Life in the BIG APPLE

We are in New York! Life in New York is cool. This blog was not operating for sometime because we were busy trying to settle down in New York. So now everything is fixed. Look forward to seeing a lot of postings here now.
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Lucky Dube - It's Not Easy (Videoclip)

This Video of Lucky Dube, a South Afrikan Reggae star, is so good yet so sad. There is lots of emotions in it.
There are times or situations in life which at one point seems perfect, but in the end, as Lucky sings, it turns out "it didn't work out the way i thought it would..."
Listen to the worlds carefully, the mothers worlds are so powerful. And the preacher man, what did he say? I hope i heard it right. Look at that beautiful Afrikan woman!
When you're going through the emotions of leaving the place you've lived for yrs, and move to a big city New York, its exciting, but Lucky said it all, "ITS NOT EASY"
See you in Manhattan soon!
Enjoy it.
Credit for the vid. Eternitylures.

Happy Birthday America! (Heri ya kuzaliwa Marekani)

Rest In Peace Amina Chifupa, a.k.a. AC

Kwa Heri mheshimiwa Amina Chifupa,

Amina Chifupa, AC, who passed away in Tanzania, Dar-es-salaam late june, will always be remembered as the youngest Female member of parliament. At 27, she was having a heck of a carrier. Very outspoken regarding issues unpleasant to many carrier politicians, the main one being her will to fight against drug dealers.


Reasons for her quick death are still a mysterious, but malaria was mentioned as one.May God Rest her soul in eternal peace. Amen.
Bwana alitoa, na Bwana ametwaa, Jina la Bwana libarikiwe.

Picha kwa hisani ya Muhidin Issa Michuzi blog.

Safari ya New York,

A Trip to New York,
We (tabu and raha) took a trip to the big apple earlier this month. We fell in Love with the big apple once again. Manhattan is a fun place to hang out, esp. with such a nice weather of 70 degrees! Times square is fun and busy, subways are something else, Dellis, speeding yellow cabs, the list goes on.
Now we understand what it means when people says of NY as "the city that never sleeps". Times square is as busy as ever at midnight! Soo many people are out there at night you forget its night time.
We are going back soon, we love New York.

The black women dilemma

Who to vote for? Well if you're a democrat. In the next primaries there are going to be (among many) two powerful, interesting candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, whom black women (especially) have a huge dilemma who to go for. Npr news radio reported that, some black women haven't decided yet to either vote for Barack or Hillary. These two candidates have something in common. If either one of them win primaries and eventually presidential elections, will make history. As the first black president and first woman president of the United states. Well, what do you think?

Easter eggs (Mayai ya Pasaka)

Happy Easter! (Pasaka njema)

Meet Kipanya / Meet Mr Mouse

Kipanya, (or Mr Mouse in English) is one of Tanzanias famous cartoons. The cartoonist himself, Masoud, whom most people simply calls him Kipanya, is one of the most talented artists in the world in my opinion. Anybody who has seen his works would agree with me without a flinch.

Kipanya has been around for a long time. Kipanya cartoons appears in a daily paper in Tanzania, Majira, and most people have confessed that the first thing they look at after getting
their hands on the Majira news paper is look at Kipanya, just to start their day on a happy note.

Now look at Kipanya trying to have a luxury shower and complaining to Mrs Kipanya about the pressure of water being too low! Lol!
And Poor Mrs Kipanya thinking "I think this marriage is sooo over..."Lol! Ooooohhhh boy...

chakula (msosi) / food

Msosi wa Kibongo / Tanzania food

chakula safi cha Kitanzania. Sahani ya wali mweupe. pembeni kuna chungu chenye maharage ya nazi, halafu chungu chenye bamia na nyanya chungu, halafu chungu cha kisamvu kilichoungwa kwa nazi! Yummmmyyyy... Do I make you hungry?

Wali = cooked rice

Maharage ya nazi = beans cooked with coconut milk

Bamia na nyanya chungu = Okra with bitter tomatoes.

Kisamvu = cassava leaves cooked with coconut milk

Picha kwa hisani ya Majjid Mjengwa Blog.

What a memoir!

I would like to recommend this memoir to everybody! it's an incredible book! Ishmael is so brilliant. From what he's been through to this point of his life, I failed to comprehend.

United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Asha Rose Migiro / Naibu katibu mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa

A Tanzanian, Asha Rose Migiro, is the newly appointed deputy UN sec general, or UN's No.2. Prior she served as Tanzania's Foreign Affairs Minister.

It was all cheers and tears in Tanzania and to Tanzanians around the world when the news of her appointment broke. UN sec.General saw in her what we already knew, a very intelligent woman, hard working,and a beautiful person.

Hongera (Congratulations) sana dada. We are so proud of you.

Happy Valentine day!

We had this picture before, but I'm just going to post it again, if you guys don't mind. I think it teach and show us how Love (upendo) can conquer all!........happy valentine day!

Mzungu in Zanzibar

Mzungu akiwa Zanzibar, kavaa tisheti yenye kumtambulisha.
(Picha kwa hisani ya Michuzi Blog)

He is for real! (what a journalist)

Samora Avenue / Mtaa wa Samora (Part Two)

Okay, now back to mtaa wa Samora. A few weeks ago I gave you a short history of this Tz's main street, Samora, and where it got its name from.
Both sides of Samora are filled with nice buildings, nice pavements, nice restaurants, plenty of Bureau De Change, Plenty of offices and businesses, lots of expensive stores, lots of tourists, lots of cars and even a few "Machinga."
Its fascinating to walk inside Samora. It feels suddenly like you are in a different world. Everybody looks well dressed, walk a little faster than usual, looks busier than necessary, speak as little swahili as possible, speak more english than needed, act more businesslike than they are, the list can go on...
It all starts at the entrance of Samora, around stesheni, if you're coming from that side. All you do is stop and sit down at a shoe shine place, cool off (Dar is about 90 degrees always), get your shoes shined, try to refresh a bit, take a deep breath, GO...

Follow up....I have a dream!....

Should we believe that this is, may be, Dr. Martin Luther King, fruits of his work? as I said yesterday, if Dr. Martin Luther king was still alive, he would've been witnessing some of his dreams coming true in our times.

Will he or will he not? RUN, he said he is going to announce, sometime in mid febuary. ( I can't wait) Go get'em Obama! but, remember to keep 'em honest!

I have a dream!........

If Dr. Martin Luther King could live to our times, He would've been able to witness his dream come true. It's happening slowly............ but, it's happening.

Oprah's school / shule ya Oprah

Shule ya Oprahs, Oprah's leadership academy for girls has opened officially, in South Africa. Girls are so excited about it and so is Oprah herself. Oprah spent $40 million of HER money, (may I repeat, HER MONEY) to build this school. She promised Mzee Mandela, and she has fullfilled her promise.

The reason I insist the worlds Her Money is that, believe it or not, there are people who are so upset that she chose to spend that much money to Afrikan girls and not here in USA! I was reading cnn's 360blog, by Jeff Koinange, who wrote a really nice article about this school, and as I started reading the comments I came across really negative coments about Oprah. But the good thing there were also people, who were as surprised as I was to see that there are people who could find something ugly out of something this good! Not to mention the fact that its her money and she can use it however she pleases. Not to even mention the fact that Oprah does so much to help people here in the US, through her Angel network thousands have been helped for years, and thousands more will be helped for many years to come.

Now someone help me, how anyone find this kind of heart"so awful", "hypocritical", "attention seeker", or as one blogger, called her,"evil"!

Reminder: Oprah will be interviewed on cnn on mmonday 1/8/07 @10.00pm

Asante Oprah !

Haya, Oprah Winfrey, nakubali apewe Title African Queeeeeennnnn........ She can truly have that title because she really is one. She just opened her 40 million school for girls in South Afrika.This is one woman who is so unselfish, she shares her wealth with total strangers! She's been blessed and she blesses others as well. Who could imagine those girls could wake up one morning to this fairly tale like? Only Oprah can make the Imaginary become real, I'm still confused to just think of it. Is she a normal human being like the rest of us? I can't find words to discuss this, all I can say is "ASANTE SANA DADA OPRAH".

PS.Nimekuta blog fulani huko, jamaa kiroho kinawadunda kwa wivu, eti kwa nini ameenda kusaidia mbali huko Afrika! wivuuuuu, wakitaka wajiDito...