SHIDOW1: An Interview

[paidmonk]

Get in here, I have some Questions about Kenya I need to ask, and the Sijui people. Many questions in fact, and I welcome all Swahili speakers.

I have this monkey on my back and I need to get it off, this monkey is a Swahili word that I've been called since age 3 and I need to decipher it; among many other things.

[shidow1]

Bring it on.........

[paidmonk]

Ever since I could walk, and yes---I did learn to walk at age 3, I was a bit slow growing up---I was called "Madh Madh Kitoonga."

It doesn't sound Somali, so can you tell me what it means. It must have to do with 2 things:

-My beak-shaped lips
-My tendency as a kid to smash my head into walls, it was something even my dad did as a kid

[shidow1]

Now we have gone through this shit before......aswer my question have you parents lived in a kiswahili speaking country......May be the best thing is to a pproach a swahili wiseman.....

[shidow1]

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[paidmonk]

Damn, my memory is short! I forgot what you said last time; ask my parents.

[shidow1]

What did your parents tell you..........

[paidmonk]

Wow, I feel dumb now.

Madh-Madh is a local phrase coined by Reer Jamaame (my hometown) for people named Mohamed. Madh-Madh Kintoonga (Mohamed Kitoonga) was the nickname of a local Sufi Sheik, and my family just gave me his name as a formal greeting, and since then they called me that since our names were so close.

It literally has no meaning, just a local spin.

[shidow1]

wow that is interesting...

[michael_ital]

It means "Dumb f'uck! Why ya keep smashin' ya head inna walls fer" ?

[paidmonk]

I haven't smashed my head into a wall since 1994, and they still call me that name.

MYTH...DEBUNKED!

[michael_ital]

Yeah, but you know how nicks are. Once yer saddled with it...

[muslim-man]

pm, Is that all you wanted?? anything else we can help u with?