There is something about Fridays that I have never been able to figure out properly. When Friday comes, I always feel so relaxed, even if I have no specific plans for the weekend. Isn’t it just like any other day?
One thing I am sure about is that I think more of Tanzania when Friday comes. Out there when Friday comes it’s a happy time. The phones are quite busy, especially after 2pm. Plans are being made, where we meet for a drink and chat. That is one thing you have to give us… We know how to entertain ourselves, no matter what they tell you. If it’s not a meeting to arrange one of us wedding, then it’s a drink and dance. We know how to dance and shout! When we are drunk it even gets serious, we cry out of it. If you are amazed then you have never got drunk yet. Don’t try it in front of your in-laws.Read the rest of this entry »
When we see the way the African continent is exposed on television screen of the so called “western media”, some us get angry. We get angry not because we are just angry people, but because we know that is not what the continent is all about. If I was to choose to display only the negative side of the western world, do you think I would have some images to show?
Africa of today faces a lot of challenges. The big questions is who doesn’t? Given the history of the world, one needs not to ask a lot of questions why. From slavery to colonialism and now to inside neo-colonialism, how many other continents would have even survived? Just a simple question. But what else is in Africa? For some of you who have never visited the continent here is a good example of what else is in Africa far from hunger, wars, diseases and terror.
