Adeline Makundi: one year on, our memories are still fresh

One year ago, on 20 July 2010, in the small hours of morning, my sisterAde left us. Inevitable, as every living person must follow that path at one time or other, all we have to do is not to squat and lament and pray for impossible, but celebrate her life. Remember happy times with her.
I was perhaps the person most touched by Ade's demise as we two last of siblings grew up together at Komakundi village. Ade was my tutor, by the time I started schooling I was already conversant with some of the subjects being taught two classes ahead.
In this photo of 2007, Ade (in sleeveless blowse) is seated with her nieces Lilian and Naima.
Yes, she is still fresh in our memories.

New nation of South Sudan born: the way it should be for all troubled regions

Sudan people were given a chance to express their collective opinion by ballot what would be best for them: overwhelmingly, they voted to split south and north into two different nations. Granted under chaperonship of the United Nations, we now have a new nation, South Sudan, and everyone is happy.
There are other regions with long-running internal strife most of which lead to bloodshed. Sri lanka, a tiny island nation at the tip of the India subcontinent is one example where the minority Tamil had wanted to split and form an independent nation, but were defeated by the largely-Sinhalese government in power. Although humbled at present, such is adversity and mistrust for each other that some trouble might erupt in future. Referendum might reveal what the people of Sri Lanka, a coconut republic, may want. Rwanda, Burundi are other examples that should be allowed to say what they want through a ballot box.
Kurdish community is being fought in more than one country-Iran, Turkey, Syria, Iraq. These nations might rid themselves of headaches by carving out portions of their lands to create a new nation called Kurdia or something.

My China phone

Mobile phones (or cellular phones, or just plain simple cellphones are nowadays usually multi-functon gadgets. From digital cameras to position locator, it is unfair to refer to them as just phones. I'd rather call it something to the effect "multi-function, pocket-fitting device. A stylish name might sound like mufpod.

My rather low-cost china phone, apart from cellphone and texting that are standard, includes many interesting features. I particularly like-

• capability of fitting two simm cards, meaning supporting two network service providers simultaneously;
• it has an FM radio, and is equipped with telescopic antenna enabling users to rid themselves having to use cumbersome headphones that act as antenna-this feature puts to shame the more costly so-called genuine Nokia sets
• Flashlight, a white-LED that can be quite handy
• a memory card. I have fitted a 2 gigabyte micro-SD card that is capable of holding many mp3s (the set also plays mp3-pro tracks). The information such as calendar and alarms is held on the memory card, so the internal memory remains for important things such as phonebook entries.
• bluetooth capability, a handy feature for exchanging pictures and files with other bluetooth-capable devices
• A micro-usb ports lets users plug into computers using the standard usb cable.
• Nokia BL-4L is a standard battery for most Nokia phones. The vendors of china phones sometimes fit low-costing look-alike battery that does not have much life between charges, likely cheapy NiMH. When this is replaced with genuine Li-ion battery, the life between charges improves dramatically.
• MP3 player that, combining with large memory card capability and shuffling feature, is quite a gift for us lovers of diverse music. It can play back video clips but not recording. Not bad.
• Sound recorder: again, tapping the potential of the storage capacity, it is possible to record stuff of interest to you: sermons, radio program, read in some stuff from a notice on the wall, bark of a cat, meowing of a dog, laugh of a baby, anything.
• Camera-the quality of photos is a far cry from a standard digicam, but good enough where there is no alternative at hand
• Standard "narrow-pin" nokia charger port, replacement of which can be easily obtained if it gets damaged, car lighter-socket chargers are also easily obtainable.
• UDX is a means of backing up your entire phonebook, where the app writes an xml file onto the SD memory card. When phone is corrupted or lost, the backup can be downloaded back into the restored or replacement set, or any UDX-capable cellphone. I like this feature. The xml file is all-text with html-like tags, therefore copying it somewhere as a security feature. I promptly sent it to myself as an attachment, so that the email containing the attachment remains stored into my email archive for retrieval anytime anywhere if needed: It can also be opened by a text editor where it displays showing xml tags, with no difficulty of picking out the info such as name, cellphone number, home number, email etc.
• Internet capability: the set is internet-capable. Although it comes hard-coded for china service providers, local cellphone companies are capable of configuring chinaphones for their network. The Pollex browser is not exactly OperaMini, but you can't get everything always, can you.
• Alarms, calculator, reminders and such features are all there. Plus, it has Flight mode that will enable you to play included games even in places where phones should turned off due to microwave interferences precautions.

For a mere fifty dollars, it was a good buy, I'll say it was a fine buy, and if something happens to it, I would go for the same set anytime. I love my cellphone.

Email stuff to yourself

It happens many times that you may require some information to complete some form or attach to some documents for mailing or submitting somewhere. If it is at home or office, well and good, you'll retrieve it from the computer, make a print. However if you are nowhere near the place, it may mean having to take a taxi ride to get it. It may also mean to miss a deadline.

We all use email, webmail. A personal mailbox is a secure storage location that will keep your info, locked in with your password.  We can access our mailbox at any place with internet connection. Therefore all you have to do to keep the information that you are likely to need often, send it to yourself as an email attachment.

Some stuff you can send yourself:

• Photocopies of passport pages (required to obtain visas etc)
• Debit card and similar plastic cards (bank account number, card number, expiry month and year, cvv code)
• Certificates and licences (academic, professional, registration).
• Curriculum Vitae (What your professional self is made up of)

Hard disks may crash, DVDs may break, but commercial webservers shall be there all the time 24/7 with impressive availability of 99.99%.

When you have turned your email into a valuable vault, I needn't say that you need to be double-precarious: don't allow computers to remember your email password, even your personal notebook--have it remember others such as e-zine registration. You should also not use obvious giveaway names like "My Standard Chartered Debit Card.jpg", just in case: I might use "SC-plastic.jpg".

Share this information widely, generously.

Facebook claims a US politician's carreer: About time

He clung for a long time to his lawmaker position after his lewd-photos-on-Facebook were exposed. Finally, though, the news headlines indicate he has tendered his resignation.
Ignorance? Fact that he may have not physically met his Facebook "friends" did not make him any cleaner. Bamboozling that it were a mere chat, I, you and him knew well where it would lead to, given chance. Would Anthony Weiner like it if he were to learn that some grumpy old men were undressing for his daughters to see? Think, too, of wife. Kids. Co-workers. This slime is the last thing the injured Dem party needs at these times.
Reminds me of the buffoonery of military leader during Okinawa military base scandal a while back--said something to the effect They shouldn't have raped the school girl, Okinawa is full of cheap prostitutes, they could have picked those ...

Computer viruses: could be scam

Kaspersky pop-up informed me today I have two more days before it would expire. I got thinking, this is some sort of blackmail, something malicious. Why would there be new viruses all the time so as to make it necessary to update the antivirus software all the time? And how come the antichr--ooops--antivirus companies snap up new viruses really quick, prepare the antivirus on the fly? It is quite possible this group of seemingly do-good guys may also be writing some of the virus code. I guess I am not the first to figure this out.

The move by Microsoft to provide 'lifelong' protection to its customers having legitimate copies is all we need to have antivirus bubble burst. Even if they were to be contracted by Microsoft and other OS developers, they wouldn't be selling nearly that many licences as they are doing now. And I can see this coming real soon, the antivirus folk better looking for something else to do.

There are also ways to sidestep antivirusists: running linux and its family is one. Working offline is another. Installing older versions e.g. Windows-98 is yet another - newer viruses are not backward-compatible, they would be thrown into confusion when they find themselves attempting to rough up the older OS.

Let us give them some break, though. Antivirus companies have also assumed a role of educating mankind about the many hoaxes circulating in the internet; and they have been equipped to detect adware.

Russia, China, Rescue Libya

Driving drones in a sovereign state, running stealth sorties at night, implementing military finest arsenal against a third-world nation. That is what is apparent in this Nato-against-Libya warfare.
With the west claiming to be the sole superpower, I was much relieved when I heard in the news that Russia does not approve this ongoing sending a posse after Muammar Qadafi (for what wrong? How many are doing worse??). Africa, the aid-dependent domain, has been humbled into silence, with little effort to dissolve the west-borne crisis. I'd like to hear more rebuke to Nato action in Libya from Russia, ah, and China, the forthcoming superpower.

Gone too soon...

Agnes Shirima, January 1, 1982 - April 21, 2011

I usually don't like addressing the dead persons in second person tense like we usually see done in papers and speeches, because I am doubtful they can hear or read. I, however would like to tell, document, blog, post about them so that people can get to hear about them. Agi was a wonderful girl, simple, friendly, beautiful, good-natured. If she ever behaved otherwise, it was nowhere near my presence. I coined a name for her, "Mtoto wa Kizungu" from her habit of smiling whenever I talked to her, or whenever our eyes met-a behaviour usually found with white girls, maybe from their upbringing.

Some may forget her, but I'll never forget her. To me Agi ranks high among friends, and her abrupt demise (from malaria, of all diseases) was a shock to me.

What if a virus is detected on CD?

My Avira Free (but great) antivirus yelped when I tried to access a CD i'd recently created. It seems one of files on the CD, an executable freeware "neosetupfull262.exe" had a malware identified by signature TR/BHO.FlySwat.2. The file sets up Neoplanet browser. Why need any fringe browser with goodies such as Firefox and Chrome available at no cost? There is a reason - to discourage persons who go about prowling what is in my History, where I've been surfing: such nosey won't be looking for NP as a browser.
It would be safe as long as I didn't use the executable somewhere. But someone else might, and there goes flyswat and all the evil associated with it. What would you do? This is what I did:
I copied the contents of the CD except the infected file on the hard drive: no space problem, I have a half-terra external to my disposal. Next I had to put the CD to end of life. Did this by inserting it in a newspaper and snapped it. doing it with bare hands might harm, as a thousand shrapnels of incredible sharpness get formed when it gives-you don't want one of these to lodge into your cornea.

The Japan accident and future of global nuclear energy

Nuclear calculations which eventually lead to superheated steam driving turbines for electricity generation are complex. One fact is, however, known to all: The "fuel" that power such plants has a bad reputation: ionizing radiation. This invisible output from nuclear power plants is known and all safety precautions are taken to keep it where it shall not bring harm to living things - because if it does, the consequences are ugly.

To contain the harmful stuff, the nuclear plant is assembled inside a strong casting that would contain the contents in all foreseeable forces of nature and, possibly, man-made forces.

The Japan plants that suffered a damage recently were no different, only what hit them was unforeseeable. First there was an earthquake - Japan lies on one of the world fault lines and has been experiencing earthquakes, characteristic of such locations. When tectonic continental plates separated by the fault lines move against each other, the resulting "groan" is the earthquake we mortals experience. A strong quake usually measure about 6 in the Richter scale. The Japan one measured 9, no less! Never before had the region experienced such an awesome rocker. As if the locality was doomed, the quake triggered a tsunami that sent out a four-storey wall of water toward the shore and into the country, sweeping everything on its way. Cars and fishing boats appeared like matchboxes being tossed around a bathtub, when played back by the TV networks. Many lives were lost, many persons are misplaces and shall be in the near future.

Now, now. This calls for global co-operation to meet the issues that must be solved with co-operation of all humankind:
1. Fossil fuels are down to a trickle, they won't be there forever.
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2. Pollution caused by fossil fuels is causing big trouble, particularly climatic change. Even if reserves were to last forever, the world cannot continue with the pollution consequences they cause. Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second (science.howstuffworks.com). The Schipol - Beijing flight, non-stop, takes 13 hours, therefore consumes 13*3600*4 = 187,200 litres. This is almost one thousand 210-litre drums! for this one plane on this one route.
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3. Nuclear energy is clean, nonpolluting energy source, but an accident causes hell. The action that calls for global co-operation is location of these plants. Looking at the map showing fault lines and continental plates, one notes that Japan is prone to suffer earthquakes, therefore not a good place to place high-risk structures. On the other hand, Africa north of equator is mostly Sahara desert which is thinly populated, and quite distant from the fault lines. This would be an ideal place to place global energy kitchen, whereby deep down the gigawatt nuclear plants could be built. The units would be built in such a fashion that should an accident happen to one of them, it could be shut down with the rest taking over.It is altogether unreasonable that France, lying so close to the European fault line, should be a nation depending more that 70 percent on nuclear energy, and even exporting some to other European neighbours.
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4. Renewable energy is another alternative the world is looking at: our dear sun pours down more energy than the world would need, only if we could catch and harness it. Much research is needed before much progress could be expected. Other renewables have been considered and are being researched. Wind farms are contributing a narrow slice in the global energy pie, hopefully use of renewable energy, including wave enegy and biofuels, as many firms and governments tend to encourage development in this direction by offering grants and tax incentives.
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Is Libya to follow suit after Somalia?

Arab world was experiencing political tremors, starting from Tunisia, whereby the decades-long leader was forced to flee out of country. Then a domino effect that was left to run alone in general. Until.
With Tunisia as eye-opener, virtually every Arabic nation in North Africa and Middle East felt the stirring, clamouring for changes, amongst the younger citizenry, to rid themselves of royal and despots rule. Eventually this scalar wave hit a spot, Libya. The world has heard of stories how Libyan leader of many years, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi carves the national cake for all Libyans to share with generosity, to an extent there cannot be uprising due to dissatisfaction.
Meanwhile, The West held Qaddafi , despite all effort by him to mend fences, play a good peer. So the Arab revolution of these few months provided a way to do something about the man they reluctantly "deblacklisted" as supporter of terrorism.
When uprising was still in its zygotic stage, French leader Sakozy declared recognition of the new opposition government in Libya. Sometimes back, the first wife of Sarkozy (before Karla Bruni) negotiated a deal that released Bulgarian nurses who had been convicted of infecting Libyan kids with HIV. Her heroic action earned her a divorce, it seems, and thereafter Bruni. Methinks the haste of endorsing opposition may have relationship to this incident. I am at loss how he managed to convince other western powers including US to support this funny setup (no-fly zone ha-ha) aimed at flattening Libya and starting awarding contracts for digging Libya oil for woman-made "humanitarian reasons"
After a lot of Tomahawks found their target in the Tripoli presidential residence (do disable anti-aircraft batteries, the invading forces said) African Union at last woke up and called for immediate cessation of military operations in the Libya domain. I don't see anyone heeding this call, considering all the firepower building up in the Mediterranean right now. Jane's Defense must be having their day in weaving stories of the latest in war toys, with precision of homing on target with accuracy of ±0.27 mm (hey, I made this up, but that's how, er, silly some of these things are reported).
Who makes a decision to go into military offensive in America? Going by what we hear, a typical American wouldn't be able to locate Libya on a map, less so worry about the people of Libya getting an unfair deal from their leader. Obama wouldn't spend a cent to worsen the already troubled US economy. That leaves Pentagon who may whisper to government something like "we have this new DNA-guided missile we wanna test, we already have Qaddafi DNA" or "We still lack sufficient experience of war in Africa deserts" met by budgeted emergency funds (and sometimes when real emergencies such as Katrina come around they find govts with their pants down). I've read enough LeCarre and Forsyth to get a hang on behind-the-scenes decision synthesis of the war machinery. I wait and see.

Middle East and North Africa Political Revolution

Here were a handful of countries that were doing well, were peaceful and unassuming. Until something triggered a domino effect that started with Tunisia and shook the entire MENA. Tunisian big man bolted, left the country. Egyptian president stepped down. Other countries in the region quickly started providing consessions to keep their people happy, promising they would allow for leadership change.
Libya also found itself in this wave. I had been hearing that Qaddafi was so good for his people, everything was free and plentiful, why would anyone rise up against this person? Well, I do have a reason to believe that in this one case there could be some external coercing: The country is rich in oil, and many a power would like to lay its hands on that oil, they can't do it with Muamar Qadaffi in power. So when this godsend of turmoil in the region ensued, the agents went into an overdrive to see to it that something gets done. As the situation there is far from stable, with loyalists and militants still in running battles, time will tell.
I've also been thinking who might benefit most if almost all MENA countries changed governments or became lawless like the Somalia of today. I wonder if some little, cunning, non-arab country in the region is behind this caper!

The rise and rise of ceremony industry in Tanzania (2)

c - Ceremony
In the past it used to refer to wedding exclusively. But it seems the masses want to do it more and more, that they started making extension of the "c" to also cover send-off parties, graduation ceremonies and, lately, funeral ceremonies.
So far for the left-hand side of the equation.
M(c) - the Master of Ceremony (increasingly also goes for Mistress of Ceremony)
C - Catering
D - Decoration
T - Trumpets
S(M) - Music system
V - Video shoot
P(s) - Still photos

T(B) - Bride Transport
T(G) - Groom Transport
T(P) - Parents Transport

I - Innuendo (Cake, Ndafu, Champagne...)

The rise and rise of ceremony industry in Tanzania

y = f(x) is probably the most re-used statement in math and engineering. Founded by Euler, it reads, y is a function of x. Emerging during Form Three additional math class, students instinctively hate it, but, hate or like, it comes to make permanent presence in our day-to-day lives. The stuff in parentheses can take a head-spinning complexity to describe a normal, uncomplicated scenario.
That brings us to the blog subject: Tanzania, by the ranking in the UNDP Human Development 2010 Report, is among the poorest nations in the World, ranking 148th in the 160-nation list of world nations. It is surpassed with countries marked by internal strifes such as Zimbabwe and Liberia.
Not only is Tanzania peaceful, it also has the largest landmass among the countries of East Africa, as well as many kilometres of rivers and square kilometres of lakes.
One might think with all this contrasting situation, Tanzania would be rushing to drag itself out of this fix at the bottom of nations to climb up to its rightful place where other nations with similar blessing on the human development chart roost, countries such as Malaysia (57) and Algeria (84). It is to the contrary: Where hard work to tap the fat of the land would be a logical direction, people have concentrated in providing services that has the effect of collecting the little money the individuals get (meagre salaries for employees, bribes for uniformed officers, corruption stash for politicians, and under-priced sales by farmers) and blowing it up in ceremonies. The function takes the shape

This is the social equation of ceremony. Sometimes ago, "ceremony" would be referring to wedding. No longer so. Now we do have graduation (from pre-school, from primary school, from o-level, from a-level, from first degree, from 2nd degree, from 3rd degree, from degree mills (pacific western type)etc. ceremony might also be referring to send-off and to bereavement.
Ceremony comes with many things, therefore the Schroedinger-like equation above. In that equation, c represents any of the several ceremonies named above. Mc is the Master of Ceremony. Some individuals that are wordy have been popular lately, whereby they do that alone for living. Since the carreer goes on in places one can hardly avoid liquor, and liquor has bad reputation of damaging vocal cords, they try to avert this by swallowing raw eggs every now and then, said to smoothern the voices. C is catering. D. T. SM. V etc. shall be the subject of the next post.

Technology advancement showed Aero the door

When I bought my Compaq Contura Aero 486 I was full of pride, for it was such a handy little thing. with 4 MB Ram and 170 MB HDD, it was cool, I was using Wordperfect 5.1 for Wordprocessing, Lotus 123 for spreadsheet and Harvard Graphics for presentation. Nicely compact, I used to carry it with me whenever I went.
With the hardware limitations that it had, I could only install Microsoft Windows 3.1 Operating System. That OS was running with DOS in the background. Then I got a break: a niece of mine living in Washington DC was coming over to Tanzania. I promptly searched (with Alta Vista, those days Google was unheard of, not yet born!)and located a store that sold stuff online. I requested her to buy me a 16 MB module that would bring RAM to 20 MB. It meant I would be able to install windows 95, no less. The "thingy", as we would refer the memory module, arrived instact, costing about $75, a Kingston KTC-Aero/16.

By and by, tek revolution took place, I acquired a pentium, but i still kept the Aero.
Recently going through some stuff i hadn't touched for years, I re-discovered the Aero. I uttered a yelp of joy, retrieved it, placed it on a desk and opened it. Mmmh! The liquid--or whatever the LCD screen is made up of--had kind of flowed out and the otherwise nicely turgid screen was shapeless like a bad shrinkwrap. I shut it and dropped it in the trashbasket. But wait, I told myself: the hard disk may still contain some data, and the memory module might be of use to someone somewhere.
Bye, tough little hero, I told it, you did quite a job during your heydays.

Contribution for weddings and stuff

Some interesting New Year resolutions, from Dr. Olomi

I wholeheartedly support Dr Donati Olomi in this analysis. Please share this widely. Sorry if you can't understand the language. Info applies for Tanzania.

Nimekuwa nafuatilia jinsi desturi ya kuchangia na kufanya sherehe kubwa inavyozidi kushika kasi, ikipelekea ule wigo wa kuomba michango kupanuka kiasi kwamba sasa hata mtu ambaye jina lako halijui vizuri anaweza kukuomba mchango.
Aidha michango na sherehe hizi zimekuwa mzigo mkubwa sana kwa baadhi ya watu, ikiwa ni pamoja na wale wenye kipato kidogo wanaochangiwa na kulazimika kulipa michango hiyo kwa miaka mingi. Je, wajua kuwa kuna familia ambazo zimefikia kulazimisha ndugu wauze mashamba au mifugo mtaji ili kupata fedha za kuchangia sherehe?. Je, wajua kuwa kuna watu ambao zaidi ya nusu ya kipato chao wanatumia kuchangia sherehe na huku wakishindwa kulipia huduma muhimu kama shule, matibabu, lishe, nk. Na kuwa wakati mwingine wewe au mimi (au wengine kama mimi na wewe) ndio wenyeviti na makatibu wa sherehe hiyo?. Na ni sisi tunaoona fahari ya kutumia milioni 30 au zaidi kwenye sherehe usiku mmoja?
Kuna kijana mmoja jamaa yetu juzi juzi alipata shule Australia akawa anatafuta mchango wa dola 5,000 aende. Alipata 2,000 na amwekwama kwenda. Mwaka kesho akisema anaoa tutamchangia milioni 15-20!!!. Hii si hadithi, ni ukweli, na ni kielelezo cha ulimbukeni tuliofikia.
Siku za karibuni nimetambua kuwa kuna kundi kubwa tu linasikitishwa na huu mwenendo, na hata kutambua kuwa tunaweza kuwa tunaandikiwa dhambi kubwa (na hukumu yatusubiri) kwa jinsi wengi wetu tunashindwa kusaidia mambo ya msingi lakini tunakuwa wepesi kutoa kwenye sherehe. Wengi wanaamini kuwa tumeshatumbukia kwenye lindi la mazoea ambapo hatuwezi kujitoa mpaka upepo uje ubadilike wenyewe!.
Mimi nafikiri wasomi tuna jukumu muhimu la kuwa chachu ya mabadiliko pale ambapo mazoea yenye madhara yanavuka mipaka na kuweza hata kuwa chanzo cha ufukara na kuviza maendeleo.
Ili kubadilisha hili jambo, lazima tuanzie mahali. Mimi napendeleza na kuanza kutekeleza. Kuanzia Januari 2011, nitapunguza michango ninayotoa. Nitatoa tu kwa mtu wa karibu sana , na nitachanga kidogo. Usishangae nikakuchangia 20,000/= kama ulitegemea 50,000/= kwa mfano. Kuanzia July 2011, nitaacha kabisa kuchangia sherehe. Badala yake nitakuwa nachangia elimu pale ambapo mzazi hayupo au mhusika kweli hana uwezo na pia nitachangia miradi mingine ya jamii na maendeleo.
Je waniunga mkono? Kama ndiyo sambaza huu ujumbe kwa mtandao wako.

Dr. D.R.Olomi
Box 35036 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

When occult took corporate dimensions

At a little village called Isimila, on the Iringa-Mbeya road (Highway A-104), there has been a tomb with reputation - a myth really. It is said when electrical power lines were laid to pass above the tomb, the power did not flow, no matter what technicins did to troubleshoot. Then the Iringa old "wise" men pointed out the reason - it's the tomb. The company then circumvented the tomb contrary to the survey map, and, lo, electricity flowed. The skewed-for-no-logical-reason lay of pylons provides a good fodder to tour guides.
Recently, though, when a road-building firm had wanted to run a straight path that would go right over the tomb, they were warned of futile attempts of works in the past.
I was tickled to learn that they contracted some people "who would risk their lives" to shift the tomb at a (rather exorbitant) fee. It's not uncommon to hear of shifting graves-even entire graveyards-out of "respect for the departed".
I'd love to hear explanation to auditors as to why the exercise of moving the solitary tomb should cost so much. To keep off spirits? Belief in the supernatural is commonplace in sports in Africa, some soccer teams even keep in payroll "an expert" who shall help "enhance" the team. Coach, it seems, takes second place...

2011 is here

The year past got me to think, is the clock going backwards? Religious skirmishes at several spots in the world, John-Silver-type piracy in full bloom, increase in belief in occult and zodiac among population (can you in your right mind believe the position of planet Mars will bring you luck? Aah!). Meanwhile politician continued making the country their playground, full of numskulls (numskulls that included professors and thousands of graduates). The stylishly-written contracts continued to benefit devil's agents. How much do they want to leave for their families when they croak, anyway? What's the point of stashing the steal in foreign banks, yet deny thievery?
Then came election, led by the star of change. Political bridge was shaken! indicator of what is in the future. Zanzibar election outcome was a win-win for all players.
I lost Ade, my sister, one of the closest to my heart. I owe her a book i must complete and publish for the world to learn a few things. More obituary, Dr Gregory Njau, Bobby Farrel.
Reunion of sorts, touching base with Brandon, Willemijn and Pallav. And Kissoon and Sheila.
2011 no much resolutions, except giving (however little i have) and coming to terms with procrastination.