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Welcome to Mzengwe. A caucus where Jenerali Ulimwengu shares a platform with you to discuss matters that affect our society, politically, economically, culturally, and so forth. Jenerali Ulimwengu anakualika kujadiliana naye masuala mbalimbali ya kijamii, kisiasa, kiuchumi na kadhalika ....
Katika safari ya kuelekea miaka 100 ya Nyerere, naangazia uadilifu wa Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere kinyume na viongozi wengine wa Africa walioingilia ulafi na ujambazi baada ya kuondoka kwa wakoloni....
Huu ni mkusanyiko wa makala zilizoandikwa katika safu ya “Rai ya Jenerali,” zilizoanza pamoja na gazeti la Rai, gazeti lililoanzishwa mwezi Novemba mwaka 1993 na kujipatia umaarufu mkubwa kwa muda mrefu kidogo. Makala hizi niliziandika kwa makusudi ya kuchokoza tafakuri, kuchangamsha mawazo na kuchochea fikra za kutafuta njia na mikakati ya kuiendeleza nchi yetu kwa kupambanisha bongo zetu. Muonekano wa juu wa kitabu hiki unatoa taswira ya ukurasa uliobeba makala…...
Chinese poster from 1987 promoting one-child policy. Text reads, “Fewer and better births revitalize China”. Provided by IISG, via Flickr. January 8 2019 – It has to be easy to imagine the smiles on faces of millions of Chinese men and women over this great piece of news: the Chinese government has decided to reverse the one-child policy and to allow families to have more than one child, which has…...
April 6 2017 – Education, as we commonly talk of it, is that process by which an individual is taken through formal structures that inculcate in him/her a certain body of knowledge and values qualifying the individual for a useful and serviceable existence. This usually denotes the school system, complete with its classrooms, teachers, syllabuses and books. But there is always another education, which is not that formal, one which…...
March 9 2017 The debate around the need to have a serious constitutional review in Tanzania is simply refusing to go away. Every week we learn of new legal action taken by members of civil society that seek to challenge this or that act undertaken by government officials that people find unjust, unfair or illegal. Increasingly, this is becoming a litigating society in which more and more people are willing…...
March 2 2017 Chirau Ali Mwakwere “Zipapa” is a former Kenyan minister and ambassador who is so funny he could make the Sphinx laugh. He can also belt out a song at a moment’s notice, in Kiswahili, English or Lingala. He speaks impeccable Kiswahili, and claims the language originated from Kwale, his home county where he is contesting the gubernatorial seat in the upcoming elections. All the foregoing, however, is…...
November 11 2016 – An object lesson in how to do unto your opponents was delivered many years ago in one central African country which was ruled over by a particularly obnoxious dictator. The president had been in power for close to 20 years when an old school friend came to him to ask for a favour. The friend, a prominent architect, came to complain to the president because all…...
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…...
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…...
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