PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

By Zack Mayul: With this generation, some parents will either break down this brick built mind ideology of over pricing their daughters, or ‘sell’ them off at a throw away bride price or maybe, to take what is available in the hand if they are not willing for yearly instalments. As far as am concern about this dot.com generation, where my brothers run away from responsibilities, and where the entire community toil to sponsor one son to study. How is it even necessary to satisfy one’s need before that of the people he wants to help? Where does self-actualization goal come in here? Through struggle from primary, high school, and at the university, this boy has been helped by his father and mother in the village, brother in the USA, and his sister if there is any. Aside from that, cousins, uncles, or aunties have been giving a hand into making him a scholar, too. When he graduates and get a job, all these people will all look up to him to divide his salary into e...

Tanzania’s president John Magufuli has been a blend of populist and “action man” since he took office in October 2015. His administration has dealt noisily with corruption and getting rid of the inefficiencies of government, especially as represented by firing seemingly incompetent managers. Magufuli’s can-do image has been welcomed and he’s probably been as popular around Africa as at home. Of course, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing . He’s also accused of having authoritarian tendencies particularly with regards to press freedom and policing social media use . But his latest move to aggressively reform the country’s mining industry may turn out to be his most significant. After months of negotiating with the country’s largest gold miner Acacia, Tanzanian regulators got fed up with what they saw as the company’s intransigence and hit it with a $190 billion fine for undeclared revenues and unpaid taxes. That number sounds outlandish because it’s four times Ta...