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Hello, greetings from Manila, Philippines!

Welcome to my website. I trust you are so excited, just as I am. Shimbo Pastory is my name, and I am a Tanzanian social development advocate, researcher and whistleblower who has been using the print media as an avenue for good societal cause.
With over 200 published articles on social issues featuring in reputable publications, my motivation remains to be the aspiration that Tanzanian and African societies advance in social justice, empowerment, inclusion, and emancipation of the people.

The festive season which is traditionally the holiday time, affords families a little bit more time to be together. What does this really entail? It entails adults, and especially parents and guardians adjusting lifestyles to make the most of the festive season with family.

Hadija Jilala (PhD) shares her life journey as a person with disability. She sees her success as a platform to help people with disabilities rise to their feet and live happily and productively. The pdf copy of this article is found underneath the page for perusal and download.

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on 13th of December, 2022 As generations evolve, art tends to evolve as well. The different tributaries of art are all affected differently. Some changes will pass for growth or improvement while others will easily be seen as regress. With ease of technology, artists do not necessarily need to be as keen, original, and artistically skilled as they would need to be years ago when there was little or no possibilities of embellishment. It is very difficult today to grade the actual performative strength of an artist, because…

The fact that being trusted to undertake responsibilities without being watched has repeatedly proved not to work necessitates the need to bring in a way of ‘watching’ and keeping record of the movements of service providers who work directly with children in their respective facilities.

This course ‘Identifying Trustworthy Sources on Health Topics’ offered by Agence France-Presse (AFP) in collaboration with the Google News Initiative helped me to sharpen my journalism skills in tackling health matters. The health sector is one among the sectors that are mostly affected by consiracy theories and fake news. It is thus paramount for quality journalism to be skilled enough in identifying genuine and reliable sources. Verification link: https://digitalcourses.afp.com/certificates/ezejkweoxn

The World Children’s Day which is marked annually on 20th November, has been celebrated for the sixty-eighth time since its first observance, with a theme: ‘Inclusion for every child.’ In rthis analytic discourse we establish new ways to make inclusion more visible and practical as a social empowerment initiative.

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on November 20, 2022. With the biggest sports tournament in the world, the FIFA World Cup coming to its close in Qatar, there are a lot of lessons for the future. Discourses of quality sportsmanship that the 32 participant teams have displayed in the course of the 4 tournament weeks alongside the individual giftedness of players, cannot be taken for granted. It will exhaust a handful of column pages like this if we were to focus there. We can also not appreciate enough how these international sporting events,…

Diabetes has been responsible for at least $966 billion in health expenditure in 2021 which is 9% of the global total spent on healthcare. There is a need for global action to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue.

On November 7, in the Playfair Library of the University of Edinburgh – Scotland, the Centre of African Studies at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh hosted a crowd of Tanzanians and friends of Tanzania in commemoration of Mwalimu Nyerere’s centenary.