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While it is a shared desire of ours as a people to have leaders with integrity it is a fact that people do not mysteriously attain integrity after becoming leaders. Leaders with integrity are first persons with integrity. In the absence of a person with integrity, government office has no power to imbue such a quality in the person.

There is no country with a smoothly functioning governing system built on pillars of systemic corruption. What corruption does is it creates a vicious cycle which taken into the loop more and more people, and forcibly, to make ends meet, make them partisans of the corrupt system in more and more diversified varieties of corruption.

For most learners being educated at school is remembering or memorizing. Why? Because that is how the system orients them to look at education. Most learners consider schooling like a reward system, and themselves as heroes depending on how high up the reward ladder they are ranked.
One is considered not smart, creative, or intelligent unless the grading system says so! As such all creativity and innovativeness has to be shrunk to fit into the demands of the spoon- feeding system; which unfortunately, kills many dreams and talents.

The chances of ten consecutive reels or posts to communicate a similar feeling are extremely minimal. This means ten differently themed posts can take us across ten different ranges of emotional response, such as joy, surprise, fear, worry, anger, agitation, anticipation, disappointment, disgust, assurance, doubts, confusion, etc. the list is endless and unpredictable too, just as human emotional reactions are.

It is easy to exclude, mislead and exploit people who are illiterate, or incapable of reading and writing. This is because of the limited nature of their access to information and knowledge which is a basis for civic participation, democratic engagement and informed decision-making. This is where illiteracy becomes an enemy to be fought will all our possible means.

We cannot deny the fact that the available education in itself has already equipped us as a nation with enough knowledge and skills to be far ahead of where we are. But growth of a state is a game of chess which takes skills, wisdom, commitment and discipline to win. It is a manifestation of us being learned people when our educators add value by being concerned with educating our own systems and are respected and listened to as experts.

Social media floods us with so much information at the same time. One can scroll for about ten minutes and explore about 20 completely unrelated topics communicating different moods, energies, messages, etc. beginning from news, opinions, memes, music, adverts, skits, sports, and many other random things. At least a quarter of these are made with AI, and another quarter is severely manipulated as compared to reality.

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 apathy differently. Among the most agreed upon descriptions of political apathy is “the lack of interest in the political process among citizens, which is critical in a democracy for ensuring accountability and protecting individual rights.” When we say political engagement we actually mean engaging in political debate, in conversations about socioeconomic issues subject to political decisions that directly affect people and their lives. If our political engagement is short of critical and objective deliberations due to coercion, corruption, or…

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 it social, political, religious, etc. inasmuch as there is a form of shared consciousness and vision, there are always policies. A policy in simple words is a ‘principle of action,’ yet it is an important and indispensable player in growth and progress of every institutions. In a broader and all-inclusive sense, these policies or principles of action are laid out in such a way that they give a firm and clear foundation and baseline to standards, values and priorities, boundaries…