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folake4u:
Niceeeee. I love ginger, garlic and spices in general. How does saffron taste or smell like? I have read so many benefits about this spice, fell in love, that I named my diary "Colour me saffron".

Oh wow. I like seeing their food on social media though. Always looking colourful and spicy. There's this kebap dish I'm looking forward to trying one day. I have added kabsa rice and chicken dish to my To-eat list, courtesy of you.

I like Arabian tea though. It is nice.

Hahaha what happened to Kenya tea? Gist me.😂

Oh No!! I don't like pastries/desserts that are TOO SWEET.

Thank you for sharing your Arabian restaurant experience.

How does one describe a taste or smell? Lol!
To me saffron threads brewed in hot water taste something like wild/unrefined honey or like flower nectar (My siblings and I would suck nectar out of flowers as kids so I'm kinda familiar with that taste ).

I also feel it distinctively smells like a type of flower when brewed in hot water. I never pick any notable taste when put in rice, but saffron threads do make bland white foods colourful.

Oh, you go find a good restaurant and get yourself that kebab. Kenyans have massacred that dish. You should see what they call 'kebab'.

Kenyan tea is one of the best in the world. It's even exported all over the world. But many Kenyans like to brew tea with no spices at all. No cardamom. No cinnamon. No ginger. No lime. Nothing. Just that particular taste of tea is what they crave for. My stubborn father is a good example. He even has his own milk:water:tea leaves ratio and each item follows a strict order in which it's added to the pot. I'm the only one who can handle his "little ways" whenever he comes over to my home. Even his tilapia has to be prepared in a certain way. Anyway, my old man's story is for another day. I can write a book about him.

Glad to share, but don't get surprised whenever I don't respond to your mention(s) sooner. Sometimes I "disappear" out of Nairaland to answer certain calls of duty.

Did she announce that she's searching for a husband?

folake4u:
Oh really? What is the Kenyan version of "The Trials of Brother Jero"?

Masaibu ya Ndugu Jero.

How's their food like? Spicy? Sweet? Creamy? And what is your favourite Arabian food?

Their food is spicy, but not hot chilli spicy. They use warm spices - cardamom, ginger, cumin and sometimes unique spices like saffron and rose water.
I don't have a particular favourite dish but their kabsa rice and chicken dish is something I'd eat for life. Then there's another rice and mutton dish I had in one Arabian restaurant. The chef just said that the secret was in the smoked rice and refused to diverge anything else . Though it did taste like every ingredient was smoked.

Don't get me started on their biryiani and pilau (which have both been adopted by East Africans). They cook it better by far.

Then there's their tea and coffee. They just don't give you normal Kenyan tea . They'll put fresh mint, lime, cloves, honey and cardamom. And their coffees must have cardamom and/or ginger.

As for their desserts and pastries, I kinda have my reservations. They are usually too sweet and addictive. They love those sugar syrup and peanut or sesame candies. Or sometimes they mix that syrup with coconut flakes. I really wouldn't advise anyone who loves their heart to even attempt to go near them. Addictive, with ZERO nutritional value.

All in all, I've never taken anything bland in an Arabian restaurant.

pocohantas:
I just dey imagine say na woman create this thread. Do married women envy spinsters?

Hahhaah

For starters, the thread would be on Page 21 with 95% "logical" responses.

I couldn't respond sooner. Pele.

folake4u:
Oh nice. I've heard of the Bantu ethnic group before. Pray tell, are your people the original owners of Bantu knots hairstyle?

I doubt that.
I think they just wanted this "native" feel to the name and 'Bantu' just seemed like a perfect fit. I mean, I don't know....

I had no idea that the people of Swahili descent are a minority group. Been hearing of them from my childhood days. Same as Zulu. Thank you for enlightening me.

You're welcome.
And speaking of Zulu people, I had also heard about them way before meeting them. There was this song about Zulu warriors we'd sing as kids. I still remember it. My mum also sung the same song as a kid.

You know? I used to like Victoria Kimani back then. She was fire way back!!!! I don't know about now. I still like Sauti Sol.
My favourite songs of them are the ones with Nigerian artistes. Their voice is so amazing!!

She had fans here and there but she never did it for me. I do like Sauti Sol though. Maybe it's because they don't sing these cliché Kenyan songs that usually sound like nursery school rhymes.

Read some of East African literature as well.
Wangarĩ Maathai, Binyavanga Wainaina, Jomo Kenyatta. I've read Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o books. I was very sad when one of his children recently came to announce publicly on Twitter that the father was abusive.

Interesting, because I read a lot of West African literature. Elechi Amadi, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Cyprian Ekwensi. We even did some of their books as literature set books. I also read Chimamanda's books but I still prefer the older novelists so far. Do you know that Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero has a Kiswahili version?

Uhuru! Uhuru!!

Aluta continua!!
**raises fist to join you in solidarity.

I don't know funny enough. I just developed interest in Arabic language one time. I love Arabian names particularly. Arabian and European names. Not really a fan of English names.

Hahahaha I'm not really a fan of Arabian men sha. But I like their Crown Prince. He's rich.

Sure they have beautiful names, but me, eh? It's their food I like.
As for their men, many women don't like them (for lots of good reasons), until you hear that he's the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

folake4u:
Are you of Swahili descent?

No, I'm not. I come from a Bantu ethnic group around here, but Kiswahili is an official language in Tanzania, Kenya and some parts of the DRC and Mozambique, so we all speak it.

You’ll also find it spoken in Rwanda, Burundi, Comoros and even as far as Oman. The people of Swahili descent are a minority but their influence reached far and wide.

I like Arabic language and a huge fan of it.

I'm told it's one of the easiest languages to learn.
Why are you keen on Arabic though? Are you planning on eloping with the Saudi Crown Prince?

folake4u:
Lol you understand Hausa?

Of course not.
I just saw the "assalamualaikum" and "Allah" somewhere in your post and I somehow picked that these are adopted words of a predominantly Muslim population. The Muslim communities in East Africa also adopted some Arabic words in their languages.
I'm just impressed (though not surprised) that a Yoruba girl can speak it.

On another note, do you know that "dunia" also means "the world" in Kiswahili?

folake4u:
Splendblex Hello Mama, Ina wuni? Yaya aiki

Assalamualaikum Inna taya ko Murnar Zagayowar Rana Aure, Kuma Allah ya sa albarka ah chiki da kuma ya kara muku lafiyan jiki kuma ya raba ku daga mugayen matsaloli Ameenn 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Hausa?
That's interesting.

GloriousGbola:
There are several aimless, shift less children who have been making up several silly topics and monikers in the past 24 hours.

They really are children.

Kyng1:
She did hiv, hepatitis B, syphilis and Gonorrhea test before I started sleeping with her without condom, although it was last year.

Will you keep kwayet! What is wrong with you?
Who patronises ashewos without protection? Who does that?

Even this one will be somewhere trying to convince himself that he's the prize like many of his kind.

I've never seen this kind of foolishness. SMH.

Meanwhile, don't touch your wife until further notice.

What nonsense!

The joke is on those who believe the Kenyan authorities.

The man just probably "paid his dues".

descarado:
Our guys keep on losing it on daily basis.
I don't know if it is any correlation with poverty.
It wasn't like this before.
Men are the ones women run to for succour and protection. But today, hmm.

That's because the internet used to be expensive and we could only access the opinions of a particular breed of men (and women).

But now? Even a hairless adolescent boy pursuing his secondary school studies can access the internet and believes that he too can air his opinion on matters, especially concerning women.

Sometimes I just feel I can't deal with their idiocy anymore. Ain't I glad I'm not a social media enthusiast? I can't imagine dealing with the same breed of boys on Facebook, X, Instagram, etc.

Chukwuka319:
Oh please shut up and stop barking like a frustrated rabid dog.
Thanks be to God that you know that you are among the cursed Africans.
Are you American or European or Asian?
Idiots online.
I didn't insult anyone.
Why is everyone running mad all at once?

You're the online idiot.
You don't know anything about that couple, but in your head you think you know the possible cause of the woman's death. You've never heard of women dying from complications during delivery?

People die everyday. Some in accidents. Some from terminal diseases. Some are victims of violence. Others die during surgeries. Do you also attribute their deaths to possible abortions or abandoning new borns in dump sites?

You're not serious at all.

Chukwuka319:
So terribly horribly horrible news.
But let's analyse.
Let me drop family curses aside, Witchcraft activities and other Satanic operations aside.
Who knows how many abortions the lady committed in the past during her days of fast lane life?
And the man,who knows how many girls he impregnated, abandoned with the babies, even encouraged the mothers to abort, gave sufficient funds for the abortions.
Who knows if the lady has given birth before out of wedlock and dumped the baby in the bush or refuse dump, leaving it to the mercy of the elements of the Weather and wild animals.
Oftentimes men and women commit atrocities in the past and then seem to forget.
Later when judgement for sins of the past come knocking,they seem to be lost as in how the problems came.
Forget all the Nollywood crappy storylines
Aborting even a single baby can bring devastating consequences because the Word says in EZEKIEL 35:6"Therefore as I live,saith the Lord GOD,I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
He who has ears,let him hear.
Life doesn't go like Nollywood craps portray it.

Oh just shut up. Please shut up!

Death and many other misfortunes happen even to the kindest of human beings.

Attributing her death to past abortions? Are you for real? People just can't die from birth complications in your world?

Who cursed Africans like this?

Congratulations to him.
Nigeria amaka.

When some of these men boast about being logical I just laugh.

Just look at the comments coming from a group of people who claim that critical thinking is their forte.

GloriousGbola:
Well er erm do I get to divorce you if you demand unnatural things like cunniligus?

There are women who are comfortable with anal sex. I'm not. And this is something I'd make very clear to any "logical" gender that showed interest in me.

I won't keep pestering you for cunnilingus if I know you're uncomfortable doing it.

So to answer your question, yes. You can divorce me if I demand something you consider unnatural, as this is a typical case of irreconcilable differences.

Good.
Let him get a goat if he so desires it.
Nonsense!

TrackerSK:
Kenya is good in arresting people. Ask Nnadi kanu

People who don't bribe. Any fugitive just needs to bribe top government officials in Kenya and they'll be "safe". These greedy foöls hid a most wanted genocide suspect (Félicien Kabuga) for many years before aiding him to escape to France.

I will not be surprised if this Anjarwalla "escapes" from custody.

Mindlog:
If you no "belong", you no "belong"......Some Italian mafia bosses wanted in Italy dey chill there, running businesses and "sorting" some Kenyan security bosses on the regular, Malindi is not called Little Italy for nothing as na chop life zone.

@gigabyte13

I see you know quite some stuff about "Malindina". Did you ever visit the place?

You're absolutely right about the place Mindlog. Italians be wandering around there you'd think you're in Tuscany. They've been there since the 60s and they're going nowhere. "Come stai", "buonasera" everywhere.

A beautiful town overrun with gamblers, drug peddlers and pimps. Good for people who wan chop life, but not a good place to raise children in my opinion.

These Gambinos and Barzinis seem to have an affinity towards Zanzibar as well.

Tokotaya:
Thanks for your explanation.
However, a few observations:
1. The Google translator calls the language Shona. Shona is spoken by the Bantu tribe in Zimbabwe.
2. The husband switched to English at a point and can be heard clearly saying: 'So, you have been f*cking my wife.' This clearly shows that the lady is his wife.
3. The lady has two hands clasped in front of her in the gesture of penitence and asking for forgiveness from the man. Would you beg your ex if he came back to find you with another man? No. You will be angry with him and call in the neighbours to come and help you.
4. The husband beats the woman with a mixing stick. Yet, she continues to beg. That's not an action of a divorced or abandoned lady who is entitled to move on with her life.
5. The lady code-mixes her language and English and can be heard saying 'Sorry' and 'It was a mistake' at intervals.

It would be interesting to know what she was sorry for, or what was a mistake in the circumstances her hubby found her.

1. Oh trust me, I'm the last person you wanna discuss Shona language and Shona people with. Trust me there. These are my "adopted" people. Anyway, most Shona speakers can also speak Nyanja/Chewa, Venda and Shangaan. And the Shona people who live/work in Kenya and Tanzania tend to speak fluent Kiswahili, while those who live in Uganda learn Luganda within months. That's the thing with Bantu languages. Once you can speak two, you will learn the other Bantu languages so easily. With all my introversion I can communicate in about 6 Bantu languages with ease, including my own mother tongue. Still, the guys in the video are Zambians.
2. Yes, he considers the lady to be his wife. But if you also understood a little bit of what she said, she seems shocked that he's claiming her now.
3. I wouldn't beg an ex, but I'm not her. Even at that, she appears to be pleading with the man not to be violent, as anyone would to get out of a violent situation.
4. She's obviously terrified of the man. Either, she must have experienced shege with him, or she's just a girl who cannot stand up for herself. Not assertive at all.
5. She's saying she's the one at fault and not the boyfriend because it obviously dawned on her that she's not as free to mingle as earlier thought. This is because the man who had "divorced" her is now claiming to be her husband. So she's still "married", because the "husband" said so.

Gosh! I can't believe I'm having a discussion about some stupïd video.

I'm out of here.

Tanzania.

1. Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
2. Robert Knepper as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in Prison Break.
3. Jill Marie Jones as Toni Childs in Girlfriends.
4. Ashraf Barhom as Jamal Al-Fayeed in Tyrant.

MrBrownJay1:
your above explanation isnt exactly accurate either...
1. if she was indeed chased away then she wouldnt have access to the matrimonial bed, to be fukcing other men in it. would he?
2. and if that was the case, what is she begging forgiveness for then?

1. I wouldn't know whose bed she's in but from what I've gathered from the conversation, she seems shocked that the husband (who had already declared that she's no longer his wife) actually considers her new relationship an act of infidelity.
2. Obviously it has hit her that, although the husband had declared in the presence of witnesses that she's no longer his wife, it seems he still considers her to be his wife.

Another thing, I don't know where these NL bloggers get their stories from and what obsession they have with tagging Zimbabwe everywhere. The people in the video are not even Zimbos. They're Zambians, and they're speaking in Nyanja, not Shona.

MrBrownJay1:
was the mistake to cheat on your husband OR bringing the side dude to the marital bed?! regardless of her answer, she should pack her bags and LEAVE that same instant. she would probably end up dead if she stays the night (claiming it being a mistake).

who are all these men marrying these obvious low down dirty oloshoes sef? isnt it clear to them:"you chop your own, and bring that biatch back to where you found her so other brothas can chop too"?

That topic isn't exactly accurate.

What I have gathered from the 75% knowledge I have of the language is that the husband had chased her away but came back from nowhere when she moved on with her new lover. She says she has people who witnessed him chasing her away. Maybe they haven't formalised their separation yet but she insists that he did get rid of her.

She is also trying to absolve her lover from the whole mess by taking responsibility for it and says she is the one at fault, not the boyfriend.

pocohantas:
Bankers and actresses na for homebased.
Nurses na diapora based.

Oh, I see.

pocohantas:
I am happy we have a break from the usual mudslinging today. First thing I checked was her nationality. Then I heaved a sigh of relief.

They're very predictable.

OboOlora:
Is he begging to just put the tip?

Probably.
That's the one time you'll find even the most hardheaded men like Putin and Netanyahu humbling themselves.

Chai! Chioma has suffered.

GloriousGbola:
the real SIMP

thoughts and prayers for chioma

hubby is running around begging village bicycles for ride

Shut up jare!
Is Chioma complaining?