Pole (Swahili)
Means ‘I am sorry for your misfortune.’ It is pronounced ‘po-lay.’ It can be used for small or big things, and ‘pole sana’ also exists, where ‘sana’ is an intensifier.
I can never translate this word in English, normally, when people hurt themselves and i say “i’m sorry” they just reply “it’s not your fault” so i just say POLE!
Urban Youth, the metropolis kid: I want to write about diaspora
How being African, and being of the African diaspora are inextricably linked but also very distinct points of departure for experience and political formation.
And how African-American fetishization of Africa as an imaginary can be detrimental at the same time that non-American Black diasporic…
Songs learnt from outside sources are not used at a dance so long.
— Swahili Proverb via @AfricanProverbs (via dynamicafrica)
