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Swahili Poetry Is Written To Be Sung: Traditional Form Versus New

Shani Omari: Hip Hop in Tanzania Has Continued To Grow and Strengthen Over Time

Shani Omari: The Origins of Rap Are Rooted in the Culture of the African Oral Arts

Doroth Mosha and Shani Omari: Fundamentally, Children's Play Songs are a Treasure Trove of Content To Build Ecological Awareness in Children and Society

North American and Caribbean Black Americans Nurtured Pan-Africanism and African Liberation

Angelus Mnenuka: Defining Pan-Africanism

Angelus Mnenuka: Swahili Has the Best Chance of Acceptance Throughout the African Continent

Angelus Mnenuka: One Way of Passing on Culture in a Changing Society is the Re-entextualization* of Text

How To Say "Artificial Intelligence" in Swahili

Joramu Nkumbi: Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Seemed To Hear the Call More than Others and Immediately Stepped Forward

Joramu Nkumbi: Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania Left a Magnificent Legacy

Joramu Nkumbi: Only Tanzania and Ethiopia Use African Languages in Their Government Affairs

Joramu Nkumbi: Africa Has a Merited Position on the Global Stage

Joramu Nkumbi: Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere was a Bookworm

Joramu Nkumbi: Julius Nyerere United Tanganyika, Making 120 Tribes into One People with One Language

Joramu Nkumbi: Let the African Continent Not Lose the Entire Century

Bill Bryson: The 1800s Brought One Marvel After Another, Radically Changing Everyday Life

Bill Bryson: The Cotton Gin and Cotton Demand Drove Expansion of Slavery and Child Labor

Tanzanian President Samia Congratulates Alphonce Simbu for His Stellar Showing at Boston Marathon

Bill Bryson: In the 1830s, the Miracle Product the World Had Been Waiting for Arrived: Guano

Bill Bryson: Executives from Western Union [Telegraph Co.] Famously Dismissed the Phone as “An Electrical Toy"

Bill Bryson: Income Tax Did Not Become a Part of American Life until 1914

Bill Bryson: Not Only Cotton, But Also Sugar Played a Major Role in Slavery

Bill Bryson: In 1696, William Pitt the Younger Massively Cut the Tax on Tea

Bill Bryson: We Forget Just How Painfully Dim the World Was Before Electricity

Bill Bryson: The Neolithic (New Stone Age) Covers the Closing of an Extremely Productive 2,000 Years of Prehistory

Bill Bryson: Our Homes Are Where History Ends Up

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: Ideology Emboldens, Gives a Justification

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: To Do Evil on a Massive Scale, Humans Must Believe What They Are Doing is Good

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: Yet I Have Not Given Up Hope

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: Alas, the Evil of the Twentieth Century Is Possible Everywhere on Earth

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: When You've Robbed a Man of Everything...He is Free Again

Margaret Mead: A Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens

John Woolman: Have Any of Our Possessions Nourished the Seeds of War

John Woolman: Great Wealth Can Become a Seed of Discord in the Soil

John Woolman: To Which I Made an Undutiful Reply

John Woolman: There Is a Principle...Which in Different Places and Ages Hath Had Different Names

John Woolman: A Way of Life Free from Much Entanglements Appeared Best for Me

John Woolman: There is a Principle Placed in the Human Mind

John Woolman: Divine Love Imposeth No Rigorous or Unreasonable Commands

John Woolman: A Channel of Universal Love

John Woolman: The Right Portion Keeps Us Lively

From the Archives: We Must Do Our Best

Annie Dillard: That is the Trade Entering His Body

From the Archives: How Far You Go in Life

Annie Dillard: Your Curiosity is Waiting for You

Annie Dillard: A Schedule Can Be a Net for Catching Days

Substack's @StoicWisdoms: Do You Want To Know Your Future?

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Annie Dillard: We Still and Always Want...Waking