Greed can never be quenched.

“Whether you have a Maruti or a BMW, The road remains the same. Whether you travel economy class or business, Your destination doesn’t change. Whether you have a Titan or a Rolex, the time is the same. There is nothing wrong in dreaming a Luxurious life. What needs to be taken care of is Not let the NEED become GREED. Because needs can always be met….but greed can never be fulfilled.”-
Rajinikanth

Slayed!

Say no to Xenophobia

Following the spread of xenophobia attacks in South Africa this week, it is disgusting to witness what is becoming of the world. For those of you who don't know what Xenophobia is, It is the dislike of people from different countries residing in one's country.
It has grown wildly in South Africa as they claim foreigners are snatching their jobs. .and there is no food. ..and there is no water....blah blah blah! ...
Zimbabweans are mainly targeted, among others. In one occasion, a man was burnt to death as onlookers watched while others even chanting and laughing.
Now, the saddest bit is the killing of the children. I looked at this photo below and nearly teared up. The kid is not even above 5years old, but is being targeted. In most cases, we look at these stories in the news and we sympathize and move on with our lives. Some people even have a preconceived idea that that's just Africa. It is already sad that we have racism to deal with, but the wound is much more painful when hate comes from the same kind.
I wrote this in order to bring awareness to you, spread the message and let us put a stop to this sick curse. Africa is for Africans #saynotoxenophobia.

Chronicles of a dark skinned girl

While waiting for my Internet problem to be fixed, a gentleman beside me tries to engage in small talk with me and automatically goes on to do this in kinyarwanda. Now he goes on for some good five minutes as I smile politely before letting him know am not Rwandese to which he argued saying I look Rwandese. Keep in mind that is supposed to be a compliment.
It then reminded me of the beautiful baganda women who are told, "Ur so beautiful! " & reply saying, 'Munange, Mama wange aina mu aka' banyarwanda!' meaning "My mum has Rwandese blood"
Which further got me thinking, "Why is to hard to embrace black & I mean Dark skinned beauty? " why do we always have to justify the ethnicity when this happens?
The worst kind of compliment is your beautiful for a dark skinned person.
We sneer down at people who bleach but aren't we the one bringing out that low self esteem.
Women like Lupita Nyongo shine in their dark skinned beauty. Why must I change my origin to be deemed as beautiful. And to the women who bleach,  let no one lie to you, that bleach will only take time to begin burning your skin and ruining your ego. And bleached skin doesn't mean you look rich, get that conservative & ignorant idea out of your heads people!! Always remember its ur self esteem that needs help,  not your skin. Go talk to someone.

fake Eyebrows or not?

In a salon ready to attain my daily hair-do, i cant help my lingering eyes past a lady trimming all her eyebrows, I think to myself, "is she actually in her right mind?" But judging by the looking of things, i appear to be the only one who seems to be surprised. the beautician goes ahead to fill in the missing eyebrows, leaving me in wonderment as to the need to take them all off in the first place. A young lady then explains to me further saying the lesser the eyebrows, the better the outcome. i almost laughed thinking is that what one has to grow through to look good. As the beautician finishes filling them in, everyone smiles saying, "wow! You look good!" But I go silent about it, still taken aback by the 'first time experience' I have just witnessed. What is the point if one is going to have eyebrows like the Nike logo.Don't get me wrong, there are people that do look with these fake eyebrows. But there are some people whereby this trick is just not working. Some choose to just add with the eyebrows and play identical to a clown! I mean try to look but don't take to a whole other level because you saw someone doing it. How do some women wake up in the morning to no eyebrows at all? It must be horrific to witness.. Fake eyebrows or Not?

WHY IS THE "FEMINIST" SO THREATENING?

“You’re a feminist?!” a colleague asks me in astonishment. Scared at what may seem like an insult, I then rush to the nearest dictionary to look up a word I am already familiar with. Guilt ridden but yet firm, I reply him with a shy silent “yes” I could swear that even a bat would have difficulty hearing what I said.

It got me asking what is wrong about feminism and why has been portrayed as such an outrageous offense. We speak of it like how you would be talking about terrorism. In the rural setting, a feminist is a very unhappy woman because she cannot find a husband. On another survey research, people claimed it was not the “African culture” and that is for women of nowadays who have been corrupted by the ‘western culture’ so they say.

The feminist carries a lot of baggage and this is basically the negative lot. You either hate men or hate bras or you hate African culture or you have deep issues that sort of thing. Over the years, feminism has been mistaken to being sexist and this has got to stop.

The biggest mistake made by many is that we think what is common to us is common to others. Men and women differ in various sectors in life. We have different hormones, different sexual organs, different biological abilities; Men are in general are physically stronger than women, in regards to population, there are slightly more women than men and yet men dominate positions of power and prestige. The late Kenyan, Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai went straight to the point when she said, “The higher you go the fewer women there are.”

When Chimamanda Ngozi talked about all these small eye opening things like the waiter greeting the man she is with and ignoring her, giving money to the parking official and he turns to thank the officer. It is one thing to know this intellectually and another to feel it emotionally.

The invisibility cold that kicks in at the sight of the special treatment being delivered by the waiter towards a male you are dining with, getting kicked out of a building for a certain way dressing even when not vulgar working hand in hand with a man and him being paid more, cooking for an elder sibling food because you happen to be a ‘girl’. This is upsetting! It is the little things that sting the most.

The young Nigeria feminist said, “Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry..”  However it is not only women that suffer through these injustices, boys have been taught to be afraid of vulnerability and weakness”, they are castigated and ostracized if thought to be otherwise. Men are always expected to pay the bill in most areas especially in Africa. We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes. Men do not have the benefits of gender equality either.

We all seem to forget that we make culture and culture does not make us, if we are to go on blaming this hate on culture.

In a un speech by the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson said that if you hate the word –it is not the word that is important but the idea and the ambition behind it.

For the record, feminism by definition is “the belief that men and women should equal rights and opportunities. It is a theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”

The best feminist I have met is my elder brother. He is also a generous, good looking and a very lovely gen

buying of luku turns out to be a nightmare in dar es salaam.

Exhausted and profoundly let down by a long day, I rush back home anticipating to complete a couple of incomplete errands on my computer and to watch the attention drawing dose of the daily soap operas on Telemundo , I embark on my journey  and “Alas!!!!” For the second date in a row, total darkness? I go on to ask the help and much to my dismay come to find out that the ‘LUKU’ has run out. “Surely Mobile money will make this easy!”  I say to myself.  A fifteen minute trial to transaction goes on but all in vain. ‘Argh!!’ could this day get any worse. I again spend thirty minutes in a long queue in a vending station at Kijitonyama. As I wait profusely, I engaged myself in some chit chat with another customer, a resident in the city who assured me about her past experience on how she tried several times to buy electricity through SIM banking but they only deducted her money and did not send her the recharging token, she complained. I am then informed that the network is down and to come back later which I have repeatedly heard consecutively. What a nightmare! I think to myself. However, the problem of buying LUKU has intensified following the collapse of all LUKU systems as affirmed by the Transco’s Acting Director General, Decklan Mhaiki as he told journalists.

                However in Tanzania public anger is directed not at Mother Nature but at the government for series of failures at managing power crisis blaming only the drought is absurd over the past years. Over the past couple of years Tanzania has squirmed under the nightmare or the horror of repeated power blackouts.

                Tanesco had a long dis investment period from 1996 to 2006. Even since 2006 investment in the electricity has been small and capacity only grown marginally. Demand on the other hand has been continuously raising a major factor in the power outages. Power outages have been common in Tanzania since 2006 especially during dry season as most of its power  depends on the source of water as it generates its power from water boundaries as that of the Mtera dam and Nyumba ya Mungu therefore during the dry season power supplied is lower than during the wet season.   

According to the Director General, Tanesco technicians managed to restore about 70 percent of the luku system and promiced that they would be restored Mhaiki said in order to avoid similar technical problems in the future Tanesco is rehabilitating its systems including establishing its own data center which will provide them with backup data when the system collapses he said the backup data center will be ready by match this year for his part Tanesco’s senior manager ICT department, Kusenha Mazengo said problems started when the extended vending get failed.

                He went on to mention some of the selling points where customers can buy LUKU as Tanesco offices within the city and other agents authorized to sell LUKU. Others are petrol stations, ATM, and simbanking for both CRDB and NMB customers