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mlolongo

mlolongo noun: a system of voting held in Kenya during the Moi era where voters would line up behind their favored candidates contrary to a secret ballot.

Noun

mlolongo (uncountable)

  1. A system of voting held in Kenya during the Moi era where voters would line up behind their favored candidates contrary to a secret ballot.

Origin of mlolongo

Borrowed from Swahili mlolongo (“queuing, lining up”).

Questions about mlolongo

What does mlolongo mean?
Mlolongo means a system of voting held in Kenya during the Moi era where voters would line up behind their favored candidates contrary to a secret ballot.
What part of speech is mlolongo?
Mlolongo is a noun.

Words near mlolongo in the dictionary

  1. MLMs
  2. mln
  3. mln.
  4. MLND
  5. MLO
  6. mlolongo
  7. mlombwa
  8. MLOps
  9. mloukhiya
  10. MLP
  11. MLP:FiM

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