Mengi yamekwishasemwa. Tutakukumbuka sana Mzee wetu Kaduma. Tutakukumbuka kwa committment yako kwa uendelezaji wa nyanja zote za sanaa. Tutakukumbuka kwa umakini wako. Tutakukumbuka kwa kutuonyesha njia vijana kwamba lazima kufanya vitu vizuri, kwa maana zote za uzuri. Tutakukumbuka kwa ucheshi na bashasha zako. Uko mioyoni na akilini mwetu. Hujapotea. Hutapotea. Upo na utaendelea kuwepo. Tutaendeleza uliyoacha nyuma.

Pumzika kwa amani.

(Picha ya kwanza kwa hisani ya Chemi Che Mponda na ya pili kwa hisani ya Michuzi Issa).

The past few days have been quite eventful in Myanmar (Burma) as monks left their convents, took to the streets demanding the Military Junta that has been terrorizing lives of Burmese for several decades now to stop the injustices it has been doing to the people.

The phenomenon is a landmark in history. Religious people and leaders (monks) have shown that it is not all about staying behind locked convents, mosques, churches and pray for peace and justice. There are times when religious leaders have to come out and make real demands from those who sit on peace and justice. This is what should be happening all over the world. It is sad to see for instance that people in Darful, Sudan, are dying of oppression and injustice, what are our religious people on African soil doing? Does it end with the acceptance of offerings from people? Is that THEIR only obligation? Should they continue to hide themselves behind closed convents and monasteries without letting the military juntas, political juntas, network juntas and others similar to them know that it is time they stopped the injustices they do to people, common people? Monks, sheikhs, priests, pastors should all come out NOW.

Below is a letter by the Congolese Jacques Depelchin to the …. in South Africa (I would like you to read South Africa and put in the name of your country, because the conditions described are everywhere, everywhere in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, every country). The letter can be accessed from Pambazuka News published by http://www.fahamu.org/ 

South Africa: open letter to Superintendent Nayager

 Jacques Depelchin (2007-09-26) Dear Mr Nayager,  Forgive me for taking your time, but I felt that, given what I have heard about you and what is going on there, I had to do everything possible to reach you in a way that, maybe, just maybe, no one has been able to do. 

Moreover even if others have tried, and been rebuked and/or not listened to, given the gravity of what I hear, I should nevertheless give a try to reach out to you. I am doing this because despite all of the suffering you are alleged to have inflicted to the poor, to the Shackdwellers in Durban, I am certain that deep inside you there is a side which does tell you that the beating, the harassment, the insults, the threats of inflicting worse punishment, there is a voice deep from within you which keeps telling you to do otherwise. Please do take the time to either read this or at least listen to someone reading it to you because you are not the only one in South Africa who is treating the poor, the dispossessed, the weak, with a level of hatred and anger which was unheard of even during the Apartheid days. We, from outside, were all convinced that South Africa was going to be different from the rest of the Continent. 

Well, from what I have been reading over the past year or so, in relation to how the poor, the jobless, those looking for decent housing, have been treated, it is as if much has not changed from the days of Apartheid or from the days of Leopold II in the Congo Free State. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am from the DRC, from the country of Ota Benga, the so-called pygmy in the Zoo (please check it out from our website: www.otabenga.org) 

Hearing and reading about what you and some of your law enforcement colleagues are doing makes me wonder whether the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission changed anything. I must say, I was among the skeptics for reasons which are too long to go into here. What you and your colleagues are doing, with impunity, against the poorest of the poor would suggest that the TRC was only the first step in a process of healing. 

Healing is both extremely difficult and extremely easy. It is extremely difficult if people think that it has to be done by others, by the state structures, etc. It is extremely easy once ordinary people, people from all walks of life take it upon themselves to heal. For example, imagine yourself getting rid of the habit of thinking that the Shackdwellers are your enemies, that they are the ones you have to beat up in order to make sense of your job.

 Imagine yourself just sitting down and conversing with the poor and the homeless as people who deserve your respect and, more importantly, whose security you are supposed to ensure. Imagine that your life would change completely if you were willing to sit down with them and look at them as people searching for the same things you are searching for in life: justice, peace, equality, fraternity, respect, love and dignity. 

If all of us were to live according to the truths of the above principles, it would be impossible for virtual Robben Islands and islanders to be reproduced anywhere in South Africa (and the rest of Africa – my addition). It would be very hard for the mentality of might is right to survive. Indeed, it would become harder to find people like you to carry on with the mentality inherited from Apartheid days and on which, the work of the TRC does not seem to have made a dent. 

But then, Mr. Nayager, you could go beyond just imagining and bring about the very thing which was dreamed by all those who did go to the real Robben Island, some of whom seem to have decided that it was a bad dream and that it better be forgotten. You could do something which is very rare these days, something which would help those who would rather forget come back to reality and carry on with what had been dreamed about. You could help them rid themselves of the weight of newly acquired wealth. You could decide to live according to the principles of the Freedom Charter, you could decide that the Shackdwellers are your brothers and sisters, that your job is to help them realize their dreams for a decent life.

You could decide that you are not just a cop paid to enforce laws which are interpreted to make life unlivable for the poorest of the poor as if the objective is to liquidate them physically. You could decide that your greatest calling as a human being is to be in solidarity on the same side of the struggles of the poor, of the homeless.

You could decide that your greatest calling is to call on other law officers to think of the poor as the ones most in need of your collective help .

The list of the things you could do is endless, but you would need to free yourself from the paralysis which comes from the mind set inherited from Apartheid days. I know it is very hard because that mentality has gone one to shackle the entire Planet under the name of Globalization. 

I do really hope that, sooner or later we shall be able to further communicate in order to heal completely and totally from the mindset which says that might is always right. In solidarity and peace, a descendant of Ota Benga. 

End of the letter. Let it sink down into your mind and heart. You will know right where you are sitting the conditions explained and elaborated in the letter are evident, are there. We all have the obligation of changing this. It is time to speak out and take to the streets whenever other means such as these open communications fail.

Tunaomba usisahau kupitia JUMUWATA kuchangia, kukosoa,kukemea,kushauri,kuondoa, kusogeza….ilikuchangia muelekeo wa Jumuiya ya wanablogu Tanzania.

Mchango wako unahitajika wewe mwenye blogu na hata usiye na blogu ilikujenga muelekeo uliochangiwa na wengi na sio kikundi cha watu wachache.

Kama unablogu tunaomba uweke tangazo hili ili liwezekuwafikia watu wengi.

KARIBUNI WOTE!
Uongozi.

  Jiji la DAR ni ndoto kwa vijana na hata watu wazima wengi wanaoishi vijijini. Wengi wanatamani kufika hapa kwa matumaini ya kuwa na maisha bora kuliko waliyokuwa nayo kule vijijini. Ni ndoto ambazo kwa namna moja au nyingine huwaingiza vijana wengi matatizoni. Matokeo yake ni kuwa jiji hivi sasa lina maelfu ya vijana wasio na ajira ya uhakika. Wengi huishia kufanya shughuli ambazo ni za kusaidia siku zipite. Matarajio waliyokuja nayo kutoka vijijini huishia patupu. Wale wanaofaulu kurejea vijijini kwao huwa hawaaminiwi wanapowaambia watu kuwa maisha bora yanawezekana hata vijijini. Hakuna anayeamini.

Dar hivi sasa ina adha moja kubwa. Foleni. Foleni. Ilizoeleza zamani kuwa foleni ilikuwa ni kwa saa fulani tu. Siku hizi kadiri siku zinavyokwenda kuingia ‘City Centre’ au kutoka ni mbinde. Si kazi rahisi. Shughuli inayokupeleka kule inahitaji labda dakika 15 tu. Lakini utapoteza si chini ya saa 2 kwa sababu ya foleni. Lakini mpaka lini?

Huwa ninawaza. Magari yanapokuwa kwenye foleni mara nyingi hayazimwi. Maana yake ni kuwa mafuta huendelea kutumika. Hata kama ni kwa kiasi kidogo. Mafuta huendelea kuteketea. Hivi, umewahi kujiuliza ni mafuta kiasi gani yanateketea wakati magari yakiwa kwenye foleni? Bila shaka ukianza kuwaza foleni zote zilizo katika jiji la Dar utukuta kuwa ni maelfu ya lita za mafuta ya petroli na dizeli. Hivi, thamani ya mafuta haya inaweza kuwa kiasi gani? Nadhani ingefaa sana wachumi-watafiti watufanyie utafiti huu. Tujue tunapoteza mafuta kiasi gani katika foleni. Mafuta haya ni sawa na fedha ngapi za madafu. Na fedha hizo za madafu ni sawa na dola kiasi gani?

Naamini utafiti wa namna hiyo utaonyesha ni fedha nyingi kiasi gani tunapoteza kutokana na foleni za magari. Hiyo ni kwa upande wa mafuta tu. Je, muda unaopotezwa pale? Thamani yake ni kiasi gani? Je, uchafuzi wa hewa unaofanywa na magari yanayounguruma barabarani pasipo kwenda katika kasi ya kuridhisha, hasara kiasi gani inapatikana? Je, matengenezo ya magari na vipuri, maana gari ziko kwenye moto, vyuma si vinaendelea kusuguana?

Je, mafuta na vipuri vinanunuliwa kwa fedha ipi? Dola. Je, Tanzania inapataje dola zake? Kwa kuuza kahawa, pamba, korosho, katani kidogo, utalii, madini (???) na hivi, tunauza nini tena? Je, tuna bidhaa za viwandani za maana kuweza kushindana na wengine huko duniani? Aah, nimekumbuka, dola nyingine tunapata kutokana na mikopo tunayopata kutoka taasisi na mataifa mengine, na vile vile kuna misaada tunayopata baada ya ‘kutembeza kopo’.

Tanzania inapata dola ‘kiduchu’ sana. Dola hizo zinazopatikana kwa taabu ndizo zinazotumika kuagiza mafuta na mitambo. Kumbe, foleni zinanyonya dola zetu ambazo kwa kweli tungezitumia kujiletea maendeleo. Badala yake, foleni zinatutia umaskini zaidi. Vicious circle. Basi, swali kubwa ni: Kwa nini tusikope mapesa mengi yatakayotumika kujengea barabara za juu, walau sehemu za vivuko, ili tuachane na taa za barabarani na matrafiki. Tukiwa na barabara za juu na chini, hakuna kusubiriana. Kisha tuhangaike kurejesha mikopo hiyo. Tutakuwa tumeokoa mengi. Naomba kuwasilisha kwenu. Tafakari.

   Museveni, kwa mujibu wa vyombo mbalimbali vya habari nchini Uganda na Tanzania, anaishawishi Kenya iungane na Uganda katika kuunda East African Federation. Hii ni kutokana na ukweli kuwa Tanzania imeonyesha kuwa hakuna haja ya kufanya haraka kuunda shirikisho hilo la kisiasa. 

Mimi naona kuwa huu (uamuzi wa Museveni) ni ufa wa kwanza katika nia ya kuunda Shirikisho la Kisiasa la Afrika ya Mashariki. Ni ufa wa kwanza kwa sababu Museveni ameonyesha wazi (sasa) kuwa nia yake katika kutaka shirikisho hilo ni kujitafutia utukufu binafsi na si hasa kuwakilisha matashi ya Waganda na watu wengine wa Afrika ya Mashariki. Ana tamaa binafsi ya kuwa Rais wa kwanza wa shirikisho ili apate fursa ya kumalizia muda wake hapa duniani pasipo kuwajibishwa kwa makosa yake mbalimbali aliyofanya akiwa kama Rais wa Uganda kwa miaka 21 sasa. Watu wa Afrika ya Mashariki nawasihi tuwakatae watu wa aina hii. Watu hawa ni hatari mno kwetu. Shirikisho la Afrika ya Mashariki ni ndoto katika hali ya umaskini unaozikabili nchi wanachama kwa sasa. Lazima kila nchi ijikomboe kiuchumi kabla ya kuunda shirikisho lenye nguvu na la kudumu. Habari ifuatayo hapa chini ni kwa hisani ya Gazeti la The Monitor la Uganda kupitia blogu ya Dira Yangu ya mwanblogu Innocent wa Dar es Salaam.  

Museveni hanging on as EA federation wobbles 

 Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi (The Monitor Online –Inside Politics | September 12, 2007) 

Aides to President Yoweri Museveni say he has put more wood into the fire, cooking his ambitions to run for office again in 2011 as an East African Federation Presidency is looking increasingly bleak.

Museveni “returned to his roots” launching a campaign to popularise NRM’s Bonna Bagagawale ( prosperity for all) in Luwero, where he waged his bush war. Luwero is politically symbolic.

When in 2005, the President who has been running Uganda for over 21 years, sought a third term, a feat that also required the abolition of presidential term limits from the Uganda constitution, he started off campaigning in Luwero.

The President is unlikely, as in the past, to announce his availability to run again. A source in his office who has been in the two of his re-election campaigns (2001/6), said on Monday “there is no doubt that we will seek a fourth term”.

In several interviews with his political staff, Inside Politics was told that the President, whose popularity has taken a nose dive from its highs in 1996, is in a process of gauging his support.

One of the problems facing the President (he turns 64 on September 14), is that an exit plan to a higher political office, as East Africa’s first federation President, is shaky with resistance from Dar-es- salaam. Tanzania wants East Africa to rethink the fast-tracking a political federation.

“If Arusha had worked out, then he would not have been interest in Uganda, he would plan to get someone to replace him here as he watches from above. That would have provided him a soft landing, but now it has been scuttled and he has to re-think,” said a source knowledgeable with the strategy in the Museveni camp.

That disappointment, sources confirm, has landed Ugandan Assistant Secretary General, Beatrice Kiraso, in trouble, for failing to lobby Tanzanian support for a political federation.

A senior political strategist the President hired recently but preferred anonymity because he is not allowed to disclose his plans, confirmed that the changing winds in East Africa were fanning the renewed attempt to create a momentum to re-elect Museveni in the next race.

Succession battles

“He is catching up, basically I think he is just keeping in touch with the people; he doesn’t want to be seen as someone who only comes when there is an election. We need to talk to people and also capitalise on the split opposition, especially the wrangles between FDC and DP,” this source added.

The President has no credible challengers within his party while contenders who have expressed ambitions have been caught in succession battles like the one between NRM Secretary General Amama Mbabazi and bush war veteran Maj. Gen Kahinda Otafiire.

Presidential Assistant on political affairs Moses Byaruhanga, another key strategist who has served the President in his re-election in the past two races, dismissed what he said was “speculation” about the President’s political future.

He also refused, when engaged, to draw lessons from similar “Luwero” tours that previously shaped the political calendar ahead of the next elections describing the tours as “normal”.

“As far as 2011 is concerned, all political parties will select their candidates,” Byaruhanga insists.

None the less, the President’s strategy is now familiar. During one of the rallies in Luwero, Museveni told residents that historical NRM members must accept and embrace new comers into the party. Observers quickly noted that he was referring to what is now seen as “a purge” of his party of potential rivals.

Corruption-related allegations have tripped historicals Jim Muhwezi, Otafiire and others. More historicals may yet be discredited. Muhwezi and Otafiire say it’s politics not the fight against graft which is behind their mis-fortunes.

However, if Museveni does stay on, his hopes of becoming leader of East Africa are likely to become even more difficult.

Additional reporting by Angelo Izama

 Hii ni Quality Plaza, jijini Dar es Salaam. Ni moja ya vivutio vikubwa katika jiji hili. Ni moja ya ‘landmarks’ katika historia ya Tanzania. Jengo hili linasema mengi kwa kusimama kwake hapo lilipo. Tafakari.

Tarehe 3 Septemba mpaka 8 Septemba mwaka huu kulikuwa na Tamasha la 16 la Vitabu. Kilichoonekana wazi ni kuwa Watanzania bado tuna safari ndefu katika kuthamini kitabu na kuelewa umuhimu wa kitabu katika maisha yetu na mustakabali wa taifa letu kwa kuanzia na mustakabali wa mtu mmoja mmoja.

Bado Watanzania hatusomi vitabu. Hatuvienzi vitabu. Vitabu vinachapishwa, lakini tunaona ni bora kutumia kiasi kichopungua 600,000/- kwa mwaka, kwa Mtanzania wa maisha ya wastani, katika kuchangia harusi au ngoma au sherehe yoyote kuliko walau kutumia 60,000/- kwa mwaka mzima kununua vitabu kwa ajili yetu wenyewe au kwa ajili ya wanafamilia wetu.

Katika zama hizi za utandawazi, ikiwa huna tabia ya kujisomea vitabu vya aina mbalimbali, basi ni wazi kuwa hata ulimwengu wa teknolojia, yaani utumiaji wa tarakilishi ili kupata habari mbalimbali hatutaumudu. Hatutaumudu kwa sababu hata habari za kwenye tarakilishi huhitaji mtu kusoma mambo mengi. Kama wewe ni mvivu wa kusoma, utaishia kutazama vichwa vya habari na picha na kisha basi. Kwa mantiki hiyo, tutaendelea kubaki nyuma wakati wenzetu ambao hata TV wamekuwa nazo tangu miaka zaidi ya 50 iliyopita wanaendelea kukienzi kitabu, kuienzi tabia ya mtu binafsi ya kupenda kujisomea vitabu, vitabu vinavyofikirisha na siyo habari za kutunga mezani kuhusu nani kamfumania nani, nani anammendea nani.

Tubadilike Watanzania wenzangu. Tunapoteza muda mwingi sana barabarani sababu ya foleni. Kwa nini usitumie muda huo kusoma vitabu. Ukiwa kwenye daladala, ukiwa katika foleni ya kusubiri kuingia katika ofisi fulani. Beba kitabu. Nunua kitabu kwa ajili yako na kwa ajili ya watoto wako. Utaanza kuona tofauti katika maisha yako. Hutaishia kujadili watu, bali utapiga hatua na kuanza kujadili mawazo na fikra za kimaendeleo.

Ciao!!!

 Hili ni daraja la muhimu sana. Ni daraja linalounganisha pande mbili zinazogawanywa na Mto Msimbazi. Ni maarufu kama Daraja la Kinyerezi. Ikiwa unasafiri kwa gari kutoka Barabara ya Nyerere eneo la Njia Panda Segerea na unaelekea Kinyerezi kupitia Sitakishari, basi ni lazima uvuke daraja hili la Kinyerezi.

Shughuli za daraja hili zimeongezeka kwa kiasi kikubwa sana. Barabara hii hivi sasa inatumika sana. Kuna wakazi wengi upande wa pili wa daraja hili. Wengi wana magari binafsi. Kuna daladala zinapita hapa kwa wingi. Kuna harakati za ujenzi wa Barabara ya Kinyerezi, malori karibu yote ya kupeleka zana na malighafi za ujenzi huo hupita hapa. Kuna Gereza la Segerea, mara nyingine magari, hasa ya maji, yanayopeleka maji katika gereza hilo hupita hapa.

Kwa ufupi, ni daraja lilo busy kwa kiasi cha kutosha. Tatizo ninaloona mimi ni kuwa matumizi makubwa haya ya daraja hili yana hatari zake. Watoto wenye umri mbalimbali, watu wazima na wazee hupita hapa kwa miguu (kwa wale wasio na usafiri binafsi au ambao hawamo kwenye basi.) Ikiwa kuna gari linakuja upande wa pili, inabidi waenda kwa miguu wasubiri mpaka gari hilo livuke. Wapo ambao huamua kukomaa hivyohivyo na kuvuka huku wakipishana na gari juu ya daraja. Magari mawili hayawezi kupishana juu ya daraja hili, hata baiskeli na gari haviwezi kupishana.

Kumbe ni hatari ya wazi kwa waenda kwa miguu. Daraja tunalipenda. Linatuvusha kwenda na kurudi. Lakini ni wakati mwafaka Wizara ya Miundo Mbinu kupitia mheshimiwa Mbunge wetu wa Jimbo la Ukonga, Dkt. Mahanga, wakalitupia macho daraja hili na kuongeza kidaraja kingine sambamba na daraja hili ili kiwe maalumu kwa waenda kwa miguu. Afadhali kuwahi hivi sasa kabla hatujasikia maafa ya mtoto au hata mtu mzima kugongwa au kuangukia mtoni (urefu wa mita sita au zaidi hivi).

Tuepushe balaa mapema. Naamini inawezekana kujenga kidaraja hicho kwa kukiunganisha na daraja kuu. Asante.

 Hatimaye Reli ya Kati imebinafsishwa. Utiaji saini wa mkataba wa ubinafsishaji kwa miaka 25 umehitimishwa Jumatatu tarehe 3 Septemba 2007. Kulikuwa na hatihati kabla ya utiaji saini huo. Kwa hiyo kampuni ya Kihindi ya Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) limeshinda ‘dili’ hili kabambe.

Kwa ujumla wake mchakato na dhana ya ubinafsishaji wa aina hii umekuwa ukiacha maswali mengi sana kwenye vichwa vya Watanzania wengi. Mimi ni mmoja wa hao Watanzania tunaobaki na maswali mengi. Sina hakika kama majibu kwa maswali mengi yanayopita vichwani mwetu yamepatiwa majibu yake.

Swali la kwanza: Hivi ulazima wa ubinafsishaji unatokana na nini? Yaani, je, ni lazima kubinafsisha kila taasisi au shirika lililokuwa la umma?

Swali la pili: Hivi ni mantiki zipi zinazotumiwa kuamua kuwa kila taasisi au shirika fulani linapobinafsishwa basi ni lazima mali (au biashara) hiyo iende kwa wageni? Yaani, je, sisi Watanzania hatuna ubavu wa kuchukua nafasi ya Serikali katika uendeshaji wa taasisi au shirika fulani?

Swali la tatu: Ukomo wa ubinafsishaji huu uko wapi? Maana yake, tutaendelea kubinafsisha mambo yepi zaidi?

Swali la nne: Je, ni kweli kuwa ubinafsishaji utasaidia katika kuongeza ufanisi, ubora wa huduma na kuwa kichocheo kwa uchumi wa Mtanzania mmojammoja na pia kwa Taifa?

Maswali ni mengi. Tunaweza kuandaa orodha ya maswali hata 100. Tatizo ni kupata majibu sahihi kwa maswali haya.

Baadhi ya majibu yanaweza kuwa:

1. Watanzania hatujakomaa vya kutosha katika kuendesha mambo kibiashara (kweli si kweli? Jadili).

2. Watanzania tunaendekeza siasa zaidi kuliko kitu kingine. Kila mahali tunaingiza siasa. Siasa zenyewe ni zile za kuganga njaa. Kazi ni kunusanusa tu na kuona namna gani mtu atapata shilingi mbili tatu katika jambo fulani. (kweli si kweli? Jadili)

3. Wasomi wetu (kutoka Chuo Kikuu kitukufu cha DSM na kwingineko) husahau taaluma na kurudi kwenye siasa uchwara, matokeo yake ni kukosekana kwa ufanisi na utendaji bora katika biashara zinazoendeshwa na Serikali, hivyo kuleta ulazima wa kubinafsishwa kwa taasisi au shirika linalohusika.

4. Ubinafsishaji una maslahi mazito kwa Watanzania wazawa wachache, wale walio wengi shauri lao. Hapendwi mtu ni pesa tu.

5. Watanzania hatuna uwezo wa kujiamulia mambo, hasa katika zama hizi za utandawazi, maana uchumi wetu ‘mchanga’ umeshikwa vyema na uchumi mpana wa dunia (ya kibepari) na kwa hiyo vijimisaada tunavyopewa na wakubwa vinaendana na masharti ya kubinafsisha mali zetu kwa wageni. (Unabisha?)

Haya ni baadhi tu ya majibu.

Hebu msikie marehemu Patrice Lumumba katika maneno haya: “We have known sarcasm and insults, endured blows morning, noon and night, because we were ‘niggers’. Who will forget that a Black was addressed in the familiar tu, not as a friend, but because the polite vous was reserved for Whites only? We have seen our lands despoiled under the terms of what was supposedly the law of the land but which only recognised the right of the strongest. We have seen this law was quite different for a White than for a Black: accomodating for the former, cruel and inhuman for the latter. We have seen the terrible suffering of those banished to remote regions because of political opinions or religious beliefs; exiled within their own country, their fate was truly worse than death itself… And, finally, who can forget the volleys of gunfire in which so many of our brothers perished, the cells where the authorities threw those who would not submit to a rule where justice meant oppression and exploitation…” Kutoka katika kitabu cha Ludo De Witte, ‘The Assassination of Lumumba’.

Hayo ni maneno aliyotamka Lumumba tarehe 30 June 1960 siku ya Uhuru wa Congo (DRC). Ni miaka karibu 50 iliyopita. Ukweli wa maneno hayo bado ungali mbichi kabisa hata dakika hii ninapoandika, wala tusianze kuwaza nchi za mbali kama vile kule Mashariki ya Mbali (Vietnam na Cambodia, Singapore, Burma (Siku hizi ni???), Indonesia, East Timor n.k) bali hapa hapa nchini. Mara ngapi tunasikia Watanzania wazawa wakilalamikia hali duni za malipo na kazi katika mikono ya biashara zinazoendeshwa na wageni huku wageni hao wakichuma faida kubwa kupindukia? Je, ni wapi duniani ambapo uwekezaji umesaidia katika kujenga demokrasia, utawala wa kisheria, kuleta maendeleo katika maisha ya watu walio wengi wa kawaida? Ni wapi katika dunia hii? Sitagusa mambo ya madini hapa nchini. Tumesikia na kushuhudia mengi katika siku za karibuni. Je, ni Afrika ya Kusini? Kwa wale wanaofahamu maisha ya mtu wa kawaida kule Afrika ya Kusini (hata baada ya kukomeshwa kwa Ubaguzi wa Rangi) ukweli ni kwamba wengi bado ni ‘watumwa’ katika nchi yao wenyewe.

Hebu jadili. Lete fikra zako tupate kuchambua mambo haya. Mungu ibariki Tanzania. Mungu ibariki Afrika. Mungu tupe ujasiri wa kusema ‘NO’ kwa uonevu wa aina zote, siyo kesho bali leo hii.

Wa kiume pia yupo, usije kusema kuwa nimependelea. Kitabu kwa kwenda mbele…