Mwalimu Quotes

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What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.
Maria Nhambu (America's Daughter (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #2))
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a defender of a dream.
Enock Maregesi
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.
Enock Maregesi
Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
As the old saying goes, negroes are nonviolent with those who are violent toward them and violent toward those who are nonviolent toward them. Selfish
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Sadly, we have begun to see the rise of males in the role of men.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
We must remember that mentacidal conditions are the result of illnesses created within the constraints of white supremacist culture. The choices Afrikans make occur within these constraints. As we know, if you swim in a sea of perversity you are bound to get wet.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
We seem to be forgetting to ask the time honored question of “are we sacrificing quality for quantity?” When in history has everyone been necessary for revolution? How did we get locked in this nonsense, a posture people take toward revolutionary movements when they really do not want to act? “One man you can trust is better than an army of cowards.”6 Too
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
We are fighting the idea of the inevitability of western culture. We are fighting against a genderless, cloned, all consuming inhumane European cult where a godless people toy with humanity for fun and profit. In embracing European culture Afrikan culture progressively dies. So, we are fighting to be Afrikan. And, “Afrika can only be reborn through the cooperation between a man and a woman; not through a man and a man or a woman and a woman.”1 To
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Credit must be given where credit is due. European culture’s politicoeconomic system is wholly at fault for the importation of weapons into our communities. We neither own nor operate any of the 922 gun manufacturers who, in this society alone, produce over 1.5 million legal handguns for sale each year. We had nothing to do with the 250 million handguns already legally in circulation. No, they do not force our youth to buy guns. But their cultural imperative of violence has created and socializes them into an atmosphere where fear begets violence and violence begets more fear and more violence, and the methods and tools for quelling those confrontations become an increasingly more destructive interpersonal arms race. Europeans know that the death of a young Afrikan male is not simply his death. It is also the murder of every coming, exponentially growing generation of Afrikans he was placed here to begin the procreation of. There
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
JANUARY 26 Being Kind-I You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The great and fierce mystic William Blake said, There is no greater act than putting another before you. This speaks to a selfless giving that seems to be at the base of meaningful love. Yet having struggled for a lifetime with letting the needs of others define me, I've come to understand that without the healthiest form of self-love—without honoring the essence of life that this thing called “self” carries, the way a pod carries a seed—putting another before you can result in damaging self-sacrifice and endless codependence. I have in many ways over many years suppressed my own needs and insights in an effort not to disappoint others, even when no one asked me to. This is not unique to me. Somehow, in the course of learning to be good, we have all been asked to wrestle with a false dilemma: being kind to ourselves or being kind to others. In truth, though, being kind to ourselves is a prerequisite to being kind to others. Honoring ourselves is, in fact, the only lasting way to release a truly selfless kindness to others. It is, I believe, as Mencius, the grandson of Confucius, says, that just as water unobstructed will flow downhill, we, given the chance to be what we are, will extend ourselves in kindness. So, the real and lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so that we can be who we are, holding nothing back. If we can work toward this kind of authenticity, then the living kindness—the water of compassion—will naturally flow. We do not need discipline to be kind, just an open heart. Center yourself and meditate on the water of compassion that pools in your heart. As you breathe, simply let it flow, without intent, into the air about you. JANUARY 27 Being Kind-II We love what we attend. —MWALIMU IMARA There were two brothers who never got along. One was forever ambushing everything in his path, looking for the next treasure while the first was still in his hand. He swaggered his shield and cursed everything he held. The other brother wandered in the open with very little protection, attending whatever he came upon. He would linger with every leaf and twig and broken stone. He blessed everything he held. This little story suggests that when we dare to move past hiding, a deeper law arises. When we bare our inwardness fully, exposing our strengths and frailties alike, we discover a kinship in all living things, and from this kinship a kindness moves through us and between us. The mystery is that being authentic is the only thing that reveals to us our kinship with life. In this way, we can unfold the opposite of Blake's truth and say, there is no greater act than putting yourself before another. Not before another as in coming first, but rather as in opening yourself before another, exposing your essence before another. Only in being this authentic can real kinship be known and real kindness released. It is why we are moved, even if we won't admit it, when strangers let down and show themselves. It is why we stop to help the wounded and the real. When we put ourselves fully before another, it makes love possible, the way the stubborn land goes soft before the sea. Place a favorite object in front of you, and as you breathe, put yourself fully before it and feel what makes it special to you. As you breathe, meditate on the place in you where that specialness comes from. Keep breathing evenly, and know this specialness as a kinship between you and your favorite object. During your day, take the time to put yourself fully before something that is new to you, and as you breathe, try to feel your kinship to it.
Mark Nepo (The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have)
Integration is a mentality which automatically gives the seeker a sense of inferiority. Integrationists desire to change from what they are into something better. No one in their right mind aspires to be integrated with an inferior. Those on a quest to be integrated are searching for a state of mind, any state of mind or being, that is superior to the one they currently exhibit or feel characterizes them as powerless and without a worthy identity. They feel that integration will somehow transform them from an inferior into the superior beings who dominate them. This makes integration focused individuals blind to the illnesses, inconsistencies and, specifically in reference to our discussion, peculiarities and immoralities of those they wish to be integrated (become like) into. Integrationists accept all of whom they want to be like as qualities they want to assume and be characterized by. They do not distinguish between the good and bad qualities of their model. They want the baby and the dirty bathwater. They assume that all of the characteristics and qualities of their reference group have good reason and that they all contribute to the superiority of those whom they want to be like. Perversion
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa na sehemu ya upendo wa AGAPE. Alijitahidi kuwapenda wengine kuliko yeye na familia yake.
Enock Maregesi
Huwezi kuwa na mwalimu mzuri bila daktari mzuri, na huwezi kuwa na daktari mzuri bila mwalimu mzuri.
Enock Maregesi
Mwalimu mzuri ni wa muhimu zaidi kuliko daktari mbaya, na daktari mzuri ni wa muhimu zaidi kuliko mwalimu mbaya.
Enock Maregesi
Kati ya mwalimu na daktari mwalimu ni zaidi, kwa sababu ualimu unatoka kwa Mungu, ambaye ndiye Mwalimu wa kwanza.
Enock Maregesi
Mwalimu wa udaktari alipata maarifa ya udaktari kutoka kwa daktari, aliyepata maarifa ya udaktari kutoka kwa Mungu.
Enock Maregesi
Jifunze kutoka kwa mwalimu, jifunze zaidi kutoka kwa wenzako.
Enock Maregesi
For a moralless people, everything is made to serve immoral purposes.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
There comes a point when a mother can no longer physically handle her son. And, this problem often does not wait to crop up until the boy is old enough to be on his own. It occurs at all age levels in a society where children imitate the reckless pursuit of power without respect for others’ humanity. In a culture where mothers have learned to practice a permissive socialization for their sons, respect or gratitude just because she is the older, wiser adult who is looking out for his good naturally becomes virtually absent in his mind as he seeks greater independence and control over his world. There is no tried and true method for enforcing the mother’s will, except by her manipulating a love worn bare. Control becomes nonexistent. This has historically not been the case when the Afrikan man is present, be he physically in the house, next door or right down the street. European
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa bendera ya taifa letu! Alikuwa alama ya amani, haki, uhuru, ujamaa, uzalendo, na Tanzania.
Enock Maregesi
The candle is the light of life that is constantly thriving to hang on and light up the darkness of life. Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a candle in the wind. He was a fighter fighting the odds to survive. And he did so with incredible power to change the world. Whether your life is long or short upon the earth, it is remarkable that our little flames burns on in spite of the wind, or the challenges of life.
Enock Maregesi
As with every other perversion Europeans attempt to introduce us to, homosexuality often comes in a humorous package. We are persuaded to laugh at its strangeness. Participatory laughter disarms us and makes the object of our laughter innocent, harmless. Yet, at the same time, it opens our minds to the possibility of its acceptance. Regardless, it is introduced to our consciousness. And we should know that all it takes is one time. All we have to do to have something planted in our minds is to be exposed to it one time. That’s why people shield their children from negativity, to prevent them from being exposed to things that they do not want them to consider as possibilities, things that shatter their innocence. The
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Although some will confuse the proud demonstration of spirit with what they consider an inferior rhythmic being, we note with great pride that Afrikans are the only people on Earth who can take something as mundane and monotonous as walking and elevate it into an art form. We are the only ones whose stroll is an overt yet esoteric expression of defiance against European aggression and oppression while at the same time gloriously beautiful. That
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
There is no easy way to explain the truth to Afrikans about the reality of our situation in this cultural wasteland. If over half of all Afrikan families are headed by single females, then a very large number of our fathers are absent from the direct process of rearing their sons. While men absent from the home does not single-handedly bring about homosexuality and/or effeminacy in sons, it is a significant contributing factor. This is so not only because they are not there to protect them but also because of the lack of a masculine model of manhood in their lives, in their homes, as they grow up. We are only now beginning to truly see the long term impact of this drain of men models away from Afrikan homes on Afrikan boys in search of their manhood. If
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Heterosexuals who act out, verbally or behaviorally, against homosexuals are often accused of being sexist. But, there is a simple but fundamental flaw in this political accusation that is time and time again overlooked. Homosexuality is not a sex. It is not even a gender. It is an abnormal orientation toward sexual intercourse. It is no more than a disorder in choosing whom one will engage in sexual acts with. How can people be sexist against homosexuals? They are not a sex. Sex,
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa mtetezi wa uafrika. Kwa sababu yake tunajua sisi ni nani.
Enock Maregesi
Sisi ni watoto wa Nelson Mandela; sisi ni watoto wa Kwame Nkrumah; sisi ni watoto wa Haile Selassie; sisi ni watoto wa Samora Machel; sisi ni watoto wa Robert Mugabe; sisi ni watoto wa Patrice Lumumba; sisi ni watoto wa Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Tunajua sisi ni nani.
Enock Maregesi
Male and female require balance. In humanity, as in cosmic order, balance in male and female does not equal bisexuality, homosexuality or unisexuality. It equals complementarity of roles in a realm of responsibility which neither gender can know or do all. But,
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
On an even more basic issue, the argument as to why homosexuality is not compatible with Afrikan culture is not complex. Afrikans believe in family. It is our most important institution. It is the basis and foundation of nation. It is life and we have a primary responsibility to it. Therefore, children, procreation, are central to our existence. They take all priority over individual pleasures. Homosexuals cannot procreate. No male can have “sex” with another male and produce a child through that act. No female can have “sex” with another female and produce a child through that act. They can negotiate for the seed or egg of opposite sex homosexuals or heterosexuals. They can adopt heterosexuals’ offspring, or steal them as their heterosexual European couple counterparts have shown a historical propensity to do. But they cannot, as couples, procreate.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti (Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males)
The simplicity of President Magufuli with regard to savings and protecting the national economy is that of the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. His responsibilities (to him) appear to be simple assignable to the gift of authority, given to him by God.
Enock Maregesi
Maisha matobosha Kama huna Cha kwako utaeleka jiwe. Lazima kujituma diposa maisha yawe na afueni la sivyo yatasalia ombwe tupu.
Benard Kiio