Wan Biini Siid: Di Stuori Bout Wangaari Matai

Inna wahn vilij slaant wie pan Mount Kenya inna Iist Afrika, wa likl gyal pikni did wok inna di fiil wid ar mada. Shi did niem Wangaari.

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Wangaari lov fi de outaduo. Inna ar fambili fuud gyaadn shi dig op di dort wid di kotlas. Shi plaant biini siid inna di waan dort.

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Ar fievaret taim a die a inna di iivlin afta di son gaan dong. Wen it get tuu daak fi si di flouwaz dem, Wangaari nuo se a taim fi go a ar yaad. Shi wuda tek di likl trak dem chuu di fiil dem, an a kraas som riva pan ar wie.

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Wangaari a did wan smaat pikni an kudn wiet fi go a skuul. Bot ar mada an faada did waan ar fi stie uom an elp dem a di yaad. Wen shi ton sevn iez-uol, ar big bredda kanvins ar pierens dem fi mek shi go skuul.

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Shi did laik lorn! Wangaari lorm muor an mour wid evri buk shi riid. Shi du so gud inna skuul so dat dem aks ar fi kom a skuul kom stodi inna Merika. Wangaari di wel api! Shi did waahn nuo muor bout di worl.

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A di yuunivorsti inna Merika Wangaari lorn uoliip a nyuu tingz. Shi stodi bout plaant an ou dem gruo. An shi did memba ou shi did gruo op a plie giem wid ar bredda dem and di kuul shied inna di Kenyan faris dem.

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Di muor shi lorn, di muor shi riyalaiz se shi lov di Kenya piipl dem. Shi di waahn dem fi bi api an frii. Di muor shi lorn, shi muor si memba ar yaad inna Afrika.

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Wen shi don ar stodiz, shi go bak a Kenya. Bot ar konchri did chienj op. Som eleva faam schrech out kraas di lan. Di uman dem no av no ud fi mek faiya fi kuk pan. Di piipl dem di puor an di pikni dem did onggri.

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Wangaari did nuo we fi du. Shi did tiich di uman dem ou fi plaant chrii fram siid. Di uman dem sel di chrii dem an yuu di moni fi luk afta dem fambili dem. Di uman dem did api. Wangaari did elp dem fi fiil powaful an schrang.

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Az di taim go bai, di nyuu chrii dem ton inna wahn faris, an di riva dem staat ron agen. Nyuuz bout we Wangaari se spred kraas Afrika. Tide, miliyan a chrii gruo fram Wangaari siid dem.

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Wangaari did wok aad. Piipl aal uova di worl tek nuotis a ar, an gi ar wahn fiemos praiz. Dem kaal it di Nuobl Piis Praiz, an shi a did di fos uman fram Afrika fi eva get it.

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Wangaari ded inna 2011, bot wi kyan tingk bout ar evritaim wi si wan priti chrii.

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Wan Biini Siid: Di Stuori Bout Wangaari Matai

Text: Nicola Rijsdijk
Illustrations: Maya Marshak
Translation: Georgette McGlashen
Language: Jamaican Creole

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