That means “goodbye” in Swahili.  It’s the second word I’ve learned, right after “hello.”  I’m taking this in easy stages.

There is a fascinating website called Omniglot which has gone so far as to provide a translation of  “My hovercraft is full of eels” into Swahili, but I don’t think I’ll need to know that. I don’t think I’m going to be seeing many eels.

But I am going to try to climb up onto the Roof of Africa to see if anything needs to be repaired.

Back in two weeks.