My Tanzania, Will You Let Me Down?

I am a citizen of a country, a beautiful country in the East coast of Africa. I don't call it beautiful because I have been grown up to call it that way. No!, I am calling it beautiful because in the 23 years of my life, i have travel, seen, and lived in many parts of it, witnessed first hand the diversity of it, and more than anything fall in love with it.

I have embraced the diversity that cuts across religions, tribes, and a lot of other things that make Tanzania one of the most beautiful country in Africa.The differences I have mentioned earlier have been a cause of conflicts that escalates to total chaos, violence and death of thousands of people in our neighbor states, through out other states across Africa the story has been the same. But it is the existence of these differences, tolerating them, and stay united through one identification among us, is what has made us sustain peace and unity through it all.

The State Of The Union: Will TANZANIA Survive?

Sure, there is a rise of discussions, hot debates on the Tanzania union than ever before. The hot violence that happened in Zanzibar in the past few days I believe are a result of a long internal grieve and luck of enough forum for discussions on union issues. 

As a strong supporter of Pan-Africanism processes I don't believe in disintegration of African states as what happened in Sudan, I support more integration that may ultimately lead to unification of more African states.

What Does Tanzania Need?

Yes, it a new cabinet? How new is it new? 

I think the decision by the president due to the pressure from Member of the Parliament to disolve the past cabinet and build a new one was a good move. It was a good move because more than anything no one was anyway happy with the way the various ministers failed to deliver or when they delivered was so much below the desired expectations.

Social Media Seminar in Dar soon!

I am in early stages of organization for social media seminar in late July or in August for young people from high schools and high learning institutions in Dar es Salaam. Looking forward to be the first of it's kind in terms of the main topic presented and number of participants. Last year I did conduct two seminars in two of popular high schools in Dodoma town, more than anything I learned a lot from them. More young people sign up in social media sites such as Facebook but with little knowledge of the significance of their engagement and also forgetting a lot of other useful social media tools that may help them in both their academic and personal lives.

Je Demokrasia Haikui Bila Damu Kumwagika?

Wabunge Wa CHADEMA Walioshambuliwa!

Hilo ndo swali ambalo limekuwa linakuja kwa akili yangu kwa sasa, kutoka Tunisia, Misri, Syria,  na sehemu zingine, hivi demokrasia haikui bila vurugu na hata umwagaji wa damu? By-election za Arumeru zimepita na chaguzi za udiwani pia, tumeona yaliyotekea. Hii ni pamoja na kushambuliwa kwa wabunge wa chama cha Chadema..

Kushindwa Kwa Nchi za Magharibi Kuchochea Mabadiliko Urusi; Nini Kinafuata?

Vladimir Putin.

Kwa watu wote wanaochukia tabia ya nchi za magharibi za kulazimisha mabadiliko katika nchi za wengine hasa zinazokuwa katika kiuchumi na nguvu za kidiplomasia watakuwa wamefurahishwa na kilichotokea Urusi, kwani juhudi zao hazikuzaa matunda.

The Senegal Story!

I love change, especially true change that is not under the influence of any outside interference. And this is why I am very interested on what is happening in Senegal right now, it is what Africa needs and I believe it is where all the continent is heading to. It is young people driving the change in all of these positive changes from Tunisia and Egypt to the peaceful through elections change in Zambia and now Senegal. There is no doubt that there is a big possibility of the incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade will lose in this election.

Young People are Now Becoming
The Main Voice for Change in Africa

In a country where 68 percent of the population out of the 12 Million is under the age of 25 [,http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/acdi-cida.nsf/eng/JUD-217123240-NKY] and with a rate of over 100,000 young people entering the job market each year problems faced in Senegal are the same to those faced by other Sub-Saharan states. Where unemployment and under-employment are become more and more vivid on top of other problems such as corruption, high inflation, low wages in general workforce leaving the ruling class living in luxurious lifestyles, all these issues which were highly entertained due to the presence of a large population of uneducated people have no space in the current growing Africa population. 

More and more young people are becoming very concerned on their future, their countries future and more than anything the future of their own families. With this I believe more and more peaceful revolutions of long standing political parties and their ruling class are about to be replaced allover Africa if  immediate changes in their governance are not implemented. If Africa governments will continue to ignore various issues and social dissatisfaction of the young people, continuing to keep young people away from the development agenda then in this generation we will see more and more governments in Africa overthrown being peaceful as in Zambia and what will probably happen in Senegal or even the hard way as in Tunisia and Egypt.

Young People Wake Up lets take our future in our hands and build our Present and Future,
No One Will Give Us,Its Time to Stand Up and Be an Instrument of Change! Go Go Senegal!

AFRICANS MAKING AN IMPACT IN AFRICA!

On 23rd this month I had to travel from Dar es Salaam to the amazing Moshi town under invitation by a local NGO that is working hard to bring a change in the way the society thinks of volunteer-ism. Its a sad fact that near everywhere you come across various community development projects with volunteers it has always been foreigners. People from USA, Canada and other European states paying hundred of dollars to come to volunteer in Africa.

With little knowledge of the culture in the society they come to work in, plus short time of their stay we find most of these projects not bring the aimed results or success.

This is why Africa Volunteer Corps came into being, a Moshi based NGO founded with a mission to unite passionate, qualified African volunteers with African NGOs to deepen their impact and empower Africans to play a vital role in shaping Africa's future.

Before allocating the volunteers to the specific NGOs, AVC conduct a seminar to impart important knowledge and train the volunteers on various skills that will help them in their activities to their respective areas and even far beyond when they finish their time with volunteer work. And this is where I came into being, I went there to train on Social Media use. :-) !

I met great people and it was a real great experience and as a promoter of 'WE CAN' slogan for my fellow Tanzanians what AVC is doing is more than 'awesome'. I believe young people if are empowered as what AVC is doing there is a lot of good and amazing positive change that may take place in our communities. And this is just a beginning AVC has a goal to expand all over Tanzania, Mwanza is next!

With Some of the Volunteers Acting our first Twitter hashtag #nitaruka

For more information about this AFRICA VOLUNTEER CORPS visit http://africavolunteercorps.org/