Emory School of Medicine Distinguished Service Award for 2024! Thank you Emory School of Medicine for this incredible honor! Thank You to all of our Village for making this possible! And Brent Weinberg, MD, PhD & Susan Palasis for the nominations! "And, when you want something, the entire

Let’s keep on building until it is done. This is just the beginning for Dawa Mkononi

Quick wins: Libraries. Libraries. Libraries (public, not private). Models of leaders reading. Elevate writers to Natl. statu to show writing and reading matters. Award S. Robert presidential medal of honor posthumously… Natl. day of reading for pleasure led by the President etc

This is potentially a seed for an epic work of fiction or creative non fiction: Children story, Fantasy, African futuristic, historical fiction etc. For coastal people the sea is a wonder full of myths and legends. If it’s good we’ll publish it. #HadithiZetu

If you read one thing today - it should be this; excellent piece where Mkuki Bgoya discusses Swahili writers and the fact that they should be mandatory reading in Tanzania… he also unpacks the deep trauma around books in our region. africanarguments.org/2024/07/mkuki-…

“Why are we only celebrating Gurnah now that he’s won a Nobel, for instance? I think all of us can play a part in interrogating these (relationship with our colonial past; value placed to a colonial framework) contradictions.” Contend @Mkuki

💯 mwaka huu binafsi niko most excited about the trains. Huwa ninapenda sana kusafiri na reli kila ninapopata fursa na hii ya kwetu ni game changer 🙌🏾

Thanks for having us all the best with #TwendeButiama24

Mkuki Bgoya

If in Johannesburg Tuesday the 13th, you know where to find me and Panashe Chigumadzi in conversation on the politics of language, the longer African literary tradition and writing politics. Even you are not physically there, you still have no excuse - it is a hybrid event.

Kuelekea #AFCON2027 sisi Tanzania tuna fursa ya kufanya hivi. Lakini tunahitaji GRAND VISION pamoja na storytellers aka wasanii (lkn zaidi ya wanamuziki). Tunahitaji hadithi inayotazama nyuma ili kujenga mbele. Pia tunahitaji kuwekeza kwenye miundombinu ya kusapoti matokeo yake.

Afrika sio nchi.

NGO huku Afrika na ajenda zao za nyuma ya pazia.

The level of incompetence exhibited by Zuku Tanzania is appalling! Unajiitaje kampuni ya teknolojia halafu kwa wastani wa kila wiki 3 au 4 huduma yako iko down? Sina tabia ya kuja kulalamika mtandaoni (najua ugumu wa biz Bongo) ila dah! save ur sanity! EPUKA ZUKU KAMA KORONA!!

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Asante sana brother! ktk kuadhimisha siku hii UTV walinialika kwao kuongelea kwa kirefu kuhusu kazi yetu hii adhimu #Uchapishaji What a privilege for me & my team to get to do this work that we love! What a privilege to have dear friends such as you 🙏🏾 youtu.be/LucIdBFvRQA?si…

Furaha isiyo gharama