ASIANS ARE STILL SMARTER

At first they came in east africa about 200 years ago as rail workers constructing uganda railway line, then they occupied clerical jobs in east africa colonial goverments. Even after they were alienated and moved from the comfortable colonial posts by new breed of east african elites, asians moved into businesses, owning shops in suburbans and even in remote areas.

Now in 21 century asians again are taking the upper hand, and this is the Real estate. Massive construction in east african city centres are owned by asians. We can see how this race is changing from one place to another. Ironically i dont see much change within black race!! why,

A GUIDE FOR LIVING IN 2011

HEALTH

Drink plenty of water

Eat breakfast like a King,lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar

Eat more food that grows ON trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured IN plants.

Live with the 3 E's-- Energy, Enthuasiasm and Empathy.

Make time to pray

Play more games & Read more books than you did in 2010

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day

Sleep at least 7 hours

Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

PERSONALITY

Dont campare your life to others. You have no idea what their journery is all about

Dont have negative thoughts on things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

Dont over do. Keep your limits.

Dont take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

Dont waste your precious energy on gossip.

Dream more while you are awake

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Forget issues of the past. Dont remind your partner of his/her mistakes in the past,that will ruin your present happiness.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Dont hate others.

Make peace with your past so it wont spoil the present.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

Smile and laugh more.

You dont have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...


SOCIETY

Call your family often

Each day give something good to others

Forgive everyone for everything.

Spend time with people over the age of 70, and under the age of 6.

Try to make at least three people smile each day

What others people think of you is none of your business

Your job wont take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

LIFE

Do the right things!

Ged rid of anything that is isnt useful, beautiful, or joyful.

GOD heals everything.

However good or bad a situation is,it will change

No matter how you feel,get up, dress up,and show up

The best is yet to come...

When you awake alive in the morning, Thank GOD for it.

Your inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Commitment to giving

Oprah wanted to bring Christmas to the children of South Africa. She planned one month's worth of celebrations for 50,000 kids. This was a life altering trip for her.

She said she's paying back for a kind act to her when she was young. On christmas, as she was crying because she had no dolls, two women knocked on her door and gave her two dolls.

One small act of kindness stayed with her all through these years.Her good work has played an important part in the success of her talk show. While she was there she got to share 29 meals with her strongest, living,mentor, Nelson Mandela made her feel strengthened, deepened,broadened and more loving and forgiving.

Creating an experience and giving power to the staff is what surged Starbucks.

Starbucks from a single location coffee shop in 1971 has now more than 11,500 non-franchised locations worldwide, annual sales of more than $600 million and has been rated as one of the best Fortune 100 companies to work. Since 1992, its stock has grown 5000 per cent its success is based on its progressive corporate culture and passing its values to all employees or 'partners' as they are known in the company.

The average cost of coffee at Starbucks is $3! A concept that was unthinkable some time back. The lions share comes from its core business of coffee- retail sales,music,gift packs. Their success criteria- belief in their product and creation of experience for the customer. Yes with the current crisis they have been hit just like everyone else. However their growth compared to where they started is still huge.

Microsoft opted for gift of health by paying for healthy living seminars for its employees as well as gym fees. By so doing it saves $2 on sick leave savings for every $1 spent.

The gift of sight is what Lens Crafters did in donating 5 milliong glasses since 1988 to the less priveleged- a 'gift of sight' The company is regarded as one of the best
companies to work in.

The Gucci slogan is 'Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten'.

The more you give to your staff( guidance,motivation,encouragement and respect); the better they perfom. By retaining good people you save a lot of time and resources looking for new people and training them.

Leader servant approach is the new leadership paradigm, which makes employees feel valued. This in turn improves their productivity. By creating and enabling enviroment for young people, you increase their productivity and your profitabiliy.

By giving your customers good service and respect, you win their loyalty. The lifetime value of their loyalty is enormous. Exceeding customer expectations require completely satisfied customers and not just satisfied customers. Completely satisfied customers create extraordinaly results for the business not only in terms of their contribution but also in the from of what they tell others. When you keep your committment and trust with your financier, the better terms you get. The more time you spend on introspection, reflection and balance the better you perform.

The more you give, the more you create!

All the above examples create a win-win for both the giver and the receiver. Therein lies the power of Giving! The power to Give is inside all of you. Giving comes from within. We are born with a gift, which is within each one of us .This gift has been given to us to make a positive difference. The burning desire lies within all of us.

There is still a big need for giving! According to a UN study, every human being could be given food, shelter, sanitation, education, and comfortable life for no more money than an annual golf membership would cost or one third of money spent on cigarettes.

Mohammed Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh says, ' Poverty is not created by poor people. It has been produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.' Within a decade of his work,half the people have risen above poverty line.

Richness is not defined by how much you have,but rathen how much you give.

The Afghan families I met had nothing yet they would offer dry fruits to a guest-a mehman as they would call them. In this act of kindness they felt like a 'maharaja'a King.

The more you give, the more you tap your creativity, innovation, passion, ingenuity and potential. YOU CAN DO IT! I BELIEVE IN YOU! I know you have an inherent desire to give and make a positive difference.

As long as space remains, as long as sentient beings remain, I will come back to serve- Dalai Lama.


This article is reproduced from The Citizen, Tanzanian Daily;8th of June,2011

WAKENYA WATUFUNIKA!! SIYO MBAYA!

Eti jamaa yangu mmoja alinishangaa kwa kunywa maziwa ya Brookside dairy, yatokayo Kenya. Eti nipendelee viwanda vya nyumbani, hivyo ninywe Tanga Fresh. Nyumbani wapi? Nani kasema utakapo ni Tanzania? Ni ushamba huo.

ebu fikiria mimi muhaya ningekuwa nakula matoke tu, hapa Dar Es Salaam, je, mlima mpunga angepata wapi soko? ebu fikiria ningeamua kula samaki wa ziwa victoria tu,maharage ya Mbeya angenunua nani?

Na nani aliyetudanganya na hii dhana ya mipaka ya nchi? Miaka 200 iliyopita hatukuwa na Kenya, Uganda, wala Tanzania kama tunavyoziona hizi nchi sasa. Leo hii naambiwa ninywe maziwa ya Tanga fresh, kwanini?

Ni mtu huyo huyo ananiyeshangaa mimi kunywa maziwa ya Brookside, anaye shabikia Machester United na kushindwa kutaja 'line up' ya Simba, vijana wa Msimbazi.

Hii ni Dunia ya utandawazi, ambayo mwandishi Thomas Friedman, anaiita 'Flat World'.Mimi kama mteja natakiwa ninunue kitu roho yangu inapenda bila kipingamizi chochote. Hiyo ndiyo faida ya utandawazi.

Na nchi zilizokumbatia utandawazi zimefanikiwa sana. Angalia Marekani, ambapo vipaji kutoka India ( software), africa ( sanaa),China ( bidhaa zote) nk vinaiweka Marekani hapo ilipo sasa.

Hii ni dunia ya wingi, ( abundance) na hatutaweza kuishi hapa Duniani kama tutakuwa ni viumbe tunaotaka kujifungia na raslimali zetu tulizonazo. Kama kuna ardhi tugawe tu, kama kuna ajira tugawe tu, kama kuna walaji tuwaruhusu wananunue bidhaa za nje bila kipingamizi.

Serikali inachoweza kufanya ni ubunifu, na umakini wa kunufaika kutokana na bidhaa, ujuzi( skills) na mitaji kutoka nje. Serikali iliyo makini itatoza kodi na kutoendekeza misamaha ya kodi kwa wageni wanaokuja nchini kwetu.Serikali iliyo makini itaendelea kutoa motisha kwa viwanda vya maziwa vya hapa nchini ili vishindane na Brookside kutoka Kenya. Je kuna ubaya gani kwa kabaila kutoka Kenya akichukua ardhi na kulima halafu akapewa masharti kuwa mazao asilimia kubwa auze Tanzania? Si bora kuliko kukaa na mapori yasiyolimwa?

Tafakari, Chukua hatua.

HUWEZI KUONA MSITU UNAPOKUA MSITUNI; UTAONA MITI TU

Ni lini ulikunywa maji kutoka bombani, (kutoka bomba la dawasco), ni lini ulikunywa maziwa? Ni lini uliumwa na kuitiwa gari la wagonjwa (ambulance)? Ni lini ulilala hapa jijini Dar Es Salaam bila kutumia chandarua? Ni lini ulipanda daladala na kukuta hakuna mtu aliyesimama?

Maswali ni mengi, mengi sana; na inapofika mahala tunapokuwa kwenye lindi la dhiki na shida na tukaona kawaida, au tunapopotezea, tunajizidishia ujinga ndani ya vichwa vyetu.Kizazi hiki cha nyoka, hiki kizazi kilichozaliwa miaka 80 na 90 ni kizazi kilichojikuta kwenye msitu na huku hakijui kuwa kipo kwenye msitu. Anayegundua kuwa kijana huyu yupo msituni ni yule aliyeishi miaka ya 60 na 70 ambapo enzi hizo hatukuwa na misitu.

Ni sisi wenye miaka 40 na kuendelea tuliyeonja maji ya bombani, ni sisi tulisoma shule za msingi za serikali na leo tunafanya kazi kwa umakini maofisini. Ni sisi ambao hatukuishi na matenki ya maji darini, ambapo sasa inaonekana kuwa ndiyo ustaarabu. Ni sisi ambao Baba zetu walifaidi barabara za lami kwa kuendesha 'bito'( vokswageni) na kuyapitisha yale magari madogo kwenye lami zilisheheni jijini Dar-Es-Salaam. Ni sisi tuliyefaidi treni ya reli ya kati kutoka Dar kwenda mikoani.

Leo hii kijana anayeanza kazi, hana upeo wa kumuuliza diwani wake, barabara ya lami iko wapi? yeye anachowaza ni kutafuna rushwa na kununua prado.

Tafakari, chukua hatua.

HARUSI ZA KIAFRIKA: NANI KASEMA HATUNA UBUNIFU?

Nani kasema hatuna ubunifu? Nani kasema watanzania hawana kitu cha kujivunia.

kwa kipindi kifupi nilichokaa Tanzania baada ya kuishi Uingereza takribani miaka tisa nimegundua kuwa watanzania ili suala la kuchangishana na kusherehekea harusi ni la kwetu, halipo Ulaya. Made in Tanzania.

Lina faida? Nyingi tu, na ninawabeza wanaochoka na kudai kuwa ni uchomaji wa pesa, eti tunachangishana mno na kuchoma pesa kwa siku moja. Kwanini tusifanye hivyo? Je, nyie mnaotushangaa hamjui siye ni matajiri.

Watanzania tunaoishi mijini, hasa Dar Es Salaam tuna mtazamo wa mashambani ambalo nalo si jambo baya, ni zuri tu, na hapo ndipo inapopendeza tunaleta mapokeo ya kijijini mjini na kufanya sherehe za harusi ziwe za kula, kunywa, na kusaza. Si ndiyo ilivyo kijijini? Ndiyo bwana ndivyo tulivyolelewa. Kwa miye mwenyeji wa Kagera, kule kwetu enzi zile ndizi hazijaingiliwa na wadudu, tulikuwa tunatengeneza pombe nyingi sana, kunywa, kula matoke mpaka kuvimbiwa. Watanzania/waafrika kwa ujumla ni watu wa kusaza bwana.

Sasa tunapokuja mijini, pesa ni ngumu, ni ngumu kwa mtu mmoja kuitisha pombe na kufurahisha mamia ya watu, na hapo ndipo unapokuja umuhimu wa kuchangishana katika kusherehesha harusi ya Bwana na Bibi harusi.

Na hata mipangilio mizima ya harusi inaonyesha ubunifu mkubwa. Kuna Mwenyekiti, katibu, mweka hazina( huyu anaaminika tu kwa uaminifu wake) na inapokaribia siku ya harusi, kamati zinaundwa; kama vile kamati ya vinjwaji, kamati ya ulinzi, kamati ya chakula, floor manager, nk.

wajumbe wa kamati huwa wanafanya kazi kwa uadilifu mkubwa na bidii kubwa hili kufanikisha siku yenyewe na kwa kweli wanastahili sifa maana hakuna mishahara, na kujitoa kwa ukweli na hakika siku ya mwisho Bwana na Bi Harusi wanakuwa wamesaidiwa na marafiki na ndugu wa ukweli.

Suala la kufahamiana je, waingereza wanaita 'contacts'. Hapa mjini kama nyie mlio ulaya hamjui kufahamiana ndio mwendo murua. Hapa bila kujua mtu, maisha hayasongi mbele. Sasa kwenye vikao vya harusi, na tu 'deal' tudogo tudogo na hata madeal makubwa ndipo yanapofanyika. Kwa kipindi kifupi nilichohudhuria vikao vya harusi nimeweza kupata marafiki wengi wanaonipa fursa mbalimbali za kuyamudu maisha ya Dar. Business cards zitatolewa, namba za simu mtapeana, na hata mchumba unaweza kumpata kwenye hivi vikao kwa wale ambao bado hawajaoa. Vikao vya harusi navyo ni 'business forum' hisiyo rasmi, lakini ya kibongo bongo.

Muhimu zaidi ni hili suala la kupigana tough, waingereza wanasema 'scratch my back, I will scratch yours. Unapomchangia mtu harusi leo hatakusahau, huwezi kujua kesho utakwenda pale hospitali ya muhimbili na matatizo ya ngiri na utamkuta dactari ndio yule yule uliemchangia harusi yake, bingo, umepata matibabu.

Ingawa naupigia upatu utaratibu huu, ningependelea tuweke vionjo ya kimagharibi ili kupendezesha na kufanikisha huu ubunifu wetu. Swali linanijia kichwani, mbona serikali yetu haioni hiki kama kiwanda na kukitoza kodi?? Michango ya harusi inatengeneza pesa, kwanini isitozwe kodi na manufaa ya maendeleo ya watanzania wote?

Najua wameanza kutoza ushuru wenye kumbi za harusi, ndio ni vyema kabisa. Je hisingekuwa vyema tukaenda mbali zaidi na kutoza ushuru vikao vya harusi?? labda michango ya harusi ndio 'Toyota' yetu? Nani kasema watanzania hatuna bidhaa.

Tufike mahali labda tuseme harusi inayozidi bajeti ya million kumi itozwe kodi asilimia fulani!!! je, haiwezekani unapoenda kutoa 'order' ya keki, ukalipishwa VAT?(value added tax). Pesa zinazopatikana kutokana na michango ya harusi inaweza kusaidia utengenezaji wa barabara, ujenzi wa zahanati na hata kujenga mashule. Ni pesa inayozunguka humu ndani kwa ndani ambayo mamlaka ya Kodi haijaing'amua bado.

Msinichukie jamani, nami natamani nasi tuwe na bidaa za kujivunia zinazoweza kutozeka kodi.

TUKIWEKEZA KWENYE KUPENDANA,MATATIZO YOTE YATAISHA

Sipendi waafrika tunavyoyachukulia matatizo yetu, inaonekana hata wanasiasa wanachukulia matatizo kama mtaji wa kisiasa, na hata wafanyabiashara wanachukulia matatizo kama mtaji wa kujijazia mali.Wasomi nao wanachukulia matatizo kama mwanya wa kujikimu na kujilimbikizia mali. Haya yote yangeonekana kuwa historia kama tungewekeza wote kama waafrika kati jambo moja muhimu. Kupendana, au kwa kiingereza LOVE.

Kwanini tuna Ukimwi? kwanini watoto wetu hawajui kusoma na kuandika? kwanini ugonjwa wa malaria tunashindwa kuutokomeza?

Jibu ni moja, HATUPENDANI!!! Matatizo yetu yanatokana na siye wenyewe kushindwa kugawana kwa haki bin haki mali zetu ( resources) na hivyo kupelekea kukaribisha mabalaha kibao. Rhonda Byne katika kitabu chake 'Secrets' anaandika kuwa kila ugonjwa unaanza na mawazo potofu,( negative thoughts).Mchukulie Mzazi mzembe anayetoka kazini saa tisa mchana na kuelekea baa mpaka saa nane usiku; mzembe huyu anafika nyumbani wakati mke wake na watoto wameshalala. Tujiulize, ana upendo huyu kwa familia yake? Je, watoto wake wakikosa muongozo wa Baba na kuishia kuwa watoto wa mitaani ni nani wa kulaumiwa? Je tutegemee watoto waliolelewa na Baba mwenye mawazo hasi wataibuka kuwa viongozi wa kesho wenye mawazo chanya?

Sisi wazazi hata kama tukichoma pesa zetu zote kupeleka watoto kwenye shule zenye ada ya vyuo vikuu, bila ya kuwa na ukaribu na watoto wetu tunakaribisha jamii duni hisiyokuwa na mwelekeo imara. Tunatengeneza wezi wa dot.com,( matapeli wa kimataifa walioenda shule), tunatengeneza wala rushwa, tunatengeneza wavuta bangi na madawa ya kulevya, na tunatengeneza kizazi kisichokuwa na maadili.

Watoto kupata elimu bora ni jambo moja, lakini watoto kuwa na maadili ni jambo lingine ambalo naona linapotea kila kukicha. Leo hii upendo, uaminifu na uungwana unapotea kwa kasi kubwa. Hata makanisani na misikitini kila mtu anakula kwenye dawati lake.Nani atamfunga paka kengele?

Kwa mwendo huu tunafikiri UKIMWI tutautokomeza wakati waganga wataalam wakubwa tuliowasomesha kwa taabu wanaacha kutibia malaria na kukimbilia kwenye mashirika yasiyo ya kiserikali yanayofadhiliwa na watu wa Marekani? je, utawalaumu wakati tangia watoto hawakufundishwa kupendana na wazazi wao? Kwani hatufahamu kuwa kinga zetu zinafifia sana mgonjwa wa malaria anaposhindwa kutibiwa? Je inaingia akilini tunaposhindwa kusisitiza usafi wa kawaida kabisa na kupeleka nguvu kwenye gonjwa la ukimwi?

Tafakari, Chukua hatua.

IKO WAPI BANDARI YA SALAMA??

Hivi hapa Dar mimi naona wote tunapoteza muda na suit zetu na jeans zetu kusaka pesa mtaani. Tumegeuka wachuuzi wa bidhaa kutoka nje, takribani China na ughaibuni. Angalia biashara zetu zote, makampuni ya bima, viwanda uchwara tulivyonavyo ambavyo vingi vinapokea malighafi kutoka viwanda vingine vya nje ya nchi hivyo kuzidisha ufinyu wa pesa zetu za kigeni,makampuni ya kichuuzi kama Sigara, kampuni za simu ambazo nazo zipo hapa kuvineemesha viwanda vya simu vya China na Ulaya. Kwa mwendo huu hatufiki popote.


Ebu fikiria, Dar tuna bandari ya asili ( natural harbour) ambayo Mungu hatutozi kodi hata senti moja. Holland inategemea sana Roterdam kama kitego uchumi chake cha maana. ( Roterdam) ni bandari kama ilivyo Dar Es Salaam. Wateja tunao wengi ambao wanatakiwa wailetee bandari yetu pesa nyingi za kigeni. Zipo nchi za Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Congo, na Zambia ambazo hazina bahari hivyo kutegemea sana bandari ya Dar Es Salaam kama geti la kuchukua na kupeleka mizigo yao nje ya nchi. Lakini cha ajabu Bandari ya Dar imebanwa na majengo mengi ikiwemo Ikulu yasiyoleta tija kwa nchi. Kwanini tusibomoe majengo yasiyofaa na kuongeza gati pale magogoni hivyo kuongeza uwezo wa Bandari ya Dar kama kitego uchumi cha nchi.

Mwalimu Nyerere alikuwa Kiongozi mwenye maono ( vision). Yeye aliamua kuhamisha makao makuu ya Serikali kuelekea mji uliopo katikati ya Tanzania, yaani Dodoma. Kimkakati ( strategically) alikuwa sahihi, kwani Dodoma ni kati kati ya nchi. Lakini katika makosa ya kiuchumi aliyoyafanya Nyerere, kwa hili alikuwa sahihi kwa asilimia 100%. Dar ungebaki kuwa mji mkuu wa kibiashara na Dodoma makao makuu ya Serikali. Kwa vyovyote vile maji ufuata mkondo na siye wengine tungeifuata serikali Dodoma na maofisi yake.

Haya ni mawazo yangu.

UGUMU WA MAISHA WAKIMBIZA UCHUNGU WA KUJIFUNZA

Tunaelekea wapi waafrika/watanzania??? nafikiri ugumu wa maisha unapoteza nia nzima ya kujifunza ( learning process); Enzi hizo kabla ya kuja kwa wakoloni, ilikuwa ni kawaida kwa mzazi kupoteza muda wa kutosha na mtoto wake akimfundisha maisha. Muhunzi alimfundisha mtoto wake uhunzi, mvuvi alienda na mwanae kuvua samaki,mchonga vinyago alimfundisha mwanae ujuzi wa kutosha kuhusu shughuli yake. Matokeo yake ujuzi uliridhishwa kutoka kizazi kimoja kwenda kingine. Ushaidi wa haya upo, leo tujiulize kwanini wamakonde ni wajuzi wa kuchonga vinyago, na kwanini wamasai ni wataalam wa kutengeneza nguo zako za kimasai zenye rangi ya kuvutia? Umahili huo wa makabila yetu una mvuto mkubwa hasa kwa wageni pale wazungu wanapotoa dola zao kununua kazi zetu za asili. 'Our precious work of art'

Ujio wa mkoloni ulififisha utu wa mwafrika na yeye ( mwafrika) kujiona dhaifu mbele ya mzungu.( inferiority complex); Wazungu waliizita jadi/utamaduni/ na uchumi wetu wa kishenzi ili tu wapenyeze utamaduni na uchumi wao. Wazungu hao wakaanzisha uchumi wa pesa ( money economy) na kumfanya kila mwafrika aangaike kuitafuta pesa ili kulipa kodi ya kichwa tuliyolazimishwa kwa mtutu wa bunduki tuilipe. Ili kuilipa kodi ya kichwa ilibidi masikini wazee wetu wauze ujira wao mashambani wakilima pamba,kahawa,karanga,miwa, yote ikiwa ni kwa ajili ya soko la ulaya. Kibaya zaidi wazee hao hao wakaletewa mabaki ya kutoka ulaya na wakatumia pesa hiyo hiyo waliyoipata kulimia pamba ili kununulia nguo kukuu zilizokuja kutoka ulaya.

Huo ndio ukawa mwanzo wa kifo cha kutaka kujifunza, Wahunzi wakatundika darini vifaa vyao vya uhunzi,wafua chuma wakatupilia mbali vifaa vyao, wavuvi wakaacha uvuvi ili walime pamba ambayo mzungu alichagua ndilo zao la kununua. Mtoto akaanza kuachwa kufundishwa na Baba yake, saratani hiyo imetushika mpaka tarehe ya leo.

Lakini aliyetangulia katika mfumo fulani ametangulia tu, na hauwezi kumshika. Waingereza tayari walishazindua mapinduzi ya viwanda ( industrial revolution) kati ya 1750-1850. Hawa waliweza kuzalisha kwa wingi na ziada kiasi kwamba mabaki au makapi ya bidhaa zao ziliingia kwa wingi Afrika. Kama tunamuona mchina anajaza bidhaa Afrika leo, basi Muingereza alianza zamani tangu enzi za mababu zetu.

Wazungu hao wametupangia tuzalishe bidhaa fulani tu, tena zile zinazotokana na kilimo, ambacho kilinyimwa ubunifu wa kutosha hivyo kutoa mazao machache na duni. Matokeo yake mazao yetu yamekuwa yakituletea tija hafifu sana hisiyoweza kukidhi mahitaji yetu yaliyopandikizwa, ( artificial)

Kila kukicha, mzazi anaikimbiza shillingi, ingawa hakuna hata siku moja haitamtosha kwani anazalisha bidhaa duni hisiyoweza kukubalika kwenye soko la dunia.Mwafrika huyu anapoteza muda mwingi kulima eka moja na kutoa mazao hafifu mno na hivyo kukosa muda wa kumfundisha mtoto wake ujuzi wa shughuli anayoifanya.

Angalia kwenye miji yetu, hakuna viwanda, sisi wote ni wachuuzi. Watoto wetu wanakwenda shule yenye mtaala wa kizungu huku wakipata elimu duni ambayo haitawawezesha kuingia soko la kazi la dunia ( world labour market) kikamilifu kama wenzao wa Japan. Sababu ya mtoto wangu anayesoma shule ya kutwa kushindwa kuingia kwenye soko la kazi la dunia ni kwa sababu soko hilo siyo la kwake kiasilia. Kosa lilifanyika pale babu yake aliponyimwa fursa ya kuendeleza uhunzi na kujiunga na soko lililotangulia mbele mno kupita kiasi.

TUTABAKI TUNAFUKUZA UPEPO WA TEKNOLOGIA BILA KUWAKAMATA WAMAGHARIBI

jamani tuwe waafrika.

jamani mbona twalewa umasikini wakujitakia??

Watanzania twalewa; tuwaangalie wenzetu waganda walioamua kuandamana wakipinda kupanda kwa gharama za maisha. Sisi twakubali tu, bora liende!!!

Wanauchumi wanasema huku kupanda kwa bei ya vitu hakuletwi na nguvu ya soko; bali kuzimwa kwa soko, ( market distortion).Kinachotokea watu wanaiba pesa za umma na kuweka pesa nyingi za nchi mikononi mwa wa wachache; ni hao watu wachache wenye pesa zetu wanapandisha bei za bidhaa. Wanaweza kusomesha watoto shule, tena shule za binafsi hata bei iwe kubwa vipi!! wanaweza kujenga majumba ya kifahari hata pale wanapopewa gharama zisizokuwa asilia.

jamani tuandamane!!! nani ananiunga mkono?

UMUHIMU WA HESABU

ulishawahi kufikiria na kujiuliza umuhimu wa namba katika maisha yako ya kila siku.
1) Asubuhi unaamshwa na 'alarm' ya saa iliyoandikwa namba

2) unaangalia saa yako na kuizima na kuendelea kulala
Baada ya muda alarm hiyo hiyo iliondikwa namba inakusumbua tena

3) Unaamka na kabla ya kuondoka unabonyesha microwave iliyo 'display' namba na kupasha moto weetabix

4) halafu unavaa viatu viliondikwa namba 9

5) Halafu unaingia na kuwasha gari yenye 'speedometer' zilizoandikwa namba

6) Unasafiri na baadaye unafika nje ya ofisi yako na kusogelea kibox kinaitwa 'teller machine' kilichoandikwa namba

7) Kimashine hicho kinatoa noti ambazo zimeandikwa namba na unazihesabu kwa kutumia namba

8) Unaingia ofisini na bosi wako anaangalia kidude mkononi mwake chenye kuonyesha namba, tunakiita saa na anakupigia kelele kuwa umechelewa.

9) Kisha unapokea 'handover' kutoka kwa mwenzako kwenye karatasi iliyosheenezwa namba, wenyewe mnaita takwimu.


10) Unagundua simu yako ya mkononi aina salio na unamuita tarishi unampatia noti iliyoandikwa namba aende nje akakuchukulie 'voucher'. Anakuletea voucher na kisha unakwangua na kukuta namba. Unaziingiza hizo namba kwenye simu yako na kuruka hewani.

List haitaisha ni mwendelezo mrefu sana.

Hii yaonyesha kuwa toka enzi hizo namba zimetawala Dunia.

Husimnyime haki yake mwanao kwa kutomfundisha hesabu.Wanaojua kuchanganya changanya hizo namba na kutoa logic ndio wanaondesha ulimwengu.

Tafakari, Chukua hatua, Haki Elimu.

mtukwao: LEADERS CLUB BONANZA; WATEULE MNATUANGUSHA

mtukwao: LEADERS CLUB BONANZA; WATEULE MNATUANGUSHA

LEADERS CLUB BONANZA; WATEULE MNATUANGUSHA

Wateule wa kipato cha kati mnakataa historia? Si mlisoma historia jamani!!! wapi matumizi ya historia ya Mkwawa mliyofundishwa na wazee wenu. Au mnawakufuru.

Tunaambiwa kuwa hivi karibuni kutakuwa na Bonanza pale Leaders Club ambapo mashabiki wa timu kali za Ulaya watachuana na kuwaonyeshana 'ubabe' wa kisoka. Ingawa ni muhimu kwa binadamu wa kawaida kufanya mazoezi na kupasha misuri, ninachokataa ni ajenda inayotumika katika kupashana misuri hapo Leaders Club.

Wanaendesha bonanza hili ni kundi la watu tunaowaita 'wateule'( intelligensia) au kwa lugha ya kuazima wanaitwa 'Middle class'. Sasa katika hizi dhama za harakati ya kimapinduzi kama inavyoshuhudiwa Libya, Algeria, Misri na kwingeneko, kwa kweli hatutakiwi kushangaa na kuwa na starehe hii tuliyonayo. Jamani, tuulizane sisi wateule tulio Dar Es Salaam tunashindwa kuungana nguvu zetu na kufanya mabonanza ya kimapinduzi? Tukumbuke hizo timu tunazoshabikia za Barcelona, AC Milan, Manchester, nk zimeundwa baada ya wananchi wa nchi hizi kupigania mapinduzi ya ukweli mpaka wakawa na demokrasia ya ukweli yenye kuwapa utu wananchi wao.

Ikimbukwe 1848 kulikuwepo na mapinduzi ya uhakika Ufaransa, Uhispania na Italia, mapinduzi yaliyoweka mbegu ya hizi timu tunazoshabikia kibudu kibudu. Tunaijua historia ya AC Milan, au tunapiga makelele kwenye luninga kizembe zembe tu?

Kwa kushindwa kuwaangunisha wakulima wa vijijini katika vita ya kuungoa UFISADI ulioshamiri; tunawasaliti watemi wetu akina Mtemi Mkwawa!!!

Tuamke wanasheria, wasomi wa mlimani, wahandisi, na madktari, mapinduzi ya Misri, Libya, yanaletwa na makundi haya. Sie twapiga kelele za Mau U

OLE WETU.

KUHUSU AJALI YA WASANII:Mdomo uumba!!!

Ni msemo wa siku nyingi lakini una maana yenye mashiko.

Mdomo uumba. Wiki iliyopita watanzania tulighubikwa na taarifa mbaya ya ajali ambapo wanamuziki wa bendi ya mwondoko wa taarabu walikutwa na mauti pale ambapo dereva mzembe alipowaua.

Maneno ni makali lakini utamuelezeaje dereva aliyekuwa anakwenda mwendo wa kasi kiasi cha kushindwa kuhimili machine ya mzungu? Kilichotokea mzembe yule alilengesha gari kwa dereva mwingine wa lori aliyekuwa mzembe na kuharibikiwa lori bila kuweka ishara ya kuonyesha kuwa gari lake ni bovu. Dereva yule mpumbavu wa wasanii akijaribu kulipita lori bovu lililosimama alipoona lori lingine linamjia uso kwa uso akalipeleka gari lake upande wa lori lililosimama na hivyo kuwaua abiria ( wasanii) waliokaa upande wa kushoto mwa gari.

Kilichonisikitisha na staili ya jinsi hiyo stori ilivyotangazwa na vyombo vyetu vya habari. Hakuna chombo cha habari kilichofanya utafiti wa kina wa uthibitisho kama yule dereva alikuwa na leseni halali ama la? je alikuwa amelewa? je dereva wa lile lori bovu alipotelea wapi? Nani mwenye lile lori bovu? kwanini vyombo vya habari haviku watafuta waliosababisha ajali hiyo na kuwahoji? mbona hakukuwa na 'press conference' yenye maswali ya maana kwa polisi??

jamani mdomo uumba. Kama vyombo vyetu vya habari vitaishia na maneno ya kipumbavu kama vile 'tuwaombee marehemu wameenda kwa kumuumba' tutakufa wengi jamani.

Mdomo wetu ndio unaoumba ajali.

jamani tunashindwa nini kwenye chakula tunachokula?

jamani waafrika tumepoteza mwelekeo na kwa kweli tunashindwa kutunza kile mababu zetu walichotuachia.

Aliandika Prof Mazrui, kwamba waafrika wanamebadilika ndani ya miaka 30 kwa kasi kubwa zaidi ya wachina miaka 100 iliypita.

Angalia hili suala la chakula. Hivi ni kweli tumeshindwa kuvienzi na kuvitukuza vyakula vyetu vya asili?? hivi ni kweli ni lazima tunywe soda kila siku? Hivi ni kweli bia ndio kinywaji bora cha kujiburudisha? Je tunaweka mazingira gani mbadala ili kukabiliana na madhara ya matumizi ya vyakula vya kisasa??

Ustaarabu tunaoendekeza hauendani na ustaarabu asili wa kwetu. Mzee wangu alinisimulia jinsi ambavyo wenyeji wa kilimanjaro walivyokuwa na dawa ya kunywa iliyosafisha tumbo kumuandaa mla nyama ya mbuzi kupokea kitoweo hicho. Alinisimulia kuwa baada ya kunywa dawa hiyo, mlaji wa kitoweo cha mbuzi angeweza kula mbuzi kwa wingi sana bila kumletea madhara ya afya.

Sasa tunachoweka mdomoni kinatuumbua kwa kutuletea magonjwa ambayo zamani yalionekana kuwa ni ya wazee. Vijana wadogo wa miaka 20-30 wanapata kisukari, shinikizo la damu,nk kisa wanakula vyakula kama vile nyama nyekundu,wanakunywa bia,wanakunywa soda nyingi( iliyojaa sukari tele). Enzi za mababu zetu, vyakula vililiwa lakini wazee wetu walikuwa wanatembea maili nyingi hivyo waliweza kuunguza mafuta kirahisi.

ebu tuwaangalie hao wazungu tunawaona kama kioo cha maendeleo. Wao wana Diet coke, wana sweeteners(mbadala wa sukari) na wanakunywa maziwa kwa wingi,samaki siyo adimu kama ilivyo Afrika nk.

Matokeo ya chakula kisicho bora ndiyo haya ya kukimbilia kwa Babu!!!!

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Socialism collapsed because it did not allow market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.

Oystein Dahle; The legendry enviromentalist, former Vice President of Exon for Norway and North Sea.

The quotation is placed precisely for the benefit of the global economy, Tanzania inclusive. Why should we survive on free market as every soul is free to do whatever he wants. Open corner bars with no zoning regulation, its ok, open up the local garage in the middle of the street, its ok, start a daladala fleet with no inspection checks, its ok. Once one remarked that not everybody can do business.

Today in Tanzania with no govermental checks and balance, everybody imports a car and loggs our narrower roads to the point of suffocation. In Dar Es Salaam riding a bicycle to work is impossible at the era politicians are bragging about environmental policies. How can we stop climatic disaster if every politician think of widening and constructing road network as a way of improving infrastructure.

Our cities grow organically instead of growing vertically while we have hundreds fo engineers.As Dar Es Salaam City grows organically forests are cleared and other species perishes. The mother nature cries as she's daily hammered and tortured by human activities.Imagine Dar Es Salaam of skyscrappers that would permit city workers to ride bicycle to and from work. Imagine a city with kids having open spaces to play.

We live everything to the shoulders of petty bourgeisie in determining where to put businesses. We do not have proper plan for residential housing, and even few reserved forests are in danger of being evaded.

Innovators are people who knows about 99 percent of what everybody else knows but are able to tap into one percent that everybody else does not know.

AFRICANS: INDIVIDUALISM AS A NON-STARTER PHENOMENA

Why Tanzanians fail to have individualistic norms? of course we have a legacy of western education that favors individualism, but still its hard to forget a deeply embedded culture that cherishes clan/family status as against personal perspective.

This generation as it was the last generation (pre-independence)stresses formal education as a reference point that determines achievement in life. And yet our own tradition of togetherness, social settings conflicts with individual excellence that we learn in school. When a candidate seat in an exam, he sits alone, and he alone excels in that exam. We expect this newly grad to pursue a profession that would guarantee good life for himself and the family.

Yet as described by Mwl Nyerere; it is the whole village that sends a lad to go to school. The village expects him to behave at it pleases to the point of interfering the personal freedom that would otherwise cherish creativity,innovation and resourcefulness into the mankind.

Take marriage as a typical example. Do we have the age limit as when one should marry? Do we marry out of our own inner force or is it the community that forces one to marry? What is more important, marriage or wedding? Obviously time changes and the old-age habit that our parents where forcing us to marry from ones tribe is over. And yet up to now it is the wider community that influences timing and nature of that big day. Today, when A man proves to be economically independent ( he has a house and reasonable income,) his family, friends, workmates and the wider community expects him to marry. Sadly men spend enormous time and resources to please others so as to witness a big bash. What this community fails to appreciate is that this man is an individual with unique emotional needs, unique interests and above all personalized needs that can not be distinguished by their zeal to see a grand wedding.

What most of us fail to comprehend is that it is not necessary for one to have a wedding as against marriage. Marriage is sacred one but wedding is a sacrifice of personal freedom that people who are forcing one to have extraordinary bash will not be ready to share with him. Sometimes the freedom one is forced to leave behind may not only affect him as an individual but it can also lead into a loss of the whole nation. For example, take a student who fail to concentrate on his PhD dissertation simply because he is attending wedding preparation endeavors? Obviously the interests of the wedding preparation committee does not tally with the interests of his tutor who expects this student to excel in the dissertation.

With all inter connectivity with a Caucasian race over years since slavery, it seems forces of African tradition and norms still overrides individualistic tendency inherited from the early contact.

THE SCIENCE OF LOVE

By Jake MacDonald

Its raining in New York, and in the cavernous gloom of penn station thousands of travellers pour down the hallways, the rustle of their feet and the echo of the train announcements combining into a kind of rapid-heartbeat rhythm.

When the blonde woman seated by herself in the departure lounge looks up and sees a man looking at her, she sends him a hard,wary glance that says 'step forward if you're who I think you are; otherwise, get lost'.

''Dr Fisher, I presume?''

Helen Fisher stands up and extends a small hand towards me. She's a trim 56-year-old dressed in the head-to-toe black ensemble of the seasoned New Yorker. Her manner is courteous and guarded as we head for a train to New Jersey, where she teaches at Rutgers University.

The human species is Fisher's specialty. she has just returned from a week spent living incommunicado with a clan of stone Age hunters in Africa. Among other things, she has determined that we all tend to behave in knee-jerk fashion when we're in the presence of an attractive member of the opposite sex. Put an eligible man and a woman within three meters of each other and they'll often launch into some courtship behavior that evolved long ago and that's invariably comic to watch if you're schooled in recognizing it, which most of us aren't.

When Fisher graduated with a doctorate in physical anthropology, very few scientists were conducting research into human courtship. There was a broad consensus that patterns of flirting,sex and marriage were culturally determined, and therefore varied from one country to the next.

But Fisher didn't buy it and went on to assemble a remarkable body of evidence that human being select mates,marry, cheat on each other and even get divorced in predictable patterns that are as old as the species itself.

Fisher's central message starts with the now-familiar notion that men and women are very different not because they've been raised that way by patriarchal society but because four million years of evolution have saddled them with very different temperaments and brains. She says men, for example, are inherently much more aggressive than women, and this innate aggressiveness has motivated men to excel in the worlds of business and politics. She says that furthermore, despite their protestations, women prefer such high-status males as sex partners and long-term mates. These views have not endeared her to some traditional feminists.

'They think my ideas are harmful' says Fisher, who says she is a feminist herself and has had a successful carrier in the male-dominated world of anthropology.'They think I'm betraying the cause.But my cause is science, my job is to get at the facts.

When it comes to human behavior, the 'facts' continue to be in dispute. Back in 17th century England,the philosopher John Locke described the mind of a child as a 'tabula rasa', or blank tablet, upon which any life imaginable could be written. Then in the 19th century, Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection put most of the emphasis on nature. His view prevailed until 20th century, when his ideas were hijacked by the eugenicists and the Nazis, who argued that natural selection proved the white race was inherently superior.

With the close of the second World War, 'social Darwinism' was discredited and thrown on the scrap heap. By the time Fisher was growing up in 1950's she says 'virtually every social scientist worth his salt had gone back to believing that the dominant force that shaped us was culture'.

During the late 1960's she studied at the University of Colorado. The Vietnam War was at its height and feminism, free love and black power were tearing up the streets. On Campus, the prevailing doctrine was that all human beings were virtually interchangeable. Boys and girls would grow up alike if you took away the Barbie dolls and toy trucks. 'I happen to be an identical twin, so I knew there was biology in behavior, but I did not argue the point,'says Fisher. 'I just quietly decided they were wrong.

She majored in psychology, but found her calling only after reading Jane Goodall's book In Shadow of Man. 'She was talking about chimpanzees, creatures that made friends, were jealous,had enemies, jockeyed for political position. As I read this book,I suddenly saw that here was a field of study that could explain both our physical origins and the origins of our behavior.'That field was anthropology.

A big insight came to Fisher in 1988 when she was travelling in a crowded New York subway carriage, reading divorce statistics. 'These were UN statistics from 62 countries,going back to 1947,' she says.'Incredibly,statistics seemed to show that people tend to divorce around four-year mark. To me,it clearly suggested that divorce might not be cultural malaise but an aspect of our inherited mating behavior. She looked at 'pair-bonds' in the animal world and discovered that many animals stay together only long enough to rear a single litter through infancy. 'In humans,the average time required to raise a child past infancy is four years.' Her investigation of divorce patterns led her into wide ranging research of mating traditions in both the human and animal worlds that grew into a book, Anatomy of Love. In the book,she examines the ancient drives that draw men and women together, weld them into a couple and,perhaps eventually, tear them apart. 'Some readers were alarmed by the book,' She says.'But I was not advocating infidelity,adultery, or divorce. I was explaining the basic aspects of human nature.'

Most couples, of course, survive the four-year crisis. What's the cement that holds them together? Is it friendship, dependency, sexual heat?

Most of us assume that these are all aspects of that complicated force called love.But Fisher's research indicates that lust,infatuation and long-term attachment are distinct drives.'Lust is not love. Lust is driven by brain chemistry, plain and simple.

But it's a dangerous game, sleeping with someone just for the sake of sex, because your levels of oxytocin and vasopressin will go way up and you'd better be ready for the consequences.

These powerful chemical produce feelings of attachment and you can become emotionally involved with someone who's quite inappropriate.'

Romantic love, or infatuation, is associated with a different barrage of chemicals. Romantic love, she hypothesises, produce dopamine, which generates obsessive feelings about the sexual partner.

From the evolutionary point of view, this natural addiction ensures that both parties will stick together and do the hard slogging if a pregnancy occurs. Infatuation is also characterised by persistent 'intrusive thinking' about the loved one. 'People who are infatuated testify that they are thinking about their lover at least 90 percent of the time,' It's no wonder that people in love feel so messed up.'

Fisher is now working on a new book about the brain chemistry of romantic love and says that while lovers are literally intoxicated by romance, the feeling fades. Why? Its possible that the brain nerve endings become used to high levels of natural stimulants, or the levels of chemical begin to drop. Either way, it takes two or three years for the feelings to subside, she says. For some relationships, that's the beginning of the end. 'But speaking as a woman, not as a scientist, I see feeling of love falling into three basic categories: sexual, romantic and attachment love. Long-term love can have some of each, but preserving sexual passion and romance and even attachment does require some work.

'You have to start by picking the right person,' says Fisher. 'Then establish some mutual goals and stick to them. Infatuation is a free ride, an overwhelming physiological and psychological experience that can swamp the rational mind. It is blissful when it is returned, excruciatingly painful when rejected.'

She says couples who survives the death of infatuation can then make the transition into what she calls attachment. Fisher theorizes that as infatuation subsides and attachment grows, so do the attachment chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin. Unlike dopamine, which make all revved up, these calm us down, says Fisher.

'When two people are happily attached, they feel a sense of peace and security. The challenge, of course,is in finding someone to share your life with.'

Fisher was married herself once, when she was 23. The marriage lasted six months. Throughout her life, she has had a series of 'wonderful' long-term relationship, but still she lives alone.

At a traffic light near The Plaza Hotel, she pauses to gaze a happy-looking couple walking hand in hand towards their waiting limousine.'The mystery never goes away,' she finally says. 'It just deepens. Look at me. I have studied love and come to know a great deal about it- but I still haven't learn how to do it-to fall in love and make it last.''

For more information on the work o Helen Fisher, visit her website at www.helenfisher.com

Source: Reprinted from Reader's Digest; February 2004

World Cup; less value for our money, and yes our time too!!!

For Africans world cup is a big disappointment.Among Four African countries only one, Ghana has narrowly escaped early exit to enter into second round. Our teams have failed to deliver, period. It is another blow to Africans as we're getting on 'business as usual' always getting lower valued outcomes.

Yes, as we move closer to globalization not only goods and services are of poor quality but also do not reach customers on time.On the other hand fans as well do not enjoy fully potentiality of the talents bestowed by their players.

Entertainment is truly part of the economy; businesses reaps billions out of the world cup as poor folks dishes out a fortune to watch the beautiful game in the bars, and lots of vijiwe in urban and rural areas. Moving around suburban DAR es salaam, bars charges minimum of 500/= as the entrance fee. Again one is expected to drink while watching the game. Even the build up before the first whistle in South Africa, we're already bombarded by marketing strategists from the likes of cellular phones companies,and other fast moving merchandising businesses, Pepsi included. personally I drank lots of Pepsi chancing to win a trip to south Africa.

After all these, we( Africans) have wasted our hard earned money. Our teams, notably South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon, and Ivory Coast did not perform to our expectation, and as customers demanding good value for our bucks we have to moan.

Hang on, we are used to lower quality good and services, and this one should not be the first or the last. Time in memorial, our quality of customer care have been wanting to say the least. Observing the world cup, one mark luck of goals though our players seem to be at par on technical side with their opponents.

Think about it, the issue is not delivery but how we deliver goods and services.End should justify the means, and loosely in almost every African game the final whistle throws sorrows to the esteemed African customers,( fans). Our teams play hard, but at the end fans need to celebrate, but still Drogba,Etto etc did not deliver.

I am not good in football, but looking at deliverance on this beautiful game, its easier to compare with other side of the economy. As producers of goods and services do we soothe our customers thirsty? Take supply of food as the case on hand! is the quality at its best? With much talk about Tanzanian 'Kilimo Kwanza', can we deliver food to customers with highest quality and timely? Or is this the case of 'business as usual'? For example, for years Africans have been used in consuming unprocessed foods with no complains whatsoever. Avocado, tomatoes,oranges, eggs, banana etc have been eaten on their raw forms for years. Just like Didier Drogba, African petty bourgeoisie have failed to add value on these items and thus miss the potential African market.

Africa is booming, and indeed the rapidly emerging African middle class could number as many as 300 million, out of total population of 1 billion, according to development expert Vijay Mahajan, author of the 2009 book Africa Rising. This newly big number of middle class hunger for higher standards of living is not met by African goods and services but shamelessly by imports outside the continent thus causing strain in our balance of payment.According to Newsweek( March 1 2010)in the last four years, the surge in private consumption of goods and services has accounted for two third of Africa's GDP growth. In Tanzania 80% of her citizens depend on agriculture for livelihood and yet their growth has been negligible not supported by the growth of the middle class. In other words what middle class consumes is not originated from African soil but foreign lands.

It is this failure of the system to nurture our own resources that enrich businesses outside the continent while accelerating poverty to our poor peasants in the rural areas.

Take Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest black entrepreneur who has cashed in on this consumer culture with a net worth of $2.5 billion, according to Forbes. Guess what he imports? his empire imports baby foods,cement and frozen fish among other stuff. Then one wonders!!! Is Africa short of fish??? why should my kins around Lake Victoria die miserably while missing 18 million people's market from Lagos?? And this is only Lagos.

Do we deliver goals in football, the answer is Big NO; On the equal proportion do we deliver goods and services to the middle class market, again the answer is NO.

MUNGU IBARIKI TANZANIA, MUNGU IBARIKI AFRIKA.

Tanzania - Swahili Bongo Flava - Saida Karoli (Kizunguzungu)

When old mates meet??

Something good happens.

Yesterday was a day recalling those wonderful days of Uru seminary, my old school.

My mate, Alfred John Nchimbi has declared to vie for the parliament seat through ruling party, CCM.

Nchimbi, a good friend of mine, is currently a member of 'Chama Cha Mapinduzi' political committee at Kinondoni District.

Nchimbi intends to ask the party endorsement for Ubungo parliamentary seat.

We had a good time and of course he has my support.

Alfred John Alfonso Nchimbi. CCM member/old school mate/a friend/ now intends to vie for a parliament seat( Ubungo) through the ruling party

school mates ( Uru seminary) graced a day at Landmark hotel as Mr Alfred Nchimbi announced that he intends to contest for Ubungo parliament seat through Chama Cha Mapinduzi.

joseph Mkirikiti. Once a good prefect at Uru who shaped my discipline.

Tanzania - Traditional Bongo - Saida Karoli (Nkaba Ningya)

NYEGERA WAITU

Nyegera waitu Bukoba mjini!

Padri Privatus Karugendo Machi 3, 2010




LEO napenda kuzungumzia mji wa Bukoba ambao ndiyo makao makuu ya Mkoa wa Kagera. Kuna njia kuu tatu za kuingia mji wa Bukoba. Unaweza kuingia kwa barabara, kwa ndege au kwa meli.

Ukiingia Bukoba kwa ndege utatua kwenye uwanja wa ndege wa Bukoba ulio ufukweni mwa Ziwa Victoria ambao kwa sasa unafanyiwa ukarabati mkubwa wa upanuzi. Ukiwa unakaribia kutua unaweza kuwa na mawazo kwamba labda utatua majini au kwenye kisiwa cha Musira kilicho karibu sana na mji wa Bukoba.

Uwanja huu umelikaribia sana ziwa kiasi cha kuleta woga wakati ndege inatua na kupaa. Ingawa uwanja huu unaonyesha dalili za kutisha wakati wa kutua, si ajali nyingi zimetokea. Kumbukumbu zinaonyesha ndege mbili za jeshi kupata ajali katika uwanja wa Bukoba.

Ajali ya kwanza ilitokea wakati wa vita ya Kagera. Ndege ya jeshi ilikuwa inaruka ikakosea mwelekeo na kukiparamia kisiwa cha Musira. Miaka ya karibuni ndege nyingine ya jeshi ilikosa mwelekeo wakati ikitua na kuziparamia nyumba za wenyeji.

Ndege nyingine ya Precision Air iliokolewa na matuta; vinginevyo ingeserereka hadi ziwani. Jambo la msingi ni kuomba usiku na mchana isitokee ajali nyingine hadi uwanja huu utakapopanuliwa.

“Nyegera waitu”; ikimaanisha: Karibu Bwana ni neno la kwanza utakalolisikia Uwanja wa Ndege wa Bukoba. Baada ya neno hilo, ni mfululizo wa mchanganyiko wa Kihaya na Kiingereza. Mfano: “Omundege twaija comfortably bwana” – ikiwa na maana kwamba safari ya ndege ilikuwa shwari.

Nyegera waitu unaisikia pia ukiingia Bukoba kwa njia ya meli. Bandarini, wenyewe wanaita Kastamu, Nyegera zinakuwa nyingi sana; maana watu wengi wanasafiri kwa meli zaidi ya ndege.

Neno jingine utakalolisikia ni Waiyukayo; ikimaanisha pole ya safari. Neno hili halikusikika sana siku za nyuma. Limeanza kusikika mwaka 1996 baada ya ajali ya MV Bukoba.

Watu zamani walikuwa na imani na usafiri wa meli. Waliamini meli haiwezi kupatwa na ajali. Siku hizi kila anayepanda meli na jamaa zake wanaobaki nyuma wanakuwa na wasiwasi.

Safari hii ya meli ni ya usiku. Meli ya Victoria inachukua muda wa saa nane hivi kutoka Mwanza hadi Bukoba. Meli ndogo kama vile Serengeti inachukua karibu saa 12 kufika Bukoba. Marehemu Kalikawe aliimba wimbo kwamba meli ni kama Nyumba kubwa. Watu wanakula, wanakunywa na kulala….wakati mwingine mtu anaomba Mungu, na kufumba macho ili asiyaone yale yanayotendeka melini!

Siku MV Victoria ilipopoteza mwelekeo na kuingia nchi kavu, watu waliamini kuna kitu kilikuwa kinaendelea kwenye vyumba vya makapteni. Walinogewa hadi asubuhi na kusahau usukani!

Kuna barabara kuu mbili zinazoingia Bukoba mjini. Inategemea unaingia kutokea wapi. Kuna barabara ya Mwanza na Barabara ya Uganda. Zote mbili zinaungana kuwa barabara moja Kilometa moja kabla ya kuingia Bukoba mjini.

Kwenye kituo cha mabasi utaisikia tena Nyegera waitu na Waiyukayo ambayo inamaanisha Pole ya safari. Na inakuwa kweli na maana hiyo pole ya safari; kwani ukifika Bukoba mjini bila basi lenu kutekwa na majambazi ni lazima kumshukuru Mwenyezi Mungu!

Serikali imeshindwa kabisa kuwakamata majambazi hao. Kuna mchezo hapa wa nani amvike paka kengele. Wananchi wanawajua majambazi na wakati mwingine serikali inawajua majambazi.

Ni mpaka pawepo na uwazi na nia kwa pande zote mbili ndio tatizo hili litakwisha. Vinginevyo ningekushauri usitembelee Bukoba wakati wa kipindi cha Krismasi!

Mji wa Bukoba umezungukwa na vilima. Kuna Kilima cha Ihungo. Hapo kuna Sekondari ya zamani iliyokuwa ikujulikana kwa jina la St Thomas Mores College. Wasomi wengi nchini wamepitia kwenye shule hiyo.

Kilima kingine ni cha Kashura. Kilima hiki kinakaliwa kwa wingi na ELCT. Wamisionari walijenga hapo. Ni sehemu nzuri inayokufanya ulione ziwa Victoria vizuri na kuuangalia vizuri mji wa Bukoba.

Hata hivyo, Bukoba inaonekana vizuri zaidi ukiwa kwenye kilima cha Kishasha. Kilima hiki kina majumba mazuri ya kisasa ambayo kwa wale wasio na uwezo wa kuona mbali ya pua zao, wanayaita takataka na uchafuzi wa mji!

Ukiwa hapa unaweza kuona tatu ya nne ya mji wa Bukoba. Unapata picha nzuri ya Bukoba; jinsi mji ulivyozungukwa na milima na kuwa ufukweni mwa ziwa Victoria.

Pamoja na yote unayoyasikia kuhusu Bukoba utashangaa sana kuona maisha yanaendelea kama kawaida. Hakuna anayeogopa UKIMWI. Ukitaka kukutana na mwanamke au msichana na ukiamua kutumia KONDOMU au kutotumia, mwanamke atakwambia uamuzi ni wako.

Maana yake ni kwamba unaweza ukatumia kama unapenda au usitumie. Vituko vya nani kafumaniwa na nani ni vingi mno mjini Bukoba kuzidi kipindi kile kabla ya ugonjwa huu wa hatari haujapiga hodi.

Kama unayapenda maisha yako, ni lazima uingie Bukoba kwa uangalifu mkubwa sana. Mji unaonekana kuwa mzuri sana. Watu ni wakarimu kweli. Nyegera ni nyingi, lakini usipoangalia unaweza kupata Nyegera ya moja kwa moja!

Habari za mitaani ni kwamba kuna watu wenye pesa ambao ni waathirika wa UKIMWI. Watu hao wamepania kueneza ugonjwa huo. Wanatumia pesa zao kusambaza ugonjwa huo. Wanahakikisha wametembea na wanawake, wasichana wadogo kwa wakubwa. Wanatumia pesa zao kuangamiza kizazi kizima.

Watu hawa wana uwezo wa kununua dawa za kusogeza mbele maisha (ARVs); wana uwezo wa kula vizuri na kutunza afya zao. Wana uhakika wa kuishi maisha marefu kidogo. Hawajali kama watu wanaowaambukiza virusi wana uwezo kama wao.

Hivi ni kati ya vituko vya kusikitisha utakavyokumbana navyo mjini Bukoba. Kila mtu anajua juu ya jambo hili. Viongozi wa serikali wanalijua hili na viongozi wa dini wanalijua. Hakuna mtu wa kuwakanya; maana hawa ni watu ‘muhimu’ sana kwa serikali na kwa dini. Ni watu wanaotoa michango mizito serikalini na kwenye madhehebu mbalimbali.

Huwezi kutembelea Bukoba na usikose kuingia kwenye soko la Bukoba mjini. Vyakula utakavyoviona ni kama vile unavyoweza kukuta kwenye masoko yote ya Tanzania. Labda tu kwamba ndizi zitakuwa ni nyingi kupita sehemu nyingine unayoijua.

Mbali na ndizi, kama ni mwezi wa Novemba Au Aprili, utakuta senene. Senene ni aina ya wadudu wanaopendwa na Wahaya. Ni chakula cha heshima. Binti anayechumbiwa ni lazima kupeleka zawadi ya senene kwa mchumba wake.

Mwenye nyumba, baba wa familia, akiwa safari ndefu – tuseme safari ya kumchukua miaka mitatu, ni lazima mama wa nyumba atunze senene za kila mwaka. Atafunga mafungu mafungu hadi bwana atakaporudi.

Bibi mwenye wajukuu, ni lazima afunge mafungu ya senene kwa kila mjukuu. Wajukuu wanapomtembelea kila mjukuu anapata fungu lake! Mtu ukipewa senene ni lazima kuna kusema asante. Mara nyingi asante hii inakuwa ni kitenge, kanga au pesa.

Zamani senene walikamatwa mbugani. Lakini siku hizi wataalamu wamegundua namna ya kuwakamata kwa urahisi. Wanatumia taa za umeme zenye mwanga mkali. Taa hizi zina uwezo wa kuwavuta senene kutoka sehemu za mbali hadi Kilomita kumi.

Wakati wa msimu wa senene wataalamu wa Bukoba mjini wanaweka taa za umeme zenye mwanga mkali kwenye paa za nyumba ili kuwavuta senene. Hii ni biashara nzuri; maana mtu mwenye taa ya mwanga mkali anawatoza pesa watu wanaofika kwake kukamata senene! Zoezi hili ni la kila mwaka hasa mwezi wa Novemba na Machi.

Wahaya wanalima kahawa. Hili ni zao kuu la biashara. Jambo la kushangaza ni kwamba pamoja na kulima kahawa, watu hawa hawanywi kahawa! Hata wale wachache wanaokunywa kahawa, watakwambia wanakunywa Chai (ka-chai).

Wakati bei ya kahawa inaendelea kushuka kwenye soko la dunia na kuathiri kiasi kikubwa uchumi wa mkoa wa Kagera, inashangaza sana Wahaya kulalamikia bei mbaya ya kahawa wakati wao hawanywi kahawa yao! Badala ya kunywa kahawa wana utamaduni wa kutafuna kahawa, na hii ni ishara ya upendo.

Ukimtembelea mtu nyumbani kwake, asipokukaribisha kwa kahawa za kutafuna, ni ishara ya kutokuwepo na upendo kati yenu. Hata hivyo, kiasi kinachotafunwa ni kidogo sana kiasi cha kuweza kupandisha bei ya kahawa.

Kuna haja ya Wahaya na Watanzania kwa ujumla kujenga tabia ya kunywa kahawa kwa lengo la kulinda soko na bei ya kahawa.

Wahaya wanapenda dini. Hili utalitambua kwa misikiti mikubwa na makanisa yaliyo mjini Bukoba. Ukisimama kwenye kilima chochote kile kinachouinamia mji wa Bukoba, utaona misikiti na makanisa ikichomoza.

Utauona msikiti wa Uswahilini uliojengwa kwa mtindo wa kisasa. Utaliona Kanisa Kuu la Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri (KKKT) ambalo linajulikana kama kengele tatu. Linaonekana kuupamba mji wa Bukoba na kuonyesha kwamba mji huu ni wa wacha Mungu.

Nayo Cathedral ya Wakatoliki inafanyiwa ukarabati. Sasa hivi ni zaidi ya miaka kumi tangia ukarabati huo uanze. Ni kanisa kubwa na la kuvutia. Mnara wake unaonekana ukichomoza kuyazidi majengo yote ya Bukoba mjini na kutangaza utukufu wa Roma.

Kanisa hili ndio litakuwa kaburi la marehemu Kadinali Rugambwa. Sasa hivi amezikwa kwenye kaburi la muda kwenye Kanisa la Kashozi. Kwa nini ukarabati wa kanisa hili umechukua muda mrefu? Kila mtu anajua jibu! Lakini kila mtu anafunga mdomo wake! Wale wanaothubutu kusema wanatumia mafumbo.

Lugha ya Kihaya inatumia mafumbo mengi. Ni lazima ujifunze lugha ya mafumbo ukiwa Bukoba. Ukisikia maji usifikiri ni yale ya kunywa na ukisikia chakula usikimbilie meza ya chakula. Hata kituo kipya cha redio kilichoanzishwa mjini Bukoba kijulikanacho kama Kasibante, ni mafumbo matupu. Maana yake inaelekea ni “kumfunga ng’ombe”. Kwa historia ya kiti cha ubunge cha Bukoba Mjini, na ikizingatiwa mmiliki wa Redio Kasibante, ujumbe wa fumbo uko wazi!

Kanisa la Orthodox limeingia kwa nguvu mjini Bukoba. Kanisa lao linapamba kilima kimojawapo kinachouinamia mji wa Bukoba. Pia wamejenga kanisa zuri mjini Bukoba na wanaendelea kujenga makanisa mengine vijijini.

Usishangae kukutana na watoto wengi wa mitaani mjini Bukoba. Pamoja na kwamba watu ni wacha Mungu, wana makanisa mazuri na misikiti mizuri (na kusema kweli makanisa na misikiti inajaa waumini), hakuna anayewajali watoto wa mitaani.

Ukizungumza na watoto hao kwa karibu, utashangaa sana kujua kwamba watoto wengine baba zao ni viongozi katika makanisa na misikiti. Ndio hivyo! Jinsi wanavyosali sana na kumcha Mwenyezi Mungu, ndivyo pia na madhambi kibao.

Mengine sitaki kuzungumza. Acha ukutane nayo mwenyewe. Acha uambiwe Nyegera waitu. Kama wewe ni mtu wa familia, chunga sana usijenge nyumba ndogo Bukoba. Kama wewe ni kijana ambaye hujapata jiko huwezi kukwepa kuitwa Omwami wange (Bwana yangu).

Wengi waliopitia mjini Bukoba wakati wa ujana wao wameoa Bukoba au wana ‘nyumba ndogo’. Sitopenda kuwataja!

Bukoba ni mahali pazuri kweli. Kama wenyewe wanavyoisifia. Pana Ziwa Victoria, pana mito mizuri inayotiririka na kuifanya Bukoba ionekane kijani wakati wote. Ina mvua mwaka mzima. Kama si uvivu wa Wahaya, wangeweza kulima na kuilisha chakula Tanzania nzima.

Bukoba ina vilima na mabonde; vitu vinavyoipamba na kuipendezesha. Bukoba ina vivutio vingi vya kitalii. Bukoba ni nzuri! Hakuna kizuri kisichokuwa na kasoro. Kasoro hizo nimezitaja moja baada ya nyingine. Kama unataka nizirudie nitakwambia Nyegera waitu.
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If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything. - Unknown

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Why some Countries Grow While Others Do not?

Questions are being asked, why do other countries grow while others do not? What determine the rate of growth of a country? Why do countries with similar geographical conditions or with same natural resources differ in growth?

Inputs of growth are Land (Natural Resources, soil, Climate, Minerals, and Hydrocarbons), Labor ( Human Resources, Putting unemployed to work, and Education) and Capital ( Financial Resources, Domestic savings,and Foreign Capital).

There are two different growth models, i.e Input Driven Growth and Productivity-Driven Growth.

The input-driven growth depends on 1)extracting natural resources which eventually, this hits a maximum rate; 2)Putting unemployed to work, eventually, everyone is working and; 3)mobilizing people's savings, eventually, all savings are mobilized.

In productivity-driven growth, when inputs are fully used, further growth can come only from higher productivity. Productivity-driven growth = more output per unit input. Therefore, to grow fastest:

Max: Output/Input

Why is Africa not growing?

There are three types of theories used to explain reasons for Africa's undergrowth. These are geographical theories, legacy theories and institutional theories.

Geographical theories suggest that Africa is not growing because it has bad climate, presence of many kinds of disease, isolation from coast, and poor soil quality.

Legacy theories suggest that Africa is not growing as a result of recent colonial history and effects of tribalism. Institutional theories suggest that the African continent is not growing due to inefficient courts, corruption and authoritarian governments, plus lack of adequate schooling.

But,what made Botswana different? Not geographical because the country is landlocked and arid. The Country has one of World's highest AIDS rates. Not colonial history because British colonialists left 12 km of paved road and 22 University graduates. Institutions of private property are what made Botswana different from other countries of Africa.

In Botswana, a broad cross-section of the people have effective property rights: rule of law, sanctity of contract, and minimal state or private predation; Relatively efficient, business-friendly bureaucracy; and Conservative fiscal policy.

Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson careful statistical research in 2000-2002 suggests that good institutions lead powerfully to economic growth, i.e. accounts for 3/4 of the gap between rich and poor countries. Controlling for institutional quality, Africa is not an outlier.

According to Professor David O.Beim of Columbia Business School, Botswana got where it is today as a result of pre-colonial history of power sharing, good governments of Seretse Khama and Quett Masire, Orthodox economic policies, and Diamond (40% of GDP).

Natural Resources

Diamonds did not help Sierra Leone. On average, there is a reverse correlation of natural resources to growth. Extraction does not build economy and this can be clearly explained when one looks at an example of Indonesia Vs. Japan, and of Saudi Arabia. While Indonesia is one of the World's largest extractors of iron, Japan does not extract anything of significance, but the later is the world's second largest economy while the former is a developing country.

This can also be explained from an example of Saudia Arabia. While the Country is the World's number one producer of crude oil, it is not among the leading economies of the World.

Foreign Aid

Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) in 2003-2006 concluded that foreign aid does not correlate with growth, but rather it does correlate with corruption. According to Rajan, what matters is a good private sector protected by a good government.

Free Financial Markets

High-return, value-creating projects accelerate economic growth. Free financial markets shower capital on high-return projects and snatch it away value destroyers.


Source: The Manager( Pilot Edition October/December 2009)

NITAFURAHI PALE AMBAPO WATANZANIA TUTAANZA KUIPENDA NA KUIHESHIMU NCHI YETU ZAIDI YA FAMILIA ZETU.

LEADERS ARE DESIGNED NOT GROWING ORGANICALLY!

Across Africa we have a crisis; and its a crisis of leadership that prove a catastrophic to our daily well-being. Yet we have been led to believe without questioning that linear formal education should be/ and has been an answer to our woes.

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was the first President of Independent Tanganyika. He had a Master Degree from Edinburgh, Scotland. That was a degree in History. 45 years later our leadership lineup is the congregation of certification to the extent of even accepting fake credentials in the form of PhD's ( if the current allegation are true).

Yet what we are missing is the bunch of leaders whose brain are engaged with the whole mind development. Scientists have ascertained that a human brain consists of two sides of the coin. Left brain dealing with the development of what we already know, mathematics, physics, biology, history, English, accounts etc, and right brain that deals with the creativity part of the circle. Unfortunately formal schooling mutes the development of our right brain and thus humans ( even our leaders) fails to be creative, innovative, playful, and above all empathetic.

Listen to the words of our honorable member of Parliament to appreciate how shallow minded our leaders are!! its a pity that a leader tells journalists that what he has is 'vijisenti' compared to other leaders. These are the words from a highly learned lawyer telling the forth organ of the nation, 'The Media'. Again its ironic when a Region Commissioner of Dar Es Salaam shamelessly says that he can not evict people residing at Msimbazi valley amid torrential rain simply because this is the election year.

A solution to the poor moral behaviors of our leaders lays to the way we raise our kids. Mathematics, history, English is necessary and still essential but these are no longer enough if we're really serious in creating a bunch of good and effective leaders. Developing right side of our kids brain will implant empathy and creativity essential for the leaders to appreciate the well being of their electorates.

If we really want to see leaders using the right side of their brain, then President Kagame of Rwanda is one of them. Recently he grounded fleet of luxurious cars belonging to Government executives and donor funded institutions. He is the kind of a leader with empathetic gesture questioning the rationale of excessive expense pertaining big men in his country at the expense of his electorates.


The sooner the better.

Bora town au Bora pori?

WAYS TO BALANCE THE EQUATION

Why donors fear Kagame's war on graft

The Botswana Gazette

13.04.2005

http://www.gazette.bw/tbg_buhead2.htm by Andrew M.



Last week I was in Kigali , this time at the heels of a cabinet decision to impound all luxurious four wheel drive vehicles bought at government expense and driven by ministers, security and military chiefs, foreign experts and their local handlers. In a morning crackdown, all the big men and women of this republic woke up to find that police constables along the main roads were stopping and taking away their vehicles and leaving them to walk to office.

The international donor community, known all over Africa for its corrupt

and profligate life styles which they indulge in the name of fighting

poverty, was this time caught with their pants down. They claim to fight

poverty while riding in luxurious four-wheel drive vehicles, sitting in

opulently furnished offices, earning obscene salaries and living in

executive mansions. In a bold act of defiance, Rwanda impounded even those

vehicles belonging to donor projects. After cleaning his own government of

corruption, he has now taken on the profligacy of the international aid

industry and its experts are now scared.



In a discussion with President Paul Kagame, he told me that he had looked

at some of the "poverty reduction" projects and they smelt bad. "There are

projects here worth only $5m and when I looked at their expenses, I found

that $1m was going into buying these cars, each one of them at $70,000.

Another $1m goes to buy office furniture, more $1m for meetings and

entertainment, and yet another $1m as salaries for technical experts,

leaving only $1m for the actual expenditure on a poverty reducing activity.

Is this the way to fight poverty?" he asked as I shifted with glee in my

chair.



Already, the government is auctioning these vehicles and so far has gotten

over $3m from the sales. Mr Kagame has now issued a new directive, saying

government should not purchase cars for its officials with more than 2,500

cc. But there is more: the government has placed a ceiling on mobile

telephone expenses for all its ministers, military and security chiefs to

50,000 Rwanda Francs (Shs150, 000), and also ordered MTN Rwanda to cut off

their international roaming access.



The directive also stops the holding of workshops, seminars and conferences

on poverty reduction in posh hotels like the Intercontinental, Mille

Collins etc, insisting they should be in government owned buildings at no

cost. The order also requires all government ministries; departments and

agencies to move from privately owned buildings where they pay high rents

to government owned buildings.



I told Kagame that whereas some of the most highly skilled Africans are

going to Europe and North America to clean streets and toilets, our

development partners send us Œtechnical experts on these projects at

individual monthly salaries of between $10,000 and $20,000, a salary that

could pay 12 Africans of better training and experience and save this

continent from severe brain drain. In fact, most of these so-called experts

are a miserable, career-stranded lot in their own countries, but are dumped

in Africa and other poor countries through foreign aid protocols.



Donors never shy from lecturing our governments on fiscal frugality, yet

their aid driven projects are the most profligate. Of total project aid to

Uganda 's ministry of Health, 93 percent of it goes into technical

assistance (i.e. salaries and allowances for the experts) and overheads

(i.e. four wheel drive vehicles, opulent office furniture, computers,

stationary, tea and cakes).



Only a miserable 7 percent of this aid goes into purchase of drugs. Now you

understand why, in spite of a huge health budget, our people cannot find

drugs in hospitals. We in the media have been shouting ourselves hoarse

against government corruption. It is time to expose the worse forms of

profligacy, which forces our governments to pile up huge sums in debt.



In fact, of the total money from the Uganda government budget to the

ministry of Health, 98 percent reaches its intended beneficiaries, clearly

showing that in spite of its corrupt ways, the government of Uganda is a

better evil than donors. Of total project aid to Uganda , 68 percent goes

into overheads and technical assistance. Only 32 percent to its intended

beneficiaries.



A few weeks ago I presented the above facts to President Yoweri Museveni

and asked him to act. My heart bleeds to say he is so deeply discredited by

his inability to tackle corruption in his government, and his own

profligate public administration expenditure that he lacks moral authority

to take on donors.



The other reason is that his regime lives off this coalition of mutual

deceit with donors that both are fighting to eradicate poverty in Uganda .

Kagame, however, is able to act boldly because he occupies a moral high

ground in fighting corruption, has ensured fiscal frugality and also

because his government pursues strategies of survival - not necessarily

dependant on donor approval.



In Rwanda , ministers and other high ranking public officials resign and or

are fired by the week because of allegations of corruption. From the lowest

clerk in a government office to the most powerful minister or military or

security chief, no one is immune to jail when they steal; none close to the

president, none distant from him. You steal, you get jailed.



If there is some prima facie case that you stole, but there isn't not

enough evidence to convict you in a court of law, then you are asked to

resign or get fired. What a tough guy this Kagame man is!!

Love, Peace and Harmony!!!! "I want to believe that I am gold and diamond. In order to be refined I have to go through this period of fire. Tomorrow, I want to believe, Mzwakhe will become the source of inspiration to those who have despaired, those who were discouraged, those who are in extreme physical problems and pangs" - Mzwakhe Mbuli 'People's Poet', 2005

Tujadili. Shule ya enzi zetu, au hizi za academy. mfumo upi bora?

Sneaking is dangerous

Please read this carefully,
Lesson to All Women/Men
A couple was invited to a masked costume Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He,being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his Batman costume (mask) and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, awakened without pain, and, as it was still early, decided to go to the party. In as much as her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. She put on a Goldilocks costume (mask). So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband enjoying himself on the dance floor, dancing with every nice woman he cuddled and occasionally giving a little kiss here and there.
His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive woman herself, his husband left his new partner devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband. After some more drinking he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and had quick sex in the back seat.

She slipped away before unmasking herself or her husband and went home and put her costume (mask) away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make up for his outrageous behavior. She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had.

"Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there."Then she asked, "Did you dance much?"
He replied, "I tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played darts all evening."

"You must have looked really silly wearing that Batman costume playing darts all night!" She said with unashamed sarcasm.
To which the husband replied, "Actually, I gave my Batman costume to your Dad who seemed to have had a jolly good time on the dance floor. I am told that he was seen by Frank taking a prostitute in a Goldilocks outfit out for a few minutes. Don't ask me what they did; you know your dad still wants to behave like a kid."

Moral of the story: Don't try to sneak up on your husband/wife

take care n enjoy ur wk-en

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Ailing Library: A source of human resource failure!

Library is the source of information: that one researcher/author transfers his/her knowledge to the community. Western world thrives on deliverance of knowledge from one person to the other.

A century ago, not a very long time, our natural way of transferring knowledge was totally disrupted by the coming of a white man.A craftsman would let a young man to learn his trade through apprenticeship and hence therefore the learner eventually by using the knowledge plus forces of environment could manage to sharpen the item into the next better level. To date though witch doctors are ubiquitous they do not have an official way of transferring their knowledge to the next generation. Contrary the western world spend enormous amount of capital on researches and development ( R& D) and thereafter results of their researches are published and displayed in libraries and universities. I may argue that the first world still transfers knowledge to the next generation while our way of knowledge is sadly muted.

Dar Es Salaam has one existing Library located at the Central Business District constructed several decades ago when the City had a population of less than 500,000 residents. Now with the population close to 5 million the ill-equipped library looks like a joke stalking old books. As residents move as far as 30km from CBD we expect library services to follow the ever moving population but this is not happening leaving only market force to demand consumption patterns of Dar Es Salaam dwellers. We are enclosed with noisy bars, convenient shops,hotels, restaurants etc that facilitate consumption of foreign stuff at the expense of our innovation and creativity.

Prof. Ali Mazrui once wrote that capitalism implanted into our being consumption culture but intentionally did not activate technological know how. We moved from communal way of life into capitalism embedded with modernity, excessive consumption of material goods without learning on how to manufacture them. Yet existence of libraries ensures that knowledge is shared among humanities not only of these generation but many many more from today. After all if Edison ignored to document his findings that led to the discovery of bulb we could not be enjoying electricity as we consume today. One discovery leads to another, and one way the next generation accrues the knowledge of the last scientist is by visiting local, national and university libraries; the idea we're desperately missing.


The reason why we fail to develop libraries is that our leaders' mindset is engraved in the idea that development will be determined by drilling natural resources to the exception of human resources. Now and then leaders trot around the world looking for investors to harness gold, uranium, oil, tanzanite, etc with no clue that the real development will be gained by developing human resources.Canada( a leading nation in mineral extraction) has a higher valued human resource compared to none in southern Africa that enabled her to exploit our fragile economies by extracting minerals massively.Take Switzerland as a case in point. The country is landlocked, with no natural resources but yet harnessing talents of her own men and women guarantees a place among to the club of the mighty.Switzerland is good in producing very tiny but highly valued items that needs greater input of human brain as compared to muscle power.

AT 40, I am a very lucky African to be alive!!!

Today 29/march/2010, as I turn 40, count me as one of the luckiest africans to see the light of the day. Why? perhaps some would say i am exeggerating, or just a numb person, but looking at the figures and official statistics then you'll appreciate my line of argument.

Couple of years ago, my all time Tanzanian favourite columnist, the late Robert Rweyemamu once wrote on East African, "Why Birthdays are rare in Tanzania?" He was sharing a birthday sing along song with other Tanzanians as the Father of the Nation, The late Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was turning 75. Rweyemamu highlighted a number of diseases inflicting and scaling down lives of Tanzanians including malaria, TB,cholera,and above all, AIDS.

As I celebrate 40th birthdays my mind turns to millions of babies whose lives are wasted on this minute across Africa due to poor maternial care, malaria,manutrition etc etc. In Tanzania by 2007 child mortality rate stood by 116 death per 1000 children under age of five.

One of the basic pre-requisite for development but greatly ignored by african states is the access to clean and reliable water for human consumption. After all 75% of our being is comprised of water. By far this means purifying, reserving sources of water and providing this important resource to all especially the most vulnerable, women and children should be a top priority for any sensible goverment.Animals and plants shares this sacrosanct resource that if one is deprived ecosystem is not balanced.

In african villages women and children spend a big portion of a day searching for water though they are not sure on the safety of the same.As a result looking for water is part of economic undertakings ignoring other important activities with a far liberating results such as education. An african child born in the village is an economic asset for the family and one of the activity is looking for water.This turns out to be a vicious cyle of poverty. A child ( preferaby a girl) mothered by a poor mum does not go to school and ends up doing family undertaking including searching for water. She grows to be a mother material with no education and hence no knowledge of controlling her environment. She gives birth to a child who ends up dying at a tender age simply because her mother do not have enough resources to care for her.

In the year 2000, World nations agreed on Millenium Development Goals ( MDG)and one of the goals was to reduce a number of african people without access to basic sanitation and hygiene by half come to the year 2015.To date no country in Eastern and Southern Africa is on track to meet MDG target on sanitation. In some parts of Dar Es Salaam such as Ukonga suburb pit latrines are dug closer to shallow wells resulting into water contamination.As a result currently one in eight East & Southern african child dies before fifth birthday due to diseases related to poor sanitation and lack of access to safe drinking water. According to The Guardian, ( A Tanzanian daily)Dar Es Salaam has 300 unsafe wells causing an increasing incidences of water borne diseases.

Malaria is the other killer disease claiming lives of africans in magnitude. Malaria is a fatal protozoan disease transmitted by a specific kind of mosquito, the genus anopheles. Malaria is utterly treatable, yet, incredibly claims up to three million lives per year, mostly young children, about 90 percent of whom live in Africa.The fact that virtually everybody in tropical africa contracts malaria at least once a year makes me delighted to see this 40th birthdays. The fate of our children born on this minute as I celebrate across Africa is literally unknown.

Yes children are dying in sheer massive number not seeing their 5th birthday.But another calamity is rampant across Sub-Sahara Africa this time around living behind fortunate survived kids as orphans. This is AIDS, ( Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrome)

In most African countries, by contrast, only tycoons and cabinet ministers can afford AIDS drugs. By 2002,about 17 million africans had died of AIDS, and 29 millions were HIV positive. Pause for a moment to ponder it: 46 million africans either dead or doomed. Its more than seven times the number of jews, Gypsies and homesexuals murdered by Hitler. Its one and half times the 30 million chinese who died of starvation under Mao Zedong. It is three quarters of the death toll during the whole of the second World War, and by the time AIDS has claimed its last African victim, it may outnumber even that.

At the End of Day. Happy birthday to me!!! & happy birthday to all africans who have seen this day against all odds.