“Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.”
“Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.”
"That is what our educational system has to encourage. It has to foster the social goals of living together, and working together, for the common good."
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?
"Just as water from the driest regions of the earth flows into the ocean where already there is plenty, so wealth flows from the poorest… into the hands of those… who are already wealthy"
“Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”
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hey i think Mwalimu needs more internatiional recognition for the impact he made especially in the liberation struggles of most African countries. Im glad to have found this blog cause there is not much material to google from on his greatest accord
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