wananchi
noun/wəˈnæntʃi/
/wəˈnæntʃi/
East African English [wanaˈntʃi]
[plural] (East African English)- ordinary people; the public
- Ordinary citizens, the wananchi, are popular art's primary audience.
- The facilities for wananchi are still not as good as they could be.
Word OriginKiswahili, plural of mwananchi ‘inhabitant, citizen’.Definitions on the go
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