I’ve spent more time with my students lately, for some reason or another. Mwendesha is a Form VI from Mwanza, up in the north near Lake Victoria, who is studies Physics, Chemistry and Biology; he wants to be a doctor. He is one of my best students . Obviously Tanzanians speak English differently than Americans, but his habits of speaking are strange even for an African; his sentences are grammatically correct but longer than they need be and they trail off towards the end. As a result his speech has a lyrical lilt, which, coupled with a mellow smile, is disarming.
I haven’t seen Mwendesha in a
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