The first thing Geoffrey Gathu does every morning is to upload latest Sheng words in a website that has become a darling of the youth. There are more than 6,000 words in which some 2,500 are linked to ...

It is a chilly morning in spring at Harvard University, Boston, USA. In one of the seminar rooms, a doctoral student is nervously adjusting the focus of a projector for what is going to be a very ...

Go Sheng. Sounds like a Chinese freighting company, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. It’s actually Go, space, Sheng. This is a Not-For-Profit organisation whose mission is to collect, preserve and ...

I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day waiting for a friend when I was struck by the conversation a couple next to me were having. They are both unhappy with a certain young man in their lives ...

• A number of times you’ve heard a word or phrase and wondered what it means. Wonder no more.