Are stories of children learning under trees still true?

The children who this year 2023 are learning under trees are technically expected to globally compete with their peers in the job market in 18 years. Are we expecting them to run at the same pace as other children in the country and the world at large while they are left behind in all aspects of learning?

Mob justice seems fair until it hits your kinsmen

The fact that there are incidences of mob justice communicates to us one of the following two things. First, it is either people do not know the law, or they do not know how to get help from the law, or second, the law enforcement agencies have disappointed people from time to time, and people have lost trust in the effectiveness of what they do.

Modern ideal beauty is unnatural and unattainable

It is a positive thing to teach children from when they are young what beauty is in their cultural setting before they learn different things from the streets of the internet. This way we will help to minimize the harm caused by unattainable impressions of beauty.

The urgent need for ‘violence is not strength’ advocacy

While violence is not a new thing anywhere in the world, the cases we hear about frequently were on the low for some good time. The biggest problem which I believe should be prioritised ikn seeking to addres this is the general use of physical force, brutality, and cruel behaviour of improvising household tools as weapons.

Dar es Salaam and the legends of its all-round superiority

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. “It is wrong to make deplorable situations in Dar es Salaam, reflections of expected standards in other regions in the country. This is made evident by the fact that many regional jurisdictions have proved to be outstanding in … Read more

Complementarity of being informed, influenced in social action

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on January 10, 2023 “For the fact that the general citizenry is the beneficiary of social action in its multiple faces, there is great need of having the people made aware. This touches all aspects of socio-political and socioeconomic life of the Tanzanian … Read more

World Philosophy Day | How much of Mwalimu Nyerere’s Philosophy do Tanzanians know?

The World Philosophy Day, which we commemorate every third Thursday of November, underscores the relevance of intellectual and thoughtful engagement among people and cultures. 2022 is the twentieth year since this commemoration was begun by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to UNESCO, philosophy stimulates intercultural dialogue as it enables people to discover the diversity of the intellectual currents in the world.

International Day for Tolerance | Tanzania and the need of more tolerance education

Following the many conflicts that lasted until the eve of the second millennium, to mention a few: the Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides, the United Nations established in 1995 an International Day of Tolerance, to prevent culturally motivated conflicts, and to establish peaceful spaces where people can express their needs without biases arising from their roots. The day or Tolerance was therefore placed on 16th of November, beginning from the year 1995 which was the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.

2023: NO to laxity, YES to responsive responsibleness

We have seen in the news reported incidences of evident misappropriation and embezzlement, and public servants using the privileges of office to enjoy the national cake. While this is not fashioned to convey political opinion, it is just a bare truth that until the beginning of the 2021 some of the things we have seen throughout 2022 were stories of the past