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Speedometers are among the crucial elements in any vehicle, whether it goes on water, air or land.
Guesswork has proved to be incapable of giving appropriate guidance. Notwithstanding, the number of these ‘faulty’ vehicles I have seen in my commutes for a week now is scarily alarming. While others may see just vehicles moving, I see potential accidents that can bring about irreparable damages or even deaths.
If care is not taken, the motivation to make young people cherish education, though purposed for good, can become their hypnosis pill in the future. For instance, a child who has been told by their parents she will do very well as a doctor may grow up not learning about the opportunities that life avails to them, apart from becoming a doctor.
Quick action is needed to rescue those who grow up in the country but do not hold Tanzania dear. Many young people are proud of popular cultures or even other countries, languages, etc. because of the exposure they have had through films, music, the internet, etc.
Information is not necessarily true just because it originates from a certain person, group, media, authority, public figure, expert, etc. Schemes to disinform people have already overtaken us and found their way into different crucial systems by which people get themselves informed.
Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on 4th April, 2022. According to the data produced by the International Labour Organization, youth unemployment in Tanzania stands at 11.5%. There is massive economic growth in the country. According to the Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) report of 2016 produced by the World … Read more
The Lenten journey demands of us an attentive ear, an empty heart, a docile will, a patient body, and at the rock-layer of all these, a fervent, compassionate and faithful soul. This is the ideal at the heart of the teaching of Christianity. But it is more especially demanded of us in this Lenten pilgrimage as we deeply meditate on the greatest accomplishment of our ‘becoming’.
The question we seek to probe today is about the content of knowledge about money which is passed on in society, beginning from the family to school and society at large. There needs to be a way by which people are taught how money works. To merge, or minimize the poverty gap we need to create a generation of adults who are financially literate.
Tanzanians in the Diaspora in Sweden under their umbrella organization which goes by the name Tanriks, convened in Gothenburg Sweden on March 11, 2023, to discuss key diaspora affairs as well as display Tanzanian culture, tourism, environment, and cuisine. Diasporas in other countries such as Australia, Denmark, France, Finland, Ghana, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo, Somalia, Uganda, and the United Kingdom attended as well.
Children should be taught that being disabled is not something to use against people and make them feel ashamed, less valued, or of no substantial contribution.
Problems that face Africa today need pragmatic and strategic approaches by leaders who know exactly what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.