Waiting ... Tunasubiri

Joshua showing us how his nail was stained after voting to prevent people from voting twice. 

People were showing it with pride.

Kenya had a high turnout of voters on Monday.  And they waited a long time to vote.  Some up to 11 hours.  No food, no water, just waiting.  I have to give the voters a lot of credit.  The line at the polling station near us had about 1000 people lined up at 10 am.

There's actually two words in Swahili for waiting.  Ku-subiri and Ku-njoga.  (For those lovers of linguistics, the "ku" in front makes it the infinitive form - the verb stem is then conjugated based on the subject and tense.)

I am waiting ... Ninasubiri / Ninangoja
You are waiting ... Unasubiri / Unangoja
He/she is waiting ... Anasubiri / Anangoja
We are waiting .. Tunasubiri / Tunangoja
You (plural) are waiting ... Mnasubiri / Mnangoja
They are waiting ... Wanasubiri / Wanangoja

It is now a waiting game.  It's been two days since the election.  The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has 7 days to announce the results, but had speculated they would have results in 48 hours.

About half the votes are counted, with one candidate ahead, but progress is slow.   It's hard to be patient.

But while we're waiting ... at least we have live evening entertainment.

I got roped into the performances... fortunately I found my niche as a puppeteer.

The stars of the show (note the house of Belli the Butterfly in the bottom left).