Geza Ulole
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ur problem was the mountain being highest? sio? That is Kilimanjaro highest for u! Do u dispute that?
Elimu ya majirani ndio inakwamisha EAC
Elimu ya majirani ndio inakwamisha EAC
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Hoshea
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Hehee wakenya bhana, ndio maana hata binti wa odinga hajui olduvai ilipo, tena ukae ukijua ni the first free standing mountain, A free-standing mountain is a stand-alone mountain, i.e its not a part of any mountain range.
Sky Eclat
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whether pathetic or not but my education is good enough to pay my bills. Any way the truth stands that it's a tourist attraction.
NairobiWalker
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As usual Geza will try going off topic to save his ass lol. My point is simple, someone who claims their country has better education can't get a fact about their country's most famous feature right. That's something class 3 kids elsewhere have on their finger tips.
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No need for wrangle over academic titles
Surely, future generations will be puzzled by how simple minded we all were at a time when we should have shown more depth.
Friday May 13 2016
The ongoing talk started by columnists Godwin Murunga and Makau Mutua on whether Peter Kagwanja is a professor or not is a sad illustration of how petty our so-called leading intellectuals can be. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH
In Summary
The ongoing talk started by columnists Godwin Murunga and Makau Mutua on whether Peter Kagwanja is a professor or not is a sad illustration of how petty our so-called leading intellectuals can be. When I decried this pettiness some time last year, only God knows the vitriol that came my way after an honest opinion that focused on the University of Nairobi, the same one where Dr Godwin Murunga is based.
I am now trapped between emotions of relief and disappointment, driven by a sense of vindication that came much sooner than I ever imagined. Who would have thought, a few short months ago, that an intellectual of Makau Mutua or Murunga’s standing, would indulge in the pedantry of defining a mere title in the name of intellectual discourse?
Anyway, I had made up my mind not to bother with the malicious excitement with which the accusations against Kagwanja have been thrown around, until I read Julius Sigei’s rhetorical question, ‘Can the real professor please stand up?’ I had earlier read Murunga, Mutua, Omanga and Lukoye Atwoli on the same, though the latter two played safe by not naming their subject of attack. Political correctness is not my thing, so I shall speak because I know that as a member of this generation, I am implicated against my will in this madness that, if left unchecked, will make me ridiculous in the eyes of later readers.
Surely, future generations will be puzzled by how simple-minded we all were at a time when we should have shown more depth in the subjects of our engagement. It is incredulous that in 2016, when knowledge travels faster in multiple ways through all sorts of hand-held gadgets, university lecturers can devote time (and journalists' space) to trade petty suspicions on individual qualifications.
DIPLOMA DISEASE
What, if I may ask, is the substantive difference between the Mutua-Murunga duet that accuses Kagwanja of intellectual fraud, and Ferdinand Waititu and William Kabogo who speak the same language in trading similar accusations?
What Murunga, Mutua and their cheer leaders forget is that their preoccupation with titles is just another indicator of the banal vanity that caps our widespread malaise of pettiness — MCAs insisting on being addressed as ‘honourable’ and governors thundering at anyone who does not call them ‘your excellency’!
The Murunga-Mutua duet, I think, represents a section of the university professoriate that suffers from the delusional arrogance with the presumptuous illusion that they are the only smart Alecs in town, and who indulge in a social grandiosity of titular superiority that actually helps no one.
I suspect that what we are witnessing in this so-called Kagwanja debate is a resurgence of the diploma disease that Ronald Dore diagnosed in 1976 to be the irrational application of educational qualifications as evidence of ability and merit. To the diploma disease that we have never recovered from, add the new strain of professor fatigue that the Murunga-Mutua duet is now exposing us to.
What matters to me is not that Kagwanja was not appointed ‘professor’ by any university, but that his intellectual output may enrich or harm society in some way.
No one should forget that the university space and its titles are in decline as the dominant place or indicators of knowledge production and opinion shaping. As Ngugi wa Thiong’o said some time back, there is space enough for a thousand flowers to bloom, and those may do so in different names.
The Einsteins and Darwins of this world did their bit, and so have the Steve Jobs’, the Bill Gates’ and the Papa Wembas. There need not be any dynamic tension between intellectuals within and without the university, as has been dramatised in the recent columns.
Let us not forget that the spurious notion of the university as the only or main operative space of knowledge production, implied by Murunga and Mutua, needs to be tempered with the prevailing logic of industry-based innovation — the Steve Jobs’ or MPesa way — rather than college-based invention as a key intervention in solving our problems now.
To tell you the truth, Murunga and Mutua, the ubiquitous presence of cutting edge knowledge everywhere continues to render university-centred titles both banal and irrelevant. It is those who do things, not who theorise them, that help to transform society.
I wish I were naïve enough to believe that all this talk about Kagwanja’s professorial status or lack of it is an academic debate. But I know it is not; it is about the competing claims of representation in public political sphere, and about ethnic loyalties to political standpoints at the national level and within institutions such as universities, where apparently Kagwanja should go for the conferment of the hallowed name of ‘professor’.
We know how our universities dole out those titles, and so they don’t always give a fair indication of what the individual has actually done in their area of research.
Knowing this, I find it grossly unfair to readers if I were to overlook the stale talk about Kanu professors and others who fell through the cracks of the system to acquire the titles just because they warped the system with the help of a relative here, a predatory journal there, or an industrious student who researched and appended their supervisor’s name to the published findings, either to succumb to intimidation or smoothen their own examination process.
MEANINGLESS TITLE
Such professors are all over this country, including the University of Nairobi that celebrates its status as the less mediocre of such institutions in the region.
Whatever the case, Kagwanja has more than merited to become a professor in any university, I believe, and for colleagues to embarrass him because of his political inclination, regardless of its reasoning, is to engage in reproachable intellectual righteousness that makes small the likes of Murunga and Kagwanja.
Murunga, Mutua and Kagwanja all operate at the same level of deplorable ignorance of the irrelevance of professors to any society at this point in time. Now, it is war generals like Norman Schwarzkopf, innovators like Steve Jobs and entrepreneurs like Richard Branson who change peoples’ lives, not elevated swots who don’t even know when they have been left behind.
It is annoying to read this so-called Kagwanja debate, and to see someone like Kagwanja shamelessly falling for the desperation of usurping a meaningless title at a time when serious people like Noam Chomsky — yes, the same one who gives linguists nightmares — have moved on to other things. Remember what Chomsky says in Andrew Ross’ “Defenders of the Faith and the New Class.” “Intellectuals, the educated classes, are the most indoctrinated, most ignorant, most stupid part of the population” because they “have internalised their own propaganda and believe it.”
For Murunga, who writes propaganda in all his columns, to accuse Kagwanja of propagandist writing is to remind us of the Kiswahili proverb about nyani and its whatever!
http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/w...rofessor/-/1220/3201986/-/l4pf38/-/index.html
Surely, future generations will be puzzled by how simple minded we all were at a time when we should have shown more depth.
Friday May 13 2016
The ongoing talk started by columnists Godwin Murunga and Makau Mutua on whether Peter Kagwanja is a professor or not is a sad illustration of how petty our so-called leading intellectuals can be. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH
In Summary
- Murunga, Mutua and Kagwanja all operate at the same level of deplorable ignorance of the irrelevance of professors to any society at this point in time.
- I suspect that what we are witnessing in this so-called Kagwanja debate is a resurgence of the diploma disease that Ronald Dore diagnosed in 1976 to be the irrational application of educational qualifications as evidence of ability and merit.
- Knowing this, I find it grossly unfair to readers if I were to overlook the stale talk about Kanu professors and others who fell through the cracks of the system to acquire the titles just because they warped the system with the help of a relative here, a predatory journal there, or an industrious.
The ongoing talk started by columnists Godwin Murunga and Makau Mutua on whether Peter Kagwanja is a professor or not is a sad illustration of how petty our so-called leading intellectuals can be. When I decried this pettiness some time last year, only God knows the vitriol that came my way after an honest opinion that focused on the University of Nairobi, the same one where Dr Godwin Murunga is based.
I am now trapped between emotions of relief and disappointment, driven by a sense of vindication that came much sooner than I ever imagined. Who would have thought, a few short months ago, that an intellectual of Makau Mutua or Murunga’s standing, would indulge in the pedantry of defining a mere title in the name of intellectual discourse?
Anyway, I had made up my mind not to bother with the malicious excitement with which the accusations against Kagwanja have been thrown around, until I read Julius Sigei’s rhetorical question, ‘Can the real professor please stand up?’ I had earlier read Murunga, Mutua, Omanga and Lukoye Atwoli on the same, though the latter two played safe by not naming their subject of attack. Political correctness is not my thing, so I shall speak because I know that as a member of this generation, I am implicated against my will in this madness that, if left unchecked, will make me ridiculous in the eyes of later readers.
Surely, future generations will be puzzled by how simple-minded we all were at a time when we should have shown more depth in the subjects of our engagement. It is incredulous that in 2016, when knowledge travels faster in multiple ways through all sorts of hand-held gadgets, university lecturers can devote time (and journalists' space) to trade petty suspicions on individual qualifications.
DIPLOMA DISEASE
What, if I may ask, is the substantive difference between the Mutua-Murunga duet that accuses Kagwanja of intellectual fraud, and Ferdinand Waititu and William Kabogo who speak the same language in trading similar accusations?
What Murunga, Mutua and their cheer leaders forget is that their preoccupation with titles is just another indicator of the banal vanity that caps our widespread malaise of pettiness — MCAs insisting on being addressed as ‘honourable’ and governors thundering at anyone who does not call them ‘your excellency’!
The Murunga-Mutua duet, I think, represents a section of the university professoriate that suffers from the delusional arrogance with the presumptuous illusion that they are the only smart Alecs in town, and who indulge in a social grandiosity of titular superiority that actually helps no one.
I suspect that what we are witnessing in this so-called Kagwanja debate is a resurgence of the diploma disease that Ronald Dore diagnosed in 1976 to be the irrational application of educational qualifications as evidence of ability and merit. To the diploma disease that we have never recovered from, add the new strain of professor fatigue that the Murunga-Mutua duet is now exposing us to.
What matters to me is not that Kagwanja was not appointed ‘professor’ by any university, but that his intellectual output may enrich or harm society in some way.
No one should forget that the university space and its titles are in decline as the dominant place or indicators of knowledge production and opinion shaping. As Ngugi wa Thiong’o said some time back, there is space enough for a thousand flowers to bloom, and those may do so in different names.
The Einsteins and Darwins of this world did their bit, and so have the Steve Jobs’, the Bill Gates’ and the Papa Wembas. There need not be any dynamic tension between intellectuals within and without the university, as has been dramatised in the recent columns.
Let us not forget that the spurious notion of the university as the only or main operative space of knowledge production, implied by Murunga and Mutua, needs to be tempered with the prevailing logic of industry-based innovation — the Steve Jobs’ or MPesa way — rather than college-based invention as a key intervention in solving our problems now.
To tell you the truth, Murunga and Mutua, the ubiquitous presence of cutting edge knowledge everywhere continues to render university-centred titles both banal and irrelevant. It is those who do things, not who theorise them, that help to transform society.
I wish I were naïve enough to believe that all this talk about Kagwanja’s professorial status or lack of it is an academic debate. But I know it is not; it is about the competing claims of representation in public political sphere, and about ethnic loyalties to political standpoints at the national level and within institutions such as universities, where apparently Kagwanja should go for the conferment of the hallowed name of ‘professor’.
We know how our universities dole out those titles, and so they don’t always give a fair indication of what the individual has actually done in their area of research.
Knowing this, I find it grossly unfair to readers if I were to overlook the stale talk about Kanu professors and others who fell through the cracks of the system to acquire the titles just because they warped the system with the help of a relative here, a predatory journal there, or an industrious student who researched and appended their supervisor’s name to the published findings, either to succumb to intimidation or smoothen their own examination process.
MEANINGLESS TITLE
Such professors are all over this country, including the University of Nairobi that celebrates its status as the less mediocre of such institutions in the region.
Whatever the case, Kagwanja has more than merited to become a professor in any university, I believe, and for colleagues to embarrass him because of his political inclination, regardless of its reasoning, is to engage in reproachable intellectual righteousness that makes small the likes of Murunga and Kagwanja.
Murunga, Mutua and Kagwanja all operate at the same level of deplorable ignorance of the irrelevance of professors to any society at this point in time. Now, it is war generals like Norman Schwarzkopf, innovators like Steve Jobs and entrepreneurs like Richard Branson who change peoples’ lives, not elevated swots who don’t even know when they have been left behind.
It is annoying to read this so-called Kagwanja debate, and to see someone like Kagwanja shamelessly falling for the desperation of usurping a meaningless title at a time when serious people like Noam Chomsky — yes, the same one who gives linguists nightmares — have moved on to other things. Remember what Chomsky says in Andrew Ross’ “Defenders of the Faith and the New Class.” “Intellectuals, the educated classes, are the most indoctrinated, most ignorant, most stupid part of the population” because they “have internalised their own propaganda and believe it.”
For Murunga, who writes propaganda in all his columns, to accuse Kagwanja of propagandist writing is to remind us of the Kiswahili proverb about nyani and its whatever!
http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/w...rofessor/-/1220/3201986/-/l4pf38/-/index.html
NairobiWalker
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Lol, hydrogen was right. It's extremely hard to argue with Tanzanians. Why don't you just accept your weakness and move on? Nobody's talking about tourist attractions here.
Sky Eclat
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That is the problem because our education is pathetic and you think we are dull enough just to sit down and let you claim that Kilimanjaro is in the land of Kenya.
Geza Ulole
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idiot....,Mt Kilimanjaro is the highest free standing Mt in the World! U can't change that fact...
Sky Eclat
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We can not let you call spade a spoon though.
Hoshea
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Mtoto wa Odinga waziri mstaafu mdada mzima hajui olduvai gorge ilipo, ndio amejua juzi juzi hapa baada ya wabongo kumfundisha, tena mbele ya kadamnasi ya UN, na smartphone yake on her finger tips wala hakujisumbua kugoogle, maybe because she was sure what she was taught. What do you say about your education.
Hence hakuna wa kuchekana ndugu, hihiihiii. Thread closed, NEXT
Sky Eclat
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Wakiwa wanapindisha ukweli wanajifanya hamnazo.
NairobiWalker
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That has nothing to do with the argument at hand buddy. This is why I prefer arguing with educated fellows.
NairobiWalker
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Young girl - go to a country with decent schools, get a decent education then come back. We can. engage then.
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just because there are lazy journalist in Tz, doesnt mean there arent worse problems in tz. just because tz doesnt have journalists that proactively make it their business to go out there and find their own stories and report them and tell it like it is, a cristisize without fear or favor....The poor stand no chance at education
Updated Sunday, May 22nd 2016 10:00am
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Gone are the days when education brought uniformity amongst members of a society irrespective of their social status. Nowadays the bourgeoisies are in control of the education system. They build private primary schools which drill children through their cram to pass technique. This has been crafted and proved effective over the years thus ensuring children of the haves in the society pass with flying colours. Thereafter, they join the limited national high schools and best county schools in their numbers.
Those who will not have the opportunity to join national schools and county schools due to their below par performance will head to private high schools for advanced drilling to justify the capita investment of their parents.
WERBUNG
inRead invented by Teads
Here spoon-feeding is the order of the day considering the favorable teacher-student ratio mostly 1:25 at most. Making them record business attractive mean scores such as 399.9999 in primary level and 10.999 in secondary level to boost the student enrollment numbers the following year.
Whereas their colleagues in the public sector, a hustlers paradise where everything is low; low teacher student ratio, low book ratio, low morale due to low remuneration of teachers and low class attendance. The only thing, which is high, is the student population which leads to ‘mediocre’ mean scores that depict teachers as jokers who just come to school for the sake of their salaries.
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Here, read to understand technique applies if you can’t understand the train has just left you at the station. Students from these schools are often faced with financial challenges but those who manage to join national and top county schools become instant performers who are found on the upper sphere of the academic merit list.
The number of parallel students in competitive courses such as medicine, law and engineering has either doubled or tripled the number of their government sponsored counterparts. This is because varsities claim they don’t have the ‘capacity’ to train them but they always have capacity to train the privately sponsored students.
Courses such as piloting are a preserve of the rich whereas the poor shift their focus to Education and other arts courses which the government willingly sponsors them in their numbers. Some of these courses are ‘irrelevant’ to the current job market. This is the case of generational poverty where the poor are to remain poor until the Lord returns.
The poor stand no chance at education
MY TAKE
Kenya having over 40% living under a dollar a day, how will a fool come here and brag about being more educated while the poor in his backyard can not afford to pay for that luxury?
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it sad the for the whole if east africa for me to stoop this low to say this. but at the end of the day, even with all the short commings is the state of education in Kenya, we still perfom better than you. infact, our primary kids from public schools (where even the poor can afford to go since its free and schools from poorest places are in the govts school feeding program so kids go home on a full stomach at the end of the day), performed the same as kids from private schools in tz on the most basic litarecy and math test... so shut your mouth
Sky Eclat
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shut up and stop calling me a young girl.
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marginalising people is a defend mechanism of unsecured person.
NairobiWalker
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Young girl, when you start reasoning like a lady I'll call you a lady.
Ungetumia huu muda ulioupoteza kuandika hizi propaganda zako kuwaza jinsi yakumaliza umaskini mlionao i think mngekuwa mbali.. Kitu ambacho hujui nchi zote za Africa mashariki zina changamoto zinazofanana za kielimu,EAC ina kila kitu na kila sababu za kupaa na kuwa ukanda bora Afrika, lakini mojawapo wa sababu zinazofanya tukwame ni elimu duni ya baadhi ya majirani zetu kwenye huu muungano. Na hii imechangia sana kuona watu wana kauli za kiajabu hata huku Jamii Forums.
Mfano hai, majirani zetu Tanzania, unakuta mwanafunzi anafikia hadi darasa la saba halafu anafanya mtihani wa mwisho wakati hajui kusoma wala kuandika. Haingii akilini, yaani afikie hadi kwenye mtihani wa mwisho akiwa kilaza bila uwezo wa kusoma wala kuandika. Halafu wanaachiwa na kuingia sekondari/upili na kuendelea, hatimaye ndio hawa wanapata simu baadaye na kuingia kwenye mitandao ya kijamii na kutuzingua kila siku.
Kweli ni hatari, maana eti ndio kizazi kinachotegemewa kuhusika katika ushirikiano wa kesho baina ya nchi zetu hizi. Hapo unakuta watu wananuna kwa kila azimio, kumbe tatizo ni elimu. Juzi wametutukana sana baada ya kusikia watoto wetu wa darasa la kwanza wanapata laptops.
Taarifa kamili hii hapa
Wanafunzi wasiojua Kusoma na Kuandika wanafaulu vipi Mtihani wa Darasa la Saba? | Fikra Pevu
KILA mwaka zimekuwa zikitolewa takwimu za idadi kubwa ya wanafunzi wanaofaulu darasa la saba na kuendelea na masomo ya sekondari, lakini tukielezwa kwamba hawajui Kusoma, Kuandika na Kuhesabu.
Kwa hakika kabisa, ni jambo ambalo linaumiza kichwa kwa sababu katika mfumo rasmi wa elimu katika nchi hii, kuna mitihani ya kupima uelewa wa wanafunzi kuanzia darasa la nne, ambayo lengo lake ni kuwachuja wanafunzi wanaopaswa kuendelea na masomo ya darasa la tano, kabla ya kuufikia mtihani wa Taifa wa darasa la saba.
Kutokana na mfumo huo, maana yake ni kwamba wanafunzi wote waliopita darasa la nne na hatimaye kufika darasa la saba, wana uwezo kitaaluma. Kwa hiyo, zinapokuwepo taarifa za wanafunzi waliochaguliwa kujiunga na kidato cha kwanza, ambao hawawezi hata kuandika majina yao, hilo kwa kiasi fulani linakuwa ni jambo la kushangaza.
Agosti 14, 2013, Waziri wa Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi, Dk Shukuru Kawambwa, akizungumza kwenye Warsha ya Mpango wa Matokeo Makubwa Sasa, iliyoandaliwa maalum kwa ajili ya watendaji wa elimu ngazi ya kanda, mkoa na wilaya, naye alikiri kushangazwa sana na taarifa za kuwepo na wanafunzi wanaofika hadi darasa la saba wakati hawajui kusoma wala kuandika.
“Halafu Ofisa Elimu unawateua wanafunzi wa aina hiyo kwenda Sekondari. Tatizo liko wapi? Uteuzi wenu unazingatia vigezo vipi? Je, hakuna namna ya kuthibitisha wale waliochaguliwa wanajua kusoma na kuandika? Maofisa Elimu mnashirikiana vipi na walimu wakuu katika hili?”alihoji Dk Kawambwa katika warsha hiyo.
Kwa sasa, Tanzania inakabiliwa na changamoto kubwa ya kuwa na idadi kubwa ya wanafunzi wanaomaliza elimu ya msingi kila mwaka bila kuwa na stadi za kujua Kusoma, Kuandika na Kuhesabu (KKK), huku baadhi yao hao wakifikia hata kuchaguliwa kuanza kidato cha kwanza.
Takwimu kutoka Taasisi ya Elimu Tanzania (TET) zilizokusanywa katika mikoa yote ya Tanzania Bara katika miaka ya hivi karibuni, ambazo FikraPevu inazo, zinaonyesha kwamba wastani wa chini kabisa wa idadi ya wanafunzi wanaomaliza darasa la saba bila kuwa na stadi za KKK katika kila mkoa ni 200, huku wastani wa juu ukiwa ni wanafunzi 400.
Aidha, akijibu maswali ya wabunge bungeni mwaka huo, Naibu Waziri wa Elimu na Mafunzo alisema katika matokeo ya kidato cha nne mwaka 2010, asilimia 88 ya wanafunzi wote waliomaliza mwaka huo, walipata daraja la nne na sifuri, huku asilimia 12 tu wakipata daraja la kwanza hadi la tatu, huku akibainisha pia kwamba asilimia 31 ya Watanzania wote nchini walikuwa hawajui kusoma na kuandika.
Wanafunzi wa darasa la awali wapatao 90 katika shule ya msingi Puulu wilayani Nyasa mkoani Ruvuma hali inachangia kukosa stadi za KKK
Takwimu zote hizo TET na Wizara, ni ushahidi tosha kwamba kuna jitihada za ziada zinazotakiwa kuikomboa nchi hii kutoka kwenye dimbwi la ujinga. Ongezeko la wanafunzi wanaopata daraja sifuri, linakwenda sambamba na ongezeko la watu wasiojua kusoma na kuandika.
Ikumbukwe kuwa katika miaka ya 1970 na 1980, Tanzania iling’ara katika nchi za Bara la Afrika, hasa Kusini mwa Jangwa la Sahara, kutokana na kasi ya kupunguza idadi ya wananchi wake wasiojua kusoma na kuandika.
Chini ya Sera ya Elimu ya Watu Wazima, nchi iliongeza idadi ya watu wanaojua kusoma na kuandika kila mwaka. Manufaa yake yalionekana bayana kwa kuwa watu waliweza kupambana na changamoto zinazowakabili, ikiwa ni pamoja na kuongeza uzalishaji wa mazao mashambani kutokana na kuzingatia elimu ya kilimo bora, sambamba na kuongeza uelewa wa kujikinga na maradhi mbalimbali.
Hadi Baba wa Taifa, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere anang’atuka madarakani mwaka 1985, idadi ya Watanzania waliokuwa hawajui kusoma na kuandika ilikuwa ni takriban asilimia tisa (9) tu. Kwa hiyo, kama Taifa, kama tungefanikiwa kuendeleza kasi hiyo ya wakati wa Mwalimu hadi mwaka 2010, tungekuwa na angalau asilimia 95 ya Watanzania wanaojua kusoma na kuandika, sawa na asilimia tano (5) ya wasiojua kusoma na kuondika.
Kuongezeka kwa idadi ya wananchi wasiojua kusoma na kuandika kutoka asilimi tisa mwaka 1985 hadi asilimia 31 mwaka 2010, ni ushahidi tosha kwamba Taifa hili linarudi nyuma kwenye ujinga badala ya kusonga mbele. Historia ya Elimu ya Watu Wazima inaonyesha kwamba ilipofika Agosti mwaka 1975, Tanzania ilikuwa ni nchi ya kwanza ulimwenguni kufanya mtihani wa kisomo kwa watu wazima wapatao zaidi ya milioni 3.8, sawa na asilimia 77 ya watu wazima wote waliokuwa wanahudhuria madarasa ya kisomo hicho.
Aidha, mwaka 1981, Tanzania ilikuwa nchi ya kwanza katika nchi za ulimwengu wa tatu, kuanzisha kampeni ya kitaifa ya kisomo cha kujiendeleza iliyohusisha watu wazima zaidi ya milioni 1.4 waliofuzu kisomo katika hatua ya nne. Ingawa hivi sasa juhudi zimeanza upya, huku mipango thabiti ikiwa imeandaliwa kwa lengo la kufufua upya kisomo cha kujiendeleza, uchunguzi uliofanywa na FikraPevu umebaini kuwa Taifa hili linakabiliwa na tatizo kubwa la ujinga wa kutojua kusoma na kuandika kuliko wakati mwingine wowote katika historia ya Tanzania.
Kwa mujibu wa matokeo ya Sensa ya Watu na Makazi ya Mwaka 2002, pamoja na matokeo ya tafiti mbalimbali zilizopo, ilikadiriwa kwamba idadi ya watu wazima waliokuwepo katika nchi hii, ambao walikuwa hawajui kusoma, kuandika na kuhesabu, walikuwa ni milioni 5.5, sawa na asilimia 32 ya Watanzania wote wa mwaka huo. Miaka 10 baadaye, kwa maana ya matokeo ya Sensa ya Watu na Makazi ya Mwaka 2012, idadi ya watu ambao hawakuwa wakijua kusoma, kuandika na kuhesabu, ilifikia jumla ya watu takriban milioni 11, sawa na ongezeko la ujinga mara mbili ya ule wa mwaka 2002.
Mpango wa Matokeo Makubwa Sasa katika Sekta ya Elimu, ambao umeamua kuwaondolea mrundikano wa masomo wanafunzi wa darasa la kwanza na la pili, na kuwabakiazia masomo matatu tu ya Kuandika, Kusoma na Kuhesabu, pengine ni mikakati unaoweza kusaidia kupunguza tatizo hili la wanafunzi wanaojiunga na kidato cha kwanza bila kuwa na stadi yoyote ya KKK.
Hii ni changamoto mpya kwa Serikali, kupitia Wizara ya Elimu katika kuhakikisha kwamba mtaala huo mpya wa kujenga stadi za KKK katika shule za msingi, unatekelezeka kwa vitendo ili kuinusuru nchi hii kutoka katika wimbi kubwa la watu wasiojua kusoma, kuandika na kuhesabu.
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mh, we nawe ni kilaza, yani wasiojua kusoma ndio wamiliki wa mabiashara makubwa.