Sunday, August 30, 2009







Leo Jumapili raia katika nchi ya Gabon wanapiga kura kumchagua nani atakirithi kiti kilichoachwa wazi na marehemu Omar Bongo ambae alitawala kwa miaka 41 kabda kufariki kwake Juni mwaka huu. Ali Bongo Ondimba(50), ambaye ni mtoto wa marehemu Omar Bongo, ndiye anayedhaniwa kwamba ataibuka mshindi.
Kama na sisi tutafata mkumbo huu, basi ni kwamba sisi akina Yakhe hatutauona uongozi wa nchi zetu. Viongozi wetu wengi tayari wanawaandaa vijana wao watakaoendeleza majina ya wazee wao pindi watakapo acha uongozi. Ufalme na Uchifu hauwezi kufa!!!!!!!!!!




Katika picha ya pamoja na kaka zake hapo miaka ya nyuma.
Sen. Ted Kennedy azikwa kwa heshima zote karibu na makaburi ya nduguze.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Je! katika picha hii unaona watu wangapi?


Ras makunja na kikisi chake The Ngoma Africa band, hapo tarehe 21-08-2009
waliufunga mtaa mrefu katikati ya jiji kubwa Hamburg,Ujerumani.katika maonyesho ya Alafia -Afrika Festival,na kusababisha ulinzi kuwepo ulinzi mkali, mbele ya jukwaa kulijaa washabiki ambao wanadai kuwa ngoma africa ni bendi yao ya damu! nyuma ya jukwaa kulikuwa kumejaa Polisi ambao nao wanadai kuwa baada ya kumalizika onysho hilo lazima Makunja na kikosi chake wasindikizwe na Ulinzi na hakuna mshabiki wa kuwasogelea! inamaana FFU wa Ngoma Africa chini ya ulinzi wa washabiki na polisi ?Poromota wa onyesho hilo aliwatangazia washabiki kabla ya mziki kuanza kuwa "Washabiki wanaombwa kucheza mziki mbele ya jukwaa" tafadhali nyuma ya jukwaa ni sehemu ya ulinzi tuu! jukwaa lipo kati! upande wa mbele washabiki na upande wa nyuma polisi, Ras Makunja na Ngoma Africa yake wamewekwa mtu kati!!

Ukiwa ufahamu unaweza usiamini kabisa ukubwa wa wadudu waliokipandisha hiki kichuguu mpaka kufikia urefu na ukubwa huu. Mchwa ni wadudu wadogo sana lakini ikija kwenye kuchapa kazi na ushirikiano wanaweza wakatushinda hata sisi wanadamu. Siri yao ni nini?

Thursday, August 27, 2009


Nina swali kwa ye yote ambaye ana taarifa ya mpango wa kutumia wanja hili kwa timu zitakazo kwenda Afrika ya Kusini kwenye kombe la Dunia hapo mwakani? Kwa kweli kama mpango huo haupo basi tutakuwa tumeipoteza bahati ya kuitangaza nchi yetu na kukuza biashara ya utalii.
Sen. Edward Kennedy dies at 77




The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief among his causes.
Instead, Kennedy built his Washington monument stone by stone, his imprint distinct on the Senate's most important works over nearly half a century. He toiled across the Potomac River from the graveyard of his fallen brothers.
The last of the Kennedys who fascinated the nation with their ambition, style, idealism, tragedies — and sometimes sheer recklessness — Edward Moore Kennedy died late Tuesday night at 77. A black shroud and vase of white roses sat Wednesday on his Senate desk, which John Kennedy had used before him.
So dropped the final curtain on "Camelot," the already distant era of the Kennedy dynasty.
The Massachusetts senator's extended political family of fellow Democrats and rival Republicans, steeled for his death since his brain-tumor diagnosis a year ago yet still jarred by it, joined in mourning. Kennedy was the Senate's dominant liberal and one of its legendary dealmakers.
Just last year he jumped into a fractious Democratic presidential nomination fight to side with Barack Obama, giving the Illinois senator a boost that had the air of a family anointment.
"For his family, he was a guardian," Obama said Wednesday. "For America, he was a defender of a dream."
The president, vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, was awakened after 2 a.m. and told of Kennedy's death. He spoke soon after with the senator's widow, Victoria, and ordered flags flown at half-staff on all federal buildings.
Kennedy will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery after a funeral Mass in Boston, where Obama is to deliver a eulogy.
Kennedy will lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston before that.
Also buried at Arlington, the military cemetery overlooking the capital city, are John and Robert Kennedy; John Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline; their baby son, Patrick, who died after two days, and their stillborn child.
To Americans and much of the world, Kennedy was best known as the last surviving son of the nation's most glamorous political family. Of nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith is the only one alive.
To senators of both parties, he was one of their own.
"Even when you expect it, even when you know it's coming, in this case it hurts a great deal," said Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
Politicians also calculated the consequences for Obama's push for expanded health coverage. For several months, at least, Kennedy's death will deprive the Democrats of a vote that could prove crucial for his signature cause of health reform.
His illness had sidelined him from an intense debate that would have found him at the core any other time. Conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, his improbable Republican partner on children's health insurance, volunteerism, student aid and more, said the Senate probably would have had a health care deal by now if Kennedy had been healthy enough to work with him.
"Iconic, larger than life," Hatch said of his friend. "We were like fighting brothers."
He was the last of the famous Kennedy brothers: John the assassinated president, Robert the assassinated senator and presidential candidate, Joseph the aviator killed in action in World War II when Ted was 12.
He lost his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, less than two weeks ago, saw the bright promise of nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. end in a plane crash in 1999 and struggled with excesses of his own until he became a settled elder statesman.
Like Obama, Kennedy was a master orator. But the words that live for the ages seem to be those he uttered in tragedy or defeat.
Older Americans remember his eulogy of Robert Kennedy, when he asked history not to idealize his brother but remember him "simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it."
Remembered, too, is his speech conceding the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to the incumbent Jimmy Carter. "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die," he said.
By then, his hopes of reaching the White House had been damaged by his behavior a decade earlier in the scandal known as Chappaquiddick.
On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island, on Martha's Vineyard, and swam to safety while companion Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in the car. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident; a judge said his actions probably contributed to the young woman's death. He received a suspended sentence and probation.
Kennedy's legislative legacy includes health insurance for children of the working poor, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, family leave and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He was also key to passage of the No Child Left Behind Education law and a Medicare drug benefit for the elderly, both championed by Republican President George W. Bush.
In the Senate, Republicans respected and often befriended him. But his essential liberalism marked him as a lightning rod, too. He proved a handy fundraising foil motivating Republicans to open their wallets to fight anything he stood for.
In 1980, Kennedy's task of dislodging a president of his own party was compounded by his fumbling answer to a question posed by CBS' Roger Mudd: Why do you want to be president?
"Well, I'm, uh, were I to, to make the, the announcement, to run, the reasons that I would run is because I have a great belief in this country," he began.
It's a question that all savvy politicians ever since make sure won't catch them unprepared.
In his later years, Kennedy cut a barrel-chested profile, with a swath of white hair, a booming voice and a thick, widely imitated Boston accent. He coupled fist-pumping floor speeches with charm and formidable negotiating skills.
"I think that once he realized he was never going to be president — that that was not the legacy he had to follow — he really worked at becoming the best senator he possibly could," Leahy said. "And he did."
He was first elected to the Senate in 1962, taking the seat that his brother John had occupied before winning the White House, and he served longer than all but two senators in history.
Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy.
He made a surprise return to the Capitol last summer to cast a decisive vote for the Democrats on Medicare. He made sure he was there again in January to see his former Senate colleague sworn in as president but suffered a seizure at a celebratory luncheon afterward.
His survivors include a daughter, Kara Kennedy Allen; two sons, Edward Jr. and Patrick, a congressman from Rhode Island, and two stepchildren, Caroline and Curran Raclin.
Edward Jr. lost a leg to bone cancer in 1973 at age 12. Kara had a cancerous tumor removed from her lung in 2003. In 1988, Patrick had a non-cancerous tumor pressing on his spine removed. He also has struggled with depression and addiction and recently spent time at an addiction treatment center.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

KUMBUKUMBU KUTOKA MAKTABA YA FUNDI WA KOMBO!!!!!!!!











KUTOKA KUMBUKUMBU ZA MAKTABA YA FUNDI WA KOMBO!!!



Naonyesha ujuzi wangu wa kucheza na nyoka Jijini New York mwaka 1988.
NOW...

and


THEN...


Sunday, August 23, 2009

Hello Friends,

Come kick off your Labor Day weekend the right way.
Cocody Productions presents Art Deco Africa:
End of Summer Party at the historic Beekman Tower Hotel
on Friday, September 4th from 10pm - 3am.

Complimentary cocktails and hors d’ouevres from 10pm – 11pm.
African and selected American beats mixed by Cocody’s DJake in The Beekman’s panoramic rooftop bar.
Invite is attached and below.
RSVP Required by Thursday, September 3rd. One additional guest permitted. Reduced cover with RSVP. Discretion will be applied at the door.
Please direct responses for admission to the following email address: cocodyproductions@gmail.com

What: Art Deco Africa: End of Summer Party

Where
: Beekman Tower Hotel 49th and 1st

When: Friday, September 4th 10pm - 3am

We will see you there!

BestCocody Productions

Saturday, August 22, 2009


KIGOMA!!

"BLOGU HII YA JAMII INAPENDA KUWATAKIA RAMADHANI NJEMA NA YENYE REHEMA NDUGU ZANGU WAISLAMU PO POTE WALIPO DUNIANI"

Kama watoto wetu wataendelea kupatiwa elimu katika hali ya namna hii, basi tujue kabisa uwenda tukafika mahala Taifa letu likakwama.


Moja ya majengo yanayopendezesha Dar - NSSF Water Front
KUMBUKUMBU



Samora Avenue 1962

Thursday, August 20, 2009

DISPUTE OVER RUNNER'S GENDER ANGERS SOUTH AFRICANS


South Africa's new 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya was declared a "golden girl" by local press Thursday, with the athlete's family shrugging off questions about the runner's gender.
All major newspapers' front pages pictured a triumphant Semenya who powered to a 1minute 55.45seconds win -- the world's best this year -- shortly after the athletics governing body announced that the runner's gender was to be verified.
"She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times," father Jacob Semenya told the popular tabloid Sowetan which dubbed the champion "Our Golden Girl".
"For the first time South Africans have someone to be proud of and detractors are already shouting wolf. It is unfair. I wish they would leave my daughter alone."
Semenya's 80-year-old grandmother Maphuthi Sekgala told The Times that the first year sports science student had long been teased about her boyish looks and for being the only girl in her local soccer team.
"(The controversy) doesn't bother me that much because I know she's a woman -- I raised her myself," she said in her rural village in northern Limpopo province.
"She called me after (the heats) and told me that they think she's a man. What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way."
Semenya's former high school head told the Afrikaans broadsheet Beeld the top runner had played with boys, enjoyed soccer and wore long trousers to school.
"I first realised that she was a girl in Grade 11," he said, explaining how Semenya had moved to stand with a girls team after he had divided the boys and girls for short running race.
Semenya was a total unknown a few weeks ago -- with Beeld describing her birthplace as remote and rural, with the teenager living with her grandmother while at high school and growing up without electricity or running water.
The runner's coach Michael Seme laughed off the allegations, saying the athlete fielded constant questions about whether she was a boy from younger athletes when training.
"Then she has to explain that she can't help the fact that her voice is so gruff and that she really is a girl. The remarkable thing is that Caster remains completely calm and never loses her dignity when she is questioned about her gender," Seme told the newspaper.
Semenya had been "crudely humiliated" a few times and the closest Seme said he had seen her to anger was earlier this year when some people wanted her barred from using the ladies restroom.
"Then Caster said: 'Do you want me to pull down my pants that you can see. Those same people came to her later and said they were extremely sorry."
One morning at a doctor's surgery a patient arrives complaining of serious back-pain. The doctor examines him and asks him "OK, what happened to your back?" The patient replies "You know that I work for a local night club? This morning I got home to my apartment early and heard a noise in my bedroom. On entering I knew someone had been with my wife and the balcony door was open. I rushed out the balcony door and did not find anyone. As I looked down from the balcony I saw a man running out and he was dressing himself. I grabbed the fridge and threw it at him,That's how I strained my back" The 2nd patient arrives looking as if he has been in a car wreck. The doctor said "My previous patient looked bad, but you look terrible.What the hell happened to you?" He replied, "You know I have been unemployed for a while now .Today was the first day at my new job. I forgot to set my alarm and was running late. I was running out of the building, getting dressed at the same time, and you won't believe it but I was hit by a fridge." The 3rd patient arrives; he looks even worse than the other two patients do. The doctor is shocked. Again asks, "What the hell happened to youuuuuu.....?" "Well I was sitting in a fridge & someone threw it from the 3rd floor"

KIKOSI CHA THE REAL MADRID.


Nyota wa Real Madrid - CHRISTIANO RONALDO
MSICHANA AU MVULANA?






Caster Semeya wa Afrika ya Kusini ambaye alishinda medali ya Dhahabu kwenye mbio za mita 800 kwa wanawake jana(08/19/2009), katika mbio za IAAF Athletics World Championships mjini Berlin ameleta utata mkubwa kuhusu jinsia yake. Wadau mnasemaje?