EATING RIGHT FOODS MAY FIGHT STRESS AND BOOST OUR HEALTH

 True.

Science has helped us function. Science has made us cleverer. Unlike animals who just eat, sleep, procreate, play, eat, sleep, procreate, moan. Earth is not the same as it was in 1958, 1775 or 1211.

 Last week we spoke of the industrial revolution giving us products that help us, but also mess our health. Like plastics. This week let us look at stress.

BE IN TOUCH WITH YOUR TRADITION TO FIND LIGHT OF SUCCESS

I was in the Gym the other day.

 Not far from where I stood, this big, massive overweight individual trotted on the treadmill. Loud pop music banged and massacred our ears through the Gym speakers. Usually such fast-paced music tends to annoy, but in Gyms, it is suitable, apt and necessary. Exercise, exercise, exercise. 

The  said fella, however, was not so keen to the Gym beats. His earphones were listening to his own music.

WHY DO OVERSEAS -BASED TANZANIANS SUFFER OF LATE ?

  

 The burnt car of Tanzanian student who was beaten in Bangalore India, in February- BBC photo

Two recent Citizen News stories reflect an ongoing fear, awe, anger and fact.

Early last week a Tanzanian was stoned to death in Eastleigh, Nairobi. The report said John Mchanga had stabbeda man and a woman after losing money while gambling. We may carelessly dismiss this by generalising the accepted culture of “mob justice” across the beloved African continent. Mchanga allegedly killed and therefore deserved death.  We should turn the other way and pretend, well, tit for tat.

LONELINESS AND OTHER THREE CULPRITS OF MODERN AGE

Three culprits.

Internet, living longer, economic independence....

Plus loneliness.

There might be some other things, but those three are the biggest contributors to a life of misery suffocating people of all ages in rich countries. Why is this terrifying? Because young people have been added to the equation. 

KISWAHILI NOVELIST ADAM SHAFI SHEDS LIGHT ON AFRICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

 I first met Zanzibar novelist, Adam Shafi in 1979.

He had just popped into then Tanzania Publishing House along Samora Avenue, downtown Dar es Salaam. His new book, Kuli, excited every Swahili reader and lover of literature. Kuli is a classic. Phenomenal. It is based on historical incidents during the colonial era in 1948. Port workers stage a strike that eventually contributes to Uhuru struggles for Zanzibar and Tanganyika (the older name of Tanzania) independence. 

Adam Shafi- pic by Mohammed Ghassani
 

BARUA YA WAZI KWA RAIS MAGUFULI KUTOKOMEZA KABISA UKEKETAJI TANZANIA

 Mpendwa Rais John Magufuli,

Kwanza nakutakia kheri za mwaka mpya wa 2016.

 Ninakupongeza kwa kuanza kazi yako kwa kishindo. Kishindo kinachowapa wananchi wetu matumaini. Mvumo unaoukupa sifa Afrika Mashariki nzima hadi kuwafanya wenzetu watuonee wivu.  Afrika nzima inatamani ingekuwa na viongozi kama wewe. Tunaoishi Ughaibuni tutaendelea kuwa mabalozi wako.

Leo mada yangu Mheshimiwa Rais ni suala la ukeketaji.

Wasichana waliokimbia kujihifadhi jumba la Mugumu, Mara. Picha ya Anthony Mayunga kupitia gazeti la Mwananchi.

PHOTOGRAPHY CAN BE A CAREER FOR OUR CAREER MINDED YOUNG WOMEN

A few weeks ago, two well-known Tanzanian bloggers used photographs I had taken of an event in London without giving credit to my name. They put up the pictures plus what I had written as penned by them. In journalism, this is by-line. The dictionary defines a by line as “a line in a newspaper naming the writer of the article...”