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wapalafuti would be motor vehicle drivers and an individual driver would be mpalafuti.
Would the poor souls only drive in circles?
p.s. - looking up at my post on matatu - Swahili for "three" is tatu, so matatu is "three more" - kind of.
For them what's interested, there's a cool Swahili-English dictionary at http://www.yale.edu/swahili/.
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