Month: August 2025

Making education subservient to the formative needs of the entirety of the human person as a culturally rooted being who lives in society is restoring its true meaning. Consideration of internal migration in the country is also crucial in education delivery and content as it anticipates how other cultures are intermixing, others left behind, and others affecting each other.

Culturelessness is irreparable, as tradition dies. Tradition, coming from Latin ‘traditio’ means ‘to hand-over’ or ‘to pass on’. There will be nothing to hand over in a few generations to come if our young people have no cultural roots that they identify with and have an envious and proud sentiment for.

This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on August 13, 2025 Shimbo Pastory Scholars around the world explain…

Political rhetoric is like a game, and often times it is leaned towards appeasing the masses, even when logic defies the possibilities of what the rhetoric contains. Words have power, and that’s where the bait is.

When analysing the political speeches by our local politicians, there would arise mixed feelings from the reality they convey, especially when these speeches are extemporaneous.

This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on August 19, 2025. Shimbo Pastory In any organization, be…

Researchers express concern particularly on the negative impacts of the modern technologies – especially now with the capacities of AI being only partially known – on behavioural and psychological health, and on cognitive capacities, such as decision making and critical thinking.
Among experts there are agitations regarding limitations of effective human control and unpredictability of the AI systems.
It is baffling and scary even to scientists themselves that AI tools can solve problems beyond what they were trained for by the human programmers, and even further applying problem solving models that humans do not recognize and cannot understand.

Most people live with serious mental health problems without their knowledge, and as such with time their situations become severe, leading to extremes such as self-harm and suicide. While globally the African continent has among the least numbers of cases, it does not make it a less serious issue. This is because human life is involved.

We must agree that people are built and groomed differently and as such have varying capacities inasmuch as handling of pressure and stressful situations is concerned. What can be a non-issue to one can be a big problem to another, leading them to anxiety, losing a sense of value of their own lives or even feeling hopeless about themselves.