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Originally posted by Safiyyah Njeri:
Muriega

My name is Safiyyah, kikuyu name is Njeri. I am new here so I just wanted to introduce myself to everybody here (atleast that's the protocol for most boards I have joined actively)

I am happy to have found a kikuyu forum, finally came up on my google! I have been looking for one for a few years actually.

I live in the UK, migrated here when I was 12 and was very much in with the Kikuyu crowd in the UK. However, I converted from christianity to islam when I was 19 (am 25 now) and that alone meant I was ostracised from the kikuyu community. As a matter of fact I had no idea we were so islamaphobic. Anyway I have been muslim a total of nearly 8 years and it has been great getting to know all the other cultures, and communities. However I miss my people, and the fact that I do not have anyone to speak kikuyu to even up to now, was what has been prompting me to keep looking for a kikuyu online community.

I have lost some of my fluency, na nyumite Ndeiya kuguo daragia gikuyu kia ndeiya ti Nairobi. Na githweri, am almost a lost cause with that! I read it like am reading english (accent-wise) and I have very little understanding of tanzanian swahili, so I can forget about joining their forums which have been around a long time. But I still buy Swahili books (yeah they do sell them here, in the large bookstores - major African languages only) or borrow them from the library and read to my 2 little ones.

I am very exposed to different cultures; english, american, asian, oriental (only japan, china and korea), arabs (north african and middle eastern), different europeans, africans from all over the continent so I have a very eclectic collection of friends in real life (of whom I have a great many, which is one of my blessings in my life).

I can be a real essay write because I type fast (not like a secretary though) so I had better stop here.

Nice to meet you all

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Originally posted by Ngûnjiri®:

Njeri,
Reke ona nii ngunyite ugeni guku mucii uyu wa thayu na wendani. Wiigue wi mucii. Nii undekere tondu ngwaria na gikuyu tondu ni kio njuui muno. Mucii ukuaga ngaguro. Ngwamba gukune Kui uria wi hakuhi nawe kuu ngeretha, ambe akuhe gaturua une iru nindaigua thabari yuma ndaihu. Wa Thiga na Ngechi maikurukire ngrumo kwenja nduma ni maroka ucamukirio igiri wigagure. Wakihia e mung'etho no ni aroka gukama ucamukirio karia ng'aragu ndihoyagwo uhoro. Ithui na ithui niturathinjite na Wagithuri na hari kani karatigarite, ona ko no kinya ungiruma ikai. Ruki gwakinya hindi ya kwiigirira ri, ndagukuonia hau kiriri ware rubaru uhuruke.
Na kamuira thaa icio ikinyite ri, ndutuire kiria mwatukiria kuu wauma. Guku no thumbi na ruhuho. One hûû