noun

• (in East Africa) the ordinary people; the public.

  ‘They cross a privacy threshold which for wananchi is held inviolable.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘More worldly than the wananchi, they might be gently amused, but not put off, by Katarikawe's sexual imaginings.’
  • ‘Now the artists - who are in one sense just the wananchi with paint-brushes, but who are also the makers of narratives of their own.’