Tanzanian Playmate of the Year?

by Robert Koehler on May 29, 2009

Funny… I lived in Tanzania for over a year, but I never met anyone with a name like Ida Ljungqvist:

First Barack Obama, now this — it’s been all uphill for the East African diaspora of late. Hongera.

Photos here (NSFW)

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1 tmc1233 May 29, 2009 at 8:53 am: …And she is having a custody battle right now– over her chihuahua!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Ljungqvist
2 CactusMcHarris May 29, 2009 at 10:56 am: Yep – she hardly seems like a natural person…..

hongera , pl hongera { English: congratulations , pl congratulations } [derived: Swahili -honga]
noun 9/10, [ photos: upload ]
Swahili Example: Wakati ukimwoa, nitakusemea “Nakupa hongera zangu!”
English Example: When you marry her, I will say to you “I give you my congratulations!”

-hongera { English: congratulate someone } [derived: Swahili -honga]
3 eujin May 29, 2009 at 11:13 am: Funny… I lived in Tanzania for over a year, but I never met anyone with a name like Ida Ljungqvist:

Strange, I thought the were quite a few Swedish people hanging around in Tanzania. Like, not millions, but more than random walk would predict. What part of Tanzania were you in? Sida (Swedish version of USAID) has a pretty big presence in Tanzania as far as I know. I’m pretty sure that one of the Tanzanian guys I used to work with (he lived in Dar es Salaam) told me he’d had several Swedish girlfriends.
4 The Western Confucian May 29, 2009 at 2:00 pm: Hujambo, bibi. Habari gani?
5 NetizenKim May 30, 2009 at 12:22 am: If I were a cognac-swilling, womanizing despot, I’d put Ms Ljungqvist on my “to-do” list.