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Nana Owiti: “My kids don’t understand Kiswahili!”

Recently, Nana Owiti celebrated her hubby King Kaka as the best father in the world.

“Happy Father’s Day to the best father in the whole wide world. We love you. We care for you and we pray for you. Thank you for every sacrifice @thekingkaka,” she posted on social media.
The couple is blessed with two kids – Gweth Ombima and Ayanna Ombima. But did you know their Kenyan-born kids don’t speak or understand swahili?

Nana recently, startled Kenyans by disclosing a shocking revelation regarding her children with her husband, King Kaka.

The former Switch TV host admitted that she was surprised that her children didn’t “understand” Kiswahili.

The chocolate-skinned Nana released a video on her Instagram page in which she can be seen straining to communicate with her children in Swahili.

However, it was clear how challenging it was for the youngsters to reply in Kenyan. Nana then vented her anger in the post’s accompanying caption.

“I swear we speak Swahili in the house… I just don’t know how these kids don’t understand it…Geezy and Iroma don’t want no parts of it. Wanalenga wasifikiwe…”

She doesn’t let up though, pointing out that an immediate need for a Kiswahili teacher. “Anyway, Kiswahili teacher needed…”

In many ‘modern’ households, conditions like Nana’s are typical. Anita Nderu, a former Capital FM anchor, once admitted that she has difficulty speaking Kiswahili.

She claimed that this was because they didn’t speak it in her household in a 2019 interview with the Wicked Edition.

“I’ve done my best to learn the language I can understand the language. I can speak it but I don’t sound the way you are supposed to sound if you are speaking the language… How I was raised, the schools I went to was never in my control it is where your parents put you it’s the things you learnt,” she narrated.

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