DEAR DIARY: Tanzanian poets on the rise

>As an artist, I have been involved in using art for change. I remember last year when a young girl was a victim of cyber bullying, a few of us organised ourselves to speak against the horrific experience that she went through.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Feb

DEAR DIARY: Be encouraged to rise again

>A friend of mine wrote something on her Facebook page that put me on a reflection-mode. Her last year was a tough one and she had a sort of ‘theme’ to help her go through it.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

DEAR DIARY: It’s not goodbye but see you later

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

DEAR DIARY: Christmas is about reaching out

>It is Christmas next week. Yaaaay. It has actually been Christmas the whole month. I was communicating with a friend who is in the US, and he would end by saying ‘Merry Christmas’.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Aug

DEAR DIARY: Why would anyone kill a child?

It is hard to imagine that someone can harm their own child, leave alone a baby. It is human instinct to want and protect life instead of destroying it, especially that of a child. But things happen and sometimes, they happen to you.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Apr

DEAR DIARY: Travelling is indeed enjoyable

>A job assignment saw me travel to Mbeya last week, I must say, the sheer beauty of the region was breath-taking. I love travelling upcountry. I love getting out of Dar and seeing places

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Dec

DEAR DIARY: They are girls not brides

I was following the First Ladies Summit on child marriage which recently took place in Lusaka closely since I had received an invitation to attend the same but could not make it due to unavoidable circumstances.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 May

DEAR DIARY: Get tested before marriage

>To test or not to test, that is the question. Going for an HIV test can be a very frightening experience; the flash backs about questionable encounters, the crippling self-doubt and even mistrust of your partner can run through your mind.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Feb

DEAR DIARY: Be independent and pamper yourself

>My girlfriends and I were in Zanzibar last weekend for Sauti za Busara. We booked the flight three weeks before and hooked up with a friend in the Isles who gladly let us stay in her house.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

DEAR DIARY: Tuti, until we meet again

>Tutindaga Anania Mwambungu was my friend. We weren’t the kind that spent all weekends together, or chat over the phone every now and then. We only shared brief moments when she was alive.

 

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