The job hunting 101

Dear not-so-young reader, you recently left College. Dar es Salaam  University. Mzumbe. UDOM. The rest. Outside countries. The first week at home was exciting; you needed the rest. All those nights in club cut short to rush back to your dimly lit room to copy your friend’s assignment to be able to hand in early the next morning paid off; you are on the graduation list after all. It is week two and daddy has started dropping subtle hints.

You have watched every series that you managed to squeeze onto your hard disk before leaving campus, pausing only to ceremoniously throw away your notes. It is now time to dust off that ill-fitting suit you last wore to Aunt Matilda’s wedding all those years back. It is time to throw on the one skirt you have that got you quite a few compliments back then so it’s probably your safest bet.
 

A few practical job-hunting tips. Do not:

Use Facebook
I may be wrong on this but I don’t know anyone who got a job by updating their status update to ‘Yo niggz, I’m srchg 4 a jb. Hlp mi’. You may be the first. If you do get a job that way then please call me up and say “In your face!! Muhhahahaha” and hang up. My phone number is printed in the sports section, right next to the story about how a giraffe beat all naysayers and won the county back-to-school dash.

Use slang
If you do get past all the bad statistics and actually land a job interview, it would greatly help your chances if you cleaned up your English. “I was at that mabibo of campoo for four years reading those of mascom with my gangos.” My research on the latest slang all the cool kids are using these days wasn’t too fruitful so I pieced that together from watching Diamon Platnumz videos.

Get off topic
Many interviews start with the rather amorphous “Tell me/us about yourself” question. In as much as it is all too tempting to spew everything, including how your pet monkey likes his bananas pre-heated in a microwave or how you plan to spend your life hunting elephants for their tusks, do not do it. Stick to stuff in your CV.

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La la la GOOooal…

Once in a while especially on weekends I like to do my spirit walk. A kind of medicine, a meditation that I do to free my mind from stressful problems which we all encounter in our lives.

This weekend as I was doing my usual spirit walk I noticed a crowd of people from a far distance ahead. Filled with curiosity I couldn’t help myself but move closer to see what was happening. There were a bunch of men both middle-aged and old ones, some were sited and some standing. I added a number to those who were standing. At first I felt that the ones who were standing are people like me with no clear conscious.

Flipping my eyes around to the center of the crowd I noticed an old AM/FM radio battery powered with an antenna like wire hanging out. With a deep voice and a quick tone I heard a man on the radio commentate a soccer game. I was so moved by the tremendous skills and humming this man was using to broadcast. The commentator was heard “Ngassa anakwenda na mpira paleee anaachia ndefu lakini inatoka nje na mpira unakuwa ni wakurushwa”. Everyone was quite listening closely following up word by word trying to picture the game in their minds. It was like music to the ears of everyone there. This is a kind of feeling you too should try it sometimes.

I stood there for a while enjoying myself but after a couple of minutes I decides to continue with my destiny-less journey along Buguruni road. As I was departing myself, from a far close distance I heard the commentator shouting “La la la GOOooal…!” I was shocked, I turned my head and looked back. People from the crowd were shouting too. Some were throwing their hands with happy faces. Shouts everywhere, goal, goal….. A few were holding their heads, filled with sad faces. “Simba moja Azam wazee wa lambalamba 0.” The commentator stated that a team has won a goal against the other. I smiled.

I find it amazing how a thing like soccer game can make people put away all their differences and come together in such a way. “La la gooal” had me smiling all the way and this Is how my mind came to be soothed.

"La la la goooooal laaa simba wamekosa bao pale."

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SHOCK as JKUAT student infects 32 students with HIV/ AIDS ….Targets 300 by end of YEAR

 

Is it that we don't know or we tend to blind ourselves,perhaps we are just being oblivious despite all the TV commercials that are daily trying to raise awareness.Once a friend told me we are just being insane rebuffing on a killer matter (AIDS).

I understand most of us believe in having unprotected sex is the sweetest thing on earth,why lie its true!!but being clear here is do we really measure the risks?or do we just want to throw down our pants and get to heavy petting perhaps we should all be aligning the risks..

We go to lounges and pubs to have fun and most of what will be on a discussion plate will be girls,and we all go to different colleges to seek studies but also doing our utmost to seek for girls and boys.our minds are dark coated with stupidity thinking that the young girls and boys we school with are probably AIDS free,few days back as i was reading an article on Daily post i got tremendously shocked.

The article was well said,there was a conversation between the victim (a 21year old ,first year at Jomo Kenyatta University) and the Daily post admin,it got interesting as i scrolled down,and later got touchy that i thought of many things,the daily weekends rave and parties we have with strangers and later we end having unprotected petting ??

Some bit of what i read..

Victim:Hi admin plz plz hide ID becoz i have a very risky story want to tell.

Admin:sure.secured,now to the story.
Im 21,second year JKUAT i use to date girls before but for the last 2 years ive been dating men yaani im a kuchu. Ever since niligundua utamu wa kulala na wanaume ive never regreted.i date lawyers,policemen,engineers,journalists many of who is who simply coz im very cute n sexy im a diva so dont do broke fellas. Now so far ive slept with 42 men tangu nianze,its hard being faithful,men are always all over me,taking me out of town trips buying me expensive gifts n all. However Dec.something happened.admin are you there?

Admin: yeah.im listening.

Victim:Ok kuna this news anchor NTV we dated kuna time tumeenda Naivasha for a weekend out.then just a by the way the VCT people were camping hapo we decided to go for check up. And the worst happened we both turned out POSITIVE,we had been doin raw for quite sometime and i couldnt tell where i got it from,neither could he.i cried,i cried he comforted me n that night we had a mind blowing consolation sex. So with time i healed and decided to revenge,admin unajua gays hawapendi condom so they just want to ingia you nyama kwa nyama,thats was to be my loophole.all my lovers i just gave them bilaz.im not sure about the last but since knew my status ive slept with 42 men and sasa im even doing students from K.U,UON,USIU,KEMU,MKU…..kuchus wanajuana so gettin sex partner si issue,my other partners sanasana married men wananipenda sana,lawyers na hawa wakubwa nawapa ka shit. I wasnt told by who infected me so il do the same.im targeting 300 end of year wakipenda pia waspread to their gf/bf,wives,n anybody they feel like.i dont care.but ujue tu ukinipitia,tunaenda pamoja.im sexy and i know it na bado ntazidi kupata na kuwapa.si kosa langu kuwa mrembo. Leo nina wawili watanitia so….. Tel me ukipost n hide id plz plz

Well said! ok simple question to my fellow friends ,do you trust that aesthetically appealing girl at your college,how far can you go having sex with her,Girls what about that musee that buys you iPhone and pays your house rent...Why face all that??

As we know the AIDs matter is quite inevitable,the best way is to abstain sex by which i myself i find it hard to do but all we have to do is be careful,have that one darling that you will all visit the VCT and check your health ,after that you can do the petting all day long...

THINK AND ACT IMMEDIATELY*****

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KINGDOM ANIMALIA

Until the masai learns to speak,
the tales of the jungle will always crown Lion as the king,
will Call it a Stick,
that scepter on his hand,
will Call it beads
that crown around his head,
will call it rubega,
that fabric regally made,
will Call it a tree,
that throne he sit on,
will Call them sons and daughters
His successors of the dynasty,
Will Call them morans
his bold and fearless Knights


Until the maasai learns to speak,
the tales of the jungle
will always crown Lion as the king.

'Written just for fun'

Nelson Allen: Acknowledged.

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Story: Aphotic life of a street kid

 

As it started raining i noticed but i was moved with too much laziness in me,as much as i tried to turn on the other side to grab that bristly moth eaten potato sack so that i cover myself, yet i couldn't,my thoughts were deep into a dream that had no ending,a dream that made me forget i had a sister to look after.It got chilly but i refused to suspend my consciousness ,i was enjoying the catnap despite the whole day starve.

I was suddenly awake by the tremendous sound of a thunder ,such a startling utterance i thought,as i woke up my thoughts were on my little sister who i hadn't know where she was at that time,looked around at the spot that we all lied our tired vertebral last night and she wasn't on her local azam sack bed.My thoughts triggered to my late mother lecture that i should always be close to my sister and never let anything wrong  happen to her.

My body got weak and my legs couldn't support me no more,i fell on the floor with inevitable force while my chin got covered with tears,slowly i rubbed my face with the creased corner of my tattered yellow CCM torn t-shirt ,trying to imagine what had happened to my little angel sister.As my mind was deep in a mug of thoughts suddenly came "Zabrina",a close friend of my little sister who lost her parents from a killer disease AIDS,Zabrina was a age mate of my sister and we both lived in the same streets of "posta mpya".

"Kaka Bundu Ashura kapotea"!! Zabrina gave me bad news meaning my little sister was lost,i asked Zabrina to explain more ,she never stopped crying as she told me,i pulled her at a corner and tried to cover myself with much courage instead of crying but tears glistened our faces.Seeing Zabrina crying gave me hope that she might know where Ashura went but as i continued questioning her if she knew where her friend was she had no clue,but she was just crying because she woke up and her close friend wasn't there.

In the morning i took zabrina with me,walked around every possible gangs in the street to ask if they saw my sister but every one denied,as time went on Zabrina got tired and hungry,i couldn't bare her cries for food so i pretended that i heard nothing,we walked from posta mpya to magomeni with no success.

I never felt hungry despite i slept without eating the other night,all i thought was the guilt,and yet Zabrina couldn't stop being stubborn,i promised zabrina if we found Ashura i would buy them  "chipsi Mayai"(chips with eggs) which i cant afford but she agreed ,my feelings were telling me to stroll to Ubungo where the biggest bus Terminal in Dar-es-salaam is,Zabrina legs swelled since we were on the walk for about 3 hours,i decided to carry her so that we can keep up with the find,as i walked while carrying her it was so like a torture the sun was intensely burning,i got splashed dirty water by fancy cars but that couldn't stop the urge i had to find my sister.

We reached at the bus terminal which it was  already a different territory,Ubungo was already a different district to us,street kids from here have different rules from us,they have godfathers and leaders they report to,so for us to ask too much questions if they saw my little sister i had to see there "Mlopa"(leader) who i met and explained about how i lost my sister,he then commanded few of his friends to help me find Ashura around Ubungo.

As we were on the move i got that feeling of hate towards God thinking why me having all this botheration ,why he took my dearly mother and now its happening to my young sister,my mind overlapped into deep thoughts that it almost led me to be run over by a 1998 White suzuki.

We went to some popular bridge at Ubungo where when you stand facing down you can easily see whats beneath."omary one of the guys that was helping shouted "Wazee kuna mwili wa binti hapa chini" he saw a body under the bridge,as i went closer to have a  look ,"OH MY GOD"........


*****To be continued*****

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Growing up in the 90s (Swahili Version)

Kwa ndugu zangu wazungumzao Kiswahili.

Ninapofikiri kuhusu utoto wangu najifikiria kama kile kizazi cha Mwinyi/Mkapa kile kizazi tulikua na kuimba nyimbo kama vile “kwaheri mwalimu, kwaheri mwalimu” pindi tuionapo ndege angani. Kilikuwa kizazi kionacho furaha kwenye kila kitu. Hatukuwa na Facebook, lakini mara zote tulikuwa na njia za kutuunganisha na marafiki zetu.

Tulikuwa hodari katika kucheza mchezo wa kurungusha ringi na kuendesha gari za waya. Hatukuhitaji kwenda masoko ya kisasa kununua mipira tulichohitaji ni vikasha vitupu vya kuwekea maziwa na kamba za mipira. Kirahisi tulikuwa wabunifu.

Miaka ya 90 ilikuwa na  madaraja kidogo ya ufaulu wa juu, stashahada kidogo ya madaraja ya kwanza lakini kulikuwa na watu wengi wapatao kazi. Ukosefu wa kazi haukusikika. Shule haikuwa kuhusu kutoka wakwanza. Wote tulikimbiza mbio zetu: Kiu ya wote ilikuwa ni kupata elimu. Nilijifunza kusoma na kuandika Kiswahili chekechea, huko kijenge. Ilikuwa ni sababu ya bidii za mwalimu wangu wa darasa la awali mwalimu mmoja Harriet, alimpa kazi.

Tukirudi nyumbani tulikuwa na stesheni moja ya televisheni lakini tulipata elimu Zaidi kutoka huko. Kuna kumbukumbu tamu za shangazi yangu aliyepita akitupa vijikazi vya kumpa muhutasari wakile Rainfred Masako alikisema kwenye wasaa wa habari. Kibanzi hakikuwa mbali na nyumba. Yoyote mkubwa kwako aweza kukuweka bakora kutoka huko. Tuliheshimu kila mtu. Tulifahamu majirani zetu wote kwa majina. Kulikuwa na huo muunganiko ndani ya eneo. Siwezi sahau mikutano ya baraza la kijiji mara moja kila katikati ya mwezi, mama hunichukua tuongozane. Hatukuwa na “I – pads” lakini tuliweka kitabuni dondoo zinazohusu jamii.

Hatukuwa na migahawa mingi ya chakula lakini mara zote tulipata chakula bora. Ingawa tulikuwa na madaktari wasio tosheleza, watu wachache walikufa na magonjwa ya kisasa. Kisukari na Saratani zilikuwa hadimu miaka ya 90. Kama mototo, menyu ya chakula kwenye familia yetu ilikuwa na machaguzi mawili kula au kutokula. Sivyo kama ilivyo leo watoto waki washuruti wazazi wao kila pande.

Tukiongelea kuhusu uwajibikaji wa polisi kwenye dharura. Nakumbuka nyuma nikiwa mwanafunzi shule ya msingi darasa la kwanza niliwachezea mzaha polisi. Nilikwenda kwenye kibanda cha simu (kitumiacho sarafu) Posta kuu na kupiga simu niki igiza kulikuwa na wezi pale ofisi za posta. Ndani ya dakika chache polisi walifika.

Miaka ya tisini inazidi siku za sasa kwa kila namna. Tukizungumzia thamani iliyokuja na shilingi. Ndugu yangu mmoja wa mbali alnitembelea siku moja na kunizawadia shs1,000 na kwa wiki nzima nilipata shida “kumaliza” hiyo pesa. Nilikuwa na furaha utotoni hata michezo ya video, vikapu vya magurudumu katika masoko ya kisasa yaweza fananishwa na kipindi hiko kikubwa.

Kama ningekuwa na ndoto, ambapo ningeweza nyanyua fimbo ya maajabu na kufanya ziwe kweli, ninge tamani kuishi tena miaka ya 90.

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GIRLS WITH MOOD SWINGS..

 

"She is such a loveable one when she's normal" this were words that came out from a friend,i pity him because he has had complains past few weeks.Her exquisite snow white has turned into a naughty beast,she is doing well in ignoring him and my pal cant explain how she is oblivious

Mood swings or let me say an extreme rapid change in mood can be disruptive in many relationships,perhaps we have all faced them ,the killer eyes we get from our baby mama's are intensely vexatious,once your lady starts the swings you will deeply think your dating five girls,that's how irritating the mood swings can get.

She can be very into you in one minute and the next she can start  nagging  and objecting on how she wishes you were gone,tolerating them mood swings is so possible and surely if you are into her you just have to buckle up and face the speed boat ride since the waves can make the safari bumpy.

I once asked "Sarah" my colleague,what were main causes of her mood swings,she easily threw the blame to "PMS" premenstrual syndrome,this is known as an excuse for almost every women,i tried to get more into questions asking her to annotate and she clearly hated how pervert i could get at times ,but with no options she had to clarify.

"most men think we build up some acts ,but sincerely we get nagging due to some inevitable reasons like"

• most of girls are used to keep it clean,wearing white panties makes them feel smart ,during PMS they cant comfortably wear them.
• During this time ladies can fall a sleep even when they aren't tired.
• They feel like they want to remove the Vajj and throw it away.
• Some don't like funny odor.
• They get violent at sometimes,wanting to stub anyone they see.
• The Tampon/pads commercials with happy girls smiling makes them irked.
• During this period our baby mama's always think they are right..correcting them will make you lose an eye.
• they crave random crap they don't own.
• Wishing they were never born girls.
• Sweet things like chocolate and ice cream are their best friends.
• Always uncomfortable walking across men ,thinking they'll all know whats butchering under their tights.

I soon realized that we sometimes misunderstand  our pretty dolls but i also thought of other reasons being excuses.
 But "evil Kitty" says estrogen changes in female hormone levels are characteristic of causing mood swings, irritability, and emotional behavior, especially before a period (PMS). Knowing that you are moody at that time of month is the first step in helping problem behavior, and the safest way...that way, you can monitor your own behavior and be more careful about how you treat others at that time.

I will throw bit of advice to my fellow brothers ,there ways on how to tolerate the swings,i have a say that i tell my lads  " if they give you the swings swing with them but don't let the swing fall" Meaning to tolerate them you should play their games,try to get understanding,if it gets too much go outside and scream then get back and do the act...it surely helps,also;

• It's important to give her a little space. 
• Don't question her/correct her .
• Try and keep the lines of communication open, while also respecting her new need for privacy. 
• Kill your time and do what she wants,if its watching a girly series or eating a sugar free ice cream just try.
• Make sure you don't dismiss your girls concerns, however trivial they may seem to you, they may be important to her.
• Advice her to have siesta on her free time.
• Make her comfortable by giving her perfect make outs..

Just a week!!
 I know some of my fellow friends will be thinking of me being stupid but if shes worth it its never stupid,and furthermore its only a week of her being surly,after that she will get back to that aesthetically appealing girl of yours..and may the menstrual periods be a training to us guys since you wouldn't love it when she is pregnant,she will get more crusty as you can imagine.

NB: if you want to be a woman bosom buddy you should know this things.

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Growing Up In The 90s

When I think of my childhood, I think of myself as that Mwinyi/Mkapa generation. That generation that we grew up singing rhymes like “Bye Mwalimu ,Bye Mwalimu” whenever we noticed a plane in the sky. It was the generation that saw the fun in everything. We did not have Facebook, but we always had a way of connecting with our friends.
 

We were skilled in playing the hoop-rolling game and driving those wire cars. We did not have to go to a supermarket to buy balls, all we needed were empty milk pints and rubber ropes. We were simply creative.

The 90s had less first grades, less first class degrees but there were more people getting jobs. Unemployment was unheard of. School was not about coming first, we all ran our own race; all we strived for was to get the knowledge. I learned to read and write Swahili in my nursery school somewhere in Kijenge. It was because of the dedication that my Baby class Teacher, a one teacher Harriet, gave her job.

Back at home, we had only one TV station but we got more knowledge from it. There are sweet memories of my late aunt tasking us to brief her on what Rainfred Masako had said in the news segment. The cane was never far away from the house. Anyone older than you could apply some strokes of it on you. We respected everyone. We knew our neighbours by name; there was that bond in the area. I can’t forget the Local council meetings every once in a fortnight, Mum would always take me along. We did not have I-pads but we took note of the issues concerning the communities.

We did not have so many fast food restaurants, but we always had the best food. Though we had fewer doctors, fewer people died from lifestyle diseases. Diabetes and cancers were rarities in the 90s. As a child, my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. It is not like today when Children order their parents around.

Talking of the police emergency response, the 90s had the best Police service. I remember back then as a Primary One student when I played a prank on the Police. I went to the phone booths (token-operated) at The Main Post Office and rang police pretending there was a robbery at the Post Office. In just minutes, the Police had arrived.

The 90s surpass the current days in all sorts of ways. Talk of the value that came with the shilling. A distant relative once visited and offered me Shs1,000, and for a whole week I struggled to “finish” this money. It was a happy childhood. Not even the video games, the escalators in supermarkets can all compare to this great era.

If I had one wish, where I could wave a magic wand and make the wish reality, I would wish to relive the nineties.

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10 Talented Photographers

Ask any amateur or professional photographer who promotes their work online and most will tell you that in the past few years, they’ve jumped off other photo sites and are instead using 500px. The Toronto-based company has been on a roll lately, gaining a strong following within the photography community because it attracts high quality photos. In addition, it allows photographers to post, share and sell their photos in a quick and easy way. Today, we take a look at 10 talented photographers who decided to share their photos through 500px. This inspiring bunch will not only inspire you to pick up your camera, they’ll also make you appreciate the wonderful world we live in.

1. Thomas Hawk



If there’s one photographer who’s equally adept at capturing landscapes as he is cityscapes, that person is Thomas Hawk. In fact, this photographer is skilled at taking shots of virtually anything and everything from people and places to signage and art. Of course, it all makes sense when you find out what his ambitious goal is – to publish a library of 1 million photos by the time he dies. Why? As he says, “My work is less about individual images and instead more about the power of a massive amount of excessive and disjointed images where stories, characters and places sometimes stay and other times reappear or disappear entirely for no good reason at all.”

2. Trey Ratcliff



Though photographer Trey Ratcliff has far fewer photos on his 500px page than most, you still can’t help but be amazed at every single one. Though Ratcliff specializes in HDR, get to know this photographer for more than just that technique. His photos are taken from all over the world, giving us a wonderful look in places we could only dream of one day visiting.

3. Gunnar Gestur Geirmundsson



If you just can’t get enough of those gorgeous aurora borealis shots, then check out Gunnar Gestur Geirmundsson’s page. This Icelandic photographer knows a thing or two about capturing the bright and colorful lights that streak across the sky. He has a knack of capturing this natural phenomenon in a wide variety of ways. You’ll also find your fair share of magnificent erupting volcano photos here.

4. Will Burrard-Lucas



You haven’t seen real wildlife photography until you check out Will Burrard-Lucas’ page. Hailing from the UK, Will works with his brother Matt to capture incredible photos of animals in their natural habitat. They use cutting-edge technology to get unusual perspectives of everything from panda bears to meerkats. If you’ve never seen a squawking penguin, you must check out this page.

5. Joserra Irusta



If gorgeous landscapes and serene seascapes are more your cup of tea, then check out Joserra Irusta’s photos. The 36-year-old self-taught photographer lives in a village on the northern coast of Spain where he captures most of his amazing shots. As he says, “Waves, currents and winds transform so that no two identical images are ever taken. I can spend hours on a cliff watching the waves break, looking at its frequency and waiting for the foam, blown by the wind, to hit my face. When the sun goes down is when I pull out my camera and start taking advantage of the best time to take pictures.”

6. Tom Ryaboi (aka Roof Topper)



Tom Ryabo can be credited for starting that crazy trend of taking photos dangling off the edge of buildings, otherwise known as rooftopping. As he hilariously states, he’s “been on more roofs than Santa Clause.” The Tornoto-based photographer seeks out tall skyscrapers in major metropolitan cities, and then daringly takes photos perched on top of the roof. If you don’t mind that feeling of vertigo, you’ll enjoy these amazing shots. But don’t say we didn’t warn you if you start feeling a little dizzy!

7. Navid Baraty



Ohio-born and raised Navid Baraty left a career in engineering to pursue photography full-time. His fantastic photos have since been published in National Geographic and he’s won numerous awards for his ability to show human stories in a sometimes raw almost always poetic way. While he’s skilled at taking beautiful landscape shots, his true talent lies in capturing important moments in our history or times we should never forget.

8. Ben Torode



On a quest for the cutest kitten photography? It’s time to call off your search. Ben Torode is a Tokyo-based photographer who captures his little kitten Daisy in a variety of sweet ways. The Australia-born, Tokyo, Japan-based translator is not a professional photographer, but he sure has a way of inspiring us to pick up our camera and shoot our pets in wonderfully creative ways.

9. Daniil Kontorovich



If surreal or dark portraiture is more your thing, then let us introduce you to Russia-based photographer Daniil Kontorovich. Here you’ll find page after page of interesting portraits, sometimes shot in stark black and white and other times touched up with a rainbow of colors. One thing’s for sure, you won’t get bored looking at all those interesting-looking faces.

10. Corrie White



Corrie White takes some of the most incredible macro photos of water drops we’ve ever seen. Using her Canon EOS 50D camera, she captures water and milk in such a way that they appear like delicate glass sculptures. Recently, she gave 500px an inside look at her process so that others could learn how they could get started in water drop photography. “The fancy drops you see on the internet are achieved with lots of experience, testing and skill and there is a long process to get the ultimate water drops,” she says.

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Splashed on by arrogant drivers

It’s a rain season once again. I am never really sure when it’s the rain season. Sometimes, you just think, “this dust is mob” and, voila, rain!

Then sometimes, city authorities thinks, “Let’s dig up this road and try to make it better. Let’s hope it does not rain heavily soon.” Right on cue, the rain god in charge of freshly dug Dar es Salaam roads let’s loose a shower. And mud comes, and pedestrians reach home on high heels of mud.

My worry about the rainy season is splashers. Someone was complaining about most offensive drivers being owners of Bajaj. I thought he was overdoing it, until Mr Blue Bajaj Splasher did the needful.

Before I continue with my narrative, some definitions are necessary. A splasher is someone who has the talent and arrogant nonchalance to habitually use his car tyres to remove water from potholes, regularly splashing them on whoever is in the vicinity. Then, a wet-dirtener is what you call a splasher who has successfully splashed water on someone’s clean clothes. This is, of course a direct opposite of a dry-cleaner, who has to be paid for his services.

Well, Splasher saw a golf in front of him swerve to dodge a water-full pothole, in order to avoid splashing water on on-coming traffic. I was unfortunate not to have coincided with the Golf at the pothole.

Instead, I got the Bajaj man who perfectly displaced all the water and mud in the pothole all over the driver’s side of my car. I was miffed; boiling actually, but Bajaj Splasher man was well on his way, and I was just left shocked by the rudeness of some people.

That’s not to say that I’m innocent. I’ve ever been a Splasher, but I had no advance warning like the Bajaj man.

My splash was a work of art, you might say. Back when the Old Bagamoyo Road was full of potholes courtesy of the former mayor and his cohort of incompetent road contractors, I was driving home after a downpour, and was quite enjoying a conversation, when I forgot one pothole on account of it being covered by rainwater, and resembling the rest of the road, when it happened.

There are two phenomena that have to be imagined before full understanding of the scenario can be achieved. The first is that of the law of displacement.

By some odd law of nature, the shape of a pothole and a car tire are more or less a perfect fit for each other. When said, tire enters the pothole, at appropriate velocity, the contents of said pothole exit, at a fairly similar velocity.

The second is that of a baseball batsman being tossed a simple ball, and swinging for the fence. My tire was the pitcher, and the batsmen were the victims of the splashing action.

Back to the action. I arrived at pothole and proceeded to release a mighty splash. The boda boda man saw it, but from two feet away, he had no choice but to get drenched, along with his passenger.

I stopped by the roadside, partly because he turned and followed me, but also, I wanted to see my work.

The madam passenger was wearing a white skirt before the splash; now it was a white and brown, and some sections had mud-coloured leopard print.

The rider, meanwhile was looking cleaner than before the splash, and was wiping his face. They could hardly manage coherence in English, I barely blunder in Swahili, but through various hand gestures and mumblings, we finally managed to agree on an exorbitant price of a bar of soap, which I paid.

As for the Bajaj man, if we ever meet near a water-filled pothole, let’s just say that I’ll do my best to redecorate his 3-wheel craze in water paint; brown water paint.

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BLUE GEMSTONES

BLUE GEMSTONES NDANI YA MERERANI

Tanzanite is a very special and unique gemstone. World-wide it occurs only in one specific

location. Experts say that the chance of Tanzanite occurring anywhere else in the world is less than a million to one. The gemstone's single source and limited supply makes it at least one thousand times rarer than a diamond. Its blue color which shimmers in a slightly purplish shade is magnificent indeed.

Its name reminds of the world-wide unique occurrence in the east-African state of Tanzania. Africa – the name of this continent does not immediately remind us of gemstones. Nevertheless, Africa is a continent from where many splendid and beautiful stones find their way to the world markets. An example for this is Tanzanite, which was enthusiastically celebrated after its discovery in 1967 as "Gemstone of the 20th Century” The gemstone experts literally held their breaths when they were shown the first deep blue crystals mined in the Mererani Hills near Arusha in the north of Tanzania. 

Millions of years ago on the wide planes near Mount Kilimanjaro, the core of these unusual valuable crystals were stored. For a long time they remained hidden in the eyes of men, until one day some Massai-herdsmen passing by noticed crystals sparkling in the sun and picked them up.

Today at Mererani the popular crystals are searched for in several, usually smaller mines, to some extent by means of modern methods. Generally only smaller grains are being found, but now and then the miners strike a lucky vein and produce a larger crystal – much to the pleasure of the mine-owners and the numerous Tanzanite enthusiasts everywhere in the world.

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Rich and successful blooming Africans

While African millionaires and billionaires like Patrice Motsepe may have more money than most of us can ever dream of, but there are a handful of young Africans in their 20s and 30s who have built businesses and amassed enviable million-dollar fortunes



Mark Shuttleworth, South African
Age: 38
Founder, Knife Capital
When Shuttleworth was 22, he founded Thawte, a digital certificate and internet security company which he sold to VeriSign for $575 million in 1999, when he was 26. Shuttleworth used a fraction of his proceeds to start HBD Capital (now called Knife Capital), a Cape Town-based emerging markets investment fund. HBD has made a series of successful exits including Fundamo, a mobile financial services company which was acquired by Visa for $110 million in 2011; and csense, which was acquired by GE Intelligent Platforms the same year.  Shuttleworth also founded and funds Ubuntu, a computer operating system which he distributes as free open source software. Shuttleworth has a net worth north of $500 million.


Ashish Thakkar, Ugandan
Age: 29
Co-Founder and CEO, Mara Group
Thakkar, 29 is a co-founder and CEO of Mara Group – a Ugandan conglomerate with tentacles in financial services, hotels, renewable energy, technology and manufacturing.  Mara Group operates in four continents and its annual revenues are approximately $100 million. Thakkar provides mentorship and seed funding to young East African entrepreneurs through his Mara Foundation. Also funds an independent charity focused on improving education quality in disadvantaged secondary schools in Uganda. The Mara Group recently signed a $300 million deal with the Tanzanian government to develop a 3.5 million square foot state of the art mini-city.

Ladi Delano, Nigerian
Age: 30
Founder and CEO, Bakrie Delano Africa
Ladi Delano made his first millions as a liquor entrepreneur while living in China. In 2004, at age 22, he founded Solidarnosc Asia, a Chinese alcoholic beverage company that made Solid XS, a premium brand of vodka. Solid XS went on to achieve over 50% market share in China. He sold the company for $15 million and invested his funds into his next venture-The Delano Reid Group, a real estate investment holding company focused on mainland China. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bakrie Delano Africa (BDA) – a $1 billion joint venture with the $15 billion (market cap) Bakrie Group of Indonesia. Bakrie Delano Africa is responsible for identifying investment opportunities in mining, agriculture and oil & gas and executing them.


Justin Stanford, South African
Age: 28
Founder & CEO, 4Di Group
Stanford is a software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. After dropping out off high school, Stanford set out to launch an internet security company which flopped. Today, Stanford’s ESET (a Slovakian anti-virus software package) Southern Africa operates the ESET brand in the region and sells ESET’s range of internet security products in about 20 sub-Saharan countries. Stanford’s ESET brand records over $10 million in annual turnover and controls 5% of the anti-virus market in Southern Africa. Stanford is also the founding partner of 4Di Capital, a Cape Town-based venture capital fund. He is also a co-founder of the Silicon Cape Initiative, a non-profit movement that aims to turn the Cape into Africa’s own Silicon Valley.


Magatte Wade, Senegalese
Founder, Adina World Beat Beverages & Tiossan
In 2004 Magatte Wade founded Adina World Beat Beverages, a San Francisco beverage company that manufactures coffee, tea and fruit juices using traditional beverage recipes across Africa and organic ingredients sourced from smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia. Within five years of launching, Adina raised over $30 million and the products began being sold by Whole Foods and United Natural Foods. Magatte stepped down from her position as CEO to grow her second company, Tiossan, a manufacturer of luxury skin care products based on indigenous Senegalese recipes.


Mike Macharia, Kenyan
Age: 36
Founder & CEO, Seven Seas Technologies
When he was 25, Macharia, a Kenyan national, founded Seven Seas Technology, now easily East Africa’s most reputable IT services firm.  The $50 million (annual sales) company is a leading provider of integrated business and technology solutions across Africa in the telecom, financial, Real Estate, service industry and government. Seven Seas is gearing up to get listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange next year.


Vinny Lingham, South African
Age: 33
Founder, Yola Inc
Lingham is the founder of Yola Inc, a San Francisco-based Web 2.0 outfit that provides free website building, publishing and hosting services to over 3 million active users across the globe. Yola has attracted over $30 million in venture capital financing from institutional investors such as Columbus Venture Capital, a subsidiary of South African billionaire Johann Rupert’s Richemont Group. Prior to Yola, Lingham founded Click2Customers, a hugely successful search engine marketing company with offices in London, Cape Town, and Los Angeles.  Click2Customers rakes in about $100 million in annual revenues. Lingham is a co-founder of the Silicon Cape Initiative along with fellow South African entrepreneur Justin Stanford.


Kamal Budhabatti, Kenyan
Age: 36
CEO, Craft Silicon
Kamal is the founder and CEO of Craft Silicon, a $50 million (market value) Kenyan software company which provides software in core banking, microfinance, mobile, switch solutions and electronic payments for over 200 institutional clients in 40 countries spread across four continents.


Yolanda Cuba, South African
Age: 35
Executive Director, South African Breweries
One of just two women to make it to this list. When Yolanda Cuba was 29 she was appointed CEO of Mvelaphanda Holdings, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed investment holding company. She was awarded stock options worth over $10 million which she exercised before stepping down as CEO last year. She subsequently took up a job as an Executive Director at South African Breweries.  Cuba still serves on the boards of South African blue chips such as Steinhoff International Holdings and Absa Group.


Jason Njoku, Nigerian
Age: 31
Founder & CEO Iroko TV
The Nigerian Internet entrepreneur is founder of Iroko TV, the world’s largest digital distributor of African movies. Iroko TV has been dubbed the ‘Netflix of Africa’. Earlier this year, Iroko TV raised $8 million in venture capital from Tiger Global Management, a New York-based private equity and hedge fund run by billionaire Chase Coleman. IrokoTV enjoys lucrative content distribution deals with Dailymotion, iTunes, Amazon and Vimeo. Njoku is unwilling to divulge figures, but analysts believe IrokoTV could be worth as much as $30 million. He is the company’s largest individual shareholder.

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Male impotence in young men,Cure and foods that improve sexual stamina!!

 "Msongo i earlier read your article on how women easily lose sexual desire,i truly liked it..i would also like to know a bit on male impotence ,its cure and foods that can bring about sexual stamina" "Emmanuel Njoroge (27) Namanga."

Male impotence is manifested as the inability to have or retain an erection ,to have a premature ejaculation or not being able to ejaculate.

A doctor i know Mr.Khan once told us in a seminar that the main causes  of impotency are Physical and psychological..

Physical origin may be due to an obstruction of the arteries that irrigate the penis  caused by atherosclerosis (cholesterol that obstructs arteries) and diabetes which stops the correct flow of the blood through the penis.But also lack of of nutrients such as enough zinc,vitamin E,B1,B5,B6 and B12.

Psychological origin may be due to:Stress,nervousness,puberty,physical traumas during during childhood e.t.c.
Stress,anxiety,preoccupation and depression cause a form of adrenaline to be segregated ;this obstructs the penis's erection.

What Causes Impotence in Young Men?

• Alcohol & Drugs

High doses of alcohol and some prescription and recreational drugs may impair sexual performance. Mixing drugs and alcohol is dangerous; it may also increase the risk for impotence.

• Smoking

Smoking may cause arteries to tighten up. Nicotine causes constriction in the arteries, which impedes blood flow to the penis. Eventually this may cause impotence. Smoking also raises the risk of overall damage to the health, which may profoundly damage sexuality too.

• Bike Riding

The traditional shape bicycle seat "with a narrow rear and pointy nose, play a role in sexual impotence," notes the New York Times. The impotence may occur due to pressure on an artery and a nerve in the perineum area, which will eventually decrease blood flow to the penis. Bike riding may also cause trauma to the groin area that creates "small calcified masses inside the scrotum." The longer a man rides a bike, the higher the risk of impotence become.

• Stress

To much stress can cause impotence,Stress may have a dramatic impact on the body mya it be Academic stress,peer pressure,relationships,loans and many more.

• Hormonal Issues

Some young men may have unusual hormone levels that may impact their sexuality. Soy lowers levels of testosterone and sperm count, according to research from the Harvard School of Public Health. Some males who regularly drink soy milk have found that their bodies begin to become feminized as testosterone levels decreased as consumption of soy products increased. Soy products contain estrogen, the female hormone.

 Foods to Eat to improve sexual stamina.

• Garlic

  

Garlic contains allicin, a compound that is thought to increase blood flow to the sexual organs.

• Bananas

  

Natural News states that bananas can increase sexual stamina by increasing the male's energy level during sex. Bananas contain an enzyme called bromelain, which improves male potency, sexual stamina and increases libido. They are also a good source of B vitamins, which increase the body's energy level during sexual activity.

Peanuts

Peanuts are a rich natural source of the amino acid, L-arginine, which is essential for increasing sexual stamina in men.

Chocolate

Chocolate may be beneficial in improving sexual stamina in men because it contains the endurance boosters, phenylethylamine and alkaloid.

 

• Blueberries

  

Blueberries are considered a "super sexual" food for men because they function like Viagra, according to The Singles Cafe. Blueberries are packed with compounds that help relax the blood vessels and improve circulation within the body. In addition, blueberries are loaded with fiber, which helps to push excess cholesterol out of the system before it can be absorbed and deposited into the arteries.

Possible Treatment.

• Check with a physician if there isnt any actual organic inability.
• lots of vitamin C,E and zinc foods and supplements also help
• Ginseng
• Royal gelly
• Olive oil
• Avocado
• Also recommended to take vitamins B1,B5,B6,B12 great amount found in royal Jelly and Ginseng.

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