On safari for Comla

ZMTKU! This, so far as I am aware, is not an African word, but merely the initial letters of the five countries I recently visited as a Commonwealth Foundation scholar. The names of the countries had to be typed so often during the planning stages that it was easier to think of them as ZMTKU rather than as Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. But even if ZMTKU isn't a word, you can't be in East and Central Africa very long without learning at least a few words of Swahili, if only ‘Jambo’, and ‘Mzuri’.