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"ref": "2023 September 23, Martin Oduor, “‘I dated mubabaz who paid my rent’ – Karen Nyamu”, in K24 (in English)",
"text": "Karen Nyamu has confessed that she once dated a mubabaz (sugar daddy) for material gain.",
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"ref": "2022 April 16, Wangeci Thuo, “Why young women gravitate towards ‘wababaz’”, in The Informer (in English)",
"text": "Wababaz, as they are called, are wealthy and their fortune allows them to attract dozens of younger women looking for financial assistance in exchange for love relationships.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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