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Shamba
***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity
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Explanation
Shamba
Even though it is originally Swahili, it is now in the Oxford ENGLISH dictionary, with the meaning "a cultivated plot of ground".
Kenyans often translate it into English as "garden", but it is not the same thing as a garden in Europe. Sometimes, it could be a smallish field. The Oxford English dictionary probably has it right, by accepting it now as an English word in its own right, with the meaning quoted above.
Isabelle Prondzynski
March 2010
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shamba (food garden, Kenya)
-- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
'shamba' is a Swahili word meaning farm . . .
shamba (smallholding)
Kenya's 'shamba' or Tongya system
has been generally defined as a form of agroforestry, where farmers are encouraged to cultivate primary crops . . .
an agroforestry system, known as 'the shamba system' . . .
More Reference
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
March planting--
traces of maize rows
on the shamba
Hussein Haji
Kenya Saijiki Forum
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Related words
***** kitchen gardening
topic for haiku
In towns especially in Nairobi, were people do not have farms,they plant in sacs, benches etc.
Some hung containers while others put sacs where they can water.I am happy that they are observing the planting season.
kitchen gardening--
rain water drips from one
bench to another
James Bundi
Nairobi, March 2010
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. Plantation activities
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