Saturday, January 16, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Caught in the act!
WARNING!
1. If you have heart failure don't watch this video.
2. This video may not be suitable for children under 10 years old.
3. Or much better, don't watch this video!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
THAI PEOPLE ALLEDGEDLY EATING A BLACK MAN
WARNING: THE PICTURES YOU ARE ABOUT TO VIEW ARE TOO GRAPHIC AND REQUIRE YOU TO BE STRONG TO VIEW THEM
Someone annoymous sent me this email and i thought of sharing this.
I have never seen anything like this before! The Asian appetite for "exotic" taste sometimes scare me - from stories of cat eating to dogs, to lizard, snakes to all sorts of crazy fish, then human embryos and now to fully grown humans! The photo of the person you are about to watch could have been somebody's fiance, husband or Dad! This looks too real to be true.
I have never seen anything like this before! The Asian appetite for "exotic" taste sometimes scare me - from stories of cat eating to dogs, to lizard, snakes to all sorts of crazy fish, then human embryos and now to fully grown humans! The photo of the person you are about to watch could have been somebody's fiance, husband or Dad! This looks too real to be true.
How I wish all black leaders watch these photos and give guidelines of who they allow to migrate into their countries. The time has come for black (Africans, American, West Indies etc) to rise and unite together against attrocities committed by foreigners on them either on their soil or abroad. Time to pray to God is now!
Could this be true? Are we safe with Thai and Chinese foods? That's food for thought!
Smart Business Proposal
I picked this from an email that a friend of mine Mitul Shah sent me and thought it wise to share it with you. Hilarious but so true.
Johnny wanted to have sex with a girl in his office,
but she belonged to someone else...
Johnny wanted to have sex with a girl in his office,
but she belonged to someone else...
One day, Johnny got so frustrated that he went up to
her and said, "I'll give you a $100 if you let me
screw you. But the girl said NO.
Johnny said, "I'll be fast. I'll throw the money on
the floor, you bend down, and I'll be finished by the
time you pick it up. "
the floor, you bend down, and I'll be finished by the
time you pick it up. "
She thought for a moment and said that she would have
to consult her boyfriend... So she called her
boyfriend and told him the story.
Her boyfriend says, "Ask him for $200, pick up the
money very fast, he won't even be able to get his pants down."
So she agrees and accepts the proposal. Half an hour
goes by, and the boyfriend is waiting for his
girlfriend to call.
goes by, and the boyfriend is waiting for his
girlfriend to call.
Finally, after 45 minutes, the boyfriend calls and
asks what happened.
asks what happened.
She responded, "The bastard used coins!"
Management lesson:
Always consider a business proposal
in its entirety before agreeing to it and getting screwed!
in its entirety before agreeing to it and getting screwed!
Friday, November 13, 2009
24 years on, and Kenya still waits for Reforms..... (sic!)
.... but until when?
24 years on from days when KANU was 'baba na mama', those days when former President Daniel arap Moi was the in-your-face-kinda-prez a.k.a Fuata Nyayo, Kenyans still wait for much needed Constitutional Reforms that have for so long eluded their motherland at the expense of cheap, parochial and devisive political machinations.
Since then, blood has been shed, political careers ruined, children who were born then, now full grown adults (24 years old), political dispensations experienced, founding political party Kanu rooted out of Kenya's political streamline, Kenya shaken to its foundations via earth shuttering scandals that would make leading international scandals wince in sheer shame and envy, to the most recent international shame via election violence ochestrated by election thiefs and political fraudsters, Kenyans still wait, albeit with bated breathe, for real reforms to settle in and maybe add more plates of ugali on their dinner tables!
When i ask, when will all this political somersaulting really end and give Kenya and Kenyans a break for better things to come?
Naomi Campbell in Tanzania for White Ribbon Charity
Super model Naomi Campbell is in Dar es Salaam Tanzania with her billionaire Russion boyfriend Vladislav Doronin for a charity project organised by the UK's first lady Sarah Brown at the Moevenpick Hotel. Naomi, 39, and who is ambassador for Sarah's White Ribbon Alliance charity, which raises the awareness of infant mortality, has been vacationing in Zanzibar all week.
Last night she did her celebrated catwalk performance at the event which was graced by Tanzania's First Lady Mama Salma Kikwete, (centre), Zambia's First lady Mama Thandiwe Banda (left), and Tanzania's immediate former First Lady, Mama Anna Mkapa, (right), the White Ribbon Alliance country chair.
Invitations to the charity were my telephone invititation and Naomi catwalked with models representive in the Face of Africa Challenge.
(mama Kikwete pic courtesy of Issa Michuzi)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Alex Ferguson targets Stamford Bridge Improvements...
Sir Alex Ferguson wants to see a return to the days when he enjoyed trips to Stamford Bridge and United prospered with an excellent record.The last 10 fixtures against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge bear a stark contrast with the 10 that came before them. In the last 10, United have won only once, drawn four and lost five. Before it, the stats read: won five, drew three, lost two. Those figures are undoubtedly skewed by Chelsea’s rise to prominence as title contenders, but still, the boss naturally prefers the earlier statistics.
“We would like to improve our record there,” said Sir Alex. “It’s not been that great in the last few years. We’ve had a couple of draws but nothing more than that. We hope to improve on that. It’s strange, we used to have a terrific record at Stamford Bridge, but in the last few years we’ve let it slip. We have to get our act together. But the players realise it’s a big game and their performance is going to be important.”
Even at this early stage, the game will be discussed as potentially decisive in the title race. Sir Alex doesn’t think it’s as cut and dried as that, but there is a marked difference between going top or being five points behind Chelsea on Sunday night.
“It doesn’t come into my thinking that it's a league decider,” said Sir Alex. “But it could be an important game. Towards the end of the season, you might think, ’I’m glad we got a result at Chelsea’. But it’s difficult to pinpoint the importance of Sunday in relation to where we’ll be in May.”
courtesy of manutd.com
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Kamande and his prostitute daughter....hahaha
....what??
"Where have you been all
this time, you ingrate! Why didn't you write us, not even a
line to let us know how you were doing? Why didn't you
call? You little tramp! Don't you know what you put your Mom
through??!!"
The daughter, crying:
"Sniff, sniff... Dad... I became a prostitute..."
"WHAT?????? Out of
here, you shameless harlot, sinner, you're a disgrace to this family - I
don't ever want to see you again!"
"OK, Dad - as you wish. I just came
back to give Mom this fur coat and title to a mansion, a
savings account certificate of $5 million for my little
brother, and for you, Daddy, this gold Rolex, the spanking new
BMW that's parked outside and a lifetime membership to the Country Club ..
an invitation for you all to spend New Years' Eve on board my new
yacht in the Riviera, and ...
"Now what was it you said you had become?"
Girl, crying again: Sniff, sniff "A prostitute Dad!" .. Sniff, sniff
"Oh! Gee - you scared me half to death, girl! I thought you said
"A Protestant".
Monday, November 2, 2009
Kenya on the brink of a malaria vaccine break through......
.... but ......
Was reading some interesting piece in my favorite daily ‘The Standard’, on of Kenya’s premier newspapers, on how leading Kenyan medical scientists are on brink of making a major breakthrough in the fight against killer malaria. The ‘story’ goes that these medical honchos are on the brink of unveiling a malaria vaccine that will stop the death of 90 children who die of malaria every day and stem the loss of 170 million working days lost to malaria annually in Kenya! Amazing stuff, but will this Kenyan (read African) ‘major break-through’ be allowed to be adopted in the World Health Organization journals seeing that the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies’ profits are at stake here?
My mind quickly thinks about the American situation where major pharmaceutical companies and medical lobbyists are literally holding the US government at ransom in regard to President Obama’s plan of offering public funded and affordable healthcare solutions to the very common and poor American who cannot afford to Medicare and medic-aid! The American medical ‘hostage situation’ in my opinion is all about the profits that these huge pharmaceutical companies will definitely loose when Obama’s plan comes to light!
Fast Forward to Kenya: That these same pharmaceutical companies, that are said to have partnered in formulating this vaccine, and who have provided Africa with umpteen malaria vaccines, could basically allow the Kenyan vaccine to be adopted into medical circles is, to me a real pipe dream and a far cry from the truth! What would literally stop these honchos from spending billions of dollars on projects that will never see the light of day, just in order that they ‘keep tabs’ with what’s going on the ground and be seen to be ‘involved in partnering the break through? ?’
And with Kenya’s lobbying history and record for supporting its own speaking loudly for itself, I highly doubt (and I risk being labeled a pessimist here!) that this grand idea will see the light of day, sorry to say so!
Malaria, killing up to 3,000 people every day in Africa, has been a real cash cow for these pharmaceutical honchos who have ‘colluded’ to ensure that Malaria I never going to be wiped out of Africa, not in this lifetime. From manufacturing vaccines, and telling us how they are ‘free’, to the distribution of malaria treated bed nets to all the services and components that revolve around Malaria, people have been happy seeing those profits sore year in year out. And then some gizzer African scientists in Kenya, in collaboration with some medical world players, ‘suddenly’ discover some vaccine that will eat into their profits, and they are not supposed to ‘kill’ that plan like yesterday, is a picture I can’t fathom not happening!
And with many ‘corrupt’ countries in Africa spending a huge percentage of their health budgets on malaria, this might just be a ripe avenue for these honchos to exploit in ‘killing’ this Kenya dream that is bound to save millions of lives.
They say the new vaccine, named RTS,S is a result of ‘partnership’ between leading African institutions that include Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), America’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biological, with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The vaccine, which is in the third phase of trial and has shown efficacy levels of 53 per cent, has taken more than 20 years of research and development. There is no proven vaccine for malaria to date.
Lets wait and see…..
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Is Octopus a Delicacy? Not in Dar! haha
There you go.....
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Octopus (pweza) is readily available, anywhere, everywhere, and and at almost free!! Men especially, are know to imbibe and munch the 'delicacy' with much relish and often, quite religiously.
Pweza is known to increase libido, amongst other nutritious qualities, hence its popularity....lol. Pweza soup, even better! Try some when in Dar but be sure to have the plan B on standby.... if you know what i mean.....
(pic courtesy of This Day photojournalist)
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Kikuyuz, Kikuyuz, Kikuyuz....lol
Got this hilarious joke via friend facebook friend Eveleen Maina and thought i'd share this joke....
and Kikuyuz some more......
There was once a Kikuyu man called Mwangi who was
involved in a car accident.
At the hospital, when he
awoke, he called for the nurse to tell him what had
happened to him.
"I'm very sorry, sir, but you were involved in a very
bad car crash".
"Car crash! My MB M W! My MB M! is my car all right?"
he asked hysterically.
"Sir, your car was destroyed, but that is the least of
your worries you lost your left arm in the crash, and
we were unable to save it he said apologetically.
"I rost my arm? My Rorex! My Rorex!"
"Sir, please calm down. That is the least of your
worries. You are in a very critical condition, but all
your family is here to see you".
He asked for his family to be called in. As they
gathered around the bed, he called for each of them by
name.
"Wairimu, are you here?"
"I am here husband, and I will never leave you"
"Kamau, are you here?"
"I am here father, and I will never leave you."
"Wanjiku, are you here?"
"I am here father, and I will never leave you."
"So, if you are all here who is at the shop???"
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Worlds Hottest Heads of State
....African Heads of State in top 20 list....wow!
This is the incredible list of the Worlds Hottest Heads of State compiled by http://hottestheadsofstate.wordpress.com/list/ with some amazing positions for our African leaders a s follows:
Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo - 4
Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania - 20
Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola - 23
Yowri Museveni, Uganda - 56
Mwai Kibaki, Kenya - 123 (i hope Lucy Kibaki doesn't get wind of this because......) lol
Obama 15, Kim Jong Il, last on the list (hahahaha), Ahmadinajad, find out!
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Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Jens Stoltenberg Prime Minister of Norway
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck King of Bhutan
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Joseph Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President of Argentina
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Rafael Correa President of Ecuador
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Henri Grand Duke of Luxembourg
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Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister of Dominica
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo President of the Philippines
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Bamir Topi President of Albania
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Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
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Alexander Lukashenko President of Belarus
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Xanana Gusmão Prime Minister of East Timor
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Mohamed Nasheed President of the Maldives
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Barack Obama President of the United States of America
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Lee Hsien Loong Prime Minister of Singapore
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Mauricio Funes President of El Salvador
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Vladimir Putin Prime Minister of Russia
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Pierre Nkurunziza President of Burundi
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Jakaya Kikwete President of Tanzania
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Borut Pahor Prime Minister of Slovenia
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Saad Hariri Prime Minister of Lebanon
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José Eduardo dos Santos President of Angola
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Werner Faymann Chancellor of Austria
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Georgi Parvanov President of Bulgaria
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Boris Tadić President of Serbia
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Denis Sassou Nguesso President of the Republic of the Congo
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Nicolas Sarkozy President of France
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José Maria Neves Prime Minister of Cape Verde
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Tabaré Vázquez President of Uruguay
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Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel
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Milo Đukanović Prime Minister of Montenegro
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Karolos Papoulias President of Greece
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Manny Mori President of Micronesia
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Mikheil Saakashvili President of Georgia
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Alvaro Uribe President of Colombia
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Isaias Afewerki President of Eritrea
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Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister of Finland
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Baldwin Spencer Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
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Norodom Sihamoni King of Cambodia
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Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan
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Aníbal Cavaco Silva President of Portugal
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Patrick Manning Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
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Hans-Adam II Prince of Liechtenstein
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Amadou Toumani Touré President of Mali
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Michel Suleiman President of Lebanon
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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Prime Minister of Iceland
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of Iran
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Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan
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Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
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Ernest Bai Koroma President of Sierra Leone
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Andry Rajoelina President of the High Transition of Authority of Madagascar
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Evo Morales President of Bolivia
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Abdullah II King of Jordan
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Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan
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Yoweri Museveni President of Uganda
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Ali Abdullah Saleh President of Yemen
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Jan Peter Balkenendeif Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov President of Turkmenistan
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Felipe Calderón President of Mexico
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Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada
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Mary McAleese President of Ireland
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John Atta Mills President of Ghana
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Kurmanbek Bakiyev President of Kyrgyzstan
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Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Italy
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Faure Gnassingbé President of Togo
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil
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Margrethe II Queen of Denmark
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf President of Liberia
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Nguyễn Tấn Dũng Prime Minister of Vietnam
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Yahya Jammeh President of The Gambia
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John Key Prime Minister of New Zealand
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René Préval President of Haiti
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Sheikh Hasina Wazed Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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Ronald Venetiaan President of Suriname
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Paul Biya President of Cameroon
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Tillman Thomas President of Grenada
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Bruce Golding Prime Minister of Jamaica
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Dalia Grybauskaitė President of Lithuania
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Fatmir Sejdiu President of Kosovo
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Emomalii Rahmon President of Tajikistan
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Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah King of Bahrain
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Tertius Zongo Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
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Gordon Brown Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India
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Sam Hinds Prime Minister of Guyana
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Álvaro Colom President of Guatemala
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Tigran Sargsyan Prime Minister of Armenia
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Andrus Ansip Prime Minister of Estonia
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Nikola Gruevski Prime Minister of Macedonia
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Stephenson King Prime Minister of St. Lucia
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Hubert Ingraham Prime Minister of the Bahamas
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Kevin Rudd Prime Minister of Australia
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Emil Boc Prime Minister of Romania
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Ahmed Ouyahia Prime Minister of Algeria
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Dean Barrrow Prime Minister of Belize
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Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela
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Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden
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Zinaida Greceanîi Prime Minister of Moldova
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Daniel Ortega President of Nicaragua
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Juan Carlos I King of Spain
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Mohammed VI King of Morocco
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Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President of Equatorial Guinea
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Akihito Emperor of Japan
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Feleti Sevele Prime Minister of Tonga
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Bashar al Assad President of Syria
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Taro Aso Prime Minister of Japan
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Serzh Sargsyan President of Armenia
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Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister of Turkey
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Hu Jintao President of China
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Litokwa Tomeing President of the Marshall Islands
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Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan of Brunei
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George Abela President of Malta
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Nikola Špirić Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Lech Kaczyński President of Poland
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Leonel Fernández President of the Dominican Republic
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Herman Van Rompuy Prime Minister of Belgium
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Paul Kagame President of Rwanda
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Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi President of Comoros
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Mahmoud Abbas President of the Palestinian National Authority
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Dimitris Christofias President of the Republic of Cyprus
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Mwai Kibaki President of Kenya
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David Thompson Prime Minister of Barbados
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László Sólyom President of Hungary
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President of Indonesia
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Umaru Yar’Adua President of Nigeria
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Ram Baran Yadav President of Nepal
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Liu Chao-shiuan Premier of Taiwan
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Hosni Mubarak President of Egypt
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Stjepan Mesić President of Croatia
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Armando Guebuza President of Mozambique
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Jacob Zuma President of South Africa
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Ricardo Martinelli President of Panama
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika President of Algeria
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Ralph Gonsalves Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Alan García President of Peru
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Nouri al-Maliki Prime Minister of Iraq
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Fernando Lugo President of Paraguay
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Óscar Arias President of Costa Rica
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Hifikepunye Pohamba President of Namibia
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Laurent Gbagbo President of the Ivory Coast
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Hans-Rudolf Merz President of Switzerland
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Bhumibol Adulyadej King of Thailand
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Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj President of Mongolia
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Robert Fico Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Meles Zenawi Prime Minister of Ethiopia
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Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi Prime Minister of Samoa
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Tandja Mamadou President of Niger
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Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal
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François Bozizé President of the Central African Republic
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Bouasone Bouphavanh Prime Minister of Laos
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Fradique de Menezes President of São Tomé and Príncipe
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Letsie III King of Lesotho
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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Emir of Kuwait
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Michael Somare Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
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Ilham Aliyev President of Azerbaijan
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Ismail Omar Guelleh President of Djibouti
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Valdis Zatlers President of Latvia
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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
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Jean-Paul Proust Minister of State of Monaco
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali President of Tunisia
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Bingu wa Mutharika President of Malawi
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Abdullah King of Saudi Arabia
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Lee Myung-bak President of South Korea
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Omar al-Bashir President of Sudan
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Jan Fischer Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
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Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe
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Raúl Castro President of Cuba
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Hamad bin Khalifa Emir of Qatar
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Pope Benedict XVI Sovereign of Vatican City
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Kim Jong-il Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Brain Power!
Ten Ways To Improve Your Memory
Every human being has his/her biggest asset that is located between their shoulders, even with an empty gapping wallet in the back of your pocket or purse in handbag! The brains capacity to store memory is untold and depending on how you exercise your memory capacity, just like a flexed muscle, the brain can be very accurate in reminding you of past events that were 'stored' safely and securely.
Here are ten ways to improve that memory library embedded in that skull of yours, age irrespective! Enjoy and flex that brain 'muscle' of yours to function at full capacity!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Julius Nyerere, 1922-1999
Mwalimu's lifelong learning and informal education
Prepared by Mark K Smith
One of Africa's most respected figures, Julius Nyerere (1922-- 1999) was a politician of principle and intelligence. Known as Mwalimu or teacher he had a vision of education that was rich with possibility.Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.
On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961 and he was elected President in 1962.
Nyerere's integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor--Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.
Ujamma, socialism and self reliance
As President, Nyerere had to steer a difficult course. By the late 1960s Tanzania was one of the world's poorest countries. Like many others it was suffering from a severe foreign debt burden, a decrease in foreign aid, and a fall in the price of commodities. His solution, the collectivization of agriculture, villigization (see Ujamma below) and large-scale nationalization was a unique blend of socialism and communal life. The vision was set out in the Arusha Declaration of 1967 (reprinted in Nyerere 1968):
The objective of socialism in the United Republic of Tanzania is to build a society in which all members have equal rights and equal opportunities; in which all can live in peace with their neighbours without suffering or imposing injustice, being exploited, or exploiting; and in which all have a gradually increasing basic level of material welfare before any individual lives in luxury. (Nyerere 1968: 340)
The focus, given the nature of Tanzanian society, was on rural development. People were encouraged (sometimes forced) to live and work on a co-operative basis in organized villages or ujamaa (meaning "familyhood" in Kishwahili). The idea was to extend traditional values and responsibilities around kinship to Tanzania as a whole.
Within the Declaration there was a commitment to raising basic living standards (and an opposition to conspicuous consumption and large private wealth). The socialism he believed in was "people-centred". Humanness in its fullest sense rather than wealth creation must come first. Societies become better places through the development of people rather than the gearing up of production. This was a matter that Nyerere took to be important both in political and private terms. Unlike many other politicians, he did not amass a large fortune through exploiting his position.
The policy met with significant political resistance (especially when people were forced into rural communes) and little economic success. Nearly 10 million peasants were moved and many were effectively forced to give up their land. The idea of collective farming was less than attractive to many peasants. A large number found themselves worse off. Productivity went down. However, the focus on human development and self-reliance did bring some success in other areas notably in health, education and in political identity.
Education for self-reliance
As Yusuf Kassam (1995: 250) has noted, Nyerere's educational philosophy can be approached under two main headings: education for self-reliance; and adult education, lifelong learning and education for liberation. His interest in self-reliance shares a great deal with Gandhi's approach. There was a strong concern to counteract the colonialist assumptions and practices of the dominant, formal means of education. He saw it as enslaving and oriented to "western" interests and norms. Kassim (1995: 251) sums up his critique of the Tanzanian (and other former colonies) education system as follows:
- Formal education is basically elitist in nature, catering to the needs and interests of the very small proportion of those who manage to enter the hierarchical pyramid of formal schooling: "We have not until now questioned the basic system of education which we took over at the time of Independence. We have never done that because we have never thought about education except in terms of obtaining teachers, engineers, administrators, etc. Individually and collectively we have in practice thought of education as a training for the skills required to earn high salaries in the modern sector of our economy". (Nyerere, 1968: 267).
- The education system divorces its participants from the society for which they are supposed to be trained.
- The system breeds the notion that education is synonymous with formal schooling, and people are judged and employed on the basis of their ability to pass examinations and acquire paper qualifications.
- The system does not involve its students in productive work. Such a situation deprives society of their much-needed contribution to the increase in national economic output and also breeds among the students a contempt for manual work. (Kassam 1995: 251)
Nyerere set out his vision in "Education for Self Reliance" (reprinted in Nyerere 1968). Education had to work for the common good, foster co-operation and promote equality. Further, it had to address the realities of life in Tanzania. The following changes were proposed:
- It should be oriented to rural life. Teachers and students should engage together in productive activities and students should participate in the planning and decision-making process of organizing these activities. Productive work should become an integral part of the school curriculum and provide meaningful learning experience through the integration of theory and practice. The importance of examinations should be downgraded. Children should begin school at age 7 so that they would be old enough and sufficiently mature to engage in self-reliant and productive work when they leave school. Primary education should be complete in itself rather than merely serving as a means to higher education. Students should becomeself-confident and co-operative, and develop critical and inquiring minds. (summarized in Kassam 1995: 253
Judged today, the educational reforms met with some success and some failure. The policies were never fully implemented and had to operate against a background of severe resource shortage and a world orientation to more individualistic and capitalist understandings of the relation of education to production. However, primary education became virtually universal; curriculum materials gained distinctively Tanzanian flavours; and schooling used local language forms (Samoff 1990).
Adult education, lifelong learning and learning for liberation
In the _Declaration of Dar es Salaam_ Julius Nyerere made a ringing call for adult education to be directed at helping people to help themselves and for it to approached as part of life: "integrated with life and inseparable from it". For him adult education had two functions. To:
- Inspire both a desire for change, and an understanding that change is possible.
- Help people to make their own decisions, and to implement those decisions for themselves. (Nyerere 1978: 29, 30)
Nyerere's view of adult education stretched far beyond the classroom. It is "anything which enlarges men's understanding, activates them, helps them to make their own decisions, and to implement those decisions for themselves" (Nyerere 1978: 30). It includes "agitation" and "organization and mobilization". There are two types of educator involved:
- generalists like community development workers, political activists and religious teachers. Such people are not politically neutral, they will affect how people look at the society in which they live, and how they seek to use it or change it. (ibid.: 31)
- specialists like those concerned with health, agriculture, child care, management and literacy.
Adult education, for Nyerere, doesn't have a beginning or an end. It should not be pressed into self-contained compartments. Rather we need to think of lifelong learning. Living is learning and learning is about trying to live better. "We must accept that education and working are both parts of living and should continue from birth until we die" (1973: 300-301).
In terms of method, two aspects stand out:
- Educators do not give to another something they possess. Rather, they help learners to develop their own potential and capacity.
- Those that educators work with have experience and knowledge about the subjects they are interested in-- although they may not realize it.
[B]y drawing out the things the learner already knows, and showing their relevance to the new thing which has to be learnt, the teacher has done three things. He has built up the self-confidence of the man who wants to learn, by showing him that he is capable of contributing. He has demonstrated the relevance of experience and observation as a method of learning when combined with thought and analysis. And he ha shown what I might call the "mutuality" of learning--that is, that by sharing our knowledge we extend the totality of our understanding and our control over our lives. (1978: 33)
The teacher of adults is, for Nyerere, a leader, "a guide along a path which all will travel together" (ibid.: 34).
In practical terms this approach proved successful. Mass literacy campaigns were initiated and carried through (for example, between 1975 and 1977 illiteracy fell from 39 to 27 per cent--by 1986 it was at 9.6 per cent); and various health and agricultural programmes were mounted e.g the "Man is Health" campaign in 1973, and "Food is Life" (1975) (Mushi and Bwatwa 1998). Adult education initiatives have made a significant contribution to mobilising people for development (Kassam 1979).
Liberation struggles
A committed pan-Africanist, Nyerere provided a home for a number of African liberation movements including the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC) of South Africa, Frelimo when seeking to overthrow Portuguese rule in Mozambique, Zanla (and Robert Mugabe) in their struggle to unseat the white regime in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He also opposed the brutal regime of Idi Amin in Uganda. Following a border invasion by Amin in 1978, a 20,000-strong Tanzanian army along with rebel groups, invaded Uganda. It took the capital, Kampala, in 1979, restoring Uganda's first President, Milton Obote, to power.
The battle against Amin was expensive and placed a strain on government finances. There was considerable criticism within Tanzania that he had both overlooked domestic issues and had not paid proper attention to internal human rights abuses. Tanzania was a one party state--and while there was a strong democratic element in organization and a concern for consensus, this did not stop Nyerere using the Preventive Detention Act to imprison opponents. In part this may have been justified by the need to contain divisiveness, but there does appear to have been a disjuncture between his commitment to human rights on the world stage, and his actions at home.
Retirement
In 1985 Nyerere gave up the Presidency but remained as chair of the Party--Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). He gradually withdrew from active politics, retiring to his farm in Butiama. In 1990 he relinquished his chairmanship of CCM but remained active on the world stage as Chair of the Intergovernmental South Centre. One of his last high profile actions was as the chief mediator in the Burundi conflict (in 1996). He died in a London hospital of leukaemia on October 14, 1999.
Tom Porteous, writing in _The Independent_ (October 15, 1999) summed him up as follows:
Slight in build, somewhat austere in manner, Nyerere was neither vain nor arrogant. He set great store by honesty and sincerity. A family man devoted to his wife and children, he was extremely loyal to his friends--sometimes to a fault. He inspired among his people both devotion and respect and returned the compliment by complete dedication to his work on their behalf as head of state. He was ready to admit his mistakes, and to show flexibility and pragmatism, but never if this meant compromising his cherished Catholic, humanist and socialist ideals.
Nyerere's life and career are an inspiration to the many Africans who dismiss the notion current in elite African circles today that justice, dignity and freedom should be subordinated to the single-minded pursuit of prosperity through economic liberalisation and structural adjustment. Africa needs more leaders of Nyerere's quality, integrity and wisdom.
Julius Nyerere on the Arusha Declaration
It is particularly important that we should now understand the connection between freedom, development, and discipline, because our national policy of creating socialist villages throughout the rural areas depends upon it. For we have known for a very long time that development had to go on in the rural areas, and that this required co-operative activities by the people...
When we tried to promote rural development in the past, we sometimes spent huge sums of money on establishing a Settlement, and supplying it with modern equipment, and social services, as well as often providing it with a management hierarchy...All too often, we persuaded people to go into new settlements by promising them that they could quickly grow rich there, or that Government would give them services and equipment which they could not hope to receive either in the towns or in their traditional farming places. In very few cases was any ideology involved; we thought and talked in terms of greatly increased output, and of things being provided for the settlers.
What we were doing, in fact, was thinking of development in terms of things, and not of people... As a result, there have been very many cases where heavy capital investment has resulted in no increase in output where the investment has been wasted. And in most of the officially sponsored or supported schemes, the majority of people who went to settle lost their enthusiasm, and either left the scheme altogether, or failed to carry out the orders of the outsiders who were put in charge--and who were not themselves involved in the success or failure of the project.
It is important, therefore, to realize that the policy of ujamaa Vijijini is not intended to be merely a revival of the old settlement schemes under another name. The Ujamaa village is a new conception, based on the post Arusha Declaration understanding that what we need to develop is people, not things, and that people can only develop themselves...
Ujamaa villages are intended to be socialist organizations created by the people, and governed by those who live and work in them. They cannot be created from outside, nor governed from outside. No one can be forced into an Ujamaa village, and no official--at any level--can go and tell the members of an Ujamaa village what they should do together, and what they should continue to do as individual farmers...
It is important that these things should be thoroughly understood. It is also important that the people should not be persuaded to start an Ujamaa village by promises of the things which will be given to them if they do so. A group of people must decide to start an Ujamaa village because they have understood that only through this method can they live and develop in dignity and freedom, receiving the full benefits of their co-operative endeavour...
Unless the purpose and socialist ideology of an Ujamaa village is understood by the members from the beginning--at least to some extent it will not survive the early difficulties. For no-one can guarantee that there will not be a crop failure in the first or second year--there might be a drought or floods. And the greater self-discipline which is necessary when working in a community will only be forthcoming if the people understand what they are doing and why...
Nyerere on The Arusha Declaration, excerpts from J.K. Nyerere, _Freedom and Development_ (Government Printer, Dar-es-Salaam, (no date). Reprinted in _Freedom and Development_ (Oxford University Press, 1973). Copyright retained by the President.
Julius Nyerere - The Declaration of Dar-es-Salaam
[page 27] Man can only liberate himself or develop himself. He cannot be liberated or developed by another. For Man makes himself. It is his ability to act deliberately, for a self-determined purpose, which distinguishes him from the other animals. The expansion of his own consciousness, and therefore of his power over himself, his environment, and his society, must therefore ultimately be what we mean by development.
So development is for Man, by Man, and of Man. The same is true of education. Its purpose is the liberation of Man from the restraints and limitations of ignorance and dependency. Education has to increase menÂ’s physical and mental freedom to increase their control over themselves, their own lives, [page 28] the environment in which they live. The ideas imparted by education, or released in the mind through education, should therefore be liberating ideas; the skills acquired by education should be liberating skills. Nothing else can properly be called education. Teaching which induces a slave mentality or a sense of impotence is not education at all--it is attack on the minds of men.
This means that adult education has to be directed at helping men to develop themselves. It has to contribute to an enlargement of Man's ability in every way. In particular it has to help men to decide for themselves--in co-operation--what development is. It must help men to think clearly; it must enable them to examine the possible alternative courses of action; to make a choice between those alternatives in keeping with their own purposes; and it must equip them with the ability to translate their decisions into reality.
The personal and physical aspects of development cannot be separated. It is in the process of deciding for himself what is development, and deciding in what direction it should take his society, and in implementing those decisions, that Man develops himself. For man does not develop himself in a vacuum, in isolation from his society and his environment; and he certainly cannot be developed by others. Man's consciousness is developed in the process of thinking, and deciding and of acting. His capacity is developed in the process of doing things.
But doing things means co-operating with others, for in isolation Man is virtually helpless physically, and stultified mentally. Education for liberation is therefore also education for co-operation among men, because it is in co-operation with others that Man liberates himself from the constraints of nature, and also those imposed upon him by his fellow-men. Education is thus intensely personal. In the sense that it has to be a personal experience--no one cam have his consciousness developed by proxy. But it is also am activity of great social significance, because the man whom education liberates is a man in society, and his society will be affected by the change which education creates in him.
There is another aspect to this. A Man learns because he wants to do something. And once he has started along this road of developing his capacity he also learns because he wants to be; to be a more conscious and understanding person. Learning has not liberated a man if all he learns to want is a certificate [page 29] on his wall, and the reputation of being a "learned person"--a possessor of knowledge. For such a desire is merely another aspect of the disease of the acquisitive society--the accumulation of goods for the sake of accumulating then. The accumulation of knowledge or, worse still, the accumulation of pieces of paper which represent a kind of legal tender for such knowledge, has nothing to do with development.
So if adult education is to contribute to development, it must be a part of life--integrated with life and inseparable from it. It is not something which can be put into a box and taken out for certain periods of the day or week—or certain periods of a life. And it cannot be imposed: every learner is ultimately a volunteer, because, however much teaching he is given, only he can learn.
Further, adult education is not something which can deal with just "agriculture", or "health", or "literacy", or "mechanical skill", etc. All these separate branches of education are related to the total life a man is living, and to the man he is and will become. Learning how best to grow soy-beans is of little use to a man if it is not combined with learning about nutrition and/or the existence of a market for the beans. This means that adult education will promote changes in men, and in society. And it means that adult education should promote change, at the same time as it assists men to control both the change which they induce, and that which is forced upon them by the decisions of other men or the cataclysms of nature. Further, it means that adult education encompasses the whole of life, and must build upon what already exists.
Extract from Julius K. Nyerere "'Development is for Man, by Man, and of Man': The Declaration of Dar es Salaam" in Budd L. Hall and J. Roby Kidd (eds.) (1978) _Adult Education: A Design for Action_, Oxford: Pergamon.
Books by Julius Nyerere
(1968) _Freedom and Socialism. A Selection from Writings & Speeches, 1965-1967_, Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press. This book includes The Arusha Declaration; Education for self-reliance; The varied paths to socialism; The purpose is man; and socialism and development.
(1974) _Freedom & Development, Uhuru Na Maendeleo_, Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press. Includes essays on adult education; freedom and development; relevance; and ten years after independence.
(1977) _Ujamaa-Essays on Socialism_, London: Oxford University Press.
(1979) _Crusade for Liberation_, Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press.
See, also:
(1978) "'Development is for Man, by Man, and of Man': The Declaration of Dar es Salaam" in B. Hall and J. R. Kidd (eds.) _Adult Learning: A Design for Action_, Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Material on Julius Nyerere
Assensoh, A. B. (1998) _African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere_, New York: Krieger Publishing Co.
Kassam, Y. (1995) 'Julius Nyerere' in Z. Morsy (ed.) _Thinkers on Education_, Paris: UNESCO Publishing.
Legum, C. and Mmari, G. (ed.) (1995) _Mwalimu : The Influence of Nyerere_, London: Africa World Press.
Samoff, J. (1990) "'Modernizing' a Socialist Vision: Education in Tanzania", in M. Carnoy and J. Samoff (eds.) _Education and Social Transition in the Third World_, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Other references
Hinzen, H. and Hundsdorfer, V. H. (eds.) (1979) _The Tanzanian Experience. Education for liberation and Development_, Hamburg: UNESCO Institute for Education.
Kassam, Y. (1978) _The Adult Education Revolution in Tanzania_, Nairobi: Shungwaya Publishers.
Mushi, P. A. K. and Bwatwa, Y. D. M. (1998) "Tanzania" in J. Draper (ed.) _Africa Adult Education. Chronologies in Commonwealth Cultures_, Leicester: NIACE.
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Kenya might have been derailed.....
But gentlemen Annan and O'Campo, Kenya's Sovereignty Remains Supreme and Non Negotiable.....
As much as i think that Kenya needs a major miracle to save face for the political nonsense it has displayed to the world for the past one year, I strongly believe that all this crap noise of how outsider reformers are holding Kenya at ransom is even more distasteful high class nonsense which should never be entertained by anyone with a sensible shoulder on their heads! Talk that it seems like Kenya's destiny is in the hands of Koffi Annan or one powerful world prosecutor called Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer who has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is unpalatable, foolish, uncalled for, totally reckless and borders on selling Kenya's birthright to nonentities!Kenya is one of those African nations that has been the envy of many an African States as she made great strides on many fronts against all odds. Kenya has gone through some very tough times in her 40 something years of existence. Some of the challenges that this great Nation has faced include, her challenges of finding her footing after gaining independence in the early sixties, the political developments that shaped the late sixties between the then Kenya African National Union (KANU) and its bitter rival the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), corruption and its vices of the early seventies, the breakup of the East African Community in 1977, the death of the founding father of the Nation, Jomo Kenyatta in 1978, the 1982 failed coup attempt against President Moi's nascent government, the Mlolongo election (or was it selection?) fiascos of the 88's to 90's, the introduction of multiparty democracy after much campaign to kill the idea by KANU in 1992, the subsequent fraud selections of the consecutive General Elections thereafter upto 1997 and the Kibaki error thereafter....
Kenya's darkest hour came last year after a shambolic and stolen election fiasco in 2007 which saw many Kenyans die and thousands more internally displaced because one duly elected President decided that its was either Kenya or the Presidency that would call the day! The Presidency did call the day, while Kenya slowly and steadily slid to arnachy and hopelessness as the world watched in disbelief! It was and will remain Kenya's biggest sore and scar which will take eons and generations to go away!
And in the midst of Kenya's need, its remains an open secret that certain forces 'applauded' the killings that hit international headlines, some of them saying, '....you see, they said they were the most peaceful..... ona vile wanavyochinjana......!!!!!'. But the hand of God still had mercy on Kenya and steadily controlled the chaos back to sanity. Inflated political egos finally got toned toned down and a table for peace engineered and set up by great people who included Tanzanian ex President Benjamin Mkapa, the ebullient mama Graca Machel, current Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan. The rest is history......
FFWD 2009......
After almost one year of dilly dallying, and political somersaults and intrigues by the so called coalition government, not much progress has been made in bridging mistrust between the two coalition Principles who call to the names of Raila Odinga and duly elected President Mwai Kibaki and uniting Kenyans! Tribalism has soared and reeks with a strong pungent smell, corruption has scaled to unprecedented levels (commentators say the corruption theatrics and scandals in Kibaki's 6 year old government rivals the corruption that scaled the former President Moi's 21 year rule.....), Internally Displaced Kenyans have been ignored like people without rights, and nepotism in every sector of public society a otal shame!
But despite the minimal 'progress' that has been made in 'hoodwinking' Kenyans that something is being done to mend Kenya, this state of affairs doesnt really warrant for Kenya to be bullied by so called reformers who have Kenya's interests at heart. Of late, Kenyans have been treated to 'cutting edge' presha inapanda, presha inashuka theatrics on the supposed fate of Kenya post Annan's visit to Kenya last week!
At the end of the day, and when all is said and done, when the sun sets, it squarely remains Kenyas onus of fixing its problems internally. Period! Koffi Annans alleged tongue lashing at Raila and Kibaki for their slow speed at getting reforms to the table or arm twisting Kenya's 2007 election violence victims to the Hague as a carrot and stick political game for effecting reforms is all but the wrong way of going about getting real reforms to the table.
Moi once said, ' Genya itachengwa na wagenya.....' (Kenya will be built by Kenyans) is so true. Its is only sensible Kenyas, knowing their problems and dealing with them squarely, that will shape the correct destiny for generations to come or again throw Kenya to the dogs... And not O'Campo, or Annan or Angel Micheal, God's Archangel! Cheap rhetoric, political innuendos, political somersaults, mark timing, back stabbing and buck passing will not bring much needed peace and a sensible direction for Kenya.
Raila and Kibaki can save Kenya from shame! Save Kenya from shame! The time is Now!
Long Live Kenya!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The magnificent and new Snow Crest Hotel Arusha, Tanzania
Arguably the Hottest Hotel in Tanzania
Now there's a new tourist and business Hotel and Resort in Tanzania that is turning heads and leaving mouths agape! Just recently finished is the imposing and simply magnificent Snow Crest Hotel that is arguably the hottest and most imposing hotel in Arusha Tanzania if not in the entire country. And the Architects behind this great piece of international architecture and interior design are not pulling any airs about this achievement!
Can’t get better!
The Hotel that has just hosted a major international Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting that brought together Parliamentary Speakers from Commonwealth Countries, just two months after opening its door, even before its launch is indeed a proud achievement.
You personally need to see and literally feel the great ambiance and theme of this new Hotel to experience what am talking about! No amount of story telling will do the trick!
When in Arusha, you better get yourself visiting if not residing at the Snow Crest Hotel and live to tell the tale! Snow Crest is simply hot!
Am reliably told that the Architects behind the Hotel are
Studio 7 Limited (info@studio7.com)
...towards the front reception parking area..
front area.....
the lounge area......
magnificent style....
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Kenya Dragon Slayer Slain...... Good riddance!
Arrogant Ringera quits in a huff!...
Good Riddance!
After three solid weeks of chest thumping arrogance, the disgraced Kenya Anti Corruption Director Aaron Ringera woke up Director of Integrity House and for sure will go to bed tonight with his tail tucked in between his legs as a former Anti ooops sorry, Corruption Tzar!!
This is the man that Kenyans had entrusted to wipe out or atleast keep corruption in check but actually presided over a corrupt era! How ironical of this arrogant man from Meru who actually thought he could defy the Creating authority of his office, Kenyas Parliament, Civil Society and Kenyans as a whole, on the strength of a Letter of Appointment from a duly elected President and a Contract! High class nonsense.
Good riddance i say! Although definately Kenyans will be dumped with a Kshs. 150 million Ringera exit-plan bill to foot, the young people in Kenya will often say, 'whatever maaaan!'
End of Scene 1. Coming soon Scene 1 Act 2 .... Na Kazi Iendeleeeee ...... kubaff!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ringera to exit with Kshs 150 million?
Kenya's Anti Corruption Top Dog on the spot....
I really dont know what was going throughtPresident Kibaki's mind when he decided to extend his Corruption Tzars contract, but that move wasnt all that and a bag of chips! The most significant issue that has arisen from this circus in Kenya is that Kenyans rightfully think that former Justice Aaron Ringera never fit the bill to crack the whip on corruption in Kenya.
That the Kenyan Parliament would nullify his appointment and two of his predecessors a couple of days ago is an action that casts serious aspersions on the real intention of fighting corruption in Kenya.
Aaron Ringera, who takes home some mind boggling salary that tithers in the millions has literally watched over mega corruption scandals under his tenure and none of the big fish who have skimmed off billions of tax payerss money has seen the inside of a jail! And when Kenyans rightfully demand his exit, he cockily tells them off in his true Meru arrogance! Jesus!
Whats with that office that's so important for him to relinquish it and do something 'better' with his judicial brains? Am told that there exists an exit plan for him to leave with a wallet full of Kshs 150 million, the amount he wold have earned were he to serve a full term, just because a clause in his contract requires that he be paid for its entire period should it be terminated for any reason other than his own volition! My Goodness....
I propose that the incoming Anti Corruption head's first order of business should be to investigate Ringera kama kazi ya kwanza! This is the height of fallacy which should not be allowed to gain root in Kenya and I am glad that Kenyans have brought him to a screeching halt!
Most HORRIBLE Picture of All Time!
Doing So Will Reveal The Most Horrible Picture Of All Time
I am warning you not to click on the image above. It will permanently wipe out all sexual desire you have for the rest of your life. You will, in effect, be neutered through grotesque visual stimuli courtesy of a big Hollywood star. The effect works the same on both men and women, so steer clear.
Sexy Silvio tries a fast one on Marvelous Michelle as....
.... Barack watches close....very close.....
.... noticing that the Barack is watching his every move too close, sexy Silvio decides to change Obama's color from BLACK to TAN... Jesus! ... lol
Monday, September 28, 2009
Killing Corruption in Kenya...hahahaha
Billboard sponsored and erected courtesy of
Kenya's First Lady. How gross!
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Traffic Irresponsibility in Dar es Salaam
Now whats this?????
This is my opinion is the height of irresponsibility. Doesn't this chap see it dangerous to weave around Dar es salaam traffic like this with passengers that include children? And where were all the traffic policemen along the route this guy used? No wonder traffic accidents are are a meteoric rise in Tanzania.
And who are these for? lol
A nine-year old boy goes into the grocery store, grabs a box of tampons from the shelf and carries it to the register. The cashier asks, "Oh, these must be for your mom, huh?"
"Nope," says the boy, "not for my mom."
The cashier responds, "Well, then they must be for your sister then?"
"Nope," says the boy, "not for my sister, neither."
The cashier is now curious, "Oh. Not for your mom and not for your sister -- then who are they for?"
The nine-year-old says, "They're for my little brother. They say on TV, if you wear one of these, you can swim and ride a bike, and my little brother can't do either of those things."
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Obama hosts Kenya PM Odinga in New York
The heritage bond...
US President Obama and his lovely wife Michelle this week got the priviledge of bonding with people who are just not represnting Kenya, the country of his forefathers, but people who come from where his forefathers came from, Nyanza, Kenya. In New York this week was Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his suave wife Ida whom obviously elicited some envy from Nairobi (read the duly elected President Mwai Kibaki...). Michelle reportedly inquired about her Kenyan grandmother mama Sarah Obama and requested Ida to look out for her.
A direct bonding session from these two families was definately establ;ished and pundits will keep a keen eye on future developments that arise from this established link. Hush hush 'noises' from nairobi prior to Odingas visit this week wondered if the PM would gain the rare priviledge of meeting with the worlds most powerful man. And yes he did, and in style as is known of Odinga and generally all the luo's. But do do i say, yawaa....
And following the US banning 15 top ranking Cabinet Ministers and Members of Paliament from setting foot in the land of democracy, Odinga will ride high with platitudes from this political opprtunity that many Kenyans cherish to enjoy. Well, well well.....
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tanzania Albino Killers Sentenced to Death!
The heat seems to be swelling and mounting against the grizzly Tanzanian Albino killers following the historic sentencing to death of four convicted Shinyanga residents by the High Court yesterday. Masumbuko Madata, 32, Emmanuel Masangwa, 28, and Charles Kalamuji, alias Masangwa, 42, all residents of Shinyanga Region, were sentenced to death by the High Court sitting in Kahama for the brutal murder of a 13-year-old boy.
The Tanzania Albino Society has gone ahead and petitioned President Jakaya Kikwete to assent to the execution of the four as soon as possible. AndTanzania
The Tanzania Albino Society has gone ahead and petitioned President Jakaya Kikwete to assent to the execution of the four as soon as possible. And
A delighted Nominated Member of Parliament, Hon. Al-Shymaa Kwegyir, herself an albino, was quoted as saying that people who murdered fellow human beings had no right to live. "The sentences should send a powerful message to all those thinking about killing others and this are an appropriate deterrent," she said.
But while calling for the abolishing of capital punishment inTanzania
40 Albinos have been murdered in cold blood inTanzania
But while calling for the abolishing of capital punishment in
40 Albinos have been murdered in cold blood in
Delivering the court's verdict in a packed courtroom in Kahama, Mr. Justice Gabriel Rwakibalila said it had been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused committed murder on the night of December 1, 2008 at Bunyihuna Village
The defense team led by defense counsel Kamaliza Kayas plans to appeal against the conviction.
The defense team led by defense counsel Kamaliza Kayas plans to appeal against the conviction.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Jeff and Dave's Wifes' $100...lol
Two couples were playing cards. Jeff accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Dave's wife, Sandy, was not wearing any underwear! Shocked by this, Jeff hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced.
Later when Jeff went to the kitchen to get some refreshments, Sandy followed him and asked,
"Did you see anything under the table that you liked?" Jeff admitted, "Well, yes I did." She said "you can have it, but it will cost you $100." After a minute or two, Jeff indicates that he is interested.She told him that since Dave works Friday afternoons and Jeff doesn't, that Jeff should come to their house around 2:00 PM on Friday. Friday came and Jeff went to her house at 2:00 PM. After paying her the$100, they went to the bedroom, had sex for a few hours and then Jeff left. Dave came home about 6:00 PM and asked his wife, "Did Jeff comes by this afternoon?"
"Did you see anything under the table that you liked?" Jeff admitted, "Well, yes I did." She said "you can have it, but it will cost you $100." After a minute or two, Jeff indicates that he is interested.She told him that since Dave works Friday afternoons and Jeff doesn't, that Jeff should come to their house around 2:00 PM on Friday. Friday came and Jeff went to her house at 2:00 PM. After paying her the$100, they went to the bedroom, had sex for a few hours and then Jeff left. Dave came home about 6:00 PM and asked his wife, "Did Jeff comes by this afternoon?"
Totally shocked, Sandy replied, "Yes, he did stop by for a few minutes." Next Dave asked, "Did Jeff give you $100?" Sandy thought, 'Oh hell, he knows!' Reluctantly she said,"Yes, he did give me $100..""Good" Dave says. "Jeff came by the office this morning and borrowed the $100 from me and said that he'd stop by our house on his way home and pay me back.
My friend It's so good to have a friend you can trust.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Kenya House Speaker is baptized
.... spiritually or politically, who cares?
Kenya's inedependent mind and straight talking House Speaker Kenneth Marende was baptised Sunday at my favourite local church, the Nairobi Pentecostal Church. Seen here baptizing the fiery ODM politician and custodian of Kenya's law creation institution is Pastor (Rev?) Kennedy, a friend of mine, who will obviously cherish and relish this lifetime opportunity for the rest of his life! lol
Spiritually or politically, Marende seriously needed this baptism, seeing that the PNU vultures have lately been circling and angling for his blood because of recent decisions the man had made in Parliament and rattled the snakes the control Kenya.
But who cares, Marende is saved! Amen!
Kenya's inedependent mind and straight talking House Speaker Kenneth Marende was baptised Sunday at my favourite local church, the Nairobi Pentecostal Church. Seen here baptizing the fiery ODM politician and custodian of Kenya's law creation institution is Pastor (Rev?) Kennedy, a friend of mine, who will obviously cherish and relish this lifetime opportunity for the rest of his life! lol
Spiritually or politically, Marende seriously needed this baptism, seeing that the PNU vultures have lately been circling and angling for his blood because of recent decisions the man had made in Parliament and rattled the snakes the control Kenya.
But who cares, Marende is saved! Amen!
Lord Jesus bless me and protect me from ....... (PNU...shhhhhhh)
....sasa wakuje! Mta-do?
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