Saturday, October 31, 2009

Obama stories and snake dance shots

The training ended well with nice speaches, group photos and sharing contacts. When coming out from class, the higher powers greeted us with a heavy thunderstorm, and it was raining like someone was pouring water from the bucket.

During the last day of training, the first thing on our programme was to finish writing the assignments on one of several topics suggested. After that, we spent the rest of the day with Maggid Mjengwa, who also taught the participants how to post images to their blogs.

One of the assignment topics was to search for information on Barack Obama’s childhood and write a short story about that. Here’s the link to the story by Calvin Jilala, editor of Msanii Afrika newspaper. And here’s the posting of Raymond Nyamwihula, Star TV.

Deus Bugaywa, Tanzania Daima, has written a nice review about the short travel story “He’s my Brother” by Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina.

St. Augustine University lecturer Getrude John chose the same topic and comes up with the conclusion that also Tanzanians should read and write more:
“We have to develop a culture of reading, writing and fact-finding. Wainaina here is sharing with us his experience of being in the country like Tanzania as a writer. I believe we Tanzanians too have very good stories to tell the world. We are travelling here and there within and outside the country. It is not bad to tell other people our experiences and what we learn on our trips.”
George Ramadhan from Nipashe wrote about the climate change and Mt. Kilimanjaro and posted a beautiful picture of the mountain and some elephants.

The most popular research topic was however to write about the situation of albinos in Tanzania and the on-going court trials against the people suspected of the gruesome killings. The idea was to make use of local news sources from Kiswahili language online newspapers. Here’s the story by Stella Ibengwe, Tanzania Daima, and here’s the one by Anthony Komanya, Uhuru newspaper. Both are correspondents from Shinyanga, and writing in Kiswahili.

Posting images was another highlight of the day. In most of the blogs, you will find several pictures from our classroom.

Noel Joram has also published a graduation photo of himself with president Kikwete.

The true champion of image-posting must be Mwanza Press Club coordinator Victor Maleko who has posted so many nice pictures. Here are some photos from a Sukuma snake dance performance that he seems to have joined himself too.

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