Nyerere Press Conference - 14 March 1995

"Any government that works for the wealthy does not collect tax, it chooses to harass small-time dealers,"

"Corruption in Tanzania has no bounds. Every country I visit they talk about corruption in Tanzania. Tanzania is stinking with corruption,"

"This would not only lead to collapse of the now-sensitive 30-year-old union between the twin-islands of Zanzibar and Pemba and Tanzania mainland, but would also plunge the country into chaos," (talking about condoning religious differences and tribalism)

- Julius Nyerere Press Conference, AFP, 14 March 1995

SEMBENE OUSMANE AFARIKI DUNIA

Muasisi wa utengenezaji filamu barani Afrika, Sembene Ousmane amefariki dunia mwishoni mwa juma lililopita baada ya kuugua kwa muda mrefu. Alikuwa na umri wa miaka 84.

Sembene ndiye mwafrika wa kwanza kutengeneza filamu barani Afrika. Alikuwa mmojawapo wa wa waanzilishi wa tamasha la filamu Afrika, FESPACO. Alikuwa pia ni mtunzi wa vitabu. Kwa wale waliosoma somo la kiingereza wakiwa sekondari bila ya shaka walisoma pia kitabu cha God's Bits of Wood alichokiandika huyu mzee.

Binafsi nilivutiwa na kitabu hicho. Kadhalika nilivutiwa mno na filamu yake ya mwisho aliyoitengeneza, Moolaade. Mara baada ya kuiangalia nilieleza utamu wake kwenye blogu hii takriban miaka miwili hivi iliyopita.

Ameacha pengo lisilozibika - au pengine akiwa kama alama ya zama za filamu za mwanzo barani Afrika pia anafunga pazia la zama hizo - hasa kutokana na mabadiliko ya haraka yanayotokea katika utengenezaji na hadhira ya filamu za kiafrika barani hivi sasa.

MRADI WA KUIMARISHA SHUGHULI ZA BLOGU

(Maggid Akiwa katika outreach projects. picha na Maggid Mjengwa)
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Global Voices hivi sasa wanapokea proposals za miradi ya uimarishaji shughuli za blogu. Bila ya shaka wengine wetu wameshaanza shughuli hii ya uimarishaji uandishi wa kiraia bila ya msaada wowote.

Kama akina Maggid kama wanavyoonekana pichani hapo juu.

Hata hivyo haidhuru kama utapatikana msaada zaidi kidogo ili kurahisisha mambo.

Endelea hapo chini, kama unaweza kufuatilia kabla ya tarehe 15 juni fanya harahara.

Application Deadline: June 15, 2007

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.

As the internet becomes more accessible to more people, as computers become cheaper, and as software applications move from the desktop to the web, the so-called digital divide seems to be narrowing. In its place, however, we see a participation gap in which the vast majority of blogs, podcasts, and online video are being produced in middle-class neighborhoods in major cities around the world.

Rising Voices aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the conversational web, by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities. Examples of potential projects include:

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  Purchasing an affordable digital video camera and teaching a group of rural students how to produce an ongoing video-blog documentary about the lives of their grandparents.


• Organizing a regular workshop on blogging and photography at a local orphanage. Portions of the budget could be used on cheap digital cameras and internet cafe costs so that participants could describe their local neighborhoods to a global audience with text and photos.


• Working with a local NGO or social entrepreneur so that their challenges, successes, and stories are told to a global audience.


• Translating our new media curriculum to an indigenous language, like Quechua or Wolof, that is currently not represented in the blogosphere or "podosphere." Then use the learning modules to encourage bloggers to write in those languages.

The sky is the limit, but unfortunately funding is not. Rising Voices outreach grants will range from $1,000 to $5,000. Please be as thoughtful, specific, and realistic as possible when drafting your budgets.

Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below or by sending an email to
outreach@globalvoicesonline.org

Kiungo chenye habari nzima kipo hapa.