MY ANSWER IS BETWEEN “YES” AND “NO”

       It is quite a long time I have been asking myself several questions relating to surrounding environments, that is, both living(sorrounding society) and non-living environment. These questions have become my day to day challenges as the University student, which I hope it is through these challenging questions I will reach my final destination.

          The most challenging question which has been confusing my brain is “Does this phrase fair to me?”. When you move around sorrounding society you will several hear this phrase “University professionals” being referred to students at the University level. It becomes very difficult to me judge whether I qualify to be called as the University professional with regard to what I have done to my sorrounding society so as to satisfy this phrase. The civil rights leader;J.R, Martin Luther King said;

           “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and

              to think critically...............Intelligence plus character-that is the goal

              of true education”.

Several questions arise such as ; Do we use our University education to think critically?, Do we use our University education to overcome social problems?, Do we use our acquired intelligence to be deterministic to future development of our nation?, Do we use our University education to eliminate social crime? Or instead of this we have been accelerator of social degradation(social decay)? Do we use our University education to discover new ways of agricultural development? My answer to these questions is between “Yes” and “No”.

         The French philosopher and mathematicians; Pascal Blaise said;

                  “There  are two major kinds of people; namely; seekers and

                            non-seekers”

My  hope at this level is to have many seekers rather than non-seekers. Being the seeker doesn't involve depending only on Lecturers' handouts and “simbi” but it involves searching of different literatures which will help us to be real “University professionals” which will also  be determined by our action within our society.

                   “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and people who

                      mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with

                      the power which knowledge gives”(The late President of U.S.A; James Madison).

             The question comes, Have we used or do we use our University knowledge to govern ourselves?. My answer is between “Yes” and “No”. Let us now stand  upright to make sure that we become our own governors by taking the symbol of acquired knowledge at the University level so as to control our daily life challenges in our society.

                                                                                         A.M.BILONDWA

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A BETTER NATION

It is once again I come to present my idea in form of disposable ink. It is my hope that the last two articles portrayed something to you that can help you and l to shape our society since it is only you and l that will make the changes which we want to see “let us start now.”

Every one of us wherever he/she is makes the part and parcel of our Nation's total population. Being located in different locations of this nation, every person has his/her experience on this nation and her economic, social and political level. Some of us say that this nation is the best place to live in while others say that it is the hostile and hard place to live in. I respect all but can we all come into the same argument that our nation is “a better place as the better nation” to live in?

You and I make the part of this nation not only because of what we have but because of our responsibility to make this nation the better place to live in. We all come from different tribes which are all located within this country no matter which language we use since we are all coordinated by Kiswahili language.

If the whole nation is our big family we don't have to rise up swords each other, we don't have to let some of us die with hunger while we are keeping our surplus in granaries, we don't have to discriminate ourselves, we don't have to murder, abuse, misuse and dominate our shares. Our involvement in these evils will mean that we are not making our nation better to live in but bitter and hostile place. Why bitter and hostile place and not a better place to live in?

Let all of us understand that our nation is full of; holes that needs to be filled, many broken hearts that needs to be healed and poverty that we need to find out its resolutions. It's now the time that every one of us has to break fences which are used to protect social evils that makes our nation be the hostile, difficulty and hard place to live in rather being the better place to live in.

Sitting and looking at our nation and the prevailing evils without taking any action we be incomplete, incompetent and will not lead us anywhere. We don't have to wait until things become worse but we have to do something every one according to his/her position, status and ethnic. The Late President of U.S.A James Madson said “Be the changes you want to see”, it is your time and my time to change by hating prevailing evils and finding out their resolutions. Let us start now, “We don't have to wait for tomorrow since We don't know about it”.