Eti, anasoma hapo kweli

Asikwambie mtu wala hasomi chochote huyo anazuga tu time zisambae. Ilikuwa Sunday jioni hivi! We fikiria tu with reality day kama hiyo...
She's Basilisa mi big flend and MWUCEs librarian.

Ima and 'Shem':Karibu!!

She came with Ima (guessed anything yet?) Basi when she was browsing Ima akaamua kujichimbia na gazeti kunako makochi makali ya library.
Hii shoot ala hakuistukia. Comment on pozi if you can!

Introducing Maria (Mary?)
Hapa ni Maria, humjui lakini ntakwambia next taim. Ka email kake kalikuwa kamekufa akakafufua na kutuma bonge(sijui niseme ndefu?) la email. Safi hiyo!

Of Being 'Africanist'

I saw this in the Kenyan daily; ‘The Standard’ dated Monday, January 15^th 2007. Nikaona bora ni-share ili mchangie. Me? Well, I think it holds water. It has touched what I always battle with my old man, a veteran teacher-cum-inspector and area commissioner. Africa really needs more of the Mr. James Shikwati type. Kwanza hebu isome afu…post some comments.

It’s an interview so it starts with a question, well framed I’d say.

Too much wealth, yet so much poverty

Q. Aren’t there good jobs any more?

A. Education systems during the colonial times were designed to produce civil servants for the government. After Independence, none of our governments sat down to reform the education sector, so many graduates have come out of school expecting public service jobs.

In Africa, the majority of people want to get a job with the UN because that means a big car and a nice house. (a good point here!) Let us create jobs. We should teach people that we have the responsibility to be business people. We have the responsibility to solve our problems instead of relying on the international community.

Q. What really contributes to Africa’s poverty?

A. We have received a lot of money but we are still talking about poverty. This is very confusing. Many African countries are still talking about tackling the same problem of 50 years ago. The Millennium Goals are promises African leaders were giving when we got independence, but this time thinly veiled. The whole aid debate is about shutting down the concept of letting somebody else fix our problems, and promoting one where we take responsibility for our problems---we are the ones with the problem, so we must fix it. (Applause!!)

Q. Do you believe in the so-called African solution for African problems?

A. I agree with this statement if it means getting Africans to solve their own problems. But this does not necessarily means there is an African solution. If, for instance, we have seen Slovenia solving its water problems, soil erosion, then it would be stupid for Africans to say, ‘we won’t take that solution, we have to invent own.’ The idea is not that Africans should reinvent new ways; the point is we should be solving our problems.

Drivers be 'eyes'

Hii nafikiri nimeitoa kwenye gazeti la The Sun la U.K. Sijui ni wapi hapo!!

The Episode:Joji Kichaka v. Saa-damu

Hii mimi imenishtua na kunishangaza. Eti, si death sentence a punishment for all who kill their fellow human beings. Good asa mi nnavyoelewa punishment should teach a lesson to the doer of the action and also to the public not to do the same lakini ukiua afu nawe ukanyongwa utakuwa umejifunza nini? Afu tutakuwa tunawafunza nini watoto. Usishangae mtoto kaibiwa mdoli naye akaua si nyie watu wazima mnaua vilevile!!!
Sasa baada ya Saddam nduguze nao wamefuata . Mmoja akawa miscalculated mpaka shingo ikang'oka . Sijui lakini nafikiri its too bad. Soma mwenyewe
Way last week I vowed not to watch, listen or read news sasa we kila siku ni Iraq, Somalia, Darfur, War, hangings, coups, dictators aagh me is now tired.

Some useful stuff!!

Why you should (must?) use the Internet…

Internet provides current News and Information as you want and more!

E.g. will the execution of Saddam be a solution to Iraq problems?
Is the US a world police? Has Iran stopped uranium enrichment for nuclear production that is threatening to the world peace and stability? What is all about the proposed East Africa political federation, when will it be operational and how you can contribute to its cause.

Good for your study Enhancements and Proofs.

Become confident with your subject contents accompanied with logical proofs. Enrich yourself with all current, up-to-date changes in every field e.g. Why Pluto is no longer a planet, Sigmund Freud is not dead in Psychological applications, Scientists studying DNA have discovered how to remove unwanted hereditary genes, and how to solve Linear programming through shortcuts and many more!!

Advanced, world-class virtual Communication

Send your friends, relatives and just anybody e-mails, Chat with people all round the world, make phone calls, send and share your holiday photos, buy and sell items…… and lot more.

Publicize yourself to the world, be known and heard!!

It is easy and sometimes free; you can create your own website, contribute to Wikipedia and become a , create a blog, get tagged @ tagged.com, or get to know where your friends are @ wayn.com. You too can do that!!
Share your hobbies, interests, ideas, discoveries, visions and just anything to the world.

The World is wide but made smaller!!

Globalization is speedy and doesn’t wait for anybody. Brace up. In this globalized village people are becoming closer and closer. You can take a virtual tour to any location in the world while seated at your desk and even more…

Kudos to Araphat' Mzee wa Migongo' the above was to sensitize MWUCE students to get use of the internet service at the college!! Good job man!!

MWUCE style

This was what we called ‘Curriculum and Teaching Workshops’. On the picture I was demonstrating on a topic called ‘Problem Solving’. We were presented with a well defined problem and be told to solve it using fewest, crude, materials. The problem I’m dealing with in the photo required that I make square box using none other materials than 1 metre of manila card, 20 cm of masking tape, a pair of scissors and thats all, that could carry/bear the weight of three kgs. without altering its shape. It was tough but I and others managed. Others in the picture are; (L)Peter G. Kafumu (Phy and Math) and Rafael Matembe (Chem and Bio)

MY Beautyful college!!
Waw!

This is the place MWUCE.
I'll soon be missing this lovely place
You see we've even have the roof of Africa at our backyard,
look how graceful she is!
ENJOY the rest
In the fore ground is the library and the computer lab where I'm working from.

Tanzania na education yetu= Mchezo wa kuigiza!

Jamaa mmoja Karl Marx huyu huyu unayemjua, ambaye sisi wa Education tunamstudy kwenye Sociology, anasema endapo mtu anataka kujua the position of the teacher in any society one must look at

• the value his/her society places in education
• the organization of the education system of that society
• the training required for a teacher
  and;
• the kinds of pipo likely to be attracted to his/her occupation

Sasa my problem is not that teachers are not respected in Bongoland!
Hebu fikiria hii, ili mtu ateach primary school lazima awe na grade III A, GOOD! Lakini huyu mtu ndiye yule yule aliye fail form four. Nina maana kwamba ukipata div. two mbaya au three form four, you qualify to go to teaching college vivyo hivyo kwa A-level ukifelifeli basi utaenda kuchukua education. Tatizo ni kwamba hii negative notion imekuwapo toka longtaim hadi inafikia mahali mtu ukisema unasoma education unaangaliwa kana kwamba umedunda f.4.
We should agree that if we really want to prepare a nation of trained, educated individuals lazima tutakuwa careful kuhakikisha our pipo are given the best education the state can offer using the best teachers possible. Ni aibu kurecruit walimu kutoka Kenya kuja kufundisha curriculum ya Tanzania.

KUPIGIKA!!!

Hii niliishuhudia majuzi kunako ITV news eti walimu huko Tarime(Mara) wakiwa wamependeza kwenye matenge na malemba yao ya Ki-naijeria na original wax za Holland huku vidume vikiwa vimejaa na 'profile' zao na makoti ya suti ya mtumba, wameandamana benki. Kisa mshahara umechelewa kuingia. You know there are pipo who despise and insult HakiElimu kwamba ni wachochezi kumbe masikini hawa akina Rajesh know what they are saying and they've gone to the field for it. Sijui Mungai alijisikiaje aipoona ile hali!!! Walimu hawana kiu na mbado you are expecting much from them, really!! Be eyes.
Ipo hii nyingine; ni kuhusu hawa wa 'Crash-programme.' serikali haitasema lakini najua haikufanikiwa. Unaona bwana, karibu 1500 ninaestimate hawakuripoti. Mdogo wangu Imma ni mmoja wao; ktk shule aliyopangiwa huko Upareni ilitakiwa waende wa3 lakini wameripoti wa2, pale Ifati sec. wa3 karipoti m1 na rafiki yangu Rawlings pale Bomang'ombe karipoti peke yake kati ya wa3 waliopangwa. Government money spent well!!! kudos
Halafu bado ipo kali, umemchukua mtoto wa watu ndiyo kwanza katoka form six umemtrain for a month or so, unampeleka kunako shule wapi huko sijui na bado humlipi mshahara kwa more than 3 months eeh!
I gets me nuts!

I’m back!!!

Well this week was about Dito, that’s aka. In full he’s Capt. (rtd) Ukiwaona Ditopile Mzuzuri, his Excellency the Regional Commissioner for Tabora. Good leader of high caliber, holder of various CCM high posts and a once deputy minister. Enough?

Case?

He got angry, you know I mean getting’ damn angry, just like that, O.K pulled out his blessed pistol pointing it to the bewildered Bongoman who’s never seen one live apart that in American movies and pulled the trigger paah! Dead was a daladala driver. Simple. Full stop.

Next?

He was in the police custody for interrogations and soon to face His Lordship Magistrate in infamous Kisutu courts.

Before we go on, let me tell you small talk about Kisutu. Right at the central of this beloved city of ours stands this court. It is the same court where we’d the infamous Kombe and his friends were brought to justice and being at the centre of the town you are to be told that it always full of pipo when these type of ‘big potatoes’ are be tried.

Anyway that has not been what I wanted to say but; what the strangest thing on earth is how the media and ‘others’ we received the news. It was like pipo lyk Bro. Dito are protected by the loved spirits of wahenga not to ‘neutralize’ (used it purposely) you don’t ask me.

All, in chorus “3£$%^aghhhrrsa$$$*&^*” thanks.

All the learned pipo outa there you help me jamani, what was it so strange for a man to get angry and well, you how’s to get angry and you’ve at your disposal a oops gun. Yah and it happens like Ditos .What would you do?

Jamani I'm back again,

Well it was election at the college today and I was the Campaign manager for two aspirants from both the President post and the Vice president and tell you what? My people 've all have gone through the stump flyin' high like....... A virgin Concorde, 'kwa kishindo' the CCM type sijui niseme 'mafuriko' au? well, you help me
Now get to know the people themselves that is MC Emanuel Benjamin the prezzo himself and Madame Zaidan Donaldo aka Zidane shhhhh BAD.
I'm thrilled 2 death cause I didn't lose with my people A good persuader like mi papa Yuck!!
Weeell shoutouts to all the hommies outta there who voted for my blessed people you made me and them proud and the happiest pipo in the planet at the moment but for them be thinking 'bout the challenges they are soon to face All '#Aaagh!!!'#£$&*
OK they'll be sworn-in to the office on Friday this week and its gonna be good with me cause I ma gonna hung up my boots as the Minister for Education. cooool!!!

And then some regrets to Eric I'm sorry man for you caught the numero uno(e?) killer disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Wish you get well soon and get back to your feet for good!!!! SP isnt bad I take some pills every three months I tell you, don' worry; Gambatane!!!!!(think its Japanese)
Funny, Salutary is still wondering how I got my name appear in the net wuhhuuu!!

Hi there!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope its all cool out there. I'm Frank, soon to become a teacher. I'm at Mwenge University college of Education here in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Tanzania pursuing for a Diploma in Education.

I love poetry and try to sometime write few lines time permitting. Well her is one I created the other day for you to enjoy. Its more of a prayer than anything else;

KARIA
do not fear
for God's there
and'll hear
your cry
and prayer

Let be on your face the smile
and that tomorrow
shine 'll be the sun.

Well just some shoutouts to th people who made me get hooked to computers and, well, the net. Yep!!! to Eric, my tutor. Thanks man for all that opportunity to use the computer lab and the internet of course. And aah to mi papa and mom Tony and Flora for all that encouragement and support through all those hard times. Mi loves ya!!!!

And well Prof Vavrus, for you made me discover and know my potentials you've got all the kudos for good job perfectly done, Miss Sue back in England thanx sis twas cool having you around remember the workshops?

And to all my people, many people, Fr. James, Ziggy, Mashaka, Consolata, Lucy, Juma aka Jitu aka The Toad of Kihansi, mTA Mr. & Mrs. Emilly and Veronica Macha and all the good friend out there couldn't remember mentioning, Halla.

Ok! Me ends here hope we soon meet the other time
ciao for now.