MABINGOBINGO: Today's Swahili Word Of The Day By Yusuf Juma

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Biologists know it as Pennisetum purpureum, the French call it l'herbe à éléphant, the Spanish on other other hand refer to it as pasto elefanto. Incase you are wondering what all those words mean, then if you listened to Radio Jambo this morning you must have heard Yusuf Juma tell Gidi and Ghost that the Swahili word for napier grass is mabingobingo.