Utamu wa Tunda la Kuiba

Wadau nimekuta haya mashairi JAMBO FORUMS. Yanafurahisha kweli.

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Jamvini najikongoja,

Cheichei kwa pamoja,

Heko mlotoa hoja

'Sauti ya Shamba'

kwa kuleta hii hoja,

Naye 'Mwangwi wa Handaki' kajibu moja kwa moja,

Kaomba tumalizie Waridi chake kioja,

Nami nabinya vitufe kujibu hoja kwa hoja,

Tunda la kuiba tamu!

Tulia na utulize moyo wako,

Punguza kilio chako,

Kwani si wewe peke yako,

Hata wa pembeni yako,

Tuna kilema ka'chako,

Tunda la kuiba tamu!

Ingawaje nina tunda langu,

Lindani shambani mwangu,

Naliona kama nungunungu,

Linachoma kwa uchungu,

Nachelea la mwenzangu,

Nauona ulimwengu,

Si wangu ni wa wenzangu,

Nidokoe tunda tamu!

Tunda limenishangaza,

Kwa unono lapendeza,

Kwa deko lanipumbaza,

Lina ngozi yateleza,

Na macho yakulegeza,

Udenda nikachuruza,

Jino nikatumbukiza,

Tunda nikalibinyiza,

Jamani la kuiba tamu!

La kuiba tamu tunda,

Hiyo ndiyo yake inda,

Lau upepo ukipinda,

Akakufuma mlinda,

Tendo baya takutenda,

Kwa machozi utaenda,

Nenda ewe mwana kwenda,

Hapo tamu huwa chungu!

Wahenga wajisemea,

Yana tabu mazoea,

Tunda 'kishalizoea,

Sasa lishakupotea,

Tena umelikimbia,

Masikini la kuiba tamu!

Yana tabu mazoea,

Mengine 'takodolea,

Kwani tamu 'mekolea,'

Talinyemelea pea,

Kidole talinyoshea,

Nono tajichagulia,

Mate tajidondoshea,

Utamu jamani tamu,

unda la kuiba tamu!

Litabaki kuwa tamu!!!

By Palloma (Binti wa Kitanga)

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Mzee Mwanakijiji Ajibu:

Tulia mwana nipange, majibu yangu niseme,

Tulia bila mawenge, hoja zangu mzisome,

Tulia miye nilonge, hili tunde nisiteme,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia nikuambie, uzuri wa tunda lile,

Tulia nisimulie, tunda hilo ni la kale,

Tulie nihabarie, na wewe hilo ukale,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia mwenye kuhoji, Bwana Bushiri kapanda,

Tulia la mwenye mji, hakuliacha kuvunda,

Tulia yeye mpaji, kalitunza hilo tunda,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia mimi nakiri, sikuingia gharama,

Tulia akisafiri, najinoma huku nyuma,

Tulia alfajiri, hadi wanapoadhama,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia kama mlevi, ndivyo ninavyosambua,

Tulia kama mvuvi, tunda ninalichambua,

Tulia silete gomvi, utamu nimeng'amua,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia hata samadi, wa kijiji sikuweka,

Tulia si ukaidi, mwenyewe naneemeka,

Tulia silipi kodi, la bure nalitamka,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Tulia mwana nitame, kaditamati nafika,

Tulia msiniseme, ati nimeghafirika,

Tulia kisu kichume, na mchuzi kumwagika,

Tunda lile la jirani, hilo halina gharama!

Na. M. M. Mwanakijiji (Sauti ya Shamba)

Jambo Forum T-Shirts

April 18, 2008

In regards to: T-Shirts for sale

To All JamboForums:

Hello everyone! I want to let you all know that there will soon be T-Shirts available for sale with our JamboForums logo on them. The T-Shirt is a 100% ring spun 6.1 oz cotton T-shirt that will be available in several different colors. The sizes available will be S-4XL. The colors that we have right now are red, black, white, and charcoal. This is a 100% cotton T-Shirt that is made by Port and Company, a Port Authority brand. The logo will appear on the left chest of the garment and will be in turquoise and white as shown on the web site. We will have the first T-Shirts available for sale starting the first week of May.

Price will be determined shortly. Shipping and handling will vary according to your location. At a later date we will also be offering an Egyptian Cotton Polo and hats with the same logo.

Also we are looking into getting products with less price for our people at home.
You can make your payment through Paypal or send your money order to:

Mohamed Ali
P.O. Box 105973
Jefferson City, MO 65110-5973
USA.

We would appreciate your interest and any feedback that you may have. Any suggestions for future products or colors available would be also greatly appreciated.

Any other questions, please direct them to me, I will be more than happy to answer them for you as much as I can.

Thank you,
Mwazange

Maisha ya WaBongo Marekani

Nimeona hii JAMBO FORUMS, sijui mwandishi lakini ameandika ukweli.

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Educated TZ Immigrants in US in tough Situation

Some of our educated brothers and sisters are increasingly unhappy and openly frustrated with USA way of life. Highly educated Tanzanians are currently working in embarrassing lower paying jobs like nursing assistants, hard labor and taxi drivers.

Most of them who rushed to USA just after their college graduation walk are increasingly find themselves out of touch with reality, most of them are still fantasizing how good their peers are doing back home, most of them are turn their frustration to clubs and prostitution to end pain inside.

This forced me to ask myself two questions (1) why (2) what can we do to help them. (1) Why? USA is very different from TV shows or fanatic lifestyle you all see on TV when you land in USA you are going to find out three important things (a) You must work to survive (b) Education is very expensive (c) You have a big possibility of violating US-Laws and traditional morals on the process of succeeding in U.S.A.

You need to know the following in detail first. Work to survive: If you work without a permit is illegal, given that fact if you don’t have enough money in your pocket minimum of $1600 a month you must work.

To work in USA you need personal identification number called Social Security Number, so that means you need Social Security Card for work identification. The problem you are going to face is most highly paying jobs are increasingly sensitive to illegal Social Security Cards, which are mandatory to any job.

The other problem you are going to face is the fact that your USA host friends are not going to let you jobless just because of documents since everybody is doing it why not you? From beginning of your journey you are going to find yourself compromising your traditional morals and dreams you have for USA.

After few months without any source of income you are going to find yourself under desperation and pressure to do something quick to make a living possible.

Social Security Number: To work legally in USA you need Social Security Number, but due to political pressures the process of getting Social Security is more complicated than ever. For International Student to get SSN # you need to be In Status and that means to be a full time student. .

Education: For an international student to qualify for any benefit he/she must be in student status, that means you need to maintain 12hrs of college classes per semester and your performance status should be “good academic standings”.

Together with education one of advantage of good status includes Social Security Letter, which students used to get Social Security Number. For a regular State college cost of international student for 12 hours semester is ranging from $4000-$8,000 plus or minus, One Year is two semesters. This cost is not only ridiculous but also laughable for a middle class young Tanzania to keep up with.

Some Students with higher performance in GMAT or GRE may get a break of paying out of state fees, so the real cost is going to be around $2,000-$5,000. You must also consider the fact that getting scholarship is easy said than done. What can we do to help them?

There’s no clear answer to this questions everybody think differently, however I am going to give my opinion honestly.

Social Behavior: In my first paragraph some people may end up with conclusion that I called all Tanzanians graduate frustrated but I am not.

Background: Young Tanzanians started a massive immigration to USA in 1996, most of them young student who completed their Advance levels. Most of them aged between 20-23 years of age. With older Tanzanians distance themselves with this young Tanzanians they learned fast how to hustle. This young group went through ups and downs just like any other young people but at the end of day they learned how to maneuver complicated life in USA.

Those Tanzanians who came here after college find themselves living the past of their fellow high school classmates’ example documents hustles, boyfriends and girlfriends, clubbing. The only problem is the fact that now they have to do this at 25-27 years of age and not early 20’s.

This group who went to high school together find themselves share very few things in common socially example. Those Tanzanians graduates came here with the altitude that they are smarter than their fellow high school mates because they did not make to local colleges like UD, Mzumbe or Sokoine, but their fellow mates who immigrate to USA became more matured and street smarter.

This situation put many Tanzanians who graduate abroad very uncomfortable, most of them decide early they rather face problems with lack of street awareness rather than shameful asking embarrassing question or help to those who they ones consider looser’.

The behavior is still common here in United States. What is your Take on this? Stay and Hustle or Go home before is too late?

Jambo Forums Is back online!

Kuna habari njema. Jambo Forums imerudi hewani. Ilikuwa imefungwa kwa muda na baadhi ya posters wake walihojiwa na polisi nchini Tanzania.

http://www.jamboforums.com/

Update - Jambo Forums

JAMBO FORUMS

Jioni ya leo (February 20, 2008) kwenye kipindi cha BBC mara baada ya Mwanakijiji kuhojiwa, alifuatia Msemaji wa Jeshi la Polisi ambaye alijaribu kuelezea ni kwa nini vijana wawili wanashikiliwa na Polisi kwa sababu ya kuhusika na mtandao wa Jambo Forums. Katika madai ya jeshi hilo ni kuwa mtandao huo siyo tu ni wa uchochezi bali pia unamawazo ya kigaidi au uvunjaji mwingine wa sheria.

Tafadhali ingia kwenye "Pics and Docs" kwenye "Press Releases" na kujisomea tamko hilo pamoja na makala iliyowatambulisha watu wengi kwenye Jambo Forums iliyotolewa karibu mwaka mmoja uliopita na kuwekwa hapa bila ya kufanyiwa uhariri wowote au mabadiliko.
Wakati huo huo tunaitisha michango ya wana JF katika kuwasaidia ndugu zetu. Wengine tumetoa muda wetu, watu wawili tu wamechangia fedha kidogo na wengine wanaendelea kutoa michango ya "maneno ya kizalendo" na mshikamano.

Tunahitaji michango ya kuhakikisha siyo tu JF inarudi bali inarudi ikiwa na nguvu zaidi lakini pia kusaidia juhudi za ndugu zetu nyumbani. Endapo vijana hawa watafunguliwa mashtaka tunahitaji kuwa na "Legal Defence Fund".

Michango inaweza kuingizwa kupitia tovuti hii au kwa kuwasilina na klhnews@klhnews.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Mwisho tunaomba kuwahakikishia kuwa Jambo Forums iko salama kabisa na kila kitu kilichokuwapo bado kipo na muda si mrefu itarudi hewani.

Ndugu yetu "Invisible" anaendelea kufanya vitu vyake bila kubughudhiwa na matukio yanayoendelea.

Jambo Forums - Vipi Tena?????

Walioshikiliwa waachiwa

Written by Mwanakijiji
Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Jeshi la Polisi Mkoani Dar-es-Salaam limewaachilia vijana Mike Mushi na Mac DeMello ambao ilikuwa inawashikilia kwa zaidi ya masaa 24 yaliyopita. Vijana hao walikuwa wanashikiliwa kwa madai ambayo hadi hivi sasa hayajaeleweka lakini inadaiwa kuhusiana na mtandao maarufu wa Jambo Forums. Muda mfupi uliopita email kutoka kwa mtu anayejiita Melo imetuma ujumbe kwa klhnews ikisema kuwa

" Kaka unayafanya maisha yangu kuwa hatarini SANA. Sina simu ningekupigia. Tafadhali SANA futa haraka habari hiyo inayotuhusu kwakuwa itaharibu kila kitu na kunifanya nitoweke kwenye uso wa dunia. Mapambano niliyaona yenye haja lakini sasa hali NI MBAYA SANA. Wasiliana na mwenzio....... akwambie nini kimempata. NAKUOMBA SANA leave us for this moment, unawarahishia upelelezi wenzio!
Bora kuendeleza mijadala mingine kuliko hivi, kaka balaa kwangu!"

Hata hivyo haieleweki ni kwanini kama kweli email hii ni ya vijana hao wanakuwa na wasiwasi hata wa "kutoweka duniani" wakiwa chini ya vyombo vya usalama. Msimamo wa KLH News ni kuwa jambo lolote likiwatokea vijana hao hata kujikwaa au kuvunjika ukucha wakiwa mikononi mwa Polisi watakaowajibika mbele za wananchi ni Mkurugenzi wa Upelelezi wa Tanzania na Inspekta Jenerali wa Polisi kwa kushindwa kulinda usalama na uhaki wa vijana hao.

Tunaendelea kutoa wito kwa vyombo husika kwenda kutafuta majambazi na wezi wa fedha zetu za umma kama kina Balali ambao wanatanua ughaibuni badala ya kuwatafuta na kuwabambikizia kesi zisizo na msingi vijana ambao wanatumia vipaji vyao kuinua uhuru wa habari nchini.

Taarifa za vijana hawa kuwekwa kizuizini zinaanza kuendelewa kuandikiwa ripoti ya kuonesha ni jinsi gani Taifa lililosifiwa kuwa ni "mfano" katika Bara la Afrika limeshindwa kujizuia kuvumilia maoni huru siku chache baada ya kumpokea kwa shangwe Rais wa Marekani Bw. George Bush nchi ambayo hakuna kitu kinaenziwa sana kama uhuru wa maoni na mawazo.

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Naona mambo mazito!!!

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