  • I tried to be a cool mwalimu (teacher) and play a game.

    Back to Business KateG 2008

  • I tried to be a cool mwalimu (teacher) and play a game.

    Archive 2008-10-01 KateG 2008

  • I continued to deliver my answer to one of the precious few questions I get per week, when I heard "mwalimu!" and impatient clicks of the tongue from the doorway.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Schuyler 2008

  • Last week as I started down our wet muddy hill I was mzungued by a group of uniformed school kids, who I proceeded to lecture from my bike as I coasted on how they ought to call me dada (sister) or mwalimu (teacher) instead of mzungu, just before I hit a slick patch and completely wiped out on the road. (in Swahili) "Say 'How are you, dada'!"

    the biking game....EXTREME! A. Bennett 2008

  • I continued to deliver my answer to one of the precious few questions I get per week, when I heard "mwalimu!" and impatient clicks of the tongue from the doorway.

    The Longest Month Schuyler 2008

  • October is this "development"? mwalimu (teacher) our rights

    mwalimu (teacher) jen 2005

  • I was incredibly thankful that we had our mwalimu there … and I really cannot imagine how we are going to do this all alone in only a few months.

    Archive 2005-08-01 jen 2005

  • I was incredibly thankful that we had our mwalimu there … and I really cannot imagine how we are going to do this all alone in only a few months.

    success and suspense jen 2005

  • October is this "development"? mwalimu (teacher) our rights

    Archive 2005-10-01 jen 2005

  • October is this "development"? mwalimu (teacher) our rights

    our rights jen 2005

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