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Wajanja

🇹🇿 Tanzania Slang
Added Jul 17, 2025 · 1 definition
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Wajanja definition 1

Slang for street-smart folks (literally “clever ones”).

by KASINARY Admin Elder · Jul 17, 2025

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🇹🇿 Tanzania
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July 2025

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