Tanzania: In Search of the Talented Tenth - Kuwatafuta Moja ya Kumi Wenye Talanta

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Umejua 999 kwa sababu umefundishwa concept ya namba. Kiutamaduni si ungekuwa unahesabu ng'ombe kwa kutumia idadi ya mawe.

Unajua nani alivumbua namba? Au unadhani kila kitu kavumbua mzungu tu? Je, unafahamu asili ya algebra?

 

[Companero]

Hatu huku tunazo Sunday market, garage sales etcetera. Na hayo magulio yapo kwa sababu ililetwa concept ya matumizi ya pesa na kalenda. Kama sio concept hizo hakuna cha maana katika magulio.

Haya ndio matatizo yatokanayo na kutojua na kuidharau historia ya Waafrika. Watanzania waligundua kalenda zamani sana kabla ya ujio wa wakoloni - nitakuwekea nyaraka ya uthibitisho, iko maktaba. Na Wadogon wao walikuwa wana hizo concepts toka enzi na enzi - hebu pata hii:

Now, you are familiar with Sango’s theory of and experimentations with electricity and rocketry in the Yoruba world. Perhaps you have read Marcel Griaule’s famous book, Conversations with Ogotommeli and you know about the Dogon people of Mali. The Dogon are famous for their monumental knowledge of astrology, especially the Sirius star, which is the center of their religious teachings. The Dogons know that Sirius A, the brightest system in our firmament, is next to a small white dwarf called Sirius B, which was identified by western scientists only in 1978! The Dogons knew about it some one thousand years before modern/western science discovered it! Sirius B has been the basis of the holiest Dogon beliefs since antiquity. Western astronomers did not discover the star until the middle of the nineteenth century, and it wasn't even photographed until 1970. The Dogons go as far as describing a third star in the Sirius system, called Emme Ya that, to date, has not been identified by astronomers. Dogon mythology also includes Saturn's rings and Jupiter's four major moons. They have four calendars, for the Sun, Moon, Sirius, and Venus, and have long known that planets orbit the sun.

What do the perspectives of Fashina, Nwakanma, and Ogotommeli tell us about the Yoruba, Igbo, and Dogon worlds? It tells us that our ancestors were not the pre-rational and pre-logical fools we encounter in Osujiville. It tells us that our ancestors were no strangers to science. It tells us that our ancestors played their part in marketplace of explanations of man and phenomena. We are the ones who have tragically failed to build on their foundation by separating the science from the myth and the history. What is the role of the public philosopher who knows all these details about the African world? Insist that every African without exception is irresponsible and all we have ever contributed to history and civilization is selling our people to slavery? Insist that Africans are congenitally inferior to the German, Indian, and Chinese philosophers you read and misapply, while deluding yourself that you are the only who reads them? What is intellectual responsibility? Must one philosophize if all one has to offer are fallacies spiced up as knowledge and erudition?

Source: http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/afri...sponsibilities-beyond-yoruba-igbo-politics-ma

 

[Companero]

Neno "hayo" umelitumia kama "adjective" kwenye hiyo "restrictive clause" "hayo mavitabu yako"....huku maana ikibaki ile ile. Jaribio lako la kunizuga: FAIL!!!!

'Adjective' inaelezea 'sifa' ya 'noun' fulani. Hivyo hapo 'hayo' inamaanisha ni aina fulani ya mavitabu ndiyo inampotosha Zakumi. Unaniangusha Mzee wa Mchezo wa Semantics!

 

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Companero:

Huyu bonge la mchumba nipe contacts zake nimlete huku. Huko atazeeka mapema.

Alafu kumbe na yeye kwa namna fulani anaikubali na kuitekeleza nadharia ya 1 ya 10. Anatumia dhana ya 'nyota wetu'/'our star' ambapo nyota katika njanja mbalimbali wanatafutwa ili wahamasishe wengine wafikie huo unyota katika nyanja husika. Inawezekana Ngabu-cum-Juliasi ni nyota wetu wa...

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

Baada ya kumbishia sana Zakumi kuhusu dhana ya William E. B. Du Bois kuhusu Moja ya Kumi wenye Talanta sasa nimeongoka. Nimeitafakari sana. Nimeijadili sana. Nimeihoji sana. Sasa nakubali kabisa kuwa ili Tanzania iendelee inahitaji asilimia 10 ya watu wake ambao ndio watakuwa injini ya kuiendeleza na sisi wengine (90%) tutafuatia. Tayari sehemu hii ya 10 imeshaanza kazi hiyo ila kinachohitajika ni kuwatambua na kuunganisha nguvu zao kwa pamoja ili zilete haraka mabadiliko makubwa ya kiuchumi, kisiasa kijamii, kiutamaduni, kisayansi na kiteknolojia hapa Tanzania.

Nimeamua kuanza jukumu hilo na naamini Zakumi na wadau wengine mtashirikiana nami. Ikumbukwe kuwa Tanzania ina watu takribani milioni 40, yaani 40,000,000. Hivyo kwa mahesabu ya haraka haraka asilimia 10 ya watu hao ni watu 4,000,000 yaani watu milioni 4. Natumai server ya JF inatosha kuhifadhi database ya watu hao. Watu hawa wako katika nyanja mbalimbali ambazo zikiangaliwa kwa pamoja kama sekta mtambuka basi zitatusaidia kuweka vipaumbele vya maendeleo sawa. Kwa kufungua database yetu naanza na watu 10 ambao hakika ni sehemu ya 1 ya 10:

1. Prof. Keto Mshigeni - Scientist/Botanist
2. Hon. Zitto Kabwe(MP) - Economist-cum-Politician
3. Hasheem Thabeet - Basketball Superstar/Philanthropist/Role Model
4. Prof. Benno Ndulu - Economist/Bank Governor
5. Issa Michuzi - Photographer/Journalist/Blogger
6. Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro - Lawyer/Diplomant
7. Erasto Mpemba - Discoverer/Physicist
8. Dr. Thomas Neligwa -Computer Scientist/Mathematician
9. Liberata Mulamula - Administrator/Diplomat
10. Hon. Stella Manyanya (MP) - Electrical Engineer-cum-Politician

Angalizo: Hii sio mada ya Celebrity Forum - ni maada ya 'Siasa-Uchumi' (Political Economy) ya kutumia 'Talented Tenth' yetu kama 'zaka' ya kuleta a 'A Political/Governace, Social/Cultural, Economic/Financial and Scientific/Technological Revolution'.

Liberata Mulamula