magendo

English

Noun

magendo (uncountable)

1. (Kenya) contraband; the black market
   • Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) (volume 53, page 205)

     Mr. Deputy Speaker, does the Minister intend to tell this House that magendo is a business that is impossible to eradicate because it started at the time of Adam and Eve?

Swahili

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Noun

magendo (ma class, plural only)

1. contraband
2. black market