چکیده (انگلیسی):

The study focuses on the multilingual terms that have developed in East African post-electoral period.
Some of the political terminologies, idioms, phrases and colour words are presented as deliberate wo rd
choices by political operators. Unraveling the meanings and semantic shifts inherent in the East African
political operators’ linguistic choices at the syntactic, lexical and semantic levels informs the basis of
this study