My Mother's Grocery - Genge la Mama Yangu

Jul 17, 2026

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A bilingual narrative follows Juliana as she escorts her mother Maria to their grocery at Kioge market. The story introduces Mr. Popo’s role in operating the shop and highlights the produce Maria sells, especially oranges, with occasional mangoes, bananas, and leafy vegetables. Juliana is trained to pick items and assist with measuring quantities on the farm. The text closes with Maria’s success in expanding the grocery into a much larger business by hiring additional workers.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages16

Reading Time25 min

About Juliana and her mother

The grocery at Kioge market

Produce, farming, and helping out

Expanding the business

My Mother's Grocery Genge la Mama Yangu Writer: AMINGA TATA Illustration: Silva Afonso, Vusi Malindi and Vusum uzi Malindi English, Swahili (macrolanguage) Culture My Mother's Grocery Genge la Mama Yangu Wr iter : Aminga Tata Illustr ation: Silva Afonso, Vusi Malindi and Vusum uzi Malindi Refor matted for Bloom By: Car a Ediger Swahili Tr anslation by Paul P . Kinunda Facilitated by Ven Ander son English, Swahili (macr olanguage) United Republic of Tanzania My Mother 's Gr ocery Wr iter : Aminga Tata Illustr ation: Silva Afonso, Vusi Malindi and Vusum uzi Malindi Saide, South Afr ican Institute for Distance Education [www.afr icanstorybook.or g](www.afr icanstorybook.or g) A Saide Initiative Copyr ight © 2015, Aminga Tata [http://cr eativecommons.or g/licenses/by/4.0/](http://cr eativecommons.or g/licenses/by/4.0/) You ar e fr ee to make commer cial use of this wor k. You may adapt and add to this wor k. You must keep the copyr ight and cr edits for author s, illustr ator s, etc. Swahili Tr anslation by Paul P . Kinunda Facilitated by Ven Ander son I am Juliana. My mother's name is Maria. She owns this grocery. Mr . Popo operates this grocery for my mother . Mimi ni Juliana. Mama yangu anaitwa Maria. Yeye anamiliki genge hili. Bwana Popo anamwandeshea mama yangu genge hili. I usually escort my mother to the grocery when she visits there . My mothers grocery is found at Kioge market. Mara nyingi mimi humsindikiza mama anapotembelea gengeni. Genge la mama yangu lipo katika Soko la Kioge . My mother mainly sells oranges at the grocery. She sometimes adds mangoes, bananas and vegetables in her stock. Mama yangu anauza machungwa zaidi gengeni kwake . Wakati mwingine anaongeza maembe, ndizi na mboga za majani katikamauzo yake . This is my mother's farm. She picks some vegetables that she sells at Kioge market. She usually takes me to the farm to help her pick and record the quantity of the vegetables . Hili ni shamba la mama yangu. Yeye huchuma baadhi ya mboga za majani ambazo huuzakatika Soko la Kioge . Mara nyingi Mama hunuchukua na kwenda naye shambani ili kumsaidia kuchuma na kuchukua kumbukumbaya idadi ya mboga za majani. My mother is training me on how to pick the produce . I enjoy the company of my mother atthe farm. Mama yangu ananifundisha namna ya kuchuma mazao. Huwa ninafurahi kuwa na mama yangu shambani. At last my mother manages to expand her grocery to an extremely large business . She has employed some three more people to work her behalf. Mwishowe mama yangu ameweza kutanuagenge lake na kuwa biashara kubwa. Ameajiri watu watatu zaidi wa kumfanyiakazi.

FAQs

Who is Juliana and what is her relationship to the grocery?

Juliana is the narrator. She escorts her mother Maria to the grocery and helps with farm work related to the shop.

What does Maria sell at her grocery?

Maria mainly sells oranges. She also sometimes adds mangoes, bananas, and leafy vegetables.

How does Maria grow her grocery business?

Maria expands the grocery into a very large business and hires about three additional people to work for her.

Jul 17, 2026

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