FRIENDLY FIRE FROM YESTERYEARS: From Lincoln to Lyatonga: Why Abe got ‘democracy’ wrong (I)

>About 130 years after Abraham ‘Abe’ Lincoln, the 16th US President (1861-65) was assassinated in Washington DC on April 14-15, 1865, Tanzania saw to a rise Phoenix-like from the political ashes  its own equally maverick son of the soil, Augustine ‘Inji Hii’ Lyatonga Mrema (born December 31, 1944 ...).

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jun

Give me friendly fire any time? But not military fire, please!

No doubt acting out of curiosity, a reader emailed to ask me what the heading to this column, ‘Friendly Fire From Yesteryears,’ is intended to portray. How can fire be friendly, the fellow asked - perhaps bearing in mind such episodes as the Great Fire of London in 1666!

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Sep

Deadly friendly fire in 1939 still reverberates today!

Six historic events on a date like today’s, September 6, induce me to share them with my esteemed readers.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Sep

Yesteryears? No; we simply say, ‘yesteryear’

We look at diction again, for the work of a scribbler isn’t just about grammatical competence, it’s also about vocabulary competence.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jul

OPANGA: There’s right and wrong. Israel is wrong

>You are either with the Palestinians or with Israel. I am with the Palestinians. Look, Israel has elastic borders, which it extends outwards at the slightest pretext and totally and utterly in disregard of international opinion or law. It occupies the land of the Palestinians, builds settlements on it and imposes a land, air and sea blockade against Gaza.

 

10 years ago

BBCSwahili

26 Jan

Nywele ya Lincoln yauzwa kwa dola 25,000

Vitu vya aliyekuwa rais wa 16 wa Marekani Abraham Lincoln vimeuzwa katika mnada Marekani na kupata dola 800,000.

 

11 years ago

Mwananchi

08 Oct

Abraham Lincoln ni rais wa kwanza Marekani kuuawa akiwa madarakani

Tangu kuzinduliwa kwa Katiba ya Marekani mwaka 1787 na kupatikana Rais wa kwanza mwaka 1789, nchi hiyo imeshatawaliwa na marais 44. Barack Obama mwenye asili ya Afrika ndiye Rais wa sasa anayemaliza muhula wa mwisho. Aliingia Ikulu Januari 20, 2009.

 

10 years ago

BBCSwahili

29 Apr

Ajuza aliyedhulumiwa kukutana na Abe

Mwanammke mmoja wa Korea aliyedhulumiwa kingono na jeshi la Japan atarajiwa kuhudhuria kikao cha baraza la Congress

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

TANZANIA TO BENEFIT FROM ABE INITIATIVES

 Deputy Permanent Secretary President's Office-Public Service Management Mr.HAB Mkwizu (left) speaking at a farewell ceremony of departing JICA Senior Representative Mr.Hajime Iwama (second left) at the President's Office - Public Service Management yesterday. Deputy Permanent Secretary President's Office-Public Service Management Mr.HAB Mkwizu (left) present a gift to outgoing JICA Senior Representative Mr. Hajime Iwama during a farewell ceremony held at the President's Office-Public...

 

5 years ago

Al Jazeera English

25 Mar

Tokyo 2020 postponed as Japan's Abe bows to pressure over virus

Tokyo 2020 postponed as Japan's Abe bows to pressure over virus  Al Jazeera EnglishJapan, IOC agree to postpone 2020 Olympics  The Citizen DailyThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been postponed to 2021  CNNAbe, Trump to hold phone meeting on Japan’s Olympics – report  RTTokyo Games moved to 2021 as 'light at end of pandemic tunnel'  ReutersView Full coverage on Google News

 

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