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#Gene #editing goes to #Rwanda ✂ 🧬 in #Kigali
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@Gene_Convene @FNIH_Org
Link👇🏾 for further details and application portal.
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Scholarships are available!
*Deadline for application is* *October 14th, 2024*
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🧬 DAY 02 | GENE EDITING SHORT COURSE 2026 🔬
Day 02 brought together leading minds from across the biosciences community to deepen their knowledge
📍 University of Dodoma, Tanzania
📅 29th September 2026
Together, we are #FNIH #GCLA #GeneConvene #UDOMOfficial
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DAY 03 | GENE EDITING SHORT COURSE 2026
Day 03 in Dodoma was all about deepening knowledge, sparking new ideas, and strengthening scientific collaboration.
📍 University of Dodoma, Tanzania
📅 30th September 2026
#FNIH #GCLA #GeneConvene #UDOMOfficial
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DAY 01 | GENE EDITING SHORT COURSE 2026
A strong beginning to an inspiring week of science, learning, collaboration, and innovation in Dodoma! 🇹🇿
📍 University of Dodoma, Tanzania
📅 28th September 2026
Learn • Collaborate • Innovate
#FNIH #GCLA #GeneConvene #UDOMOfficial
#geneediting #dodoma #Tanzania #Biotechnology #Africa 🔥🌍
@FNIH_Org @Gene_Convene @udomtheofficial @gcla
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URU INTERNATIONAL GENE EDITING SHORT COURSE 2026
A powerful gathering of professionals, researchers, academics, and science enthusiasts in Dodoma, Tanzania, for an intensive short course on Gene Editing.
📅 28th September – 2nd October 2026
📍 University of Dodoma, Tanzania 🇹🇿
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One of Matiba's first crisis as permanent secretary of education was leakage of KAPE exams in 1963. He says that they we're going to pull off a Matiangi. They wrote new exams, and got money to print them, but then minister of education Joseph Patience vetoed the decisions.
Almost all children scored As in all subjects that year, yet ther were few primary school spaces. So school heads were told to use the school reports.
It still wasn't enough to meet the demand for secondary schools, so many regional assemblies started new secondary schools with no teachers or with headmasters who had freshly completed O level.
Wah wah! Kumbe 8.4.4 bado ilikuwa 1963?
#CBCisheretostay
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The more I read about British public schools, the more frustrated I get remembering an interview on the Lynn Ngugi show, where someone was saying that the British invented boarding schools in Kenya to distance Africans from their cultures. That was the result, not the intention.
The boarding schools were initially for wazungu, especially Prince of Wales and Limuru Girls. Their goal was to divorce children from their families to create rulers who were heartless in governing empire. Lord Delamere even said it, that they cant allow a class of poor whites to develop in Kenya, and the way to prevent that is by building posh public schools for whites. And public schools had existed in England centuries before they were brought here.
We Kenyans are not that important to the British, so that they invented things for us. They implemented the mess they also do at home.
At some point, we Kenyans will have to come down from our colonial pedestal, and learn to stop reading effects of actions as the purposes of those actions. The British notoriously hate planning. Like Kenyan journalists, they call planning "too much theory." What they brought here is not what they planned to do. It's what they bluffed doing. That's why they needed to use so much violence because very little worked out as they imagined.
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Every time I remember the DISK we used to receive for speaking Kiswahili or mother tongue, I understand more clearly, as an adult, just how deeply colonialism was embedded in our upbringing, and how many of its scars we still carry.
We were being punished for speaking our own language. Shamed for expressing our own identity. And it was not merely a slap on the wrist. We were beaten, heavily, for something that should never have been considered wrong in the first place.
Imagine being taught to associate your own language with punishment and humiliation, while being conditioned to believe that another language made you more intelligent, more civilised or more worthy.
That is how colonialism works. It does not only conquer land. It colonises the mind, reshapes identity and teaches you to be ashamed of yourself.
And sometimes, the most painful part is realising how much of that conditioning survived long after the colonisers left.
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Mtaka ni mbegu nzuri iliyoanguka kwenye udongo mbaya. Kuna mambo hauwezi kufake, ni ama unayo au hauna.
Ameuliza swali muhimu sana ambalo Mwal. @MabalaMakengeza amekuwa akisisitiza kila mara anaposema “Mungu pekee ndio mwenye uwezo wa kusema iwe ikawa.”
Huu “uchumi wa dola trillion moja” by 2050 unatengenezwa na human resource ipi?
Mtoto anayezaliwa leo hii ana mazingira yoyote ya kumwandaa kushiriki kikamilifu kwenye uchumi, tofauti na mama yake aliyezaliwa miaka 15 - 20 iliyopita?
Ni kipi haswa kilichobadilika kwenye elimu ya Tanzania ambacho unaweza kusema “hawa wa jana hakika hawakuandaliwa lakini hawa wa leo wana uhakika wa kuwa rasilimali watu?”
JIBU LA MSINGI NI HAKUNA. Mazingira ni yale yale, miundombinu duni ni ile ile, tatizo la walimu ni lile lile, vifaa vya TEHAMA ni changamoto vile vile, na bajeti ni kiduchu vile vile. Tena kama haitoshi ndio kwanza tumeongeza idadi ya wanafunzi mara dufu halafu juu yake tukakopi sehemu ya sera ya elimu ya Finland na kuitumbukiza Tanzania.
Mwanafunzi mzuri wa policy borrowing anaweza kutabiri with certainty kuwa tulichofanya ni mbili jumlisha mbili toa nne, haswa kwa kuzingatia uhalisia wetu wa kimiundombinu.
Hoja nyingine nyeti ni hii ya KUSUBIRI KUSAIDIWA KILA KITU. Yani hata kutumia wataalam wetu kama wakina Kipanya na Mabala kututengenezea makala za kufundishia imekuwa changamoto, mpaka tusubiri “WAHISANI.”
Pata picha hadithi za ucheshi wa kufundishia za Mabala, ambaye ni mtaalam wa literacy, zimekutana na katuni za Kipanya, vyote kwenye program moja. Ameuliza Mtaka, ni kipi haswa kwenye katuni ya Akili and Me kinachohitaji mtu kutoka nje??
Mwisho Mtaka akagusa panapouma. Katuni za @HakiElimu kuhusu uhalisia wa mazingira ya kufundishia zilikuwa na shida gani??
Hatutaki kuambiwa ukweli kuhusu hali ya madawati mashuleni, vyoo, changamoto kubwa ya walimu na uwezo wao, pepo la lugha ya kufundishia n.k.
Kila mara jamaa wakidepict uhalisia, mnasema “oohhhh wanashusha moral ya walimu; ooohhh wanamdharaulisha mwalimu; ooohhh wanaondoa utu wa wanafunzi; ooohhhh blah blah blah.”
Tunapenda political correctness kiasi kwamba tupo tayari kuficha ukweli na kuacha watoto waendelee kusomea kwenye mazingira ya tabu na mateso kuliko kukabiliana na ukweli.
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Just looked at the "Road to Singapore" plan, aka #KenyaVision2060.
The working assumption of the plan is that the West got where it is through good planning and policy.
Kenyans need to decide which universe they live in, and plan from there. Is it the reality of geopolitics, or the economic fantasy the West has constructed and reinforced with violence?
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There are many Africans who cite Singapore as proof that colonialism cannot explain African poverty. What they consistently fail to mention is how Singapore actually built itself. Because Singapore did not develop through deregulation and laissez faire capitalism. It developed through aggressive state intervention, strategic nationalisation, public housing programmes that housed over 80% of its population, a government that planned its economy with surgical interventionism and refused to leave development to the invisible hand of the market.
So it is genuinely amusing to watch people invoke Singapore in the same breath as they argue against land reform, against nationalisation, against any meaningful state intervention in the economy, while promoting the very neoliberal policies that Singapore deliberately rejected on its path to development.
You cannot want Singapore’s results while opposing Singapore’s methods. That is a contradiction. You are attempting to achieve the outcomes of socialist politics with laissez faire capitalist policies, and calling anyone who points out the inconsistency an ideologue.
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Majaribio ya Mapinduzi ya 1983
Mnamo mwaka wa 1982, hatua za kuanza kwa njama za kumwondoa Rais Julius Kambarage Nyerere zilifanyika. Kinara wa mpango huo alikuwa Kapteni Eugene Maganga akishirikiana na wanajeshi wenzie kama vile Zakaria Hans Poppe, Mohamed Tamimu, Suleiman Kamando, Christopher Kadego, Vitalis Mapunda, Hatibu Gandhi maarufu kama Hatty MacGhee, na Kaja Badru, pamoja na mfadhili wao, mfanyabiashara Pius Rugangira.
Kapteni Maganga alizaliwa katika kijiji cha Itaga, mkoani Tabora, mwaka 1956. Alifanikiwa kujiunga na Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) mwaka 1976 akiwa na umri wa miaka 20 na kufanikiwa kupandishwa cheo hadi Kapteni, cheo ambacho alitunukiwa mwaka 1982.
Kapteni Maganga alikuwa mmoja wa wanajeshi wetu walioshiriki kikamilifu katika Vita ya Kagera. Kuna uvumi kwamba ni vita hizi zilizompa wazo la kuanzisha mapinduzi dhidi ya Nyerere, akiamini kuwa amiri jeshi mkuu huyo hakushiriki katika vita hizo kwa maslahi ya Tanzania bali ili kurejesha utawala wa rafiki yake wa karibu, Milton Obote, ambaye aliondolewa madarakani na Iddi Amin mwaka 1971.
Mwezi Mei mwaka wa 1980, baada ya Vita ya Kagera, Eugene Maganga alianza masomo yake katika Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam akichagua Uhusiano wa Kimataifa na Utawala wa Umma. Kuna madai kwamba Maganga aliamua kuchukua masomo hayo ili kujiandaa kwa majukumu ya uongozi baada ya kutekeleza mpango wake wa kumwondoa Julius Nyerere madarakani, mpango ambao hatimaye uligonga mwamba.
Inasemekana Maganga alishirikisha wanajeshi wenzio katika mpango huo ambao nao hawakuridhishwa na sababu za Tanzania kuingia kwenye vita na Uganda. Maganga na kundi lake walikutana na Marehemu Pius Rugangira (Uncle Tom), ambaye alikuwa mfanyabiashara maarufu wa Tanzania aliekua anafanya shughuli zake za kibiashara nchini Kenya. Baba yake Pius Rugangira hakuwa na uhusiano mzuri na Rais Nyerere, na hata yeye mwenyewe alikuwa amehamia na kufanyia biashara zake nchini Uganda. Kwa sababu ya kuwa Uganda, Rugangira mkubwa alishutumiwa kama mpelelezi wa Uganda, shutuma ambazo zilileta mtafaruku kati yake na serikali ya Rais Nyerere.
Maganga na wenzie walimuahidi Pius Rugangira kuwa endapo mpango wao wa kumpindua Nyerere ungefanikiwa basi wangemfanya yeye kuwa rais wa nchi. Ukweli ni kwamba wanamapinduzi hao walimdanganya Rugangira kwa lengo tu la kupata ufadhili wake. Hivyo kuna uwezekano mkubwa mpango huo ungefanikiwa basi Tanzania ingekua chini ya utawala wa kijeshi.
Wahaini hao walipanga kutekeleza azma yao tarehe 9 Januari, 1983. Lengo lao lilikuwa kumsubiri Mwalimu Nyerere arudi Dar Es Salaam akitokea Butiama. Kabla ya kuondoka kwenda Butiama, Mwalimu alikuwa safarini nje ya nchi kikazi. Inasemekana sababu ya kutokufanya jaribio hilo wakati akiwa nje ya nchi ilikuwa ni kwa nia ya kumkamata Mwalimu Nyerere na, ikiwezekana, kumuua kabisa. Rugangira, ambaye alikataa wazo la kumuua Mwalimu, aliwashauri wenzake kwamba ni bora kumkamata tu na kumfunga.
Siri za mipango yao zilifichuliwa kwa bahati mbaya na Hatty McGee, ambaye awali aliwadanganya wenzake kwa kudai kuwa alikuwa mwanajeshi nchini Marekani, jambo ambalo lilikuwa si kweli. McGhee alikuwa na tabia ya kunywa pombe kupita kiasi. Katika hali yake ya ulevi, alianza kufichua mipango yao kwa baadhi ya watu. Ingawa inasemekana Idara ya Usalama wa Taifa tayari ilikuwa na taarifa za jaribio hilo, bila shaka bwana McGhee alisaidia sana kwa kuvujisha siri hizo. Walipanga kukutana kwa mara ya mwisho tarehe 6 Januari, 1983.
Katika orodha ya majina waliyopata maafisa usalama wa Mwalimu Nyerere, mtu aliyetambulika kama hatari zaidi alikuwa Mohamed Tamimu. Tamimu alikuwa komandoo aliyekuwa amepitia mafunzo ya kijeshi ya hali ya juu (komandoo) nchini Cuba, na alikuwa miongoni mwa makomandoo wa Kitanzania waliokuwa wamepokea sifa kubwa kutoka kwa Fidel Castro kwa uwezo wake mkubwa, akifanya vizuri sana mafunzoni. Hivyo, idara ya ujasusi ya Mwalimu iliona kuwa ni muhimu kwanza kumdhibiti Tamimu, na labda kwa kumthibiti yeye, wengine wangeweza kujisalimisha na kuogopa.
"Tulikuwa na wasiwasi na tuliamua kutuma mmoja wetu Kinondoni Mkwajuni kuuliza lakini tulishtuka kuona kwamba polisi walikuwa wamevamia nyumba yake na aliuawa katika mapambano yaliyodumu saa mbili akifukuzwa kutoka uwanja wa Leaders, alipofika Kinondoni eneo maarufu la Drive In (ubalozi wa Marekani leo) alizidiwa nguvu na kuuawa na kikosi cha majasusi kilichokuwa kikiongozwa na jasusi na mwanasheria nguli Mabere Nyaucho Marandu". alipata kusema Maganga. Tamimu ndie aliepangwa kuwa mdunguaji (sniper) wa kummaliza Mwalimu Nyerere.
Kadego na Maganga walichagua njia ya kukimbilia kupitia Tanga na Mombasa hadi Nairobi, ambapo walikaa kama wakimbizi wa kisiasa kwa miezi kumi. Hawakutumia muda huo kulaumiana kwa kushindwa kutekeleza mapinduzi, ingawa Maganga anaamini kuwa bahati yao iligeuka kutokana na MacGhee, ambaye alikuwa raia wa kawaida na hakuwa na uwezo wa kuhifadhi siri. Maganga alimshutumu MacGhee kwa kuvujisha taarifa, kwani ilionekana kwamba watu wengi walikuwa wanajua kuhusu mpango huo kabla ya kukamilika kwake.
Wakiwa Nairobi, Maganga na Kadego walikutana na wahaini wenzao Pius Lugangira na MacGhee. Licha ya kuwa na uhuru na maisha yao mjini Nairobi, Rugangira aliamua kutorokea kwenda London. Kabla hajafanikiwa kutorokea London, kundi hili lilikamatwa na mamlaka jijini Nairobi na kubadilishwa na Senior Lance Koplo Ochuka na Sergeant Pancras Oteyo, ambao wenyewe pia walikuwa wamejaribu kuipindua serikali ya Rais Daniel Arap Moi mwaka wa 1982 na kisha kukimbilia Tanzania.
Mwaka 1985 Maganga na wenzake saba; Suleiman Kamando, Zakaria Hans Pope, Vitalis Mapunda, Mbogolo, Kajaji Badru, Hatibu Gandhi (Hatty MacGhee) na Christopher Kadego walihukumiwa kufungwa maisha jela.Lugangira alifanikiwa baadae kutoroka gerenzani Ukonga na kukimbilia Uingereza.
Tarehe 22 Oktoba, 1995, Rais Ali Hassan Mwinyi alitangaza msamaha kwa wafungwa, ikiwa ni pamoja na wale waliojaribu kufanya mapinduzi mwaka 1983. Maganga aliachiwa huru tarehe 24 Oktoba, 1995 majira ya saa saba mchana huko wenzie sita wakiachiwa huru tarehe 26 Oktoba, 1995 katika gereza la Ukonga. Maganga amewahi kunukuliwa akisema, "Tunajutia tu kushindwa mapinduzi, lakini hatujutii kupanga mapinduzi."
Kwa leo tuishie hapo. Siku nyingine nitaandika jinsi kesi yao ya uhaini ilioanza 21 Januari, 1985 na kuhitimishwa Disemba ya mwaka huo ilivyo kwenda. Pia tutaangalia maisha ya wahaini hao mara baada ya kutoka jela ikiwemo Zakaria Hans Poppe aliekuja kuwa mfanyabiashara mkubwa na kiongozi wa Simba na Pius Lugangira alietorokea na kufia nchini Uingereza.
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Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.
The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.
So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.
Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.
Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.
The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.
Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.
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"Our real duty as teachers has always been challenging students to think. The task now is finding ways to engage them in the painful, essential work of critical thinking in a world where machines are willing to do it for them." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4azkcmF
ALT An illustration of a man writing on a paper with a large pen shaped like the letter I, with text: Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students
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Exactly. That's the cruelty. The government does this to us, using our coping mechanisms as capital. So we save to cope with the economy, GoK then goes for our savings. GoK even boasts about maandamano to wazungu. They annoy us with high taxes, we protest, they kill people, then GoK goes to Davos or G7 and says "Kenya is a good country because it has a vibrant democracy which keeps the government accountable."
We are in a cruel feedback loop that we need to break. #MaishaKazini
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to capture the minds of African people. So many of us can't even conceptualize the world outside of colonial frameworks.
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The algorithms have owners. The owners have location-specific agendas. The things the algorithms push in front of your eyeballs are determined by your location and the owners' agenda for it.
That's why there are several Nigerian TikTok creators and streamers who make interesting, engaging content about Nigerian history and current affairs, but except you stumble across them, you won't even know that they exist. What the algorithm will constantly push to your Nigerian eyeballs instead is "Peller" and "Jarvis."
There are funny and intelligent Nigerian stand-up comedians like Bovi who upload Instagram Reels content, but the algorithm will not regularly push them to you. If not for their large offline following, you would barely notice them. The Instagram Reels algorithm will instead constantly push brainrot Nigerian skitmakers to saturate your Nigerian brain with the psychological equivalent of codeine.
If you want to know what agenda the algorithm owners have in mind for a specific location, simply find out who the algorithms have made famous in that location. And if you live in a location where the algorithms want to fill your head with nothing but mindless brainrot, you owe a responsibility to yourself to resist being programmed by rich people who are literally trying to code stupidity into entire populations.
Because everything is war.
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An indicator of a society that is about to reset is when they begin ti hold themselves accountable. This country is going to reset. Our vices are nearing their life cycle. We just need a unifying tragedy. Something that will make us see beyond ethnic and religious lines.
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I think we east and southern Africans need to graduate from this argument. Our foreparents made it for rhetorical value, now we need to graduate to a philosophical and historically grounded argument.
My dear Africans, when Europeans were saying that they discovered a lake or mountain in Africa, they didn't mean nobody had seen it before. They meant that Africans were nobodies. That's what was contained in the Papal Bulls between 1452 and 1493 on the doctrine of discovery. And it was applied to indigenous peoples of the Americas first. By the time it reached Africa, 4 centuries had passed.
The Popes said that "Christians" (meaning Europeans) had the right to visit other lands, and if they found resources they wanted there, they could consider it "terra nullius" (land of nobody). That doctrine justified the evictions, massacres and enslavement of the people (the non-Christians, aka savages) already living on the land. It wasn't just about name change.
The doctrine continued to be used in court judgements of settler colonies and international law up to this century, and Pope Francis only repudiated it in 2021. And when you think of it, the government of Kenya is still using that doctrine for evictions for affordable housing, mineral sites and wildlife conservancies.
It's nice to make fun of absurdities in Western logic, but now let's chew the hard historical and philosophical implications.
And with all due respect to Miriam Makeba, this isn't a question she should have been asked. Remember Malcolm X pointed out that it's only when it comes to black people that entertainers are expected to articulate political positions.
We need to avoid confusing rhetorical rebuttals for political philosophy. We need to be careful to distinguish what is rhetorically clever and what is politically enlightening.
