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Balance

🇰🇪 Kenya Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Usawa (Balance)

"Work-life balance (Work-life balance)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇰🇪 Kenya
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April 2026

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Balance 🇬🇭 Ghana

Change (money returned after a purchase).

Balance 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Remaining money (Balance/change)

"Gi mi di balance. (Give me the balance.)"

🇰🇪 About Kenya Slang

Kenyan slang is led by Sheng, a vibrant urban creole born in Nairobi's Eastlands that blends Swahili, English, and Kikuyu, spoken by millions of young Kenyans.

KASINARY has 2011 Kenya slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Balance" Across Africa

This word is also used in 17 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Balance 🇬🇭 Ghana

Change (money returned after a purchase).
Balance 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Remaining money (Balance/change)
Balance 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Baqi fulus (Remaining money)
Balance 🇧🇯 Benin

Instrument de pesée (Weighing scale)
Balance 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Balance (Snitch)
Balance 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Balance (Account balance)
Balance 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Balance/salio (Balance/remainder)
Balance 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ባላንስ/ቀሪ (Balance)
Balance 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Chelete e setseng / Tekanyo (Money remaining / Balance)
Balance 🇱🇷 Liberia

Remaining payment/Debt (What's owed)
Balance 🇱🇾 Libya

بالانس (Balance)
Balance 🇬🇲 Gambia

Work-life balance (Work-life balance)
Balance 🇺🇬 Uganda

Balance (Balance)
Balance 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Remaining money (Change)
Balance 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Amafaranga asigaye (Remaining money)
Balance 🇿🇲 Zambia

Airtime credit
balance 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Zvakasara (Remaining amount)

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