Slicker than Voyager's finale. And just as many plot holes. 🖖🏾
Mar 27, 2021 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Good morning! How are you today!
...what do you mean, not again?
Come on. You knew there was going to be a post mortem didn't you? Besides, you don't just come down from live tweeting for several days just like that.
Anyways, its the weekend so this is really just a chill...
...session to say a few things that coukd not be said before the burial of the late President Magufuli.
First of all, I apologise to my fellow Tanzanians. I am aware of our unwritten social contract and the clauses that define the appropriate conduct expected of a patriot
Mar 26, 2021 • 95 tweets • 16 min read
Good morning. Today we lay the late President of the United Repubkic of Tanzania, John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, to rest.
It is a solemn day for all of us.
As a fellow Catholic, a Tanzanian, a Lake Zoner I must honor the importance of this day.
Tasibota @AlbertRweyemamu
For my peace of mind, I am watching the Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation channel.
I woke up too early, my mind was already running a marathon. My skin was too tight and hot in the cool predawn. I felt a bit weepy, a lot restless.
I have been here before. I did not expect...
Mar 25, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The plan was to maybe tweet about Mwanza and Chato and share what my mother has told me about the Sukuma (worked in Mwanza, besides we be Lake Zoners) but life had other plans for me.
So yeah, jusy vibing and listening in on conversations like this one.
Now. For the real story I have been at a loss to tell for too long. #thread.
In March of 2020, the Covid19 pandemic started to rampage throughout the world. It did not spare Tanzania. But in April of 2020 we stopped all public efforts to halt is spread in the country.
The death toll in Tanzania started at least as early as May or June- I forget. Not because I do not know, but because my mind has refused to remember. The first friend to go was a shock. How could someone so full of life just... disappear? We grieved.
Mar 20, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Good morning. Today, St. Peter's Church will be holding her final Mass for the late President Magufuli.
This is the last time his motorcade shall turn left off Ali Hassan Mwinyi at Mbuyuni.
Raha ya milele umpe ee Bwana, na mwanga wa milele umuangazie. Apumzike kwa amani.
This being #Tanzania, @TBConlineTZ is talking to the Mufti and members of Masjid Aboubakar Zuberi in Chamwino that the late President helped to build. It is a beautiful structure, especially in the golden morning light.
