mwandani

Kama unaweza mambo ya programu…

2010-07-19T05:39:00.000-07:00

Kama unao ujuzi wa mambo ya teknolojia ya kompyuta au simu za mkononi na misimbo yake, kuna shindano hapa kwa Apps 4 Africa:

Apps 4 Africa is a contest to highlight the talent of local developers in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania and to leverage the power of digital technology to make a better world. The challenge is to build the best digital tools to address community challenges in areas ranging from healthcare to education and government transparency to election monitoring.

Apps 4 Africa challenges local technologists to develop tools on a variety of platforms that build on the needs of citizens or on open data sets relevant to the East Africa region.

The contest runs July 1st- August 31st. Winners will receive a small bit of fame and fortune — cash, gadgets, chances to improve your technical skills and the opportunity to hob nob with our judges panel of tech luminaries and civil society leaders at an awards ceremony in September.

Pia hapa:

(OFFICIAL CONTEST MESSAGE FROM PAYPAL) – PayPal is thrilled to announce its next PayPal X Developer Challenge with $160,000 USD in prizes for developers who build innovative applications using the PayPal X Platform.

Tena hii ya paypal inatuhusu sana kwani tunashindwa hata kupokea fedha wakati mwingine, kama inavyoelzwa hapa:

Being in Africa Makes You Untrustworthy

“I haven’t been able to use PayPal for two months. I just got profiled for extra security measures on Facebook. I can’t make certain purchases from Africa. Few organizations ship goods to me here.

Let’s be honest; living in Africa, or being African, gives you a certain unwelcome aroma in the eyes of global corporations. Frankly, we’re just not trustworthy. […]

2010-07-17T03:23:00.000-07:00

On a good note:

Under Maximo Tanzania managed to improve its position in the Fifa World soccer rankings from 172th in 2005 to 108th in April 2010.

- mwananchi

FIFA imetoa ranking za timu. Nakubali Hispania kuwa juu, ikifuatiwa na timu kadhaa kama inavyoonyeshwa hapa.

Timu za Afrika Misri na Ghana zinatuwakilisha kwenye chati juu juu. Cha ajabu ati timu kama Australia iko juu zaidi ya Ghana ambayo ilikwenda mbali zaidi kwenye kombe la dunia, ilishiriki vizuri tu kwenye mashindano ya kombe la Africa nk.

kama kawaida nilipokuwa naitafuta Tanzania nilibofya moja kwa moja ukurasa wa mwisho na kuanza kurudi mwanzo. Sikutarajia kuikuta nchi yetu kwenye kurasa mbili za mwanzo.

Accomplice in murder

2010-07-16T05:46:00.000-07:00

Hali ya kusikitisha pale kwa Michuzi Jr. Watu kadhaa wamesimama kwa amani wakiangalia binaadamu mwingine akiuwawa kwa kuchomwa moto. Kwa namna moja au nyengine wale waliosimama wanaweza kuchukuliwa kama ni washiriki katika mauaji. Hawakuchukua hatua chanya katika tukio zima.

Polisi wako wapi?

Picha kutoka GlobalPublishers

Mishahara ya Viongozi

2010-07-10T23:09:00.000-07:00

Nigependa kuziona nchi zaidi kwenye picha hii, pamoja na yetu. Habari zaidi bofya hapa.

2010-07-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

... just days before Holland and Spain settle the tournament in the 2010 World Cup final, the UAE’s General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments has finally issued its ruling. If they are loud enough to damage hearing, vuvuzelas are haram. According to fatwa number 11625, the horns can be used only in stadiums if they pose no harm.

- Fatwa decrees vuvuzela haram above 100 decibels

Haya...

2010-06-18T03:49:00.000-07:00

Pichani Mkazi wa Kijiji cha Gomelo, Kata ya Kisaki , Tarafa ya Bwakila, Wilaya ya Morogoro

Lukwangule katuletea picha ya wagonjwa wa kuharisha na kutapika wakiwa kwenye wodi. Najua ipo njia na uwezo wa kuondoa adha ya teremka tukaze katika karne hii...

zittokabwe.wordpress.com

2010-05-26T04:41:00.000-07:00

Ndugu msomaji, nimekuwa na blogu hapo kabla lakini sikuweza kuifanyi kazi kama invyostahili. Nimeamua kuanzisha blogu hii mpya ili liwe jukwaa la kujadiliana jinsi ya kuimarisha demokrasia nchini kwetu Tanzania, Afrika Mashariki na Afrika kwa ujumla. Karibu kwa maoni, ushauri na hata makatazo!

- Posti ya ukaribisho katika blogu ya Mh. Zitto Kabwe

Zaidi bofya hapa.

Natafuta tafuta wabunge wengine wanaoblogu – bila bila mpaka sasa...

2010-05-25T03:58:00.000-07:00

Happy Africa Day...

PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA

2010-05-17T05:06:00.000-07:00

David Marama wa Public Opinion Afro Orchestra kaongea na Michelle Smith wa Radio Adelaide.

Kwa mujibu wa tovuti hii:

David Chimwemwe Marama - Guitarist, Composer, Vocalist, Traditional instrumentalist & Percussionist.

From Malawi, exiled to Tanzania, David came to Australia with family in 1991. Researcher of African music, composer, performer and manager of notable bands, including Tatunane which won the 1991 Radio France award in a field of 500 African and Caribbean groups. David has played in an extensive list of bands both overseas and in Australia.
He has recorded with Musiki Manjaro, Thula Sana, Royal Swazi Spas, Orso, Ray Pereira and Boite projects. Whilst in Australia, David has participated in countless festivals. He is a passionate supporter of projects that encourage youth development through art and music.

MKUTANO WA UANAHABARI WA KIRAIA WA GLOBAL VOICES 2010 – Santiago, Chile

2010-05-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

Simba, Nambiza, Bwaya

Kundi dogo la wanablogu kutoka Madagaska, Afrika Kusini, Tanzania, Naijeria, Kenya na Ivory Coast wakijadili jambo.

Mkutano wa Uanahabari wa Kiraia wa Global Voices 2010 uliofanyika mjini Santiago, Chile ulipita vizuri. Nilibahatika kukutana na wanablogu wawili wa Tanzania, Christian Bwaya na Deogratias Simba ana kwa ana kwa mara ya kwanza.

Ilikuwa ni furaha tupu kwani tuliweza kuzungumza mengi kwa lugha yetu na kwa kuelewana vizuri bila ufafanuzi au maelezo mengi kama vile tunapoongea na watu kutoka nchi na tamaduni tofauti.

Katika siku zile mbili za mkutano watu wengi kutoka kila bara walieleza na kutushirikisha katika miradi yao ya uanablogu au uanahabari wa kiraia. Wengi wa watoa mada walitoka katika nchi zenye ahueni katika upatikanaji wa intaneti, yaani hawategemei migahawa ya intaneti au kompyuta za wanapofanyia kazi ili kublogu na kuendesha miradi hiyo na hivyo miradi yao ilionekana kuwa na mafanikio zaidi. Hata hivyo kutoka Afrika kuna nchi kama Liberia na Madagaska ambazo zimeweza kufanikisha miradi hiyo ya uanahabaro ewa kiraia katika hali ngumu kama yetu au pengine hali mbaya zaidi. Maelezo ya miradi hiyo pamoja maelezo mengine ya mkutano yamewekwa hapa.

Pamoja na mambo mengine mimi binafsi nilijifunza mengi katika mkutano ule. Pengine neno ‘nilijifunza’ halitoi maana sahihi, ninaweza kusema kuwa nilithibitisha hisia zangu za muda mrefu. Kwamba ili jambo lolote au juhudi yoyote iweze kufanikiwa panatakiwa kwanza pawe na visheni, nia, ikesha mipango inayoeleweka kadhalika panatakiwa pawe na ufuatiliaji mzuri na usiokoma-koma. Mambo ya bahati bahati yanawezekana kutokea lakini sio mara nyingi bahati inaweza kuzaa mafanikio ya kudumu ambayo yanaweza kubadilisha jamii au kumpa mtu au jamii nafasi inayoheshimika.

Simba, Bwaya na washikaji wa Kibangladeshi wakiwa Sao Paulo, Brazil

Simba akisikiliza au kushangaa jambo wakati wa mkutano

Picha nyingine za mkutano kama hii ya maneno au Awab zinapatikana hapa na hapa.

Eureka!

2010-05-15T22:56:00.000-07:00

Immaculate Virgin - Sanamu ya Bikira

San Cristobal Hill (Cerro San Cristobal)

Ni mara chache sana huwa ninafikiwa na kuitambua hali ambayo ilinifikia nilipokuwa juu ya kilima cha San Cristobal. Pengine hali hiyo haijawahi kukufikia – au haujawahi kuitambua katika maana hii - na kama bado basi lazima itakufikia.

Pamoja na shughuli za mkutano, maongezi, matembezi na kadhalika, bila ya kutarajia nilipokuwa nimeketi nikiuangalia mji mzima wa Santiago na vilele vya milima ya Andes (au moshi unaotokana uchafuzi wa hali ya hewa unaozuia kuonekana vilele vya milima hiyo) hali kama ya ufunuo wa namna fulani ilinivaa nikatota ndani ya hali hiyo ya uwepesi wa mawazo, mawazo yaliyokuwa wazi ambayo yalinifafanulia muelekeo wa maisha.

Kama vile taa iliwashwa katika giza. Kila kitu kiliwekwa wazi na busara ya hali juu ilifunuliwa. Kila kipande cha kitendawili kiliangukia kwenye nafasi yake. Nilijawa na matumaini makubwa. Majawabu yote yaliwekwa mbele yangu. Furaha ikanijaa. Nilipata nguvu – ningeweza kupambana na chochote, ningeweza kuelewana na yeyote ambaye kwa sababu moja au nyingine pengine hatuwezi kuafikiana na kuwa na heri kati yetu.

Sikutaka kusogea hata kwa inchi moja au kufanya lolote ili niendelee kuwa ndani ya hali ile daima. Basi, hali ile haikudumu, kadiri nilivyong’ang’ania kuishikilia ndivyo ilivyozidi kuniponyoka.

Haidhuru, hali ile ilifanya ilichotumwa. Kwamba nimeona, naomba nipate nguvu ya kufuatilia kwa makini mawazo yale mema.

MITAA

2010-05-15T22:54:00.001-07:00

Mzee akibarizi bustanini

Mwanamke wa shoka na mbwa koko
(kuna mbwa koko wengi sana Santiago!)

Moneda Palace- Hapa ndio ofisi ya rais wa Chile, anaingilia mlango wa pembeni upande wa kushoto kwa miguu kila asubuhi, na ndio hapa alipofariki Rais Salvador Allende wakati wa mapinduzi ya kijeshi mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 70.

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Wapendanao kila sehemu

WAPIGA RANGI VIATU

2010-05-15T22:51:00.000-07:00

Mtindo huu wa kupiga rangi za viatu hauniridhishi. Naona kama vile mpiga rangi hujisikia vibaya. Kama ada kila mtu hubeba gazeti na kuanza kusoma pindi mpiga rangi anapoanza kazi.

COFFEE WITH LEGS

2010-05-15T22:50:00.001-07:00

Migahawa ya kahawa yenye wahudumu wanaotunisha matiti na kuwacha miguu iliyopakwa mafuta kisawasawa wazi ili kuburudisha wateja imeshika moto sana Santiago. Wakati wa mapumziko mchana watu wengi wenye suti na tai huvamia migahawa hiyo, na kwa dau zaidi kidogo mtu huweza kuingia katika chumba cha faragha na kuhudumiwa na wahudumu wasio na mavazi.

TETEMEKO

2010-05-15T22:48:00.000-07:00

Tetemeko la ardhi lililoikumba Chile halikuwa na madhara makubwa jijini Santiago kama vile ilivyokuwa sehemu za kusini. Ni nyufa tu na majengo mengi yameshafunguliwa kwa ajili ya shughuli za kawaida.

Jengo la maonyesho (Theatre/Opera house) mtaa wa Augustina.

MICHORO

2010-05-15T22:35:00.001-07:00

Avenue Tupical Jimenez

Bella Vista - Bohemian district? pengine...

Mji wa Santiago umejaa michoro. Sijui kwa nini miji yenye mifarakano au migongano ya kitabaka watu hupendelea kuchora majengo.

2010-04-25T07:08:00.000-07:00

“Many women who do not dress modestly… lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.”

- Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader

More...

2010-04-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

“Ardhi ya nchi ndio mali yetu, wenzetu hawa wana matatizo ya ardhi, serikali itambue ardhi hii ni kwa ajili ya Watanzania, hivyo serikali ikafanye tafiti mipakani na kama kuna ardhi imeshanunuliwa kinyemela na wenzetu hawa irudishwe,”

- Mbunge wa Same Mashariki, Anne Kilango Malecela (CCM)

Pengine kuna kila sababu ya kuhofu. Tanzania ina ardhi kubwa yenye rutuba. Ina zaidi ya hekta milioni 44 za ardhi inayofaa kwa kilimo, na ni robo tu ya ardhi hiyo, kiasi cha hekta milioni 10.5 ambayo inatumika kwa kilimo.

Japo naafiki maneno ya Mheshimiwa hapo juu ila naona panahitajika nyongeza kwamba serikali pia idhibiti ardhi kwa ufanisi zaidi siyo tu kutokana na hofu za kuporwa na watu wa nchi jirani.

Mara nyingine ni vigumu kuielewa mantiki iliyo nyuma ya kuwashupalia majirani kuhusiana na ardhi ilhali wananchi wa kawaida wanaendelea kuhamishwa kwa nguvu au kunyang’anywa ardhi na wageni wa kutoka mbali pamoja Watanzania wenyewe.

Kwa mujibu wa habari hii kuna ununuzi wa kinyemela wa ardhi uliofanywa Rufiji. Wahadzabe pia wameondolewa kwenye ardhi yao na shirika la kitalii bila maelewano mazuri.

Halafu kuna nchi zisizokuwa na ardhi ya kulima lakini zenye fedha ambazo zinaendelea kupata mgao wa ardhi kwa madai kuwa watatufundisha jinsi ya kulima vizuri kama wao. Hata Wamisri wana mashamba ya mboga

Tanzania

kwa madai hayo hayo ya kutunufaisha kwa mbinu bora za kulima mboga.

Kadhalika makampuni ya kimataifa yanayozalisha mazao ya nishati kwa madai kuwa tutapata faida kama vile fursa za ajira, fursa za masoko kwa bidhaa na mazao, upatikanaji wa nishati vijijini na mijini, kukua kwa uchumi wa wananchi, kupungua kwa umasikini, na kupungua kwa wimbi la nguvu kazi kukimbilia mijini.

Wakati tunawakalikia majirani, baadhi ya viongozi na Watanzania wengine wenye nafasi wamekuwa wakichukua ardhi kwa hila.

Basi likisikika suala la shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki, kama ada miiba inatusimama kama nungunungu tayari kushambulia.

Hivi bila ya mchakato wa shirikisho, masuala ambayo tunaweza kuyashikia usukani na ambayo tunapaswa kuyadhibiti kama vile ardhi - au kuboresha elimu na mbinu au viwango vya kushika ajira, ama kuboresha biashara ya utalii - yataendelea kubaki yalivyo?

2010-04-18T06:39:00.001-07:00

"I would like to raise with you the issue that yes, Zimbabwe has failed, and it is hurting British people directly, but there's much, much more to Africa than Zimbabwe."

- Graça Machel

Pew!

2010-04-15T07:48:00.000-07:00

BBC reports: The Pew Research Center has just released one of the biggest ever studies on attitudes to religion and morality in Africa, which has revealed a host of interesting facts.

Like –

Belief in witchcraft is highest in Tanzania with 93% - this is the country where witchdoctors say that magic potions are more effective if they contain body parts of people with albinism.

Burudika na Sauti ya risasi

2010-04-14T06:53:00.000-07:00

“We have replaced the music of the early morning program with the sound of the rooster, replaced the news music with the sound of the firing bullet and the music of the night program with the sound of running horses,”

Says Osman Abdullahi Gure, the director of Radio Shabelle radio and television, one of the most influential stations in Mogadishu after radio stations in Somalia stopped broadcasting music on Tuesday, heeding an ultimatum by an Islamist insurgent group to stop playing songs or face “serious consequences.”

Other replacements for now-forbidden melodies include croaking frogs and crowing cockerels. Braver broadcasters are considering adding braying donkeys to the list. - AllAfrica

Hell No, You Can't

2010-03-28T03:47:00.000-07:00

More...

2010-03-17T06:44:00.000-07:00

“Tukitaka kufanikiwa kwa kutenganisha siasa na biashara, turudi kwenye maadili na turudishe Azimio la Arusha,”

- WAZIRI Mkuu mstaafu, Frederick Sumaye

"We do not want to be used as an alternative but as a trade route because we are not only reliable but comfortable with the services we are offering"

-Tanzanian High Commissioner to Uganda, Mr Rajab Gamaha promoting Dar es Salaam port in EAC

...reliable services...

2010-02-22T04:19:00.000-08:00

Rwanda Strives to Be Regional Hub in the service sector by 2020

Indonesia aims to be world's breadbasket

Tanzania Aims to Be ...

2010-02-21T03:14:00.000-08:00

"There is no law that says politicians can't be businessmen"

- ANC Youth League president Julius Malema

akitoa maoni kuhusu zabuni anazopewa na serikali katika mamilioni

….“Well there should be a law that says that they cannot be associated with businesses that receive government tenders”

Kaugonjwa ka ufisadi huwa kanaambatana na jeuri.

2010-02-10T02:32:00.000-08:00

"I'm very happy for Africa. The continent had to wait so many years for this occasion. To have South Africa hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup is not only very good for football, but also for the whole African continent.”

- Mexican great Hugo Sanchez

URAIA WA NCHI MBILI

2010-01-22T03:20:00.000-08:00

"The government is regretting locking out Tanzanians overseas during the 49 years of our Independence, while some African countries have been granting dual citizenship to their people,"

[…]

… there will more benefits for the country and the individuals, if we do adopt the law to enable our fellow Tanzanians living abroad to market our country as well."

- TZ Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation minister Bernard Membe

(All Africa)

2010-01-22T03:18:00.000-08:00

"We have arrived at the border, we will enter Kenya, and Inshallah we will get to Nairobi... when we get there, we will fight, we will kill, because we have weapons, enough weapons.,"

- Al-Shabaab

A day later…

"We didn't threaten Kenya. That story is a false one. We never posted that on the internet ... Everything needs to be checked first by the media to make sure they know what they are writing about,"

- Al-Shabaab’s Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage

First Lady

2010-01-15T03:37:00.000-08:00

Pamoja na kuanzisha mashirika mbalimbali ya kusaidia watu, mitindo ya nywele ya first lady wa Cameroon bibie Chantal Biya inawakonga wengi.

Akiwa na Mumewe, Paul Biya

(picha zote zimetoka hapa)

2010-01-15T03:35:00.000-08:00

"We feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death,"

- Aristide, Washington Post

KILOSA

2010-01-14T15:09:00.000-08:00

Nitasahihisha kidogo ujumbe uliotangulia unaosema hatuna chaguo lolote rahisi kuchangia ili kuwasaidia walioathirika huko Kilosa. Nimeangalia jamii forum kuna ujumbe ufuatao kuhusu michango ya kusaidia kilosa kwa watu waliopo Marekani au Tanzania. Kazi nzuri. Lakini kwa wale walio nje ya sehemu hizo...

Nukuu:

KUCHANGIA MAAFA YA HAITI NA MAFURIKO YA TANZANIA:

Kama uko Marekani.. unaweza kusaidia waathirika wa Tetemeko la ardhi Haiti:

Text "Haiti" kwenda namba "90999" to put a 10 dollar donation on the phone that will go to the Red Cross

Kama uko Tanzania .. unaweza kuchangia waathirika wa mafuriko wa Tanzania:

Text "TPN" kwenda namba 15522. Utakatwa Shs 250 kujisajili. Na utachangia Shs 150.00 kwa siku thelathini; sawa na 4500Ths! Hii ni sawa na kuchangia dola 3.46 kwa mwezi!!

the amount raised will be contributed to the Tanzanian Red Cross Society

TETEMEKO LA ARDHI HAITI

2010-01-14T06:32:00.000-08:00

Picha na Matthew Marek/American Red Cross (Flickr)

Wyclef Jean anasema kwenye akaunti yake ya twita:

We are asking those interested to please do one of two things: Either you can use your cell phone to text “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund (it will be charged to your cell phone bill)

- http://twitter.com/Wyclef

Baada ya kuangalia video kadhaa kwenye mtandao na kusikiliza kinachosemwa, roho ikasikia huruma, haraka nikakamata simu nikabofya hizo namba zilizoelekezwa na kuandika hilo neno ‘Yele’ nikatuma ujumbe.

Najua mchango huo mdogo ukiunganishwa na michango ya wengine milioni kadhaa Haiti haitakufa peke yake. Mungu awasaidie wakati huu mgumu.

Nimeangalia kwetu Kilosa na picha za majanga yake.Tafuta tafuta sikupata chaguo kama hilo la kuchanga ili kusaidia ndugu zetu haraka… tuko pamoja kiroho.

2010-01-14T06:30:00.000-08:00

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," … "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal."
…

"ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other"

- Televangelist Pat Robertson saying that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has been "cursed" by a "pact to the devil."

Teddy Pendergrass has died

2010-01-14T06:23:00.000-08:00

Mungu amlaze pema Teddy. Ulitupatia maraha 1988 kwa hizi mbili hapo juu.

I’m Blacker Than Obama

2010-01-12T03:45:00.000-08:00

“It’s such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of s— and phonies, but I was real, man — and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the f—? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter. I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.”

- Blagojevich
playahata

2010-01-11T03:49:00.000-08:00

"We asked that all delegations inform us when they would arrive and provide the passport number of their players," he told the sports weekly A Bola.

"Togo was the only team not to respond and did not inform COCAN it was coming by bus ... The rules are clear: No team should travel by bus. I don't know what led them to do this."

- Virgilio Santos, an official with the African Nations Cup local organising committee COCAN

2010-01-11T03:48:00.000-08:00

The plan for the Government to establish a Diaspora department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is welcome news.

…

Many countries in the developing world have long recognised that their citizens in the diaspora are the largest non-tangible, although sometimes undocumented export.

…

There are existing barriers that hamper investment by Ugandans holding passports of other countries. The recent recognition of dual citizenship by Uganda is a step in the right direction.

- AllAfrica

2010-01-06T04:25:00.000-08:00

'I saw it too' commented Sister Maria 'it was not human and must have been a spirit. The students later told me it was Michael Jackson'.

Michael Jackson’s ghost sighted in Zimbabwe

– Africa News

2010-01-04T04:31:00.000-08:00

“Young ladies you are smart, but I think you are in a wrong place. This is a church and not a beach or dancing hall where you dress up in cloths that leave some of your body parts exposed…”
[…]
“I therefore order you to leave this place and get back to where you came from, put on decently and spare what you are putting on now for the night’’.

Pastor Patrick Sekito, ordering girls to go back home and dress up in a manner that befits a place of worship.

hamba kahle Dennis Brutus

2009-12-30T03:06:00.000-08:00

Sand,

Gentle waves,

The sea.

Islands,

Silhouettes…

At times

On those days of unbearable winds,

The sand whirled into vortex

Carved a few scars

On the beach of our dreams

Letters to Martha

A Simple lust…

My silent Companions

Inspiration…

Steeled our resolve

And forth we surged…

Those old editions,

Though all have turned into sepia now

Are still kept high

On the shelves of our memory

Hamba kahle Cde. Dennis Brutus.

UHURU WA VYOMBO VYA HABARI – Tanzania

2009-10-21T05:37:00.000-07:00

Tanzania imepanda kwa chati kwenye takwimu mpya zilizotelewa muda mchache uliopita.. Ipo kwenye alama ya 62 kati ya nchi 175 zilizoangalia kwenye chati ya Reporters Without Borders For Press Freedom.

Chati hiyo inaangalia uhuru wa wanahabari na vyombo vya habari katika nchi 175, na kiwango ambacho mamlaka za nchi zinathamini, zinahakikisha au kiwango ambacho zinakandamiza uhuru wa vyombo vya habari, pamoja na jitihada zinazofanywa na mamlaka katika nchi ili kuhakikisha kuwa uhuru wa vyombo vya habari na wanahabari unaheshimiwa.

Binaadamu na Mashine

2009-09-14T05:27:00.000-07:00

Kama ilivyoandikwa kwenye hii blogu, kutafsiri kiswahili kwa kutumia mashine au komyuta pekee ni kazi ngumu.

Kuna mtu katuma maoni kwenye blogu – kwa Kiswahili na Kiingereza. Nadhani alitafsiri kwa mashine:

Comment:

Kiswahili
Kama hii barua pepe yangu fika, ninyi tafadhali vidarebefordra barua pepe ya risiti yangu.
Mimi vidarebefordra email hii kwa nchi mbalimbali duniani moja 1,000 kwa siku. Kama wewe ya maambukizi ya ujumbe wa barua hii tafadhali samarbeta.

Ujapani redio zuliwa silaha sana katika ulimwengu wa kwanza miaka 60 iliyopita. Japan na USA ikawatoa kampuni ya kigeni kwa sababu ya redio ya silaha. Japan na USA alifanya siri vita (uhalifu) katika redio moja sidedly silaha katika nchi mbalimbali duniani. Na Japan na Marekani kuwa nchi ya viwanda nafasi ya kwanza duniani. Japan na Marekani kuwaangamiza economy.There kigeni ni redio ya silaha katika nchi yoyote ya mahali sasa. The Kijapani redio silaha ni halina nguvu. Nchi yako lazima kulipiza kizazi kwa Japan na Marekani, kampuni ambayo ni kubwa kuliko Kijapani na american nusu ni kitu ya nchi yako. Wote wa Kijapani na makampuni ya Marekani ni mambo ya nchi mbalimbali duniani. Dunia lazima kulipiza kizazi kwa Japan na USA mpaka kampuni ya kutoweka kutoka Japan na USA Mei wewe kusamehe siri vita kwa muda mrefu kuwa Japan na Marekani walitumia silaha kwa redio? Ni hauhitaji silaha na kuanguka katika Ujapani na Marekani Don't kununua bidhaa na gari (Toyota • Nissan • Honda • Suzuki • Mitsubishi • Ford • GM • USAcar) • Umeme (National • Matsushita • HITACHI • Sanyo • NEC • Sony • PIONIEER • Sharp • Victor • wengine) zinazozalishwa nchini Japan na USA! Ikiwa kuwafundisha mataifa yako yote katika barua pepe na simu na wengine, Japan na USA kuanguka kwa njia zote.
Na makampuni ya nchi yako kuongezeka.

Kama USA majani Ujapani, Asia kuharibiwa na viwanda ni vita, na ulimwengu sekta ya mafanikio.

Ni lobsters yoyote, na nyangumi hukua. Ujapani tu hawakupata Valar na exterminated ya Valar kutoka duniani. Kama kwa miaka mia kadhaa, wewe kushika whaling kukataza ya uvuvi na lazima dunia kufanya bahari nyangumi rikedom. Nyangumi wanaweza kula moja kwa moja.

Anyway, lazima kulipiza kizazi dhidi ya Japan na USA ni mpaka katika kampuni ya nchi yako katika Ujapani na kampuni ya Kimarekani ambayo You got kwa siri vita mpaka kuja it-matajiri na nyangumi wa ulimwengu tena bahari.

Please translate this email ndani yako lugha ya kitaifa, na kuruhusu Unaweza kuonyesha mataifa yote ya nchi yako, na kushirikiana. Kama inawezekana katika nchi ya kigeni ya barua pepe tafadhali samarbeta.

Katika Kijapani Serikali, email nchi ya kigeni ni blocked kuficha ubaya wa Kijapani tendo. Mimi kuanzisha free mail (yahoo / goo / Excite / infoseek / moto), na email nchi ya kigeni ni kuzuiwa kwa mara kadhaa. Tafadhali tuma barua pepe hii hapa chini ya anwani kutoka nchi yako.

English
If my this email reaches you, you please transmit an email of the receipt to me.
I transmit this email to the various countries in the world 1,000 on one day. As for you of the transmission of a message of this email please cooperate.

Japan

invented the radio weapon very first in the world 60 years ago.

Japan

and

U.S.A.

gave up a foreign firm because of a radio weapon.

Japan

and

U.S.A.

did secret war (a crime) in a radio weapon one-sidedly in the various countries in the world. And

Japan

and

U.S.A.

became the industrial country of the first place world.

Japan

and

U.S.A.

destroyed foreign economy.There is the radio weapon in country of any place now. The Japanese radio weapon is powerless. Your country must retaliate for

Japan

and

U.S.A.

The company where is higher than Japanese and american half is a thing of your country. All the Japanese and American companies are things of various countries in the world. The world must retaliate for

Japan

and

U.S.A.

till a company disappears from

Japan

and

U.S.A.

May you forgive the long secret war that

Japan

and

U.S.A.

used a radio weapon for? 　It does not need the weapon to collapse in

Japan

and

U.S.A.

Do not buy a product and a car (Toyota・Nissan・Honda・Suzuki
・Mitsubishi・Ford・GM・U.S.A.car)・Electricity（National ・ Matsushita・ Hitachi ・ SANYO ・ NEC ・ Sony ・ PIONIEER ・ SHARP ・ Victor ・ others）produced in

Japan

and

U.S.A.

! 　If you teach all your nations it in email and telephone and others,

Japan

and

U.S.A.

fall by all means.
And the companies of your country increase.
If

U.S.A.

leaves

Japan

, the Asian industry is destroyed by war, and the world industry prospers.
It is in lobsters anything, and the whale grows. Only

Japan

caught whales and exterminated the whales from the world. As for several hundred years, you keep the whaling prohibition of fishing and must make the world sea whale richness. The whale can eat directly.
Anyway, you must retaliate against Japan and U.S.A. till it is it in the company of your country in Japan and the American company which You got by secret war till come to it-rich with a whale the again world sea.

Please translate this email into your national language, and let You show all nations of your country it and cooperate. If possible in the foreign country of the email please cooperate.
In the Japanese Government, the email to the foreign country is blocked to hide a Japanese evil deed. I establish free mail (yahoo / goo / excite / infoseek / hot), and the email to the foreign country is prevented with several times. Please send this email to an address below from your country.

TRAVEL WARNING

2009-08-30T06:32:00.000-07:00

Inasikitisha kuona hata kwetu nyumbani tunawekewa travel warning... nchi yenye amani na utulivu.

Tanzania (including Zanzibar)

August 28, 2009

The State Department alerts American citizens to the possibility of election-related violence as Zanzibar begins to register voters for the upcoming general elections expected in October 2010. The Department recommends that U.S. citizens defer all non-essential travel to the northern island of Pemba of Zanzibar. This Travel Alert expires on December 20, 2009.

habari yote hapa.

WAGONJWA JEURI

2008-05-09T06:18:00.000-07:00

Tuko tayari kutumia jeshi letu la majini kukusanya waliopoteza maisha, waliopotea, na kuweka hali sawa. Lakini ili kuweza kufanya hivyo, utawala wa kijeshi lazima uturuhusu kuingia nchini humo.

- Raisi Bush wa Marekani akiwaasa watawala wa Myanmar wakubali msaada wa Marekani

2008

Tunaghafirishwa na serikali ya Myanmar kwa inavyojivutavuta kupokea na kukubali usaidizi wetu. Ni wazi uwezo wa serikali hiyo siyo mkubwa kuweza kukabili hali iliyopo, ambayo ni janga"

Balozi wa Marekani Umoja wa Mataifa akiwaambia waandishi wa habari

2005

"Madaktari wetu wanao uzoefu wa kimataifa na wanaijua lugha ya kiingereza ambayo itawawezesha kuwasiliana na waathirika. Tupo tayari, tunasubiri tu majibu ya serikali ya Marekani."

Raisi wa Kyuba, Fidel Castro akiishinikiza serikali ya marekani kuweka pembeni siasa na kuupa kipaumbele ubinaadamu wakati wa janga la kimbunga cha Katrina 2005.

MANDELA BADO NI GAIDI MAREKANI

2008-05-02T07:55:00.000-07:00

"Afrika ya kusini ni nchi ambayo tuna mahusiano mazuri nayo kwa sasa, ni jambo lanalotia aibu kwamba inanibidi kuondoa kikwazo cha pingamizi la kibali cha kuingia nchini (cha viza) kwa mwenzangu, waziri wa mambo ya nje wa Afrika ya kusini, na hata kwa kiongozi mashuhuri Nelson mandela,"

- Condoleeza Rice, akitetea muswada wa kuwaondoa viongozi wa chama tawala cha Afrika ya kusini, ANC, katika orodha ya vikundi vya kigaidi.

Mpaka sasa wanachama wa ANC huwa wanahojiwa kwa undani wanapotaka kuingia Marekani. Mwaka 2002, mwenyekiti wa ANC Tokyo Sexwale alinyimwa visa. Mwaka jana aliyekuwa balozi wa Afrika ya Kusini umoja wa Mataifa tangu 2002 mpaka 2006, pia alikataliwa visa ya kwenda kumuuguza nduguye mpaka baada ya huyo ndugu alipofariki dunia.

Habari nzima ipo hapa.

MAHOJIANO NA THOMAS MAPFUMO

2008-04-20T08:09:00.000-07:00

Thomas Mapfumo, mwanamuziki aliyehamasisha vita ya ukombozi wa Zimbabwe anadai kwamba Komredi Mugabe angeshakubali kuachia ngazi na kuwapa MDC uongozi wa serikali Zimbabwe. Anasema tatizo ni kwamba maswahiba wa Mugabe hawatamruhuzu mzee akubali kushindwa kwa vile wanahofia kushitakiwa kwa kukiuka haki za raia na serikali mpya ya MDC. ..

Mapfumo yuko ziarani Australia. Niliongea wiki iliyopita kuhusu muziki wake pamoja na siasa ya Zimbabwe.

Bofya hapo chini usikilize mahojiano hayo yaliyowezekana kwa hisani ya kipindi cha Afroworld ndani ya Radio Adelaide.

MYKAL ROSE

2008-04-20T08:03:00.000-07:00

Mahojiano na Mykal Rose ndani ya mrindimo wa dub - kwa hisani ya Abdalla Ezza.
Zawadi yako Rasta.

RISING VOICES

2007-11-06T03:59:00.000-08:00

Kama unapenda kusaidia wengine wajue jinsi ya kublogu ili kuhabarisha umma au kuweka video kwenye mtandao Rising voices wanaendelea kutoa kutoa senti zitakazokurahisishia kufundisha wengine.

Unaweza ukapata dola 5000 zitakazokuwezesha kufundisha wengine. Unachotakiwa kufanya ni kutuma maombi kwa jamaa wa raising voices. Mstari mfu ni novemba 30, 2007.

Fanya utume. Bofya hapa kwa maelezo zaidi. Fomu za maombi zipo mwishoni mwishoni mwa ukurasa.

Mtazamo mbadala: Shivji ahoji tuzo ya Mo Ibrahim

2007-11-06T03:44:00.000-08:00

Kwenye kurasa za Pambazuka kuna mawazo mbadala ya Profesa Shivji kuhusu tuzo ya utawala bora aliyopewa Chissano. Na kabla ya Shivji kupandisha makala yake, mwanazuoni Horace Campbell alikwishapandisha nyingine siku chache kabla.

pamoja na mengi mengine Shivji anaanza:

"Mo Ibrahim’s prize for a retired African president which was awarded to Joachim Chissano of Mozambique was in my view an insult to the African people." Issa Shivji raises a number of questions around the award such as how and what is "good governance" and why is it only applied to Africa? And most importantly "for which and whose democracy they are getting a prize".

Endelea na makala ya Shivji kwa kubofya hapa.

Horace Campbell kaandika kirefu zaidi:

According to the media, "Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born telecommunications entrepreneur, established the prize as a way of encouraging good governance in a continent blighted by corruption and a frequently loose adherence to democratic principles." Not a word is mentioned about the living conditions of the people of the Sudan from where Mr. Ibrahim hails…..

But, isn’t this prize also a sign of the political retrogression in Africa? The idea of a President voluntarily stepping down is now so novel in the face of leaders such as Museveni and Mugabe that Chissano indeed stands out. Compared to Robert Mugabe and Thabo Mbeki, and their megalomanic policies, Chissano does look good.

While announcing Chissano as the winner, Kofi Annan may have gone overboard by saying, "leadership should be the ability to formulate a vision and to convince others of that vision. It should be the skill of giving courage to accept difficult changes to make possible a longer term aspiration for a better and fairer future."

Endelea hapa.

TOA MAONI - PENDEKEZA BLOGU BORA AFRIKA

2007-09-23T05:17:00.000-07:00

Wanablogu - Msisahau kutembelea katika blogu ya JUMUWATA ilikuchangia, kukosoa, kuongezea na kuupa muelelekeo mkamilifu muelekeo wa JUMUWATA.

Dondoo za katiba ziko ndani ya blogu ya JUMUWATA, hivyo maoni ya wengi yanahitajika ili isije ikawa ni watu wachache wameamua tunaenda wapi.

Mchango wa wanablogu wenye blogu na wasio na blogu unahitajika ilikuwa na kitu kikamilifu kabla ya kwenda kwenye hatua nyingine.

PENDEKEZA BLOGU BORA AFRIKA

Mapendekezo ya blogu bora Afrika yanafikia mstari mfu tarehe 30 mwezi wa Tisa.

Katika mapendekezo kutoka kila pande za dunia Afrika haina blogu zilizopendekezwa - wakati nikiandika. Kuna ukame kwenye nchi za Afrika - hakuna hata alama moja ya blogu iliyopendekezwa.

Kama kuna blogu inayoandikwa na Mwafrika ambayo inakukuna moyo fanya uipendekeze ndani ya ukurasa huu.

Hapa chini ni maelezo ya kimombo:

Best of the Blogs: Deutsche Welle
Nominate your favorite blogs today! You're a blogger? You know a good blog? You like blogs, videoblogs and podcasts and want to share your favorites with the world?

Well, you've come to the right place. The BOBs -- short for the Best of the Blogs -- are here to keep track of the world's most interesting Weblogs, podcasts and videoblogs, and we need your help in doing it.

Suggest your favorites

You have until September 30 to head over to the suggestion form and give us the lowdown on all the blogs that glue your eyes to the screen and the podcasts that make you keep your headphones on. You can choose from the following categories:

Best Weblog, Best Videoblog, Best Podcast, the Blogwurst Award, Best Weblog /(Insert contest language here) and the Reporters Without Borders Award. In addition to the overall world's Best Weblog, another award will be given to the Best Weblog in each of the BOBs' 10 official languages making for 15 different prizes.

Who gets to play along?

The Deutsche Welle's Best of the Blogs awards are open to any blog, podcast or videoblog in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish and meet the criteria. Read through the Road Map to find out more of the competition's details.

The people making the decisions

First and foremost, the BOBs are about the Weblogs (and 'casts) you submit, a blog you that is never entered into the contest can never win -- so get to work. When the submission window closes on Sept. 30, the BOBs jury of bloggers, podcasters, journalists and media experts will begin their work.

If your not impressed with the jury members' biographies, then keep an eye on the BOBs Blog, where they will have a chance to stun you with their insight and analysis. And please also check out the sponsors and media partners who are helping make the third annual Best of the Blogs possible.

2007-09-13T07:39:00.000-07:00

Madhumuni ya tangazo la biashara kwanza ni kuvutia na kushika jicho la mnunuzi. Kwa hilo jamaa wa American Apparel wameweza - kushika jicho.

Cha kushangaza, hivi hawakuweza kupata mrembo mkubwa kwa umri kidogo, halafu akasitiri kidogo kifua chake, ambaye wasingempaka masizi kumfanya awe mweusi tii. Nijuavyo Marekani kuna weusi tii kwa wingi.

Sina hakika mlengwa wa biashara hii ni nani, japo tangazo limezua gumzo.

MWANZO WA MWISHO WA SIASA ZA RAFU?

2007-08-28T05:45:00.000-07:00

"Zitto amekuwa Zitto, wapinzani sasa wamepata hoja, wametuzidi katika hoja, tunapaswa kuchagua viongozi walio bora ili (wapinzani) wasituzidi katika hoja.

"Inashangaza Zitto ambaye amepewa ‘red card’ bungeni kushabikiwa na idadi kubwa ya Watanzania wakiwemo wana CCM ambao walikwenda Jangwani kumlaki na kumsikiliza wakati akitokea Dodoma, ni lazima tukisafishe chama ili wapinzani wasije kutupiku,"

- Naibu Katibu Mkuu wa CCM, Kapteni Jaka Mwambi
DAIMA, 27-08-2007

Hoja bin hoja kama hivi tutafika kwenye hoja bin haki, akina Zitto wasikome kuzua hoja tutoke kwenye siasa za pilau anazosema JK hapa.

DAMU MOJA MATAIFA TOFAUTI

2007-08-27T07:19:00.000-07:00

(Pichani juu: Dibaba akichukua ushindi wa kwanza; na Abeylegesse pichani chini akichukua ushindi wa pili)

Nimekuwa nikiangalia mashindano ya riadha tangu yaanze wikiendi iliyopita kila nikipata nafasi ya kufanya uvivu mbele ya televisheni.

Lakini wakati naangalia mbio ndefu nikajiuliza hivi ni nini haswa pointi ya kutizama watu wanakimbia weee! angalau nikiangalia mpira wa miguu naweza kuona ufundi wa kupiga chenga au wachezaji wanatandaza kabumbu mpaka wakawaelemea wapinzani na kuwafunga.

Kila nilipopata wasaa wa kuangalia sikupata kuwaona watanzania waliofaulu basi nikawa napeleka ushibiki wangu kwa mwafrika yeyote, kama hakuna mwafrika wa kutoka Afrika nahamishia ushabiki kwa waafrika waliochukua uraia wa nchi nyingine au wamarekani au wakaribeani weusi. Na kwenye mashindano kama ya kutupa tufe ambapo watu weusi ni kwa nadra, ikabidi nitafutetafute wa kumshabikia.

Jambo jingine lilonipa fikra kidogo ni wale wanariadha waliobadilisha uraia - nchi za kiarabu na za ulaya zimechukua wanariadha wa kiafrika na kuwapa uraia, halafu wanashindana na wanariadha wenzao waliokuwa nao timu moja huko nyuma aidha kwa Kenya au Ethiopia au nchi nyingine nyingine za Afrika. Na wanashindana kweli kweli kwa ajili ya nchi zao mpya.

Kwa mfano katika riadha ya mita elfu kumi kulikuwa na akina dada wawili, wote wanatokea Ethiopia lakini mmoja wao aliwakilisha Uturuki. Basi kuna wakati kabla shindano kutimia yule mwenye uraia wa Uturuki alichukua nafasi ya kwanza, moyoni nikawa sitaki kabisa yule mwenye uraia wa Uturuki ashinde. Lakini yule mwenye uraia wa Ethiopia alikuwa anatumia mbinu ya kuwachokesha tu wenziwe. Zilipobaki mita kama mia mbili hivi akatoka kama risasi na kuwaacha wengine kwa mita kama arobaini vile.

Wazo la wanariadha wanaoshindania nchi mpya kwa kufa na kupona likanichoma moyo -
hata ningetaka kuwashangaa wanawezaje kufanya hivyo nisingeweza.

Kama taaluma nyingine zingelinganishwa na riadha, na vile wataalamu wa kiafrika wanavyofanya kazi kwenye nchi zao mpya, kwa maadili na bidii na utaalamu wa hali juu - kuzifanikishia nchi zao mpya kwenye jitihada za maendeleo… hata kama si kwa azma ya ushindani lakini hivyo ndivyo… Siwashangai.

Haidhuru Dibaba (Ethiopia) alishinda nafasi ya kwanza na Abeylegesse (Uturuki) nafasi ya pili.

(Picha zote nimepata kwenye tovuti ya Shirikisho la kimataifa la riadha.)

Australia imefukuza watoto wa viongozi wa serikali ya Zimbabwe

2007-08-19T05:36:00.000-07:00

Hatimaye serikali ya Australia imeitikia wito uliotolewa mwezi wa nne mwaka huu na gazeti la Zimdaily, wa kuwafukuza watoto wa viongozi wa serikali ya Zimbabwe ambao wanasoma ughaibuni kama njia mojawapo ya kuwaadhibu viongozi hao.

Adhabu hiyo imetolewa wakati viongozi wa SADC huko Zamnbia wakiwa wakikubaliana kwamba hali ya Zimbabwe sio mbaya kama wamagharibi wanavyodai. Maamuzi ya Australia na yale ya viongozi wa SADC yanafuatana kama vile mabodia wanavyotupiana masumbwi moja baada ya jengine.

Wakati zoezi la kuwataja kwa majina, pamoja na anwani za wanapoishi watoto wa viongozi wa serikali ya Zimbabwe lilipozuka mwezi wa nne mwaka huu - zoezi liliondaliwa na gazeti la Zimdaily msimamo wangu ulikuwa: sioni haki ya binaadamu mmoja kushinikizwa kwa kutumia binadamu mwingine. Kwamba ikiwa baba yangu ana makosa fulani basi na mimi nihukumiwe kwa makosa yale.

Nilitundika maoni pale kwa Jikomboe, wengine walikuwa na mawazo tofauti. Nikichukulia mfano, kama mimi ningekuwa mmojawapo wa watoto wale, mwenye mawazo tofauti na baba yangu, pengine nimetumia skolashipu iliyoangalia uwezo wangu wa kimasomo, na ninafanya vizuri tu shuleni, halafu nizuiwe kuendelea na masomo kwa sababu baba yangu anafanya kazi serikalini… Haki yangu ya kuishi kama mtu huru itakuwa iko wapi.

Ninaelewa haki ya taifa lolote kuwa na uamuzi ni nani anayeweza kuishi katika mipaka yake nabaki na tatizo la kuelewa dhana ya haki za kibinadamu katika hili.

FIMBO YA MBALI INAUA NYOKA

2007-07-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

Fimbo ya mbali inaua nyoka. Hizi zama za teknolojia za mitandao ya intaneti zinabadili mambo.

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Jioni hii baada ya kazi nafungua barua pepe nakutana na tangazo la mkanda mfupi wa muziki wa Ras Nas. Na hivi ndiyo kwanza nimemaliza kuangalia na kusikiliza muziki wa Ras Nas - muwakilishi wa sanaa toka Tanzania.

Muziki timilifu kila upande. Anaanza kwa muziki mwororo wa miondoko laini ya rumba ila sebene lililofuata limeniamsha kitini. Ningekuwa na utaalamu wa youtube kama Kitururu ningepandisha filamu. Lakini si haba, kuna kiungo hapa ukibofya utafika kwenye hiyo filamu ya Ras Nas.
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Halafu nasoma barua pepe nyingine nakutana na kiungo kingine cha muziki wa Tanzania: Chemundu & Mbega Arts. Japo hakuna filamu ya kikundi wala sauti kwenye tovuti - napata ujumbe kuwa sanaa Tanzania inatokota kisawasawa. Kwa maelezo yao:
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Chemundu na Mbega Arts ni kikundi cha muziki wenye vionjo vya muziki jadi(asili) halisi wa Tanzania na pia kuchanganya na mitindo ya Kimataifa kama:pop,afro rhumba na afro jazz.
Mbega Arts ilianziswa na mwanamuziki maarufu Che Mundugwao " chem ". na kujumuisha wanamuziki na wasanii wa muziki wa jadi vijana wenye vipaji vya hali ya juu ,ambao wameshawahi kushiriki katika ziara na matamasha mbalimbali ya kitaifa(tamasha la sanaa Bagamoyo) na kimataifa katika nchi za Kenya,Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Uingereza.n.k

Hiyo isitoshe, ndani ya barua pepe nyingine nakuta jamaa wa Afropop Worldwide wanaitangaza Tanzania kinamna. Moja ya santuri wanazocheza katika juma la muziki wa Afrika (African Summer Dance Party) inatoka kwa bendi ya Tanzania FM Academia. FM wamewekwa bega kwa bega na Hugh Masekela na Ricardo Lemvo katika chaguo la wataalamu wa AfroPop.

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Nimeshapata mshawasha, ngoja nielekee kwenye miziki mjini - kuna rege mitaa ya kati huko. Ijumaa hii silali ndani. Fimbo ya mbali ishanichapa.

NANI MNYAMA ZAIDI?

2007-07-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

"It's clear that it's a situation like we saw in earlier centuries, where people put pygmies in zoos to dance or to create a spectacle. They were treated the same as zoo animals and I think that we have a similar situation today,"

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maneno ya mwanaharakati wa Congolese Observatory of Human Rights ndani ya BBC,

Mr Owoko

Ingekuwa wiki moja iliyopita kweli ningeituma habari ya tukio la kustaajabisha linalotokea huko jamhuri ya Kongo ili liwekwe kwenye orodha ya maajabu mapya saba ya dunia.

Wakati wa tamasha la muziki wa kipaniAfrika, wasanii wa kabila la Baka ambao huitwa na makabila mengine kwa jina la mbilikimo au pygmies walipangiwa sehemu ya kufikia kwenye makaazi ya wanyama - yaani zoo - na waandaaji wa Tamasha hilo. Waandalizi wa shughuli walidai kuwa mbilikimo wanapenda kuishi kwenye mazingira kama hayo:
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"They were happy to find here an environment similar to what they knew in the forest. They have already shown us several medicinal plants,"

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Wakati wasanii wengine walipangiwa vyumba kwenye migahawa ya kisasa, mbilikimo walikuwa kivutio kikubwa kwa watalii na wegeni wengine ambao walienda kwenye zoo kwashangaa na kuwapiga picha za kumbukumbu.

Kati ya waandalizi wa tamasha na wasanii wa kabila la Baka sijui yupi anyefanana zaidi na wanyama mwitu kiakili.

Anyway, Binaadamu wote ni sawa na Afrika ni moja.

HARAKATI NDANI YA BLOGU YA HARAKATI

2007-07-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

( pichani: Mwanablogu Jeff Msangi)
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Wakati mwingine inakuwa vigumu kufahamu kwa nini mtu anaamua kublogu, au ni nini lengo kuu la kuingia uliongoni na kuweka mawazo yako wazi kwa umma wote. Hivi karibuni nilipata fursa ya kumpeleleza mwanablogu Jeff Msangi (...nasikia hamu ya kumpa lahaja ya mzee wa harakati). Akatupa nia na matumaini yake juu blogu:

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"I anticipate, as a result of blogging, we will see true social change through debates and dialogue, which will ultimately re-shape social, economic and political policies. However, we need to clearly define our vision and mission and believe that blogging is a tool for social change. It is my hope that with the formation of the Tanzanian Bloggers Association, we will be able to achieve that goal sooner than later."

Mahojiano yote yapo hapa.

Japo saa nyingine inaweza kutuwia vigumu kuona picha kamili, kuona uwezekano wa mambo na fursa zinazoweza kujitokeza, inatia moyo pale wengine wanapoiona almasi ndani ya tope.

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"Tanzania seems quite vibrant with all kinds of blogs (e.g. political, fashion, photo, cartoon). Its blogger community even has a virtual election for their Tanzanian Bloggers Association"

Hayo ndiyo wasemayo jamaa wa "Participatory web2 for development" ambao wamechapa makala ya kuwasifu wanablogu wa Kiswahili/Kitanzania mara baada ya kusoma mahojiano na Jeff Msangi.

NCHI YA AHADI I KARIBU IKIWA…

2007-07-07T06:31:00.000-07:00

Wakati nanunua magazeti wikiendi hii - japokuwa si msomaji mzuri wa magazeti ya biashara - bila kusudio maalum niliokota pia jarida la Havard Business Review. Pamoja na makala nyingine, nimevutiwa na makala ndogo ilioandikwa na Vijay Mahajan.

Vijay anaandaa kitabu cha utafiti juu ya Utajiri wa Afrika kitakachotolewa mwakani, 2008. Kuna dondoo zinazosuuza na kutia moyo wa matumaini kwa bara lililozowea kuchorwa katika picha chovu chovu:

Afrika imejaa nchi masikini, lakini ni bara tajiri kuliko India.

Mataifa 12 tu ya Afrika yenye watu milioni 100 wana utajiri zaidi ya watu bilioni moja pointi tatu wa China.

Na kwamba kadiri siku zinavyokwenda - ikiwa patafanyika mabadiliko ya kiuchumi, kisiasa, kisheria na kijamii - wafanyabiashara watageuza msimamo na kuanza kujishughulisha zaidi na Afrika kama walivyofanya kule India kuanzia miaka ya mwanzo ya tisini.

Pamoja na matumaini ya mwandishi, neno IKIWA patafanyika mabadiliko … ndio bado linatia kiwingu kati ya tulipo sasa na nchi ya ahadi.

2007-07-05T07:53:00.000-07:00

`We will not work on newspapers reports. If there is any one who wants to find the truth of the matter, the procedures are there. The stand of the government is that we will not at any time get involved in such kind of debate. The existing rules and regulations are adequate,`

`The law provides proper channels for any one who is not satisfied with the trend of any leader in this country. Anyone can use those channels by paying only 1,000/- to the ethics tribunal.`

- Waziri wa Nchi katika ofisi ya rais, Philip Marmo,

akieleza msimamo wa serikali dhidi ya tuhuma zinazomhusu raisi mstaafu.

Jongoo huanza kutembea na mguu upi?

2007-07-03T06:44:00.000-07:00

Kuna ile hadithi ya mtoto wa jongoo aliyetumia muda mrefu akisuasua kabla ya kuanza kutembea. Tatizo alilokuwa nalo mtoto wa jongoo si la ugonjwa au kutokuwa na miguu ya kutembelea bali ni wingi wa miguu Mwenyezi Mungu aliyom'barikia - miguu ipatayo mia na ushee.
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Siku moja mama jongoo alichoka kumtafutia na kumletea mahitaji mwanawe aliyekuwa na makamo ya kujitegemea. Ilibidi amfahamishe mwanawe kuwa wakati umefika, ama aendelee kuketi pale pale na kufa kifo cha taratibu kwa njaa au aanze kujitegemea.
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Mwana jongoo alianza kudhoofika siku hadi siku kwa dhiki ya njaa na kunyanyasika ndani ya jamii ya majongoo mpaka mama yake akaingiwa na huruma na kumuuliza mwanawe nini haswa tatizo. Ndiyo mwana jongoo aliposema ukweli wake - kwamba hajui kwa hakika ni mguu gani majongoo huanza kutembea nao kwenda kutafuta mahitaji.
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Mama jongoo alimpa moyo mwanawe kwamba anaweza kutembea ikiwa hatatumia muda mrefu kutafakari mguu upi uanze kupiga hatua. Anachohitaji ni kuondoa mawazo hasi na woga uliomjaa na kujijaza mawazo chanya. Ikesha aanze tu kutembea kwani uwezo anao.
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Mkutano wa wakuu wa umoja wa Afrika huko Ghana unafikia tamati hii leo. Kama mikutano mingine iliyopita bila ya shaka mkutano hautaweza kutoa mkakati utakaokubalika na wote kuelekea kuundwa kwa umoja wa Afrika wenye serikali kuu moja.
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Tangu nchi za Afrika zilivyopata uhuru zimekuwa zikisuasua bila ya kujua ni mguu upi wa kuanzia ili kufikia lengo hilo la umoja wa Afrika. Dhana inayopekelea kutamani kuwa na umoja huo ni kuwa na uwezo mkubwa zaidi wa kujitegemea kwa hali kama watu huru - kwani uzoefu wa miaka yote ya uhuru umeendelea kutengeneza taswira ya utegemezi, magonjwa, umasikini na taswira hasi nyingine nyingine.
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Kiuchumi utajiri wa Afrika ni mkubwa na inashangaza kwamba soko la watu milioni mia nane Afrika halijaweza kukuza uchumi. Kiusalama bado Afrika haijaweza kutekeleza mikakati ya kulinda amani - tunao mashahidi wapya Somalia na Darfur.
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Muamar Ghadafi anadai kuwa umoja wa nchi za kiafrika pekee ndio unaweza kuleta suluhisho na anachochea mkakati wa kuunda jeshi la pamoja la askari milioni mia mbili. Kadhalika anataka kuwe na mkakati wa lugha kuu zitakazotumika rasmi Afrika zikiwemo kiarabu na kiswahili.
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Rais Mbeki anaendelea kujenga msingi - anadai huwezi kuezeka kabla ya kuweka jamvi. Kwanza mwamko halafu NEPAD, bunge la Afrika, asasi ya kutathmini uongozi (peer review on governance) vyote vikifanya kazi ndio tusonge kuelekea serikali moja.
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Komredi Mugabe na mwenzie Ghadafi hawana muda muda wa kusubiri wanasema wakati ni huu. Umoja sasa.
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Wengine kutoka kwenye makundi ya kiraia wamechoka na wanataka kuongeza mwendo. Wameshatoa pasipoti za raia wote wa Afrika ili kuchochea mshikamano na kufuta mipaka inayotutenganisha.
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Wengine wameshaanza kuweka fungu la kuboresha miundombinu ili kuzidisha biashara miongoni mwa nchi za Afrika.
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Kama mwana jongoo, waafrika wengi hawajaamua ni mguu upi waanze kuutumia. Na kama shirikisho la kisiasa la Afrika Mashariki likitumiwa kama mfano, somo ambalo viongozi itawabidi walishike ni kuwa bila kuhusishwa umma wa mwafrika katika maamuzi AU - basi itaendelea kusuasua kama ilivyokuwa OAU. Mtindo wa maamuzi kufanywa juu na viongozi, chini wananchi wapokee bila kinyongo haujafanikiwa sana Afrika Mashariki (japokuwa katika mazingira mengine ni muhimu kuchukua hatua kama kiongozi k.m. watanzania asilimia themanini walimtaka Nyerere aendelee na uongozi wakati tume ya Nyalali ikikusanya maoni ya wananchi juu ya demokrasia ya vyama vingi n.k.)
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Japo miaka mingi imepita, sina hakika kama mawazo hasi miongoni mwa wakuu wa Afrika yametoweka kama alivyodai Nyerere wakati wa jitihada za mwanzo za kuunda umoja wa kisiasa Afrika zilizofanyika hapo hapo mjini Accra mwaka 1965:
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"Kwame Nkrumah was the great crusader of African unity. He wanted the Accra summit of 1965 to establish a union government for the whole of independent Africa. But we failed. The one minor reason is that Kwame, like all great believers, underestimated the degree of suspicion and animosity which his crusading passion had created among a substantial number of his fellow heads of state. The major reason was linked to the first: already too many of us had a vested interest to keep Africa divided.
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'….. After the failure to establish the union government at the Accra summit, I heard one head of state express with relief that he was happy to be returning home to his country still head of state. To this day I cannot tell whether he was serious or joking. But he may well have been serious, because Kwame Nkrumah was very serious and the fear of a number of us to lose our precious status was quite palpable. But I never believed that the 1965 Accra summit would have established a union government for Africa. When I say that we failed, that is not what I mean; for that clearly was unrealistic objective for a single summit"
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Baada ya Accra 2007 mikutano mingapi itafuata, mikakati ipi itatufikisha, miguu itakayosonga...

Waingereza pia wanawasaidia Janjaweed

2007-06-29T08:26:00.000-07:00

Imezoeleka kusikia kwamba ni wachina pekee wanaowekeza vitegauchumi ndani Sudani. Kwa uwekezaji huo Wachina wanadaiwa kuisadia serikali ya Sudani kifedha - serikali ambayo intumia fedha hizo kuwasaidia wanamgambo wa Janjaweed wanaoendeleza maafa dhidi ya wazawa wa jimbo la Darfur.

Lakini kutokana na uchunguzi uliofanywa na Aegis ambao una lengo la kuwashinikiza wawekezaji kuondoa vitega uchumi Sudani, inaonekana kwamba si wachina peke yao wanaosaidia maafa katika jimbo la Dafur.

Uchunguzi wa Aegis umelihusisha pia kanisa la Uingereza na makampuni mengine mengi ikiwamo benki ya Barclays:

Among the biggest investors the dossier names is the Church of England, owning nearly 2m shares in two Chinese oil companies operating in Sudan, but the Aegis Trust acknowledged that church leaders were "in the process of engaging with both companies".

The report also names Barclays, which it says owns more than £380m in shares in firms working in Sudan's oil sector.

Kabla ya kuwashutumu Wachina au kama unajali maisha ya ndugu zako wa Darfur ni muhimu kutupia macho ripoti ya mwaka ya kanisa, pia fikiria kabla ya kutoa sadaka. Na kama ni mkereketwa sana anza kuhoji ajira yako ndani ya benki unapofanya kazi.

Maelezo zaidi hapa.

2007-06-29T07:25:00.000-07:00

"Nimesikitishwa na vyombo vya habari kwa kupotosha ukweli wa bajeti hii kwa kuwataka wananchi kufunga mikanda jambo ambalo ni kinyume cha matarajio,"

"Hakuna uzalendo kabisa ulionyeshwa kwani News Editors (Wahariri wa Habari) wanabadilisha stories (habari) pale wanapopelekewa na waandishi wao,"

"Vyombo vya nje ya Tanzania Mheshimiwa Spika vimeonyesha uzalendo kwa kuwaeleza ukweli wananchi juu ya bajeti hii kuliko vyombo vya ndani,"

Waziri wa Fedha, Zakia Meghji akijibu hoja mbalimbali zilizotolewa na wabunge waliochangia hotuba ya bajeti ya serikali kwa mwaka 2007/08, wakati akihitimisha mjadala

- Daima, 23/06/2007

Nyerere Press Conference - 14 March 1995

2007-06-26T09:04:00.000-07:00

"Any government that works for the wealthy does not collect tax, it chooses to harass small-time dealers,"

"Corruption in Tanzania has no bounds. Every country I visit they talk about corruption in Tanzania. Tanzania is stinking with corruption,"

"This would not only lead to collapse of the now-sensitive 30-year-old union between the twin-islands of Zanzibar and Pemba and Tanzania mainland, but would also plunge the country into chaos," (talking about condoning religious differences and tribalism)

- Julius Nyerere Press Conference, AFP, 14 March 1995

TO GET RICH IS GLORIOUS - Deng Xiaoping

2007-06-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

(Picha ya Afropop Worldwide)
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Nasoma tena muhtasari wa mkutano wa TED Global uliofanyika Arusha kama alivyouandika Sean Barlow wa Afropop Worldwide.
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Pamoja na kushuhudia wanablogu wakifanya kazi akiwemo mwenzetu Ndesanjo, Sean Barlow pia aliutizama mwelekeo wa mada inayohusu maendeleo ya nchi za Afrika. Mada ya msingi katika mkutano huo kama alivyoona Bw. Barlow ni kwamba mustakabali wa maendeleo ya Afrika unaenguliwa taratibu kutoka katika sera za maendeleo zinazotegemea madeni na misaada kuendesha uchumi kuelekea sera au miundo inayotegemea zaidi ujasiriamali wa Waafrika wenyewe:

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"If there was one over-riding theme TEDGlobal 2007 it was that African business and African entrepreneurs were the future of the continent. Unlike aid parachuted into crisis places to stem civil conflict or health disasters, more resources, the thinking went, should be devoted to building up the private sector and its capacity to create products and services, employ people, reduce poverty, earn money and move forward on Africa’s long path towards self-sufficiency. This approach differs of course from such famous champions of Africa as Bono who received some challenging questions from TEDsters about the traditional aid paradigm. He gave as good as he got. Later in the session, no less than Nigeria’s former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala—acclaimed for her war on corruption—told the story of how her younger sister was saved thanks to an aid organization. She challenged the notion that Africans had to choose one or the other path."

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Raisi wetu naye alikuwapo kwenye mkutano huo. Bila ya shaka na yeye ni miongoni mwa wale wanaotekeleza mfumo wa soko na kutetea uwezeshaji - ikiwemo uwezeshaji wa wajasiriamali wazawa - ili kuleta maendeleo. Kuna mamilioni ya Kikwete 'yanasambazwa' kila mkoa. Na hivi majuzi tu aliendelea kupiga muhuri wa kuunga mkono uwezeshaji wa wajasiriamali wazawa alipohudhuria uzinduzi wa mashindano ya taifa ya mipango ya biashara "National Business Plan Competition" yanayolenga kutoa changamoto kwa wajasiriamali kujipanga kisasa kibiashara.

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Mfumo wa uchumi wa soko unaotegemea wajasiriamali (au mabepari katika maana halisi) ili kuongeza pato la taifa, kukuza tabaka la kati la wananchi, na kuongeza ajira kwa wananchi, kinadharia unapingana na sera za kijamaa. Katika zama hizi ambazo neno ujamaa linaanza kufanana na kufuru, zama ambazo mifumo ya kibepari inapigiwa mihuri ya ruksa kila kona - Pengine hakuna maana yoyote ya kuwa na neno 'ujamaa' katika ilani za chama au katiba ya nchi yoyote. Nini maana ya nadharia isiyoshabihiana na matendo?

Sera za Ujamaa wa ki-Tanzania au yale aliyoyashuhudia Bw. Sean Barlow kuhusiana na mustakabali wa maendeleo ya Afrika kwenye mkutano TED si ya kustaajabisha sana. Yakistaajabisha hayo basi yanayotokea huko Uchina - nchi ya chama kimoja cha kikomunisti - ndio hayataweza kutia maana akilini hata chembe.

(picha na China Daily)
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Nyerere alikuwa akisisitiza "Ujamaa ni Imani". Labda hiyo ndiyo maana ya nadharia isiyoshabihiana na vitendo; au pengine ubepari unaopaliliwa katika wakati huu ni njia tu ya kufikia tekelezo la imani ya ujamaa; au pengine ujamaa na ubepari vinaweza kutekelezwa pamoja bega kwa bega. Kama likieleweka somo la Wachina wanaopiga hatua za maendeleo kwa kasi - hasa lile darasa alilotoa muasisi wa maendeleo ya kibepari nchini humo, Deng Xiaoping mwaka 1979:

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"To get rich is glorious" - Kauli mbiu ya Deng iliyonukuliwa sana.

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Pia wakati akifafanua siri ya maendeleo katika taifa lake la kijamaa wakati alipohojiwa na gazeti la Times alieleza:

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"On whether a free-market economy can co-exist with a socialist state. I think that there are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy. The question is what method we should use to develop the social forces of production in a more effective way. And of course, in the past the old approach was to go for a planned economy. The old method was a good method because it's good to have a plan. But according to our experience of past years, we have found that if we engage only in planning, the development of socially productive forces is delayed. So if we can combine the planning and the market economy, then I think it will help to emancipate the forces of social production and help accelerate them.'

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Akaendelea kufafanua:

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'I think only when the economy has become developed, and only when the life of the people has improved, and only when the culture and education level has been raised, can the negative phenomena be eliminated in the end. So the overriding task is to be engaged in the Four Modernizations with one mind and one heart. What we are doing is making the best use of the inherent characteristics of socialism. We also want to make use of the useful features of the capitalist system to stimulate the productive forces of society.'

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Iliwachukua Wachina miaka si chini ya miaka 10 kuweka mambo sawa ilhali walikuwa na wajasiriamali wazawa kwa mamilioni. Sijui itatuchukua sisi miaka mingapi kuweka hali sawa bila ya kuwa na tabaka la haja la wajasiriamali.

SEMBENE OUSMANE AFARIKI DUNIA

2007-06-11T06:31:00.000-07:00

Muasisi wa utengenezaji filamu barani Afrika, Sembene Ousmane amefariki dunia mwishoni mwa juma lililopita baada ya kuugua kwa muda mrefu. Alikuwa na umri wa miaka 84.

Sembene ndiye mwafrika wa kwanza kutengeneza filamu barani Afrika. Alikuwa mmojawapo wa wa waanzilishi wa tamasha la filamu Afrika, FESPACO. Alikuwa pia ni mtunzi wa vitabu. Kwa wale waliosoma somo la kiingereza wakiwa sekondari bila ya shaka walisoma pia kitabu cha God's Bits of Wood alichokiandika huyu mzee.

Binafsi nilivutiwa na kitabu hicho. Kadhalika nilivutiwa mno na filamu yake ya mwisho aliyoitengeneza, Moolaade. Mara baada ya kuiangalia nilieleza utamu wake kwenye blogu hii takriban miaka miwili hivi iliyopita.

Ameacha pengo lisilozibika - au pengine akiwa kama alama ya zama za filamu za mwanzo barani Afrika pia anafunga pazia la zama hizo - hasa kutokana na mabadiliko ya haraka yanayotokea katika utengenezaji na hadhira ya filamu za kiafrika barani hivi sasa.

RUSHWA = KIFO

2007-06-01T07:13:00.000-07:00

(Pichani: Bwana Zheng Xiaoyu amehukumiwa kifo baada ya kubainika kula rushwa - NYT)
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Tatizo la rushwa linasumbua kila mahali. Hakuna nchi ambayo haijatembelewa na rushwa. Tofauti kati ya nchi zinazoathiriwa na rushwa na zile zenye ahueni zimo kwenye miundo ya kuzuia au ufuatiliaji na adhabu mbali mbali dhidi ya wala rushwa.
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Kama nchi haina miundo imara ya kuwabana wala rushwa na matokeo ya rushwa hiyo yakawa ni vifo kwa wananchi, kimantiki yule aliyekula rushwa atakuwa ameshiriki mauaji. Kwa mfano maafisa wa TBS wakila rushwa na kuruhusu dawa feki kuingizwa nchini na watu wakafa kwa vile dawa walizotumia hazifanyi kazi, maafisa wa TBS watakuwa washiriki katika mauaji kwa namna fulani.

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Dawa feki zimeshawahi kuingizwa hata kwetu kama inavyoelezwa hapa:

Fake Malaria Drug Implicated In Burmese Man's Death

Fake artesunate was found in Cameroon in 2005, and fake dihydroartemisinin (a related antimalarial drug) was reported in Tanzania in 2001.

"Because of inadequate systems for the monitoring of the quality of antimalarial medicines in Africa," say the authors, "and because few have looked for it, counterfeit artesunate may already be widespread."

Na madawa feki yanaendelea kuenezwa bila kikomo. Wenzetu wa Naijeria wanakufa sana tu kutokana na madawa feki.

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Wachina wanayo njia ya mkato. Mtu akikamatwa na kuhukumiwa kwamba amekula rushwa wanampiga risasi.

Afisa mkuu wa taasisi ya viwango huko China, Zheng Xiaoyu, hivi majuzi kahukumiwa kifo kutokana na kuruhusu madawa na vyakula vilivyo chini ya viwango - au kwa maneno mengine kwa kuidhinishwa uuzwaji wa sumu kwa raia baada ya kupokea rushwa ya laki kadhaa.

Napata swali kichwani: je adhabu ya kifo inaweza kuzuia rushwa? Adhabu ya kifo inaweza kuongeza viwango vya ufuatiliaji wa sheria?

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Hivi chakula kibovu au madawa mabovu yakiingia na kuuzwa Tanzania na ikabainika wazi naweza kuridhika kwamba akinyongwa mkuu wa TBS tatizo letu litakwisha?

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Pamoja na yote sikuridhika Saddam aliponyongwa sijui kama nitaridhika mla rushwa yeyote akinyongwa au kupigwa risasi.

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Kuna majadiliano mazuri hapa kuhusu adhabu ya kifo kwa afisa huyu wa shirika la kudhibiti madawa na vyakula huko China.

MRADI WA KUIMARISHA SHUGHULI ZA BLOGU

2007-06-01T04:55:00.000-07:00

(Maggid Akiwa katika outreach projects. picha na Maggid Mjengwa)
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Global Voices hivi sasa wanapokea proposals za miradi ya uimarishaji shughuli za blogu. Bila ya shaka wengine wetu wameshaanza shughuli hii ya uimarishaji uandishi wa kiraia bila ya msaada wowote.

Kama akina Maggid kama wanavyoonekana pichani hapo juu.

Hata hivyo haidhuru kama utapatikana msaada zaidi kidogo ili kurahisisha mambo.

Endelea hapo chini, kama unaweza kufuatilia kabla ya tarehe 15 juni fanya harahara.

Application Deadline: June 15, 2007

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.

As the internet becomes more accessible to more people, as computers become cheaper, and as software applications move from the desktop to the web, the so-called digital divide seems to be narrowing. In its place, however, we see a participation gap in which the vast majority of blogs, podcasts, and online video are being produced in middle-class neighborhoods in major cities around the world.

Rising Voices aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the conversational web, by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities. Examples of potential projects include:

Purchasing an affordable digital video camera and teaching a group of rural students how to produce an ongoing video-blog documentary about the lives of their grandparents.

Organizing a regular workshop on blogging and photography at a local orphanage. Portions of the budget could be used on cheap digital cameras and internet cafe costs so that participants could describe their local neighborhoods to a global audience with text and photos.

Working with a local NGO or social entrepreneur so that their challenges, successes, and stories are told to a global audience.

Translating our new media curriculum to an indigenous language, like Quechua or Wolof, that is currently not represented in the blogosphere or "podosphere." Then use the learning modules to encourage bloggers to write in those languages.

The sky is the limit, but unfortunately funding is not. Rising Voices outreach grants will range from $1,000 to $5,000. Please be as thoughtful, specific, and realistic as possible when drafting your budgets.

Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below or by sending an email to
outreach@globalvoicesonline.org

Kiungo chenye habari nzima kipo hapa.

CHEMA HAKIDUMU

2007-05-07T05:17:00.000-07:00

Chema hakidumu kingekupendeza
Ungawa na hamu kukingojeleza
Saa ikitimu kitakuteleza

Chema wangu babu Kibwana Bashee
Alojipa tabu kwamba anilee
Illahi Wahabu mara amtwee

Hizo beti mbili nilizikariri zamani kutoka kwenye kitabu cha Abdilatif Abdala "Sauti ya Dhiki". Na kama ninavyozikumbuka zimekuwa zinanizinga mawazoni kwa masiku kadhaa sasa.

Nimeingiwa na machungu na woga. Uwezo wangu wa kufikiri au kutatua matatizo yaliyonifika umeniponyoka. Maisha yamenikumbusha uwanaadamu wangu. Kinachonisukuma ni ule moyo wa stahamali tu. Na ninaomba nijaaliwe stahamali zaidi.

Kitambo kidogo kilichopita Mwenyezi Mungu alimtwaa kipenzi Mama yangu Mkubwa, Kadala. Marehemu Kadala nilikuwa naye karibu sana wakati wa utoto wangu.

Naam, ndio maisha. Na hapa nilipo maisha mengine yanaenda kwa kasi ya mwendo wa radi. Nakimbiakimbia, ninachakurachakura kama kuku kutwa nzima. Kukicha naanza tena kama jana. Ndio maisha.

Basi naona bora kukawia kuliko kuiwacha safari. Tupo wote safarini japo tunaonana kwa nadra bloguni. Mambo yakisawazika bila ya shaka nitaongeza kasi na huku kwenye mitandao pia.

Haidhuru. Kule kwenye kurasa za Global Voices baada ya muda kama mwezi hivi kuna muhtasari wa blogu za kiswahili uliopandishwa leo. Tafadhali tupa jicho na huko pia. Bila kusahau kuperuzi kidogo kwenye ukurasa wa Reuters Tanzania.

FURAHA NA TAFAKARI: Nilipokutana na Mongi

2007-04-09T03:45:00.000-07:00

Jumamosi iliyopita nilijumuika na mwanablogu mwenzetu kutoka Tanzania, Ndg. Hector Mongi (pichani kushoto). Hector yupo hapa Adelaide mafunzoni akiwania shahada ya pili (Masters) katika masuala ya mifumo ya teknolojia za tarakilishi na utawala (kama nakumbuka vizuri).

Nilifurahi sana hatimaye kukutana na Hector baada ya kama miezi miwili hivi tangu niliposikia kwamba mwanablogu huyo yupo mjini hapa. Ni kutokana tu na kubanwa na shughuli za masomo kwa upande wake na kazi kwa upande wangu imetuchukua muda mrefu kuonana ana kwa ana.

Tuzishukuru sherehe za pasaka zilizotoa mwanya Watanzania wa mjini hapa japo kukutana kwa pamoja katika hafla ndogo iliyokuwa na wingi wa utani, porojo, upendo, nyama choma na mvinyo.

Japokuwa mimi na Hector hatukuzungumzia sana juu ya masuala ya blogu, ndani ya fikira tulikuwa kama watu tuliofahamiana kwa muda mrefu. Isitoshe tumekuwa tukitembeleana kimya kimya bloguni bila kuwacha maoni vile Hector alizungumzia ujumbe wa mwisho bloguni kwangu nami nilikuwa ndio kwanza nimeusoma ujumbe wa karibuni zaidi katika blogu yake.

Basi nilifarijika kukutana naye na sikujizuia kutafakari nini maana ya blogu na nafasi yake katika jamii. Haswa nikizingatia habari nilizokuwa nikisikiliza kwenye redio ya BBC njiani nikielekea kwenye hafla. Katika habari hizo za BBC inasemekana kwenye nchi mbalimbali wanablogu wameanza kupachikwa kila aina ya majina na kuna harakati nyingi za kuwazuia wasiandike habari wanazotaka kuandika - hususan zile zinazokosoa au zile za kiana-harakati.

Kwa mujibu wa habari hiyo ya redio, hivi karibuni huko nchini Malaysia, Waziri wa habari wa nchi hiyo, Zainuddin Maidin aliwasihi waandishi wa habari kutowasoma wanablogu, kwani wanablogu ni wazushi, tena wachochezi. Na kwamba blogu nyingi zinaendeshwa na wataalamu uchwara wa siasa pamoja na waandishi wa habari waliokata tamaa.

Waziri Zainuddin Maidin alitoa maneno hayo kama jibu dhidi ya wanablogu wanaofanya kazi katika shirika la televisheni Indonesia, SCTV, ambao walikosoa kampeni ya kukuza utalii ya Malaysia. Kwa mujibu ya mmoja wa wanablogu hao - ilikuwa ni kampeni iliyokosa mwelekeo ambayo haitaweza kumwelimisha mtalii yeyote kama inavyodai serikali. Malalamiko ya mwanablogu huyo yako hapa kwa kirefu.

Kufuatia mzozo huo, serikali ya nchi hiyo imetoa tamko kwamba kila mwanablogu itabidi asajiliwe kwenye daftari la orodha ya wanablogu ili kurahisisha kuwachukulia hatua wanablogu wanaokosoa-kosoa serikali kwa minajili ya kurudisha nyuma na kupaka matope maendeleo ya nchi na umoja wa kitaifa.

Nikiwaza yanayojiri huko Malaysia budi niwaze na ya kwetu.

Je itafikia wakati nasi wanablogu wa Tanzania tukaanza kubanwa kama wenzetu? Na kama tukianza kubanwa vipi kuhusu haki ya uhuru wa kujieleza. Sheria yetu ya uhuru wa vyombo vya habari inasemaje kuhusu sheria ya uandishi katika mtandao?

Kadhalika ni maadili na mipaka gani ambayo wanablogu inabidi tuzingatie? Tujiandae vipi? Au tusubiri mpaka lizuke jambo ndio tuanze kupekua vitabu vya sheria?

MUHTASARI WA BLOGU ZETU: USISAHAU KUPITIA HUKU

2007-04-09T03:36:00.000-07:00

Msisahau kupitia pitia tovuti ya shirika la Reuters sehemu ya Tanzania. Pale juu mkono wa kulia kuna kiunganishi cha muhtasari wa blogu zetu kama zinavyopandishwa kwenye tovuti ya GlobalVoices.

Ndesanjo huweka muhtasari wa Blogu za kiingereza nami huweka za Kiswahili. Kuna mpya za hivi karibuni.

WOMADELAIDE 2007

2007-03-10T07:26:00.000-08:00

(wazawa wa Adelaide - Kaurna - wakibariki tamasha)
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Wikiendi hii tumerejea tena kwenye moja ya matamasha maarufu ya muziki wa kimadunia katika Australia - Womadelaide 2007. Mwaka huu tamasha hili ni la 15 hapa Adelaide na kwa mara ya kwanza kumekuwa na ratiba tofauti. Katika siku tatu za tamasha hili wanamuziki wote vinara wanatumbuiza mara moja tu. Haidhuru.
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Bila kujali joto la kiangazi wapenzi wasiopungua 70 elfu wameshaanza kuburudika ndani ya viwanja vya Adelaide botanic park na wataburudika kwa siku tatu mfululizo mpaka nyasi kugeuka vumbi.
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Pamoja na wanamuziki wa Kiafarika kama Femi Kuti (Nigeria), Salif Keita (Mali) na Mahotella Queens (Afrika ya Kusini) magwiji wengine kutoka pande zote za dunia kama akina Asha Bhosle (India); Kronos Quartet (US); Blue King Brown (Australia); Gotan Project (France / Argentina); Lior (Australia); Lunasa (Ireland); Emma Donovan Band (Australia); na Mariza (Portugal) watatumbuiza pia.
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Kwa upande wangu mpaka hivi sasa nimeshahudhuria maonyesho ya bendi mbili za kutoka Afrika: Mahotella Queens na Femi Kuti and the Positive Force. Na bila ubishi wowote Mahotella Queens wamenisuuza moyo vilivyo.

(Bi mkubwa wa ki-Kaurna akisoma risala ya kubariki tamasha na kuwaenzi wenye nchi)
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Kama ilivyo mila na desturi ya hapa Australia haianzi shughuli bila kutoa heshima kwa wazawa wa nchi hii wanaotambulika kama Ma-aborijino au Indigenous people ambao walikuwa 'hawatambuliki' kama binaadamu kamili kabla ya mwaka 1967.

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Wazawa walianza kwa kutoa heshima ya ki-kaurna (inatamkwa ga-na). Mzee wa kabila (kama anavyoonekana pichani) alianza kusoma dua za kikwao akafuatiwa na vijana waliocheza ngoma ya kubariki tamasha. (juu kabisa pichani)

MAHOTELLA QUEENS (Womadelaide 2007)

2007-03-10T07:11:00.000-08:00

(Mahotella Queens - Womadelaide 2007)
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Mahotella Queens ndio waliofungua dimba ya tumbuizo kwenye tamasha la 15 la Womadelaide. Baada tu ya baraka za ufunguzi, bila kuchelewa kikosi cha maajuza watatu kutoka Afrika ya kusini, Mahotella Queens walivamia jukwaa namba moja na kuporomosha vibao vyao vyote maarufu - pamoja na Kazet na Umuntu Ngumuntu. ilikuwa onyesho kabambe - kwa lugha ya wanamiziki wanasema walipiga "tight set".

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Miye naona hii ni baraka kuwashuhudia maajuza hawa wakitumbuiza, kwani walisharitaya shughuli za muziki baada ya kupotelewa na wanamuziki wenzao watatu wakiwemo Mzee Mahlatini na West Nkosi. Naona ni baraka vile hawa madada wazee - Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Shawe Mbadu na Mildred Mangxola ndio historia ya muziki wa dansi wa Afrika ya kusini. Hawa ndio hasa waliokuwamo kwenye kuipika mbaqanga jive.

Na kama alivyokuwa akieleza Bibie Hilda Tloubatla akiwa jukwaani - bila kujituma, kukaza nia tena baada ya kukata tamaa na misiba pengine wasingelikuwapo ndani ya tamasha mwaka huu.

Shoo yao ilikuwa swafi sana - walikuwa na mpigaji gitaa zito, mpiga gitaa, mpiga ngoma (yaani "drums") na mpiga kinanda tu. Hata hivyo vibibi hivi vilitoa vichekesho na mawaidha kwa wanawake na wanaume.

Usia ambao pengine haukuwafikia vizuri watoto wadogo na vichwa maji wengine ni pale walipowaambia akina mama: "Mkitaka kuwa na afya na furaha, muweze kucheza kama sisi mpaka uzeeni, siri ni kujidamka alfajiri ya saa kumi, umpe mumeo staftahi, na akirejea kutoka kazini akute maakuli, basi mumeo mwenyewe atakuwa akiwahi kurudi nyumbani kila siku, na kama ana uwezo atakununulia chochote unachotaka". Ma-feminist walinung'unika na kauli.

FEMI KUTI AND THE POSITIVE FORCE (Womadelaide 2007)

2007-03-10T06:46:00.000-08:00

(Femi Kuti akitumbuiza Ijumaa usiku 9-3-07)

Shoo nyingine ya kutoka Afrika hapa katika Tamasha ni ile ya mwanamuziki Femi Kuti wa Nigeria. Bila ya shaka hii ilikuwa ndiyo bendi kubwa kupita zote usiku wa Ijumaa. Kulikwa kuna waimbaji, wapiga midomo ya bata ya aina zote (trumpets, alto na tenor sax, trombone, nk.) wapiga ngoma wawili, wanenguaji watatu, wapiga magitaa wawili, na mpiga gitaa zito, mpiga vinanda… pamoja na Femi mwenyewe ambaye anapuliza midomo ya bata ya aina mbili pamoja na kupiga kinanda na kuimba, kuunguruma na kufoka.

Onyesho lake lilikuwa ni nguvu na sauti kubwa mno. Ilikuwa kama vile amefunga vipaza sauti vya shoo za rock 'n' roll au heavy metal. Niliwaona wazee wachache wakihama mistari ya mbele huku wakiziba masikio.

Shoo ya femi ilikuwa sawa na kumsikiliza baba yake - Fela. Kulikwa na mseto wa Afro-beat na jazz ya haraka haraka. Alitoa maneno makali dhidi ya Obasanjo na viongozi wengine wa Kiafrika. Kadhalika aliwasuta waafrika waliokuwapo uwanjani, na kuwahimiza kufanya kweli. Ukiopndoa kibao cha Do Your Best na Beng Beng Beng, vibao vyote vilikuwa ni vya kisiasa.

Huyu bwana Femi alitoa sare na ma-Aborigine katika kupuliza sax. Ma-aborigines wanajulikana kwa mtindo wao wa kupiga digderidoo (aina ya filimbi kubwa yenye sauti nzito) huku wakitumia circular breathing. Femi alionyesha umahiri huo kwa kupuliza mlio mmoja wa sax kwa dakika kama mbili na nusu bila kukata.

Pamoja na kupenda sana kuangalia wanenguaji wa kike, mtindo wa wananguaji wa Femi wa kuwapa mgongo watazamaji huku kitambaa (au kijichupi) kikiwa kinavuka na kuonyesha msamba mara kwa mara kidogo kilinifanya nifadhaike. Vinginevyo ile dansi yao maarufu kana kwamba wanafanya mapenzi na mwanamume nadhani iliwavutia wengi pamoja na wapiga picha waliojazana upande wa wanenguaji.

Baada ya onyesho nilimkuta Msenegali mmoja anayepiga muziki hapa Adelaide, Lamin, akibishana na wazungu juu ya Femi. Wazungu wanadai waliupenda sana ule muziki kwani 'the whole stage was busy, the man's got energy, oooh!" Msenegali alikuwa anadai kuwa hakuweza kuucheza mziki ule kwa filingi.

KWA WAPENDANAO

2007-02-14T00:15:00.000-08:00

Kuadhimisha siku ya wapendanao, ambayo ni leo, kwa wale mnaoweza sanaa ya kuandika mashairi ya mapenzi, , mnashauriwa kushiriki kwenye shindano la mashairi ya siku ya wapendanao la sauti za dunia. Hata kama hutaki kushiriki kuandika - suuza moyo wako hapa kwa kuperuzi sehemu ya maoni palipojaa mashairi yaliyokwishatumwa.

ALINACHA HANA SABABU YA KUUWAWA

2007-01-15T05:18:00.000-08:00

(picha na FLIP SCHULKE/CORBIS: Time.com)
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Baada ya mvutano mrefu, waliomuhofia Martin Luther King Jr. walipitisha mswada wa kusherehekea siku ya Martin Luther King Jr. Siku hiyo inaadhimishwa leo, 15-01-07.
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Kuadhimisha siku hiyo wafanyabiashara wametengeneza faida, vyombo vya habari vinamchora MLK kama mhubiri aliyekuwa na ndoto za haki ambazo zingechukua milele yote kutimilika na huku wanafunzi wakiendelea kukariri hotuba ya MLK "I have dream"
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Mumia Abu-Jamal katika " MARTIN'S SECOND MARTYRDOM" anawakumbusha wanaodhani kuwa MLK alikuwa akiota ndoto za Alinacha kwamba wanakosea. Marekani iliyojaa ubaguzi ya miaka ya 60 ilikuwa haina sababu ya kumuua mtu aliyelala akiota kuwa haki itakuja siku moja.
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"… an older, wiser Martin spoke, not of dreams but of realities – of social, and especially economic injustice -- of rampant American militarism, and yes -- the nightmare of white racism."
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MLK hakuwa Alinacha. Vyema tuendelee kumkumbuka kama kamanda wa harakati aliyekufa vitani.
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Kwa wale waliochukua msimamo wa kumsifu Malcolm X kama mpiganaji na MLK kama Alinacha tafadhali peruzi hapa kwenye malumbano ya mapan-Afrika.

BILA MSIMAMO HAKUNA HESHIMA, HAKUNA USHINDI

2007-01-15T05:01:00.000-08:00

"Serikali ya Senegal hatimaye imefanikiwa kuwapa uraia wachezaji watano wa kutumainiwa wa timu ya Taifa ya Tanzania, Taifa Stars. Senegal pia imewapa wachezaji hao wa Taifa Stars nafasi ya kuchezea timu ya Taifa ya nchi hiyo, Lions of Teranga, katika mechi ya kimataifa kuelekea kinyang'ganyiro cha Ghana 2008 mwezi machi mwaka huu baina Senegal na Tanzania. Kadhalika Senegal imemuajiri kocha msaidizi wa Taifa Stars hivyo kushusha kabisa matumaini ya Taifa Stars kuishinda Senegal ifikapo mwezi Machi."
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Nini maana ya utaifa; nini maana ya kujivunia utaifa; kitu gani kimemegua misimamo ya wachezaji hawa; je wanaweza kuthaminiwa na wasenegali au na jamii ya kimataifa; hivi kweli wanaweza kuthaminiwa tena na watanzania ikiwa watabadili msimamo wao na kurejea Taifa Stars?
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Siyo rahisi kuamini mchakato kama huu kutokea katika timu ya taifa, lakini katika siasa ya Tanzania picha kama hiyo tumeizowea wala hakuna anayepepesa macho kwa mshangao akisoma au akisikia viongozi wa upinzani wamejiunga tena na chama tawala.
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Kama katika picha hiyo ya kubuni ya wachezaji wa Taifa kuhamia Lions of Teranga, mtiririko huo huo wa maswali unawahusu wapinzani: Nini maana ya upinzani kwa wanaupinzani wanaohamia chama tawala; kitu gani kimemegua misimamo ya wapinzani hawa; je wanaweza kuthaminiwa huko walipohamia au kuthaminiwa na jamii; hivi kweli wanaweza kuthaminiwa tena na watanzania ikiwa watabadili msimamo wao?
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Wakati misimamo na sera za mrengo wa kulia na kushoto zilishamong'onyolewa na mafundi wa IMF/WB tangu karne iliyopita, kinadharia watawala na wapinzani wamebaki na msimamo wa kuboresha maisha ya mwananchi.
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Kwa vile serikali haisikilizi kilio wala kutatua vizuri matatizo ya mwananchi, kwa nadharia ya siasa za ushindani, wapinzani wana jukumu la kuwaelemea walio madarakani kwa kuwa bega kwa bega na wananchi; kuweka bayana makosa ya serikali na kuonyesha mfumo mbadala na hatimaye kuchukua hatamu za uongozi.
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Hivi karibuni viongozi na wanachama wa vyama vya upinzani wamekuwa wakijiunga na chama tawala. Mantiki ya jukumu la upinzani inapokea mapigo. Badala ya kutimiza wajibu wa upinzani, mmoja wa waliohama ndiyo kwanza akatabiri kifo cha upinzani kabla ya 2010. Mwingine akadai kahama kwa vile wapinzani hawana fedha na wakuu wa chama chake wamefilisi chama kwa sababu wanatumia helikopta. Na mwingine hata akatoa ahadi kuangamiza upinzani jimboni kwake. Mantiki ya upinzani inapoteza maana hata kwa wale ambao hawajahama - inashangaza kwa vile wanavyoendelea kumsifia rais kwa miujiza aliyotenda katika kipindi chake cha mwaka mmoja.
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Swali namba moja: Kitu gani kinadhoofisha azma hii tukufu ya makamanda wa upinzani wanaohamahama? Jibu rahisi: CCM. Jibu sawa: (a) hawajaelewa somo (b) Wabinafsi.
Ushauri: (a) paanzishwe madarasa ya ngumbaro kufundisha somo la siasa na kazi ya makada wa vyama. (b) wakuu wa upinzani wajipange na kuonyesha msimamo ili kuvutia makada wenye akili tulivu, wasio wabinafsi, wenye uwezo wa kufanya tafiti za mifumo mbadala na kupanga mikakati ya kuwakaribia wananchi.
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Swali namba mbili: Hivi kweli wahamaji wanaweza kuthaminiwa huko walipohamia au kuthaminiwa na jamii? Jibu: Hapana. Ushauri: warejee historia za watu wenye misimamo - Mandela, Nyerere, Biko, Nkrumah, Malcolm X… hata kama kuna walipokosea thamani yao ipo kwenye msimamo. Mtu anayeyumbayumba hawezi kuthaminiwa sawa na yule mwenye msimamo thabiti.
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Ukijiuliza kama ndani ya ujumla wa zoezi zima la upinzani kupokea mapigo kama upinzani una nafasi na uwezo kuchukua hatamu uchaguzi ujao jibu rahisi ni hapana. Kwa mujibu wa viongozi wa upinzani, nafasi na uwezo kuchukua hatamu vinawezekana ikiwa pataundwa umoja wa kitaifa wa vyama vyote vya upinzani. Ushauri wa nyongeza: Upinzani lazima uwe na uwepo wa kitaifa; lazima ubainishe sera mbadala sambamba na kudhibitisha umaana (relevance) kama serikali kivuli inayosubiri kuingia madarakani. Na muhimu zaidi uwe ukiitikia kilio kwa kuwa bega kwa bega na wananchi wakati wote kwa kuhamasisha mazungumzo yatakayopelekea mwamko ndani ya jamii. Vilio viko kila upande na watu wanamjua nani anayewajali kwa dhati.
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Vilio na mianya ya kuwa bega kwa bega na wapiga kura viko kila mahali. Hivi karibuni Mwenyekiti wa CHADEMA amekuwa akirudishiarudishia miche ndani ya majimbo ambamo chama tawala yameing'oang'oa. La kutia moyo zaidi ni vile alivyoonyesha uongozi na kujiunga katika zoezi la nguvu za umma na kuongoza maandamano ya wananchi wa eneo la Mererani ili kumtaka kamanda wa polisi wa eneo hilo ajiuzulu kutokana na uamuzi wake wa kuruhusu wawekezaji kutumia silaha za moto dhidi ya wachimbaji madini wadogo na raia. Angeendelea kidogo na kubainisha kinaga ubaga sera mbadala badala ya kutumia lugha ya mafumbo ya kianasiasa kwamba kinachotakiwa ni watu wa Mererani kupewa fursa ya kupatiwa misingi kwa ajili ya maendeleo ya taifa hili.
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Vilio na mianya viko mahali. Jana tu watu wa Bulyanhulu nao wameanza kuchimba mikwara dhidi ya wawekezaji kwamba watamwaga damu, kwamba wamefikia uamuzi huo wa kutaka kumwaga damu kutokana na kero zao kutopatiwa ufumbuzi kwa muda mrefu. Mwenyekiti wa CHADEMA wala helikopta haviko Bulyanhulu. Sina hakika kama kuna mpinzani mwenye msimamo aliyepo huko bega kwa bega na wananchi. Sina uhakika kama wananchi wanayo sababu ya kumpigia kura mpinzani ambaye hajatia harakati bega kwa bega hapo jimboni 2010, wala yule aliyehamia chama tawala.

SALAMU ZA MWAKA MPYA (2)

2007-01-01T05:00:00.000-08:00

Kwanza tushiriki ujumbe wa text nilioupata kwenye simu dakika chache zilizopita:
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"May ur happiness increaselike fuel prices in TZ and your worries fall like number of votes to the opposition blocks in TZ, so that ur desires be fulfilled massively like kikwete's trips abroad. May your problems vanish like TANESCO's electricity. I wish u a happy and prosperous New year 2007."
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Halafu tuendelee:
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Mwezi wa 'kwanza' ndio umeshawadia katika kalenda ya kirumi. Mwezi uliobeba jina la mungu mmoja wa kirumi - Janus.
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Janus, mungu wa hekaya za kirumi, mungu wa mabadiliko na vyanzo vipya, mungu aliyebeba funguo kama inavyoonyeshwa kwenye sanaa za kirumi.
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Janus alikuwa na wajibu wa kufungua milango, viwambaza na vyanzo vingine vingine. Alikuwa na vichwa viwili, kimoja kinatazama mbele kimoja nyuma. Alikuwa na uwezo wa kulinda milango ya kuingilia na milango ya kutokea kwa wakati mmoja. Alikuwa na wajibu wa kuweka mizani ya matumaini ya wakati ujao kwa kuangalia matukio yaliyopita.
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Nazungumzia mwezi wa januari nikijua kuwa ni mwaka mpya wa kirumi. Nifanyeje? Nilibahatika kuongea na babu yangu, Katego, (babu yake baba yangu) mwaka 1986 kabla hajaaga dunia. Nilimdodosa kuhusu kalenda za kikwetu.
Akanitajia miezi nane tu: Omuhangara; Omwiraguzu; Omwero gwilima; Omuhingo; Omworaguzu gw'echanda; Ekimezo; Kiswa; na Olubingo.
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Pengine mwaka wa kikwetu ulikuwa na miezi nane tu au pengine ni kwa sababu ya uzee na ugonjwa wa usahaulifu, marehemu babu hakuweza kunitajia miezi mingine. Haidhuru, miezi ya kikwetu sijui jinsi ya kuipanga kwa utaratibu unaotakiwa au kuioanisha na misimu tunayoijua. Bora nizingumzie ninalojua.
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Kwa kawaida wengi tunajipangia malengo binafsi ya kutimiza katika mwaka mpya. Wengine tunadhamiria kuwacha kuvuta tumbako, wengine kuwacha pombe, kupunguza vitambi, kubeba vyuma, kufanya mazoezi na kadhalika.
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Malengo mengi huwa hayatekelezwi au yakitekelezwa basi kwa siku chache tu za mwezi wa januari. Malengi hayatekelezeki pengine kutokana na kwamba tunatumia kichwa kimoja tu cha Janus, kile kinachotazama mbele bila kutumia kichwa cha pili kinachoangalia tulikotoka.
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Binafsi yangu lengo langu la kuwacha kuvuta tumbako nimeamua kuachana nalo vile kila mwaka nakata tamaa tarehe mbili ya Januari na kuendelea kulipuliza kama kawaida.
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Basi hivi sasa nikiangalia nyuma na mbele najiwekea lengo linalowezekana. Lengo ambalo kila mmoja anaweza kutimiza:
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Kutenda vitendo na kuacha kuahidi yasiyoyewezekana;
Kuwa mkweli kwa nafsi - kusema tunachoamini na kuamini tunachosema;
Kutenda haki na kudai haki;
Kutunza maadili na heshima;
Kukubali kusahihishwa tunapokosea.
Na kubwa zaidi kudumisha upendo kwani tunao uwezo wa kupenda - uwezo wa kubadili hali zetu kwa mawazo na vitendo chanya.
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Bila kusahau kutoa shukrani kwa heri na fanaka zote zilizopita mwaka 2006, binafsi ikiwamo kumkaribisha mgeni mpya katika jamaa yangu, binti niliyebarikiwa wakati tukifungafunga mwaka - tarehe 22 desemba 2006. Jina lake nimemuita Nia.
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Nawatakia heri ya mwaka mpya. 1

SALAMU ZA MWAKA MPYA (1)

2007-01-01T04:47:00.000-08:00

Taa zinawaka, kelele zimepungua mjini, mvua zimenyesha, umeme umerudi, lakini hicho siyo kipimo cha ufanisi kwa shirika la umeme Tanesco, hiyo ni bahati.
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Ujumbe huo makini nimekutana nao kwenye barua pepe za kimalumbano mtandaoni. Rafiki yangu Majaliwa katutakia heri ya mwaka mpya huku akitathmini ufanisi wa serikali ya awamu ya nne hususan kuhusiana na suala la umeme kama ilivyoandikwa kwenye magazeti hivi karibuni:
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Kwa kweli Tanesco/umeme umekua dosari kubwa sana kwa JK's first year as president . Electricity generation technology is old and the supply and retailing of energy are now over 100 years old kwa hiyo hakuna sababu yoyote inayotulazimisha sisi wa TZ kuteseka kiasi hiki (by the way, when I say this I don't mean just in terms of lost opportunities/inconvenience from rationing but the millions of dollars-probably borrowed dollars - which are being wasted could be better spent in education, health and other essential services including road maintenance and water supplies).
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What TZ needs is an independent regulator to forecast demand/supply and inform the market of future investment opportunities. This will mean some genuine reform to current arrangement for electricity generation and supply in Tanzania. Without genuine reform and long term plans aimed at meeting the growth in demand for electricity we will keep falling back on these short-term and expensive emergency fall-back/stopgap measures kila wakati ukame or plant breakdowns occur.
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Na Hiyo TANESCO as it stands appears to be a wounded beast being used by different players to enhance their standing in the community as they are reliant on the 15 million plus in subsidies from the government (CCM).
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Nauliza jamani kama hao CCM wameshindwa ku-ensure that the company runs effectively and efficiently in the 30+ years that they have had a monopoly on directing board/managerial appointments what makes them think that they can start now?
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While there are good reasons for government ownership for key strategic assets for the benefit of the country it is not clear kwamba TANESCO is actually benefiting from this.
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A good example of a possible way forward is our next door neighbour, Kenya, where the main power generator is well run, with prices regulated by government but the company is listed on the KSE which allows it freedom raise funds and pursue market opportunities without too much interference (see www.kengen.co.ke/index.asp). By way of example, while Kenya is suffering from the same drought as TZ and Uganda, they were able to export power to Uganda to help them in their drought related electricity shortfalls!
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Electricity supply is old technology, inasikitisha kwamba in this day and age - the information age -that we live in sisi waTanzania,who have the right climate for progress which other countries are not blessed with, bado tunababaika na mambo ambayo on the face of it can be dealt with quite easily as they are not insurmountable.
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Lets remember this when we next exercise our democratic rights at the polls.
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I hope you have a "brighter" 2007 - happy new year!
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Salaam
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Majaliwa

SALAMU KWA MUBARAK NA WAFALME WA SAUDIA

2007-01-01T04:43:00.000-08:00

Picha za Saddam katika kitanzi na kebehi za watesi wake zimeufungua mwaka 2007.
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Mwandishi Tariq Ali anapambanua kwa ufupi juu ya haki nusu nusu na unafiki wa "jumuiya ya kimataifa" huku akituma salamu kwa watawala wengine wa nchi za kiarabu - akina Mubarak, wafalme wa Saudia na Jordan - kwamba wakae chonjo na siku "jumuiya ya kimataifa" itakapopata wapenzi wengine ndani ya mipaka ya nchi zao.
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Endelea hapa.

WAIRAKI WANASEMAJE?

2006-12-30T05:44:00.000-08:00

Naamini wahalifu lazima wafikishwe kwa pilato, ila siamini katika kufurahia adhabu ya kifo kama inavyoonyeshwa kwenye televisheni siku nzima hii leo. Idhaa za televisheni hapa zinaonyesha watu waliokimbia utawala wa Saddam Hussein wanavyosherehekea kunyongwa kwa Saddam.
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(Picha kutoka blogu ya katuni za Kiiraki)
Viongozi wa magharibi wanadai kuwa ukurasa mpya unafunguliwa huko Iraki kwa kifo cha Saddam...
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Ningependa kuona haki iliyomfikia Saddam ingewakuta akina Pinochet pia, au wengine wote waliowahi kujizatiti madarakani kwa kutumia mitutu - wakiwemo ndugu zetu wa China kwa waliyoyafanya kwenye viwanja vya Tianamen... anyway haki nusu nusu
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Pitia ukurasa huu usome mawazo ya wanablogu wa Kiiraki juu ya kuuwawa Saddam.

WATU HUONGOZWA NA VIONGOZI WANAOWASTAHILI

2006-12-18T23:39:00.000-08:00

"It has been said that the people get the rulers they deserve…"
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Usemi huo umeniganda kichwani kwa siku kadhaa sasa tangu nirejee kuperuzi maandiko ya Eldridge Cleaver siku za karibuni. Mwanaharakati wa chama cha Black Panthers , Eldridge Cleaver (pichani kulia - picha ya wikipedia) aliutumia usemi huo mara kadhaa katika maandiko yake baada ya kutoka gerezani. Ndani ya maandiko hayo pia kuna pahala anaongeza:
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"Siijui namna ya kusubiri hadi pale watu watakapokuwa wanatenda yale wanayoyahubiri… kwa sababu hali tuliyomo ni mbaya mno, haikubaliki…"
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Huwa nasikia mvuto fulani nikiperuzi maandiko ya wapigania haki wa miaka iliyopita. Mvuto huo unakuwapo pale kila suala linapopambanuliwa katika wakati uliopo – kwamba kuna hali ya dharura. Udharura unaoambatana na harakati na mashinikizo kutoka kwa raia. Mvuto huo unazidi pale unapoona hatimaye walioshika hatamu wanatoa haki, siyo kwa ridhaa na kasi waliyopenda bali kwa shinikizo na wakati unaosababishwa na wanaharakati.
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Hata leo kuna maandiko ya wanaharakati wa kisasa ambayo yana mvuto. Maandiko ya wajenga maoni kwenye vyombo vya habari, au kauli za vyama vya upinzani mengi yana mvuto – haswa kwenye mada motomoto – kama vile maoni ya shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki, kero za muungano au umeme wa mgao na utendaji wa shirika la Richmond. Lakini baada ya kuvutiwa na kuelimishwa kinamna (haswa juu ya utaratibu unaotumika badala ya utatuzi wa suala husika) maandiko mengi hayaambatani na harakati bayana za kushinikiza serikali ibadili mwendo.
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Baada ya kusoma makala za nguvu za waandishi wetu wa kileo mara nyingi bado tunajikuta tunaghafirika, na kiu ya haki na mabadiliko ikiendelea kusakama. Kwa maneno mengine hoja za nguvu bila matendo ni kama aina fulani ya burudani. Burudani ambayo haisadii sana wakati hali siyo njema.
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Wapi pa kuanza kutafakari falsafa ya nukuu hii - It has been said that the people get the rulers they deserve - vigumu kujua, lakini siyo vigumu kutabiri wapi tunakoelekea ikiwa nguvu za umma zitaendelea kutohusishwa katika utendaji na urekebishaji wa mambo.
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Siyo vigumu kubashiri mwelekeo wa walioshika hatamu katika miaka 45 iliyopita. Kadhalika inawezekana kutabiri yatakayotendwa na wapinzani tunaowatarajia kuchukua njia m’badala – hasa pale wanapoziwacha fursa zinazojitokeza kuungana na watu kwenye matatizo yanayowakuta au kuonyesha mwongozo haswa kwa kushinikiza utatuzi au kufafanua sera na utendaji m’badala.
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Jambo moja ninalojua ni kuwa haidhuru nani aliyeshika hatamu au atakayeshika hatamu, mambo yataendelea kuwa yalivyo kama watu hawatajiwezesha – yaani kwa upande mmoja kama watu hawatatumia uwezo na nguvu kushinikiza mabadiliko, na kwa upande mwingine kama walioshika hatamu na wale wanaotarajia kushika hatamu hawatajichanganya/shauriana na umma na kupata mchango wao katika maana halisi. Mambo yanaweza kuendelea kama yalivyo.
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Sehemu kubwa ya harakati – yaani watu – hawajihusishi na hawahusishwi, au wakihusishwa basi kwa uchelevu tofauti na harakati za huko nyuma. Kwa mfano wakulima wa Meru mwaka 1952 maelezo zidi yapo hapa katika PDF file walipigana mpaka wakapata nafasi ya kuwasuta waingereza umoja wa mataifa na kubadili mkondo, au kule Afrika ya kusini umma ulikuwa ni sehemu ya harakati hadi kufikia demokrasia mwaka 1994, au kina Martin Luther King waliuhusisha umma wao wakaandamana mpaka wakapewa haki ya kupiga kura. Watu walikuwa sehemu ya harakati.
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Katika demokrasia yetu ya leo tumekaa ubwete tukisubiri viongozi watatue matatizo yetu. Kwa namna moja au nyingine tumeridhika na utamaduni wa kusaidiwa – charity – tofauti na kutumia nguvu za umma kama kule Meru. Tukumbuke haki siyo charity.(Endelea hapa uone nguvu za umma zilivyotokomea kikatiba na vyenginevyo – PDF file).
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Bila ya shaka kuna tofauti kadhaa katika harakati za miaka ya nyuma na katika harakati tulizo nazo sasa. Hii leo tunayo demokrasia na walioshika hatamu ni ‘wenzetu’ na wale wanaosubiri kuingia madarakani uchaguzi ukiwajaalia pia ni ‘wenzetu’. Kadhalika sura ya mtawala haichukiwi na kutisha kama ya mkoloni ila tu inaweza kutia maudhi, kusikitisha na pengine kutishatisha katika mazingira fulani. Lakini kutishatisha siyo sababu za kutojihusisha.
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Katika ujumbe Blogu ya mkuu wa mkoa niligusia kwamba ingekuwa vyema pawepo na mawasiliano ya moja kwa moja kati ya walioshika hatamu na wananchi ili waweze kueleza kinachoendelea na wananchi wawaeleze kinachowasibu. Kuna muungwana akaweka maoni hapo kwamba hilo linatendeka na akashauri tutazame blogu ya Zitto Kabwe wa CHADEMA.
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Nimepitia blogu hiyo na nyingine zaidi zenye viuongo hapo. Iliyonivutia zaidi ni blogu ya JJ Mnyika, siyo tu kwa aliyoandika humo bali kwa viungo kadhaa vinavyoelekeza kwenye vyumba vya majadiliano. Huko ndiko mijadala inapoendelea. Kwa kusoma mawazo ya Mnyika, napata picha ya kijana mwenye moyo na uchungu wa nchi yake kadhalika kichwa kilichotulia – kwa jinsi anavyojieleza na kufafanua sera za chama chake. Kama ningetakiwa kupiga kura hii leo ningemfikiria kwa makini. Hata hivyo tatizo linatokea nikiangalia ukaribu wa chama chake na umma. Katika mfano huu mmoja:
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Mwezi wa saba mwaka huu (2006) muasisi wa CHADEMA Mzee Edwin Mtei (pichani kushoto - picha ya tovuti ya chadema) alipinga ubinafsishwaji wa mashamba ya Mbarali na Kapunga yaliyokuwa yakimilikiwa na kutoa ajira kwa zaidi ya wakulima 5000. Tena akahamasisha umma kuonyesha mshikamano na wakulima.
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’’If there are any political parties in opposition in Tanzania worth the name, they should organize peaceful demonstrations in support of the Mbarali farmers to urge President Jakaya Kikwete not to revoke their right to continue exploiting this land,’’
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Kwa hesabu za karibu kama inavyoandikwa kwenye takwimu za ajira na vipato vya wananchi, wakulima elfu tano wakiwa na familia za watu sita kila moja, hao ni watu zaidi ya elfu ishirini walioathirika na ubinafsishwaji huo. Kilichofuata - Waziri Mungai alimkebehi Mtei kwamba amezeeka na hawazi vizuri, na wananchi wasimtilie maanani. Kwamba mashamba hayo yamebinafsishwa kwa wazawa na yataleta manufaa mbeleni.
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Wito wa Mtei wa mshikamano siyo suala la ugonjwa wa uzee, vile katika kipindi hicho hicho watanzania kadhaa wakiongozwa na kuhamasishwa na taasisi za kiraia walionyesha mshikamano na watu walioko maili 10,000 au zaidi mbali na nchi yetu – Lebanoni. Wakitaka serikali yetu ivunje uhusiano na Izraeli pamoja na Marekani – baada ya wayahudi kuvamia Lebanoni. Tunaogopa, tunaona kuwa haiwezekani kuonyesha mshikamano na watu wa Rujewa kwa sababu wapo ndani yetu. Ni rahisi kutumia nguvu za wananchi katika harakati za mabadiliko maili 10000 nje.
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Baada ya Mtei kukejeliwa, upinzani na serikali wakawa kimya. Sababu za wapinzani kukaa kimya zitakuwa ni shuku zangu tu. Wakulima wakamuomba imani rais Kikwete. Lakini tatizo lao likaendelea hata ikafika siku wakaamua kupinga mbele ya kiongozi wa eneo lao, matokeo yake wakapigwa vibao. Hii si lugha ya picha , walipigwa kelbu shavuni kama katika ugomvi wa mtaani.
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Mkulima wa Rujewa akiamua kumpigia kura kiongozi m’badala aliyekaa kimya wakati akipigwa kibao basi asitegemee makuu. We deserve the rulers we get. Kama watu elfu tano wameshindwa kutetewa, au kuonyeshwa sera na mipango bayana itakayowalinda siyo rahisi kujua ajira milioni moja zinazoahidiwa na viongozi wote – upinzani na walioshika hatamu - zitatoka wapi. Yanayotendeka sasa ndio ishara ya yanayokuja mbele.
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Nukuu ya pili ya Cleaver iliyonigusa:
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"Siijui namna ya kusubiri hadi pale watu watakapokuwa wanatenda yale wanayoyahubiri… kwa sababu hali tuliyomo ni mbaya mno, haikubaliki…"
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Bila ya shaka umechoka na mbinu zisizozaa matunda za huko nyuma na unao uwezo wa kujipa matumaini ya kweli huko mbele.
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Hebu jaribu kuota ndoto za matumaini. Ota kwamba katika suala moja tu kwa mwaka ungeamua kufuata haki zote. Kama unakwenda kuomba kibali cha kiwanja au chochote kingine, ufuate haki zote mpaka mwisho. Hakuna rushwa wala mizengwe. Unukuu utaratibu wote kwa ajili ya kujadili katika siku moja ya mwaka – siku ya haki Tanzania.
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Ota kama siku moja tu ya mwaka ingetumika na wananchi kujadiliana juu ya hiyo haki moja ambayo kila moja aliipigania kivyake. Ota kwamba siku moja tu ya mwaka wakulima wa Mbarali aidha wao wenyewe au na wapinzani wangeitumia kujadili njia m’badala ambazo zingeingizwa kwenye sera za kitaifa. (wapinzani wawe kama wakunga kusaidia tu na wananchi kama wajawazito wanaozaa tumaini)
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Ota kwamba siku moja tu ya mwaka nchi ingesimama na kuiita siku hiyo - siku ya haki, ambapo kila mmoja pamoja na waandishi wangeitumia siku hiyo kusema kwamba jambo hili na lile halitendeki sawa, na kujadili litatuliwe vipi. Na wasishuke matawi ya chini kama halitatuliwi, bali waongeze shinikizo.
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Jaribu kufikiria maoni yatakayotoka hapo na mikakati ya wananchi vitakavyoweza kuzifunua akili zetu pale tunapodhani kuwa haiwezekani.
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Kama ukidhani hii ndoto haiwezekani, basi jitayarishe kughafirika milele.