
a kenyan tongue in japan
a kenyan tongue in japan realizes speech fillers like aa, mm, nini, poa, or lakini are native to its city

Sheila Ngei is a Kenyan poet, writer, editor, and sometimes singer. She is a 2024 writing fellow at Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women and a visiting spring semester scholar at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan 2025. Her work appears in Afrocritik, Qwani I & II anthologies, Volume Poetry, The Feminists in Kenya Resistance Issue, Strange Water Anthology, Luvsick Magazine, Kalahari Review, Adventures and others. She seeks to name, disturb, and erase the different silences women live in and instagrams as Chief's_Sugar.
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