Fiat Lux
November 3 2016 At about this time in November of the year two thousand and seventeen, President John Pombe Magufuli will have spent two years in office, and he will still have not reached the halfway mark of his first term. That means he will be far from being worried about his reelection, which will not be due till three years later. As he celebrates his first year in office…
1995 TAYARI zile siasa ninazoziongelea kila siku zimekwisha kujitokeza katika kampeni zinazofanywa kuhusu uchaguzi wa Oktoba mwaka 1995. Tayari baadhi ya washindani na mashabiki wao wamekwisha kufika mahali wakaona kwamba kampeni safi zisizo za kashfa hazitawawezesha kushinda katika uchaguzi. Tayari wameanza kutumia vigezo ambavyo havina uhusiano na uwezo wa mtu katika uongozi. Tayari dini imeingizwa katika mashindano ambayo tumesema yaamuliwe kwa misingi ya nani anaweza kuongoza Watanzania vyema zaidi kuliko…...
September 1 2016 We now find respite to pause on the verge of a plunge, and ponder just what might have been. Or, imagine just might be after the pause ends and the perilous race to the abyss resumes. We have had a shrill shouting match between the authorities – President John Magufuli, his assistants, the Police – and the main opposition Chadema party on whether the latter could go…...
October 13 2016 I cannot in any way be characterized as a Luddite, one of those people who suffer from a morbid fear of technological advances as were witnessed in England at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The term “Luddite” itself is supposed to have come from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who led his fellow proletarians to wreck machinery because technical innovations threatened workers’ jobs. By the standards…...