Nyota Ndogo.....Musician from Kenya

Born in Mombasa Kenya, Mwanaisha Abdallah aka Nyota Ndogo has been building an enthusiastic local and international fan base for her eclectic East African sound for the past decade. A powerful singer-songwriter and charismatic performer, she has a distinctly coastal yet modern and unique sound that deserves worldwide attention.

Nyota's father Abdallah Atibu was a musician with another band from Mombasa. Struggling to make ends meet, she dropped out of school early and worked as a house maid. She became inspired to embark on a musical career after hearing hiphop group K-South's lyrics. Composing meaningful and touching lyrics herself, she often tackles social issues in her songs, for example Nalia talks about albinos; others tackle problems people are faced with due to corrupt politicians, drugs and AIDS.

Nyota Ndogo is frequently called to bring her pure and soulful vocal talents to collaborations with other East African artists, eg Necessary Noise's Nataka Toa, Nonini's Nibebe. On her latest album Mama wa Kambo she collaborates with Ali Choki on Usinifiche, Bobby Mapesa and Collo of Kleptominiax on Mambo Kombo Remix.

Nyota Ndogo has released four CDs and featured on several international music compilations, including Charlie Gillett's World 2003, The Rough Guide to Kenya and Off the Beaten Track.

She is winner of many national awards, including Best Taarab Singer 2003, Best Female Singer 2005 (Kisima Music Awards, Kenya), Best Video Watu na Viatu 2007, Best Dressed Artist 2007, Best Song Mama 2008.

Regionally, she was also nominated for the Best Female Artist in 2007 PAM (Pearl of Africa Music Awards, Uganda). Her song Watu na Viatu was nominated for East Africa Song of the Year at the 2007 Tanzania Music Awards.

Beautifull African Girl

At Bwawani Hotel Zanzibar, during my lovely sister wedding.

Nice to have a funny with friends

Sophy with friends in Swaziland during the Bush fire festival in 2008

Thank you...

I would like to take this opportunity to thank MISA-TAN for organizing training like this, journalists now days they really need knowledge on how to work by using internet effectively as a tool or source for searching information in their daily activities. The training was good, it’s open my eyes especial opening blog,

Also my special thanks go to Mr. Peik and Mr Mjengwa. Kwa kweli mmetufungua macho, pia nawashukuru sana kwa uvumilivu wenu kwani tumekuwa tukiiliza maswali mbalimbali ambayo kwa njia moja au nyingine yamewakwaza.

Pia naomba msichoke tutakapo kuwa tunakuulizeni maswali mengi mengi about to develop our blog, I will be always disturb you to make sure that my blog look good and meet my aim to have a good blog which can provide good information to the community.

Kwa ufupi napenda kuwashukuru sana ten asana kwa mafunzo mazuri ambayo mmetupa kwa muda huu wa wiki moja, kwani pia najiona ni mwenye bahati kubwa kupata nafasi hii.

Sorry, but I really feel good to mix kiswaenglish in my story.

AKHASANTE SANA.

The location helps to give Mwanza its very unique atmosphere

Mwanza town is the capital of Mwanza region

Rasilimali za Africa

Congo Caves

Karibu Mapochopocho ya Zanzibar

Hapa ni Sehemu ambyo huwa napenda kupumzika na kupata mlo wa jioni.

Gauni

Ni gauni ambazi zinajulikana kwa jina la Dira au dishdash.... unaweza kujipatia moja kama utapenda.

Professor Wangari Maathai

Mwanaharakati wa haki za wanawake na mazingira kutoka nchini Kenya.

Always black is beauty

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Ni picha inayomuonyesha mwanamke wa kiafrica... ni sanaa ya uhakika.

Sakata la rushwa kwa Jerry Muro...

Jerri Muro si jina geni miongoni mwa watanzania wengi hasa wale wanaopenda kufuatilia vipindi mbalimbali vya Televission.

Ni miongoni wa waandishi chipukizi wanaochipukia na kukua kwa kasi katika tasnia ya uandishi wa habari hapa nchini.

Jina hili lilianza kung’aa mapema mwaka jana, ambapo kupitia kipindi cha RIPOTI maalumu kilichokua kikirushwa na kituo cha television cha ITV, ambapo alikuwa akiripoti habari za uchunguzi hasa kuhusiana na suala zima la rushwa.

Kwa mara ya kwanza kipindi chake kurushwa kilikuwa kinahusu masuala ya rushwa katika jeshi la polisi kupitia kitengo cha usalama barabarani, ambapo alionyesha baadhi ya askari hao wakipokea rushwa kutoka kwa madereva mbalimbali a gari za mizigo na hata zile za abiria.

Hivi karibuni mwandishi hiyo wa habari alipata mkasa wa yeye mwenyewe kutuhumiwa kuomba rushwa kutoka kwa aliekuwa mkuu wa Wilaya ya Bagamoyo.

Muro, mfanyakazi wa Shirika la Utangazaji (TBC) na ambaye amejipatia umaarufu kutokana na kufichua aina tofauti za rushwa, anashikiliwa kwenye Kituo Kikuu cha Polisi ambayo imeeleza kuwa habari zaidi kuhusu mkasa wake zitatolewa leo.

Habari za kupambana na kero ya rushwa na ufisadi jana zilimwingiza mwandishi huyo mikononi mwa polisi.

Habari zaidi zinasema kuwa Muro, ambaye alishinda tuzo ya Mwanahabari Bora wa mwaka 2009 kutokana na habari yake ya rushwa inayofanywa na askari wa usalama barabarani. na taarifa zinaeleza kuwa likamatwa wakati akiwa hoteli ya Sea Cliff.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa tulizozipata, Muro alikamatwa baada ya kuwekewa mtego na polisi mara baada ya kuarifiwa na mfanyabiashara mmoja, ambaye jina halijawekwa bayana na polisi, kuwa mwandishi huyo amedai rushwa ya Sh10 milioni.

Habari zinadai kuwa mwandishi huyo alikamatwa muda mfupi baada ya kukabidhiwa fedha.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Adulrazak Gurnah, he is among the famous books writer, he wrote different books and worn several prize. The novel book known as Paradise was short listed for the booker Prize and Whitbread Award. And By the Sea was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
In 1968 Gurnah went to Britain as a student, after several years of study he went to Nigeria, it was 1980-1982 he used to thought at the university of Kano, and in 1982he received his Ph.D. from the university of Canterbury where he has been teaching English literature since 1982. Now teaches literature at the University of Kent. A part from teaching also he is associated editor of the journal Wasafiri.
Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948, comes from Islamic background,he visit his native country 20 years later profoundly affects his attitude towards both himself and his marriage. By the Sea (2001), is narrated by Saleh Omar, an elderly asylum-seeker living in an English seaside town.
Novel writen by Gurnah
• Memory of Departure (1987)
• Pilgrims Way (1988)
• Dottie (1990)
• Paradise (1994)
• Admiring Silence (1996)
• By the Sea (2001)
• Desertion (2005)
Prizes and awards
1994 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Paradise
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) (shortlist) By the Sea
2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) (shortlist) Desertion

Short history about Professor Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai ni mwaraharakiti wa masuala ya haki za wanawake, mbunge, mwanzilishi wa The Green Belt Movements na pia ni mshindi wa tunzo ya Nobel ya mwaka 2004 katika suala zima la mazingira.

Wangari Muta Maathai alizaliwa mwaka 1940 huko Nyeri nchini Kenya, ambapo amepitia harakati mbalimbali mpaka hapa alipo hivi sasa.

Profesa Maathai alimaliza masomo yake ya udaktari huko nchini Ujerumani, ambapo alitunukiwa PhD. Mwanamama huyu alifanikiwa kuwa mwanamke wa kwanza kushika nyadhifa mbalimbali katika bara la afrika, ikiwemo ya mwenyekiti wa idara ya Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively.

Hizi ni miongoni mwa tunzzo mbalimbali alizofanikiwa kuzipata profesa Wangari kwa miaka tofauti kama inavyoonekana hapa.

2008, Royal Institute of British Acrchitects, Honorary Fellowship (2007)
Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights (2007)
Jawarhalal Nehru Award (2007)
World Citizenship Award (2006)
The Disney Conservation Fund Award (2006)
Paul Harris Fellowship (2005)
The Sophie Prize (2004)
The Petra Kelly Prize (2004)
The Conservation Scientist Award (2004)
The J. Sterling Morton Award (2004)
The WANGO Environment Award (2003)
Outstanding Vision and Commitment Award (2002)
The Excellence Award from the Kenyan Community Abroad (2001)
The Juliet Hollister Award (2001)
The Golden Ark Award (1994)
The Jane Addams Leadership Award (1993)
The Edinburgh Medal (1993)
The Hunger Project’s Africa Prize for Leadership (1991)
The Goldman Environmental Prize (1991)
Women of the World Award (1989)
The Windstar Award for the Environment (1988)
The Better World Society Award (1986)
The Right Livelihood Award (1984)
The Woman of the Year Award (1983)

SAUTI ZA BUSARA MUSIC FESTIVAL ON THE WAY...

The seventh edition of the Sauti za Busara music festival will take place in Zanzibar, 11-16 February 2010; admission is free to all EA Residents before 5pm.

Sauti za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) is an international festival celebrating East African music taking place around the second weekend of February each year in Zanzibar.

Tovuti Day.

The Stone Town of Zanzibar is so nice, with narrow alleys, chalked white houses with traditionally carved wooden doors and balconies, small mosques in every second corner, children playing in the street, and vendors trading fruits and spices. The scent of spices is really everywhere.

This is the place where we are conducting a one-week training course for local journalists in the use of internet, tovuti in Kiswahili, for fact-finding, news monitoring, communication and also publication. The training is organized by MISA-Tanzania and VIKES Foundation, a solidarity organization of journalist associations in Finland

Is that woman’s issues or men issues?????

Gender Issues is that women issues? There is big contradiction about this word…. other people believe that when you talk about Gender you talk about women issues. Is that true??? Please I need your comments about that topic…..my self I believe that gender is the relationship between women and men in the society, this relation can differ from one society to another and it’s a socially constructed.
According to the Google.com, Gender refers to the social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships between women and men and girls and boys, as well as the relations between women and those between men. These attributes, opportunities and relationships are socially constructed and are learned through socialization processes. They are context/ time-specific and changeable.

What I got from the training….

Am the one among 20 participants who got a chance to attend the internet training for journalist in Zanzibar taking place at SUZA .The 1st day of the training was good, I was late but I learned something, special about the different website such as www.amazon.co.uk, www.drudgereport.com and wikipedia where you can get the information’s and edit if there is new information to add or any changes you can do. Also I got the idea on how to open blog.
The 2nd day of the training it was really wonderful because I know how to edit, format, and change anything to my blog which known as Jukwaa la Wanawake. Also Mr Peik Johnanson shows us different international and national websites, and how it’s useful as a tool for journalist.
Through internet journalist can such for people, contact and facts and learn a lots of issues concerning different things you want to know.

WHO AM I???

I am Saphia Ngalapi, am freelance journalist and Gender Activist, working in different media house, such as newspaper, Radio station, Television and website known as www.Artmatters.info, my stories based on art, culture, youth, women, children and HIV/AIDS. I have more than seven years experience on this field. I also working with Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar as a reporter on the morning program called Habari za Mawio.
I also am working in different NGOs especial festivals organization in Zanzibar, like, Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) Coordinator Women Panorama, Children panorama and Village and Busara music Promotion as Press Coordinator for two years.
I like people, especial children by helping them in different ways, taking to them, hearing their views, because I believe that if you give them chance to talk or hear their voices, they can talk and give good opinions concerning their selves.
In addition, I like listening music, dancing, sports especial football, and chatting with different people.
Also, empowering women on entrepreneurship skills, women’s rights and Gender Issues.
Are part from that, I have skills on writing script, acting and facilitating.
I like facing new challenges.
The 1st day of the internet training for journalist was good, I was late but I got something, special about the different website such as amazon.co.uk, wikipedia that you can read and edit and opening the blog.