Children should be taught that being disabled is not something to use against people and make them feel ashamed, less valued, or of no substantial contribution.
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Problems that face Africa today need pragmatic and strategic approaches by leaders who know exactly what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.
The children who this year 2023 are learning under trees are technically expected to globally compete with their peers in the job market in 18 years. Are we expecting them to run at the same pace as other children in the country and the world at large while they are left behind in all aspects of learning?
The fact that there are incidences of mob justice communicates to us one of the following two things. First, it is either people do not know the law, or they do not know how to get help from the law, or second, the law enforcement agencies have disappointed people from time to time, and people have lost trust in the effectiveness of what they do.
The fact that we have not experienced these catastrophic situations for years does not guarantee that we will not experience them. It is much better to be safe than sorry.
It is a positive thing to teach children from when they are young what beauty is in their cultural setting before they learn different things from the streets of the internet. This way we will help to minimize the harm caused by unattainable impressions of beauty.
While violence is not a new thing anywhere in the world, the cases we hear about frequently were on the low for some good time. The biggest problem which I believe should be prioritised ikn seeking to addres this is the general use of physical force, brutality, and cruel behaviour of improvising household tools as weapons.
Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. “It is wrong to make deplorable situations in Dar es Salaam, reflections of expected standards in other regions in the country. This is made evident by the fact that many regional jurisdictions have proved to be outstanding in different areas based on the resources available to them all coupled with policies and priorities they set for themselves.”
Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on January 10, 2023 “For the fact that the general citizenry is the beneficiary of social action in its multiple faces, there is great need of having the people made aware. This touches all aspects of socio-political and socioeconomic life of the Tanzanian society. The government does not need to singlehandedly both prescribe and safeguard the social action vision of the country. This has proved failure in several instances when policies were implemented and changed after a short while, particularly in education and taxation.”
The World Philosophy Day, which we commemorate every third Thursday of November, underscores the relevance of intellectual and thoughtful engagement among people and cultures. 2022 is the twentieth year since this commemoration was begun by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to UNESCO, philosophy stimulates intercultural dialogue as it enables people to discover the diversity of the intellectual currents in the world.