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Politics of the Scriptures: Reading between the lines
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- Published on Monday, 01 October 2012 03:56
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LAST Sunday, I read an inspirational article in the government’s Kiswahili newspaper, HabariILEO Jumapili. Simply titled ‘Tenda Wema…!’ and penned by Joseph Kulangwa in his popular column ‘Kauli ya Kibogoyo,’ the piece was about a Good Samaritan who bailed a person out of a tricky, embarrassing situation at Korogwe in 1979.
Fencing-in wildlife? Why not fence out poachers?
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- Published on Monday, 17 September 2012 03:35
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LAST week, I read in these pages a thought provoking report that reminded me of an age-old argumentation that there’s really no point in fencing in a cemetery! More on that anon…
MC: The politics of male circumcision
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- Published on Monday, 10 September 2012 02:55
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SCIENTISTS have a saying that, for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction… I’m citing this in regard to the ongoing exercise to circumcise males in Tanzania!
Recovering looted funds from off-shore accounts
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- Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 03:52
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AS YOU go through this lucubration, o'esteemed reader, Tanzanians are going through the agony of having to live with the knowledge that millions in hard currency that are somehow connected with Tanzania are held in foreign lands...
The politics of statistics
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- Published on Monday, 27 August 2012 00:00
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THE other day I read a front-page report in a weekly English language newspaper with the headline 'WEF-2012 fixed assets investments: Tanzania lags behind as tiny Lesotho leads!' [Business Times: August3,2012].
Scratch cards cancer alert: hoax or what?
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- Published on Monday, 13 August 2012 02:05
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IN recent days and weeks, there has been circulating in all manner and style a ‘new cancer’ alert to the general effect that scratching recharge cards and similar items to reveal numbers, data, etc ‘concealed’ thereunder using one’s finger nails can cause skin cancer.
The Widal typhoid test and other techno-woes
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- Published on Monday, 06 August 2012 02:25
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WHY, pray, should Africa continue to be the dumping ground for outdated technological gadgets and methodologies that are no longer used in the developed countries — but which continue to be manufactured for use in the developing world?
Recovering illegal wealth: India learns from Kikwete
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- Published on Monday, 30 July 2012 02:40
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EARLY this July, I penned elsewhere an article whose title was somewhat quizzical: ‘Recovering Tsh300bn stashed in Switzerland? No problem; just…!’ The article was on how the Government in Dar could go about recovering the Tsh303.7bn allegedly held in secret Swiss bank accounts by six or so unidentified Tanzanians!
Well done, Nape Nnauye on Sabodo contributions
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- Published on Monday, 23 July 2012 01:24
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SEEMINGLY for the umpteenth time, the person who’s perhaps Tanzania’s most famous hedge funds investor, Mustapha R. Jaffer Sabodo, is in the news again. In recent months and years - beginning in earnest in early 2008 - the man has been publishing assorted advertorials at his cost.
