Did you know that Ngale is one of the street names that is currently being used by students for escaping notice? What other names or phrases have you heard out there? Here are some you may or may not have heard of before
Alcohol
Keroroo, maji, tot, juwo, cham, slosh, pint, kong’oh, olure, sichuma, juice, chwara, CX3, kuona mbee, puya, omuriro, buzz, barley, steam, nga’ngo, mulingilo, mukorogo, muchuchura, kaunga, gehtee, achwaka, dawa, khatiti
Tobacco- Cigarette (nicotine)
fegi, ngale, mozo, mufwaka, ngarasi, cigar, mbaki, and kiraiku, moshi.
Method used: Smoked or sniffed (tobacco)
Miraa (Khat)
veve, gomba, mbachu, njiri, khat, kat, mairungi, qat, alwa, gaah, mogoka, giza, alele, andas.
Bhang (Marijuana)
Boza, wadada, shada, ndom, weed, ganja, dawa, dagga, kikola, ngwai, pot, grass, bhang, joint, Columbian.
Kenya has more than 70 street names for bhang
Prescription drugs
• Lego
• Tap-tap
• Speed
• Black beauties
• Matunguru
• Maharagwe
• Red devils
• Mchele – pishori, mwea
Inhalants
Mugui, Doso, Bien, Mangata, sniff, gum, glue
Heroine
Kichuri, popy, poni, mizigo, stuff, maponaji, kiketi, brown sugar, junk, horse
Cocaine
Bazooka, Blanche, crack, coke, snow, flake, nose candy blow, Big G, whites or snowbirds.
Stimulants
• Amp
• Dexes
• Pepe ills
• Wake ups
• Speed
• Black beauties
• Crack meth
• Ice
• Matunguru
• Maharagwe
Ecstasy
X
• 3,4 methyelenedioxy methamphetamine (MDMA)
• Adam
• MDMA
• Eve
• MDE
Kuber
Street Names:
Kuber, dawa, wawa