Fiat Lux
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…
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…...
July 14 2014 Nimekuwa nikijadili, na kukemea, unafiki unaotutawala katika maisha yetu kam taifa. Tumefnaya unafiki umekuwa ni sehemu muhimu ya utu wetu , au labda niseme nakisi yetu katika utu. Unafiki umetuenea kiasi kwamba wengi wetu tunapona ni bora kusema uongo hata pale ambapo ingekuwa faida kwetu kusema ukweli. Hali hii haikuanza leo, ingawa sasa imekomaa. Nimewahi kusema mara nyingi kwamba tangu Awamu ya Kwanza ya utawala wa nchi…...
April 4 2016 – Two years have gone by, and still no end in sight for the ordeal that has been meted out to the so-called Chibok girls. These are the unfortunate young women who were abducted en masse – more than 250 of them — from a school in north-eastern Nigeria. The dramatic abduction set off a global outrage as political leaders and other public individuals and bodies called for…...