https://shibatoto.tech Back in Amsterdam, when 1 eonfronted this text, I beeamed interested not only in the socio-cultural meaning but also in the intention of its author. But Dede was no longer around to teel me what she w a s thinking. 1 had to eontextualize the text if I wan ted to understand it. This I did by paying attention to a couple of linguistic features that stand out in the fragment. Specifically, the use of Dieu in 13 and Mungu in 14: they are both s tereotypical forms of Shaba Swahili. |