WHEN POLITICS TRICKS VOTERS AFTER POLL.

First comes first I would like to define Politics according to the definition based on different communities , people says politics is Holly Tricks , or sometimes they says Polltricks, as they pleased to explain what exactly means of the politics within their way of understanding it, It might be misinformed, well educated or judgmental ,heck of the definition but who knows why such of definition comes in between of their aim of express what it real is.

According to Wikipedia , it simply define Politics as the practice and theory of influencing other people on global , civic or individual level. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance – organized control over human community, particularly a state.

Here is where I check my headline “ When Politics tricks voters after poll ’’ Reason behind all of this article is when I was updated with former Minister of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement whom she was recently been sacked by the President of United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Jakaya M. Kikwete for Escrow scandalous. Prof. Anna Tibaijuka whom in personal I first heard her name from my uncle back in early 90’s whom was A student of University of Dar es salaam , Mr. Norbert Kabila, this uncle of mine once told us while we were watching news in my early teenage,claimed that Prof Tibaijuka as her excellent lecturer at UDSM, that’s when I first heard that name and grew up feeling like I know her in personal.

Well this lady whom originally comes from Muleba located in Kagera Region, as she is member of Parliament represents Muleba South, she is Professor of Economic, and first African woman in African continent to be elected by by the United Nation General Assembly as Under-Secretary General of United Nation Programme. Yesterday she has been quoted by Radio One Stereo said something which arouse my attention to writing this article, She said “ Government of United Republic of Tanzania, should rethink of exchanging system under National Assembly of Tanzania onward selecting Members of Parliament whom have been elected by the voters to becomes Ministers at the same time working as Members of Parliament. That quietly seems to overwork them with governance activities, rather than work on their responsibilities regards regions which its voters voted for them to represent their problems to the government ’’

Well, I one hundred percent agree with that strong quotation from Prof. Anna Tibaijuka, first for her honesty speaking, that she addressed towards the government. Throughout those words I sensed there are two different characters which these people plays, I mean Government officers and Members of Parliaments , whom I would like to call them “ Servants of the people ”. One character they play from within is being Politician, and another one is being A leader. Since I explained earlier about what it takes to be in politics, let me abit add more about Politicians.

Politician is simply A person who practice and theory of influencing other people on global , civic or individual level to achieving and exercising positions of governance , whom help to organized control over human community, particularly a state. Through this definition I sensed something , these politicians at some point they are anti-people. They be like that when they fail to pursue their responsibilities towards these people ( citizens ) as they need to organize full control over their communities . When Wikipedia said full control at first place I didn’t see armies, police forces, etc then I looked over it a bit closer I could even see the full control that politicians need to acquire towards state and its citizens which is LYING ON THEM .

I hate to say all politicians are liars, but I may be fair enough to say almost all politicians are the best people to tell the truth from different types of lies. Politicians they meet half way qualification of leadership, which they should learn to be one of their main responsibilities before they went across the streets to seduces citizens to vote for them.

Politicians use all of their beautiful lies whenever they preach on them citizens, when holly politics preached on these believer as citizens , they become intoxicated of believing in Politician by confusing them with leaders. A politician fails to pursue his responsibility of become A leader caused by the mission and vision of their parties. As we all know most of the missions of political parties is to form the government for particular state aim to take full control of the citizens with their communities.

Most of the states formed with the patriotics who named as Statemen, like here in United  Republic of Tanzania, our stateman was known Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Almost all of the statemen they were leaders before acquired the states, they didn’t know how to proceed with something like Politics, which it always changes meaning accordingly with the situation going on globally, Politics manipulates people and their belongings, it sort of weapon used well in neo-colonialism. Politics make their Politicians go to cold wars with leaders, A leader cant switch to be politician, but A politician can switch well to become A leader , as they can hide themselves from leadership umbrella to the presences of their voters. When Politicians seek voters to vote for them they always goes with the presences of leadership, community organizer, servant of the people and all sweet things which will trickery voters to believe this is the type of the leader they should vote for, unfortunately many citizens fails to understand the man standing towards them is the politician who hide his identity with the mask of leadership.

You might wonder difference in between leaders and politicians, I believe these two type of people are different in almost everything, Most of the leaders are self committed , by expressing things which leading them to where they wish to reach for the benefits of the ones whom are following them from behind. Most of the leaders do things which which always leaves their legacy even when they dead gone, Leaders are self committed . Politicians are not servants of the people as leaders , Politicians are servants of their political parties though sometimes you may find A lizard on the marching of alligators, sometimes you may find A leader in politics but it always hard to tell how he will be able to handle pressure of different forces , forces of the people he supposed to be served for and enforcement from his political party which acquire him to do as what his party acquire him to do “ taking full control of the people and their communities ’’.

And most of these type of Poli-leaders , I meant politicians whom are leaders from within end up being assassinated because of their inner voice of leadership, unfortunately at the wrong place or wrong type of people whom chosen him/her to do what they suppose to do. You can take an example of the Kennedy brothers ( United States Of America, President and his young brother )  Abraham Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba, Bhutto family members, Muamar Qaddafi etc.

So I would like to let whoever have chance of reading this article, to think clear of what sort of grip did you got right after I explained accordingly with my point of views regards politics, leadership, quote of Prof. Anna Tibaijuka , as she being sacked from her position of Minister of Lands etc, what sort of drift you got from her statement? Which position she was playing in between the government, her party, community etc ?  and what you do think of leaders and politicians roles towards you as citizen or fellow member of this community? Don’t hesitate to write me your suggestions, disagree, agree, educate or update what I did or didn’t n’t well explained.

 Ahsante

Contants

George Kyomushula

Founder / Co-director Arusha Poetry Club

p.o box 1237

Kyomushula@gmail.com

+255717470007

Arusha Tanzania

ARUSHA POETRY CLUB RESULTED ITS 1st CHAPTER 2014, GET TO KNOW UMOJA POETRY CLUB - IRINGA

ARUSHA POETRY CLUB  RESULTED ITS 1^st CHAPTER 2014, GET TO KNOW UMOJA POETRY CLUB - IRINGA

25^th December 2014 , I was blessed to receive A text message from Founder and Director of Umoja Poetry Club , A resulted chapter of APC formed by this cool brother whom I personal met him during An African Liberation Day celebration which were held at United African Alliance Community Center with collaboration with Arusha Poetry Club 25^th May. 2014.

This cool type of brother Mashalaah Magai texted me to wish happy holiday ( Christmass Eve ) the text resulted the heck of long minutes of conversation which was powered by the enthusiasm of poetry. I must admit I enjoyed the conversation as it was exactly it is what it mean to be discussed.

Since me and this brother are fan of each one of ourself poetry skillful, it happened we joined forces to help each others reaching our goals with mission and vision of what exactly we been thinking independently ,what exactly to do to help our vision meets our mission. Mashalah Magai highlighted the major objectives of Umoja Poetry Club as I found very unique and strongly positive to manage the art of poetry be sort of an art which could be able to uplift many upcoming poets in Tanzania who writes their poems in English or Swahili to fruitful benefit from that talents from within.

As luckily I am to be A team member of Arusha Poetry Club, I sensed successes towards new year 2015 , As we could officially be conducting poetry events , workshops and etc . APC managed to obtained new venue which allocated at Taste Of Mexico – Restaurant inside TFA Complex opposite to Nakumati Supermarket , two times within A month, while Umoja Poetry Club –UPC will start fresh to its project in Iringa region with Poetry Education as they will start having poetic radio program which will focus on speaking about art of poetry.

Brother Mashalah, added more about UPC project including the sponsorships from UPC members at Iringa , whom some of them sponsoring UPC some acres of land to conduct agriculture of food or business crops to help sustain the economic infrastructures of UPC, such A strategic couldn’t stop amaze me regards on how the Iringa pioneers seemingly to be well helpful to upcoming youth project like UPC.  We went far speaking about roadblocks we face towards our path of managing and directing these clubs, roadblocks like financial status, sponsorships of the venues, materials to empower our projects are commonly experienced by both sides, though APC has already have A venue , UPC has already managed to have it is own future planning of educating peoples ( poets ) through Poetry education speacial radio program that Mashalah and his comrades will enable to assist produce it 2015.

This morning conversation inspired me to write this article to share the poetic glimpse of how it was great morning to begin with during this Christmas Eve, with all ideas of helping ones who love poetry be able to come front and support it, same to the ones who has no much of information regards what is poetry and how powerful it is, will be part of the people to be benefited from such movement that these youngmen are dedicated themselves to be committed with.

As APC founder and co-director I also share my observation regards the future plans of APC beginning with the year of 2015, since we have managed to have the new venue TASTE OF MEXICO restaurant, which sponsored the APC next event in 3^rd January at the same location , I highlight my vision of organizing poetry festival which will once withing A year organize all young upcoming poets and poets laureate from East Africa to come participate as soon as we have managed to have the sponsors whom will fully play their part on organizing it, positive signs of sponsorship has blinked from different associates , Arusha International Conference Center –AICC has positively shown it is interest to help APC missions , Kili Inc under Anwary Msechu are willingly to start document each of the APC strategic plans including its weekly events, as they look forward to produce documentary, Mandugu Digital under an East African Music Producer Akula Akwabi also known as DUNGA plays his part of sponsoring APC since 2013, Poet Laureate , Founder of WoChiPoDA , author and Children Poetry Books Author Tanzanian sister Gloria D. Gonsalves has confirmed its assistance of donating books for the workshops in schools, once APC workshops in schools start to take place, Kazawaza Recs, Watengwa Recs and United African Alliance Community Center as backbone of APC is around the courner to help the mission accomplished, problem which seems to delay the mission is call from within, an inner voice to greenlight the APC bus ahead forward to path of achieving the goal.\

That is when we have met ahalf way from each others, speaking about the inner voice to help you feel the commitment of exactly what we want to do as team is major key of this moving bus, Mashalah spoke about the right time and right people to work with should be the major qualification which will determine the result of its achievement , since many of us within ourselves we simply sees opportunities from difficulties there some who seems to see their opportunistic mindsets through the hardship too, As we all know our financial status which independently support things we do love to make them successful , I meant our projects.

For example myself, I went low key A whole year of 2014 working in A casino here in Arusha to see opportunities from each of the difficulties I will face to help Arusha Poetry Club, main aim was to raise money  from my salary which will be able to boost the project I founded, unfortunately the mission wasn’t seemed to be accomplished as I thought it could be, so I once again back at it focus on make it happen this time from the effort of itself, by any means necessary. The primary results don’t seems to be bad as Manager of Taste Of Mexico Mr. Condrad Kweka allowed APC to use its upstairs venue for the poetry events weekly within A month.

The conversation helped both of us, be abe to visualize the possibilities of successes through organizing ourselves. Our energy with its efforts will accelerate this hard rock ball to where we intent it to go. Mashalah seemingly to be dedicated from what he has been doing , that helped me see the reason why we have mutual intentions of make our projects be benefits for the societies even when we dead be gone, what we willingly to work on to make this beginnings be successful will be paid off with our living legacy that with sweats we hardly building.

I would like to end up with A final call of asking all who seems to be willing to sponsor or help achieve our goals to join hands with us, through this by either help to make us see the opportunities within all these upfront difficulties , You may donate for us APC, and its UPC Chapter any fund, grants, books , office equipments as we will officially start to organize our offices to legally working on these projects, You could donate any second handed office equipments, books , or anything that could be useful towards road of workshop when we start conducting workshops in schools of rural and urban.

 

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Arusha Poetry Club

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Kyomushula@gmail.com

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WHERE DID GOOD QUALITY MUSIC GO ?

WHERE DID GOOD QUALITY MUSIC GO?

First comes first im not real really old school boy of late neither late 60’s, 70’s 80’s but im kind of old school fan 90’s music , cause I was born in late 1986 November 30th. But I cant deny I grew up listening most of the western,and African music at that time of my early age through motivation of my father, whom was in love of his records ( old version of cd’s )

At that time he has one of his best expensive music system which helped me to memorized most of the genres of music from Choir, Lingala, Phunk, Jazz , Soul, Rock & Roll to Rhythm and Blues to Hip Hop. My father music systems got me be a huge fan of music, most of the songs at that time were hardly to be memorized by its name, unless if you are grown up enough and know how to read and write. I believe I started memorized songs from my father’s collection since I was atleast 5 years old, when we were living at Keko freights neighborhood. Because there are some of the song which can be played at the meantime and win to get my intentions like “ I remember this song when I was very very young boy “ for example A lingala song from Congo Kishansa , sung by Mpongo Love  called Ndaaya, it really really reminds me of my childhood.

MUSIC WORLDWIDE TASTED DIFFERENT 

Im grown up now 28 years old, proudly father too I start wonder music all over the world were tasted different compare to how it does taste at the moment, I remember when Jackson Five songs used to be popular to my generation too, sung along Michael Jackson songs in our own swahili version me and late sister Joyce ( R.I.P )  when we were hitting the road to school Keko Magurumbasi Primary School, at that moment, still you could sing different and taste different when you hear songs o Tshalla Muana, M’bilia Belli, Monique Sekka, Marijani Rajab, DDC Mlimani Park, etc 

Life was very beautiful at that time when good classic music was everywhere in the world, I remember when I was in my 6years old me and my father we went to see the fight of Rashid Matumla ( Snake Boy  ) at Gerezani and he won, we were so happy, my father carried on his shoulders, my lap wrapped his neck ,my baby hands hold his baldhead cherish the moment and the song of Pepe Kale - Rodger Miller was blasting in the hall and the arena was full crowded with people, hardly seen my uncle Deogratius Kyomushula, whom was an assistant of his friend boxer Rashid Matumla.

It was a great memory cause when we get home through my father motorcycle I had the best night storytelling my mom and my sisters about how it was. I came to the sense music helps tighten memory when I kept heard the song of Pepe Kale over and over but still I couldnt know what its name because I was young enough to get names of the songs and their lyrics. But thanks to the internet i can watch them now on youtube and share the glimpse of my childhood memorylane.

Music of that time was strongly produced in quality despite the fact they were not in an era of science and technology, when seamen comes from the long trips used to comes with such records of Milli Vanilli, Commodores, Jackson 5, Madona etc and my father through his connections used to own some records and invite his friends, family at home play his joints and have a nice meal during sundays, I still remember those days through musics when i luckily hear them play out online, or on flash back radio programs.

MUSIC WAS GOOD AT THAT TIME WHY IT AINT SO GOOD THIS TIME ?

Like I said before, Im not that old school cat in music from 1960’s or something but I heard most of music when i was teen age in my early 1990’s , and most of the music I heard were Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Hi Hop, Bongo Fleva, Lingala, etc which means I can tell the difference between good music of that time when i was real into music of those artists across the world to these new school artists. I came to see its taste aint the same start from the bottomline of how it does produced, promoted, distributed etc

Im pretty sure when whats called old school musics,were produced it was pretty hard to finish the record within a day due to the fact that everything has to take place at a particular with specific plan, Producer whom was producing songs of Juwata Jazz Band for instance used to take his time much more as A current producer in 2014 . I wish to know why it was like that during late 60’s - 90’s and it isnt the same at the current time ? If it was still analog system on music making and it got well produced talented songs from those artists how does it seems so rough and hard to be made in the meantime ? and what amaze me all over the world the quality of music was superb excellent, if U.S had great band like THE WHISPERS  still in Africa there were great bands too like Sikinde Ngoma Ya Ukae, great singers like Marijani Rajabu, Res Wanyika etc , when U.S had the best hip hop clue like Wu Tang still in Tanzania we had the best one too like KWANZA UNIT , I get lost how does it be different at once in all across the world ?

Now we have mimic singers, whom truely dont know how to sing but get promoted their butts off, im writing this article Oliver Ngoma on the back ground with his song Nadia, it make me wish there could be another means to express what i want to write but i feel i cant, Music which used to make us memorize most of the events on how life, seems its no longer existed, I dont even remember the best song when I graduate secondary school during our graduation, im sure there was A popular song at that time but how cant it be so chap chap to reminisce through songs? if it happen to me A person who graduate in mid 2005 when it will happen to the generation of next 20 years when the music they listen is electronic, no drums, nobody to pull the strings no melody.

I wish could have answers the reason of fallen down the good classic music to rise of the crap music, type of music which emphasize sex and crimes, drugs and prostitution which we really see as good music at the meantime esp if you didnt get a chance to taste the good music of that time of the era of Etta James, Pepe Kale, Zaiko Langalanga, Renee Ramila , Mbaraka Mwinyisheh etc, Now A rapper with his piggy banks like Rick Ross comes on stage through wheelchair, A lazy bones with full of tats ,chest out sun goggles in the club and still sing his song with an assistant of Play Back cd and we call that good music?? come onn mayn.

HOW DOES NEW SCHOOL TYPE OF MUSIC HAS TO BE RELATED WITH HOMOSEXUALITY ?

What I also dont understand it the way this new school music portray homosexual as identification of beautiful or term of being cool handsome ,sexy or whatever. You find A singer or rapper wearing purple skin jeans and sagging pant to see his pink underwear, that is A male singer doing that. Yet his lips has lip shinned,face full of make up singing and sounds as horny white girl,( no offense ) how can you sing A swahili song with A blonde british accent for heaven sake? Are those type of musicians our society truely wants? I remember watching TvZ ( Television of Zanzibar ) during 90s when Bongo artists used to go performing there, all the fans were sitting on their chairs as if its not A music concert but theatre, and I was like what the heck is long with these people? I didnt know that there are some of the customs we enforced to make ours, its too late now..If Zanzibar folks couldnt dig the music concerts at that time, we both cant dig how endanger we are by letting these purple skin jeans male singers/ rappers be role models of our children through the bubblegum music they are listening to.

I wish there could be any means necessary to evacuate the casualties of great talented singers remained to produce more great one, cause the way things are going good type of musicians whom can well sing, dance and play instruments will be only seen and told through museums that Tanzania, the world used to have very great conscious singers, rappers during late 1960’s - 19990’s , Asa sung A song FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN , we should awake before burnt alive since minority already sense the blue print of whom refers themselves as music industry stakeholders whom are nothing but undertakers who burns alive this sort of art. Tanzania is already in a wave of neutralize the talented ones in a form of controlled and shut the artists mouths so they can also be used to kill the influence of music for some political, administrative interest, We can see the best hiphop artists at that time whom are now being corrupted institutionalize the power of music on the particular society. 

Thank Yo

Arusha Poetry Club

Founder / Director 

Arusha Poetry Club 

George Kyomushula

+255717470007

POEM

POEM

I LOVE BEING BLACK 

July 27, 2014 at 9:40pm

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I LOVE BEING BLACK

I love being black , 

I will look great in all black as Big L /

picture me in my black shinny skin, 

hooked up with black toxido ,black bandana upon my head/

 killin em with A black Chucks attend funerial of Zionist Anti-black race /

Its good being black Yo/

black man unaware of whats called tan ,

sun can burn the hell on me but it will only brighten my chocolate pie skin to blown / 

hihihahaha

racist folks lynch us with such names as colored one ,

as if we do starving for the tan by BBQ ourselves out of the sun as colored ones,

so the skin could change from pale to blown /

 which it aint our thang go off the sun bbq our bodies just to suckin the tan /

No offense /

its nothing blessed on earth as being black / 

black is pride / black is industrization / black is population /

 black is Alfa and Omega generation / 

being black resulted exploitation / manipulation / segregation /

Funny thing about being black is misconception of being one /

 through self hatred black seems like A curse /

terminology like baah baah black sheep / 

black lie / 

black magic / 

black market and everything worse stands for blacks /

The world doesn't know being black is all about kindness/

faith , humble and loyal /

 kindness for them regarded as we just black sheep /

Telling straight up truth referred as black lie /

 strong faith which affiliates with none of their Saints ,called as black magic /

Hooked up one another between brother and brother sort of business without chained with their taxes/

 it is well known as black market /

I'm A blackman whom is capable of doing blackmarket in A five stars hotel/

  go out for dinner with my blackwoman/

I'm sure there are plenty fellow mellow blacks and yellow folks/

 who can be able to fly to the moon with fake passports and visa/

Black is beautiful ladies and gentlemen / 

black is intelligence not as they portray us with mechanism of ignorance /

 black is wealthy not poverty through imagination of starving children with houseflies running on their dirty faces /

Black is burning charcoal without exposing its smoke /

Black is hungry decent wolves in a zoo / 

reason why they put suveillance cameras everywhere we are so they could get the clue /

They refers us black as danger / 

reason why they do fear if we still have our ancestors payback slavery anger /

 being black its like being A baby bawbaw in desert surviving the drains off the rain /

From the roots to its leaves baby black has growing with pain /

surely none will see any of our tears, cause we do only cry when it rains / 

black is beautiful but it aint easy be one suckin milk from the belly of the beast, the best way we can /

©Kyomushula

ART OF POETRY

ART OF POETRY

Poetry is the art which has recently been forgotten in Tanzania, I remember back in 90’s when the poetry was pretty much useful in school syllabus of Tanzania educational system, I remember when poetry was used in primary schools to secondary schools during  school events , and special days when we used to have local and governmental visitors , school teachers used to influence students to write poems and songs to sing during the event.

Things has recently been changed since the poetry has been seen as A weapon for massive destruction world wide, as we could see an art of poetry has rarely being able to gets its artist to get paid, it rarely being able to create sort of employment within its members. We could see large companies even government sponsors and does invest other kind of arts to create source of income within the members of certainly art, i refers artists like musicians, martial artists, singers, actors etc but hard to find any of them invest in art of poetry, I wonder why that,but i hardly gets answers regards that.

I remember in late 2012,when I had meeting with poet laureate ,and author of couple books which has been useful in Tanzania school syllabus, Mwalimu Richard Mabala, as I like call him Mabala the farmer, He clarified for me straight on my face that poetry doesn’t pay ,try something else..I almost choked for disbelief cause I was enthusiastic explain to him how do I wish to create sort of an employment within my fellow poets under the influence of Arusha Poetry Club , by organizing events which will have fees of entrance enable to create sustainability within the poets who will get a chance to participate in Arusha Poetry Club weekly events, Mwalimu Mabala he wasnt against with my fellow poet Prof. Seth Markle who told me the same thing “ POETRY DOESNT PAY “ he also advise me to try do something else, I know it doesnt pay cause ever since I start make poems ,i dont remember if i ever get paid through it, even for 20USD ,apart from donations box that we set whenever we have poetry events, I simply I never called to sign contract to recite my poems in any events and be paid, all events that I attended were freewell events, which voluntary participated without being paid.

IS IT TRUE POETRY DOESNT PAY ?

I honestly disagree poetry doesnt pay cause I can see there is a fine line between POETRY and RAP, I see rappers, and hip hop artists,musicians get paid through an art of poetry, lets take a look of whats called R.A.P , it channeled with poetry as it is rhythm and poetry, whereby what A rapper presents has been formed by poetry rhythmic with new technologically melody (instrumental ) I could see myself ,and my fellow poets tried something like that, technological rhythmic to traditional rhythmic through xylophone ,drums, shakers , but still cant see no changes economically.

So why cant Poetry be able to flood the market with Poets/ Poetess sign contracts for the gigs as we can see musicians and other artists, My childhood friend Shah Mjanja once told me that its not my fault neither poetry is fault to enable brothers and sisters whom are committed in the art of poetry, he said “ most of the artists are not businessmen, neither unaware of the business rather that being focus on their arts and talents which enable them to create piece of arts which inspires their fans but fails to create market of their arts to pave the way of achievement which will support themselves economically, but most of the businessmen are aware of the business which they benefits from the arts of the artists whom are unaware of what they doing could be in a form of business “

INFLUENCE OF POETRY IN LATE 90’s

I believe the foundation of any success has to be formed from within, I can tell the foundation of art of poetry inside of my country Tanzania, at that time Tanganyika was a weapon used to fight the colonial era, poetry was an art which was used within our society to highlight things which were not well pleased the inferiors whom were fighting for freedom of their country, I also believe it was an art which was very annoying the colonial government too. The same art which was used to sing A song for unsung heroes, got them to regain the power independently from the colonialism. How could it be possible for the colonialists supports the art which was A threat towards their full control of whats called Tanganyika ?

So does that means the art of poetry which now don’t seems to be very important by the government which used it to regain the power from colonial government, is it the same art which still fight colonialism ? That simply means same art of poetry which was fighting for colonialism as mode of production is still fighting with Neo Colonialism as current mode of production,which oppress and exploits people in a modern way slavery.

Does that means , nobody seems to care about this art of poetry cause it the strong weapon which will take off them from power? Poetry is work of mind and consciousness , but it doesnt seems to be empowered by the same government to its people which it used the same form of art to achieve its independence from colonial era. That is why you no longer see poetry real emphasize students in schools to become poets, poetess. Thats why you no longer see schools dont organize Poetry Clubs in schools , competitions which will enable create strong poets , and poetess in the nation like Shabani Roberts, Sudi Andanenga, Charles Mloka, Kandoro, Makwaia ,etc

WHY POETRY SEEMS AS A THREAT ?

Poetry is an art of mind and consciousness in a form of literature, aim of emphasize society to speak whats on their minds, poetry aiming on entertaining , educating , and warning certainly of the things within its society. Poetry is only an art of revolution which does televized. Gill Scott Heron once said A revolution will not be televized , through an art of poetry which does televized. Poetry transparently speaks whats on the society minds and does warning it when it needed , is that the reason the system dont seems to upgrade it as an art which can provide mult millions dollars Poets ,whom are artists who televized their revolution ? so should we take that as A threat of Poetry which cant be able to sustainability its Poets economically ? Well I dont know,but as A poet I truely wish to see my fellow poets get paid through the art of poetry as other artists does, and my wish is to see my government support art of Poetry and its poets/poetess in the country, the same art which freedom fighters did used it to speak out oppression of colonial government during the colonial era.

Thank You

Contact

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 George Kyomushula

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ARTICLE

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ART OF AN AFRICAN PUPPETRY

September 9, 2013 at 4:11pm

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ARTICLE

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ART OF
AN AFRICAN PUPPETRY

By George Kyomushula

Since the collapsed of Pan Africanism
movement after the 1960’s (years of
Independence in Africa) the
continent of African has become
trickery in social, cultural and
political from the outsiders whom
appears in different ways i.e. donors,
investors, etc

It might be heck of controversial
speech but indeed it relate with neo
colonialism figure, which has been
built psychologically within most of
the Africans, either young or old.
The sort of this political art and style
of puppetry in Africa has brought
major impact that has been recently
seen naked, the way it brought its
stylish and fancy in other way. The
system has been able to even use
Willy Lynch theories to control their
purposes in Africa, and it seems so
much more easier due to the way
they using art of puppetry in a
political way.

During 1960’s even though I wasn’t
born but I could feel it was the time
the world had bubbles by the boiling
pot of civil rights movement, not in
the West, East , South and North
young and restless human beings
whom has taught and treated to
believe they are inferiors joined their
psalms together while waving their
fists upon the sky to demand their
rights.

In Africa too things were the same,
country and countries which were
being colonized for ages were
demanding for their freedom . That’s
when the pan africanism movement
was started by the one of the
historical meeting at Accra Ghana,
were the source of African Liberations
day what we normally celebrate every
single year.

WHAT DOES I MEAN BY SAYING
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ART OF AN
AFRICAN PUPPETRY?

I decided to describe poetic the mess
of the leaders whom are leading the
Africa in a sort of social and political
art of an African puppetry, due to the
fact of the way most of these leaders
sloppy does worst for the motherland
of Africa and its people as if they
don’t use their common senses.

Our African leaders have signed most of
the blindfolds contracts as worse as
the ones signed by the chiefs, kings,
Ntemi and the past African leaders of
1800’s.

I’m talking about the worst examples
contracts of Carl Peters and couple of
Chiefs in Tanganyika, contracts which
brought distant relatives between
indigenous Africans and the brothers
and sisters from Diasporas, contracts
which brought sexism, tribalism,
classism, individualism and
eventually brought all of the African
continent into the new era of
capitalism, whereby classification and
manipulation becomes self making
inspiration from one another,
monopoly training skillful games from
the elementary/ primary schools to
universities as major way of educating
new upcoming capitalists.

In those ages most of us stereotyped all
Caucasians as the worst capitalists
and everything, by referred what was
happened within us through the
slavery, that created a lot of tension
of the system to synchronizes our
minds with new version software of
control, which has the same skillful of
neo colonialism, but with a tinny
change of the color of a person whom
will hold a whip to whoop your back
in plantations during these new era
of picking cottons in industry, firms,
companies etc. That is the we meet
puppets in the motherland,
eventually worldwide in general.

BLURRY UNITY OF EAST AFRICA
COMMUNITY.

Since I was in schools, my mentors
used to preach a lot about unity,
union, united etc. I took it serious
and label it as the source of
development, hence there is a
Swahili proverb known “ Umoja ni
nguvu, Utengano dhaifu !!” which
simply means two is better than one,
yet disunity is source of weakness .

Well!! Things have changed in where
I from, everyone thinks on
individualism, capitalistic ideology
with the influence of the minorities
whom are quiet professional on
myths of wars, disputes and
whatsoever for the sake of their
financial gains, business,
manipulation, segregation etc.

You might wonder how does
segregations applied in East Africa
Community for instances, take a look
on Burundi, during 1990’s it was the
country whereby guns and bombs
blew up like traditional dances,
neighborhood countries segregated it,
Tanzania helped Burundi a lot for
the point of humanitarians, it served
a refugees camps to help people by
the fact of human rights, and finally
it became officially part of East Africa
Community (EAC) with its eager of
making change inside out of her
country Burundi made it happen,
while diplomatic relationship with
her neighbors works positively.

Same thing to Rwanda, which couple
years ago won an internationally
attentions by been selected to have
seat on U.N security council and
whatever, I was wondering what did
they have done so far to achieve
that? Through social networks people
were congratulating Rwanda as it won
trophy or something. I was surprised
with my egoistic mind asked myself
how come that happened since I was
aware of Laurent Nkunda’s tragedy
that he brought it at Goma DRC
during that time before he was
caught up.

So I was like what’s going on in U.N
with what’s called Security Council? I
was so naïve thought of Rwanda got
that seat as a favor after what they
have been into the massive
bloodshed in 1994. I didn’t want to
share my thoughts publicly cause i
didn’t want negative responds from
the people whom they wouldn’t get
understand of what I wanted to say.
So I zipped off my poetic mischievous
mouth.

I don’t wish to say much about
recently shameful things that A
member of East Africa Community,
president of Rwanda dared said to
president J.K Kikwete but I would like
to highlight it as how does I consider
it as mechanism of political puppetry
in Africa, which was intentionally had
been portrayed by him.

It did ring a bell to me and others
too ,worldwide might know Rwanda
rapes Congo economically based on
negative forces since ages of late
Laurent Kabila, even though nobody
said nothing but I knew about it
before I turned 20 years old in 2007,
despite the fact of what U.N wanted
to covered it up with some of their
qualifications or whatsoever,
disregard Amnesty report about
Rwanda been involved with negative
forces based on Congo turmoil’s over
decades.

WHAT MADE THIS INCIDENT TO BE
SEEEN AS AN AFRICAN BLACK OUT?

Like I said a lot energy was made to
plant fears within ourselves, fear
planted in a form of education .

It is a
fear which has been intoxicating this
upper generation to the next, it is
the fear which will enable to control
the communities whom might be
rising up again to demand what they
might want to do so.

It is a fear implants with form of
propaganda as it is based on
mythology sort of stories and
assumptions which will enable to
victimize any of their threaten ones,
it is a fear which programmed to
neutralize the anger which can
brutally break down the Rome as if it
was built by one day. Take a grip,
clearly view what has already
happened in Africa, take a look over
the turmoil’s happened in Mali,
Somali, DRC, Egypt , Tunisia, Libya etc
glance in a bit the sanctions set on
Zimbabwe. Excuse is democracy, what
it takes to have democracy?
Bloodshed? Assassinations? Arab
Springs? Militia commands etc? I
don’t think none of them will work
out amongst ourselves, since minority
wants so bad to be worldwide police
officers over the countries that they
preaching to embrace democracy,
Only they seek is controlling their
interests by the excuses of terrorism,
terrorized the whole Africa by their
army camps i.e AFRICOM ,MONUC etc

It takes knowledge to acquire
knowledge, and it needs
acknowledgement to provide
knowledge. I don’t see change for the
sake of Africa, am optimist but I cant
lie to myself by the dream that I
couldn’t have in my sleep. Puppets
are planted like vegetables, They are
made specially for the certain group
of people, most of them are made for
African countries. If not my leader
then its for my neighborhood leader,
it the way they just found to cool aid
the sour of our anguish saliva not to
be spitted towards them through
revolution attempts of seeking some
change, it is kind of hardest thing to
denying being a puppet of the
political puppetry hence they made
them to be ones so they could use
them as our lookalike masters with
the whips to whoop our backs during
picking cottons at their farms in our
own continent / countries.

Slavery wasn’t over, slavery has just
been updated to a modern one,
Slavery as software it is already been
updated and installed within us
through political, social, educational,
cultural enslavement. We enforced by
them to embraced the slavery
through the whips of the sanctions,
drones, civil wars, implanted diseases
etc. through the help of our puppets
brothers and sisters as leaders whom
we have in our land, we do also
embraced to be enslaved cause they
taught us how to be so in their
schools, which can be seen now how
hard we seeking to be accepted by
their privileges and recognition. It
don’t make a sense to believe that
educational from your masters can
set you free.

© Kyomushula 

A LEGENDARY HIP HOP MC FROM ARUSHA -SPAC DAWG IS RIGHT BACK ATCHA !!

AN UPCOMING ALBUM FROM HIP HOP LEGENDARY FROM ARUSHA - SPARK DOG IT'S ON HIS WAY..STAY TUNED

Andrew Msechu a volunteering hip hop icon in Tanzania whom goes by the name of SPAC DAWG, former co-founder of HARDCORE UNIT is about to launch his upcoming 2nd album,in music genre of hip hop which i clarify as classic hip hop album to be presented in this new era of corrupted hip hop in mixture of other type of music genre include housing,dancehall etc

SpaC Dawg who frankly refer himself as a HIP HOP volunteer whom started worked in his career since late 90's till now, he believes in community awareness,and critical thinking on writing and rhyming as he being influenced with alot of authors and writers include his favorite Poet JAMARHI CARLTON CRAWFORD, A current Manager of Spark Dog Brother. George Kyomushula is calling for the generators and other stakeholders to investing at Spac Dawg path of his returning back, focus on acknowledge and influence others MC's, Poets and artists whom aim to progress in their career as to focus on reading books, and having an awareness of the way things going, yet he teased if that become a lil bottleneck he is right back to educate through the art of classic music hip hop genre,

His album name tag goes by the name of VILIVYONIHARIBU VILIVYONIHARIBU, which maximum has like 31 tracks.

Y'all just get ready to rumble, in this royal hip hop rumble of the man himself who polluting the blocks by the rhyme hip hop gun flow...and if you dont know now you know...

Booking for your album through his personal contact
+255754970956
spacdawg.atwn@ymail.com
Or personal contact his Manager and Marketing Officer of his album Brother George Kyomushula for events booking,etc
+255717470007
kyomushula@gmail.com


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