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A Letter from Lake Ngozi (Lake Ngosi)

A Letter from Lake Ngozi (Lake Ngosi) By: Mark Mwandosya, Emmanuel Mwandosya and Lucy Akiiki Mwandosya 22 November 2018 After an exhaustive two hour climb of a mountain, traversing through the thick canopy of the Poroto Mountains from the Rungwe District side of the crater, suddenly, in the midst of the tropical equatorial type vegetation we got a glimpse of what seemed to be a lake. Sure enough as our guide Saidi would remark, we were approaching Lake Ngozi, also referred to as Lake Ngosi, a crater lake in the southern part of the Eastern African Rift System, We had another 30 minutes of trekking before we could reach the observation point. Before us unfolded one of the most spectacular sights that Almighty God can bless anyone to observe, paradise on earth, crater Lake Ngozi in all its majesty. We will return to Lake Ngozi later on in the sequel. Our memorable trip to Lake Ngozi started early in the morning of Monday 12 November 2018, from our Matema Beach residen...

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere: 19 Years After

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere: 19 Years After An Address by Mark Mwandosya to the University of Comoro, on the Commemoration of the 19th Anniversary of the passing away of Mwalimu Nyerere. Moroni, Comoro, 26 October 2018. Introduction As we grew up in the African suburbs of the Southern Highlands Provincial Headquarters of Mbeya, in the United Nations Protectorate of Tanganyika, age notwithstanding, we were aware something somewhere was wrong. Mbeya then resembled a typical racially segregated town in Southern Africa, and specifically apartheid South Africa. For, the posh suburb of the town, referred to as Uzunguni, was reserved for whites only, mainly members of the British colonial administration. The commercial centre was reserved for Asians, and appropriately referred to as Uhindini. After six o’clock in the evening, Africans were not allowed to be seen in Uzunguni ...