This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on February 11, 2025 Shimbo Pastory It is common today to see in social media, picture and video content involving parents or caregivers and their children. There are varieties of this content, on one end having normal conversations, surreptitious/secret recordings, staged funny skits, pranks, etc. to mention a few. ‘Sharenting’ is a new word, technically called a portmanteau (formed by blending the sounds and combining meanings of two words), which has been made for this social phenomenon, being itself a combination of “sharing” and “parenting.” Languages all over the world have…
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This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on October 31, 2024 Shimbo Pastory Citizen journalism is oftentimes a frowned upon reality in most countries where those in power and leadership are insecure with about their responsibilities and how they carry them out. Citizen journalists in such cases are endangered just like the regular career journalists. However, encouraging citizen journalism, with guidelines of course, streamlines the quality of public service practice to further near perfection of the expected standards of service delivery. By guidelines here we are talking about rules and laws protecting both the citizen journalist, or whistleblower,…
As artificial intelligence can aggregate knowledge so well, it is a free opportunity for young people to test the waters in the fields of their aspiration, which they either did not have a chance to explore at all, or did not learn so well in school. AI allows a fair share of this knowledge for free, guaranteeing a transformation of digital literacy and general knowledge of the people after a while, if consistently used and engaged in actual life.
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It is time our education system incorporates some wonderful technological tools that foster student – teacher learning engagement in exciting ways. But this will be really hard to reach if our system remains rigidly tied to heavily demanding curricula and grades as markers of successful teaching and learning. Education is beyond grades!
There should be a way of gathering these philosophical ideas by our leaders, whether formally or informally presented, as they are indicative of where we are going as a nation, and probably, the dangerous leaders we should not have. Nation-building is more than corporate management; having a philosophy unites the purpose and refines assignment of priorities for the good of all.
Shimbo Pastory Globally the world animal day is marked on October 4 each year as a social education initiative to help treat animals better. There is no doubt regarding an assumed supremacy of the human person, supported by holy books, which renders nature, including animals at the human person’s merciless and ruthless greed. While use of what nature provides for sustenance, is perfectly fine and natural, indiscriminate and careless treatment of other living things is an unprecedented response for human persons endowed (by the Creator) with capacity for reason and thought. Different societies regard animals differently, in that some societies…
Kwa sasa, haina maana yoyote kukaa na kusimuliana historia ya mambo yaliyotokea nyuma, hasa yale yenye kuleta maumivu ya kijamii, bila kuyatazama kwa mtazamo mpana wenye maono ya mbeleni. Hii ni nadharia nzuri kuitumia katika kuizungumzia historia pana iliyopo nyuma ya pazia la historia ya utumwa.
Historia ya utumwa ni kielelezo dhahiri kwamba bila kujisimamia wenyewe kwa umoja wa nia tunakuwa ni vibaraka wa watu wenye tamaa, ukweli ambao upo wazi hata katika maisha ya kila siku.
Non-violence is a human value, regardless of religious faiths, beliefs, or philosophies. In fact, it sits at the baseline of qualifying values forming the humanness of the human person, which at the same time differentiates human persons from animals. Animals lack a sense of control when their needs are not met and can easily resolve to using force.
It is important that our leaders are trained to take non-violence approaches so as to help address social issues without causing communities and persons pain or make them rethink their sense of belonging. The danger of the latter is them rising up to reclaim by force what they believe is rightfully theirs.
The World Social Report mentions the Sub-Saharan Africa region among the regions that will experience the fastest growth in the number of older persons in the next 3 decades. The need for advocacy for care and protection of elderly with dignity and value both systemically and among individual persons is higher than we think, especially when we recount gruesome incidences of cruelty and abuse of the elderly, and deplorable conditions of living which many elderly persons live in.