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    Dowans wants to negotiate?
    THE guy whom Tanzanians have been told owns Dowans electricity generator, Brigadier Mohamed Yahya Al Adawi, suddenly has hit town and some good investigative reporters have been doing some snooping. Just who is this guy? Apparently Al Adawi is as Zanzibari as cloves. He was just a lowly cop in
    Author: BY ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 26th February 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 4700
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    Bombs galore in Dar es Salaam
    ON Wednesday night I was on a charm offensive with the wife, after committing the usual crimes husband do over time - which is ignoring their spouses. So I took her for chicken makhanwala. Everything seemed to be okay when suddenly hell broke loose. At first I thought it was fireworks in
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 19th February 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 4279
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    Lessons from Middle-East events
    NO one would have believed it, a month ago, that an angry young man would martyr himself in Tunisia. Riot policemen harassed his business set-up in which he supported his family. So he decided to end it all and the rest is history. What one would have thought is that our political
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 5th February 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 3686
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    Let the fair sex rule
    THAT’S what was crossing my mind after I read newspaper reports that chicks are hopelessly outshining guys in academic performances. Anyway, nothing to write home about as the overall performances has dipped nationbwide. Bumb Tanzania in the making. Reports say that girls excelled in the
    Author: BY ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 29th January 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3715
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    From Tunisia with love
    SO, is that it then? Widespread unemployment, political repression press-gagging and pervasive corruption in a country as formula to and a cocktail for revolt? Call it Tunisia. But there are so many of those in Africa. For those who believe in the barrel of the gun, it seems that they were
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 22nd January 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3479
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    The trouble with violence begets ...
    I wish cooling peoples' tempers could be that simple. Things have been happening in Arusha municipality which has left the rest of us dumbfounded. Three people were shot dead at a Chadema party political rally last week-end. Dozens were left wounded and traumatized. Everyone has been loudly
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 15th January 2011 @ 15:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3824
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    2011 had better be good!
    I mean it is tiresome to start a year with power cuts. No explanation. The politicians are praying to their devil that we get used to this. We won’t and the scandal continues. It is jut not normal. I am sure nothing is going to happen in 2011. Maybe Africans might go on with a bit of the
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 1st January 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 3834
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    All the best in the season
    I HOPE you had a lovely and festive season. Right now I can sense belches with nasty alcoholic aromas from many a mouth. Anyway I have been thinking and musing about happenings of the last couple of weeks. After the Zanzibar show I instinctively knew that something was afoot when Maalim
    Author: Adam lusekelo, Uploaded on: 25th December 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 3631
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    The ‘urojo’ factor in jobs
    After the Zanzibar show I instinctively knew that something was afoot when Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad emerged at State House. Hamad extolled the virtues of the now President for Zanzibar Dr Shein that he was ideal to lead the Isles today. Later it emerged that a deal on how to run Isles
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 18th December 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 4052
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    Africa's new crop of deadly clowns
    AIT started with Zimbabwe's dictator, Bob Mugabe. After ruling Zim since independence in 1980 Mzee Bob got a taste of power, loved it and decided to keep it. Over decades the people of Zim got tired if him. They voted him out. But since he controlled the instruments of power and state muscle
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 11th December 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 3521
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    We want a new constitution!
    MAYBE she was being starry eyed after being sworn-in as a new Cabinet officer in the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs last week. The brand new minister, Celina Kombani, rejected the need to overhaul the Tanzanian constitution branding the call for it ‘pedestrian.’ Privately, I doubt if she
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 4th December 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 4639
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    I would consolidate my gains
    WE are witnessing quite some exciting times. The political climes are changing. Opposition parties, Chadema and the Civil United Front (CUF) have made agreeable gains in the just-ended general elections while very questionable things have been coming from the ruling party, CCM and its government.
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 27th November 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 3453
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    The genie wakes up!
    AFTER more than 40 years of being subjected to outrageous doses of chlorophorm and other sleep inducing substances, Tanzanians are waking up from a long stupor. People, especially the youths, have decided to say that they have seen through the numerous farces and lies and they are going to do
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 20th November 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 9, Total people who read this story: 4265
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    Suicide dollars on the way?
    As we end this election’s business today, a lot of water would have flown under the bridge. And a lot of moola would have passed through a lot of hands – they call them bribes. ‘Rushwa.’ There have been accusations and counter-accusations to that. And now, a lot of people countrywide are going
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 30th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 4225
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    Oh, those spin doctors!
    Over the past fortnight some con-men have been releasing some outrageous figures and what they call opinion polls.. If you believe those figures your other name is Julius Caesar! Anyway, things are coming to a head. Top major parties –I mean the ruling CCM and the formidable opposition Chadema
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 26th October 2010 @ 02:34, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 5267
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    Tanzania wins chapati gold in Delhi!
    AFTER a spirited and brilliant show of resolve at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, Tanzania set a world record of winning a chapatti gold medal for the first time in four decades. Tanzania’s hopes for consolation medals at the just ended farce were dashed after four marathoners were found
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 16th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 5059
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    Viva Madame la presidente!
    As we are drifting towards the end of the year and the coming elections the world is slowly coming around to sanity. The latest is the Samba country famous for its soccer skills – Brazil. The Brazilians had been having more than their share of dictators, nasty and some pretending to be
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 9th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 4496
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    Korea and the Kim dynasty
    At first it was almost comical. The founder of North Korea, the late beloved leader, Kim Il Sung, decided that before on-passing to nirvana he would transfer his power to his baby, Kim Jong Il, the dear leader, who has been lording over the socialist paradise since then. Now biology seems to have
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 2nd October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 3749
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    Mzungu discovers Mount Kilimanjaro?
    THE other day I was having a casual look at our papers. In this rag they were talking a little tuition lesson to 'O' level history. I went through it and, believe it or not, the item was about 'the Maji Maji Rebellion' of 1905-07. Excuse me! So, some of our history books to teach our totos
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 25th September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 4678
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    Turning Serengeti into a zoo?
    THE ridiculous talk about building a trans-Serengeti Highway to pass through the world renowned nature’s beauty has been going on for quite a while. Now the talk has surfaced again, thanks to some greedy local politicians in cahoots with some drug dealers masquerading as businessmen. The
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 18th September 2010 @ 12:24, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 4816
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    Enter the who is bonking who politics
    I HOPE you had lovely Idd el Fitr festivities and are recovering from it. As a rule, I tend to lie very doggo during big events. From experience you tend to find that the effort to ‘be happy’ can be off-putting to a certain extent. I would rather be always happy. A good movie, a good book or
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 11th September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 3956
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    Truth -the first casualty
    IN his book on World War I, British author,Phillip Knightley argued that during human conflict, one of the first casualties is the truth. How right was this observation! It has lived through times and continues to thrive. Events over the past two weeks have shown just how uncomfortable we
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 4th September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 4119
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    A walking albino for sale?
    It was simply a matter of time. What with all the mostly prevalent nasty belief in our part of the world that a guy could end up rich after selling his fellow human being. Apparently he had been told that there is big money to be had in selling people afflicted with a skin disease, we know as
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 23:17, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 4285
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    The smear age is here!
    The kick-off is on from 1st October. The campaigns start, although I will boldly say that in some of our diaries, this end of campaigns is just the beginning of the beginning. We now know who is going to be the prez and other assorted rulers. The job of the people will be to endorse what has been
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 3896
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    Time for the show again
    The more I look at those young so-called democracies and the events in Tanzania and all the developing countries the more disillusioned I get. For example presently we are spending quite a chunk of money in preparations for general elections next year.   As CCM ruling party insiders says next
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 24th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 3595
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    Off go the MPs
    After five years of performing the outgoing Bunge MPs are taking a break. Some have been doing pretty fine, saying things that we, the wananchi, want to hear. Others have been mostly appalling, breathing all that air-conditioned air of the House and emitting more hot air. Really. Some
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 3713
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    Sangomas win in World Cup
    The sporting world is holding its breath. Will Paul the octopus bestow the winning to Spain or Holland this evening?   All week European witches, and say the world over, have been watching what Paul does. Paul the octopus has been predicting the outcome of many a World Cup match – with
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 10th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3748
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