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GreatVocalist:
Firstly, you don't “crack” your head or brain, you “rack” it.

To the question, when a person is “doing yanga or shakara”, it means they're:

Playing hard to get.
Prideful/proud
Haughty
Insolent, etc.

So the word, “yanga” as a noun means: pride, insolence, haughtiness, conceited, etc.

Hope this helps?

GreatVocalist:
Firstly, you don't “crack” your head or brain, you “rack” it.

To the question, when a person is “doing yanga or shakara”, it means they're:

Playing hard to get.
Prideful/proud
Haughty
Insolent, etc.

So the word, “yanga” as a noun means: pride, insolence, haughtiness, conceited, etc.

Hope this helps?

GreatVocalist:
Firstly, you don't “crack” your head or brain, you “rack” it.

To the question, when a person is “doing yanga or shakara”, it means they're:

Playing hard to get.
Prideful/proud
Haughty
Insolent, etc.
Shakara and yanga are two close pidgin English words and I feel proud is too formal for those words
So the word, “yanga” as a noun means: pride, insolence, haughtiness, conceited, etc.

Hope this helps?

guobe:
on another thought if you say some one is doing yanga can you say someone is doing proud?

GreatVocalist:
No, I don't think so.

The statement does not have to be interpreted the exact way in English. The focus is on the word “yanga” in this context, not the phrase “doing yanga”. In other words, if “yanga” means “proud” in English, then “doing” in pidgin means “being” in English.

Therefore a person “doing yanga” is actually “being proud”.