Mkuki Bgoya

Managing Director @MkukiNaNyota. Chairman, Alliance Française Board. My opinions ≠ official positions of organizations I’m affiliated with.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

@tatendamashanda @Udadisi If you are in Tanzania: https://t.co/dmaK5NiMpK

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Furaha isiyo gharama

[Clover Lavender @AyoolaMatthee]

@PicturesFoIder Paper planes complete with launcher.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Asante sana brother! ktk kuadhimisha siku hii UTV walinialika kwao kuongelea kwa kirefu kuhusu kazi yetu hii adhimu #Uchapishaji

What a privilege for me & my team to get to do this work that we love! What a privilege to have dear friends such as you 🙏🏾

https://t.co/oTumC2oiRo

[Mrusha Jones @mBongo]

Happy #BookPublishersDay to @Mkuki, and @MkukiNaNyota team.

Here's to more Innovations ( #DiGiDiGi ) more stories, more voices, and more beautiful books from Africa claimed but #Tanzania's own prolific publishing house!

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Bro, I prompted same #ChatGPT (screenshots) to critique ur advice as I think it’s a bad idea (ni kudesa tu kisasa but miss the point) kudesa&shortcut culture has really affected us coz wengi walizoeshwa tu kumeza summary za vitabu…let’s validate bookworming like @zittokabwe does

[Jumanne Mtambalike @Afruturist]

For non bookworms you can read most of the English books on this list using ChatGPT.

To read the books and get most of the core ideas all you need to do is to type the book and author's name and promt three key questions;

✅ What are the core ideas of the book?
✅ What are the practical cases and examples from the book?
✅ What are key take aways and lessons from the book?

If you are interested with facts and figures, you can prompt for data and insights.

If you have the PDF version of the book it is even better. You can upload the PDF and chat with the book chapter by chapter.

You can write the summary of the book and make the book relate with your local context in a global perspective.

Welcome to the age of Augmented Intelligence. If you wish you can even read 20 books per day.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

More screenshots to complete its argument…

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

@josephoike @lolashoneyin Haha! I love this piece brother. Thanks for sharing you talent 🙏🏾

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

😆

[Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn @lolashoneyin]

@josephoike @mkuki is rocking your brand at the International Literature Festival, Berlin. 😍😍😍

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

@lolashoneyin My dear Lola, thanks always for your support and for your camera skills ❤️

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

@ilb_festival waliponialika mjadala #Berlin sharti langu ni waweke mtafsiri mTZ ili nitumie #Kiswahili kuwasilisha maoni yangu. Wakaridhia. Jana jukwaani nimetumia SWA badala ya ENG. Lugha yetu ni ya kimataifa na inastahili ktk majukwaa na mijadala ya kimataifa. Uwe msimamo wetu

[Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn @lolashoneyin]

Mkuki Bgoya doing something really incredible here. Since the topic is ‘Lost and Found in Translation’, he is speaking Kiswahili and has an interpreter for English speakers at a festival in Germany. So much love it.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

The level of incompetence exhibited by @ZukuTanzania is appalling! Unajiitaje kampuni ya teknolojia halafu kwa wastani wa kila wiki 3 au 4 huduma yako iko down? Sina tabia ya kuja kulalamika mtandaoni (najua ugumu wa biz Bongo) ila dah! save ur sanity! EPUKA ZUKU KAMA KORONA!!

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

NGO huku Afrika na ajenda zao za nyuma ya pazia.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.

Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."

The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.

Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.

The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.

I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.

It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.

I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.

It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.

I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.

Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.

It will never be me.

[Mukoma Wa Ngugi @MukomaWaNgugi]

If in Johannesburg Tuesday the 13th, you know where to find me and @PanasheChig in conversation on the politics of language, the longer African literary tradition and writing politics. Even you are not physically there, you still have no excuse - it is a hybrid event.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Afrika sio nchi.

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Kuelekea #AFCON2027 sisi Tanzania tuna fursa ya kufanya hivi. Lakini tunahitaji GRAND VISION pamoja na storytellers aka wasanii (lkn zaidi ya wanamuziki). Tunahitaji hadithi inayotazama nyuma ili kujenga mbele. Pia tunahitaji kuwekeza kwenye miundombinu ya kusapoti matokeo yake.

[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

China spent $100M on the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony & everyone thought it was a waste.

But China saw something no one else did.

15 years later, it's considered the greatest investment in Olympic history.

Everyone needs to understand why it worked:

[Mpeli Nsekela @mpelig]

@mkuki

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

Thanks for having us all the best with #TwendeButiama24

[Vodacom Tanzania Foundation @vodacomtzfound]

Today we hosted Amb. Gertrude Mongella and @mkuki of @MkukiNaNyota at the launch of this year’s @VodacomTanzania Twende Butiama cycling tour. A dialogue with profound insights on Mwl. Nyerere’s vision and take on empowering Tanzanian’s through education & health. #TwendeButiama24

[Mkuki Bgoya @mkuki]

💯 mwaka huu binafsi niko most excited about the trains. Huwa ninapenda sana kusafiri na reli kila ninapopata fursa na hii ya kwetu ni game changer 🙌🏾

[Samwel Ndandala @SNdandala]

✅️ SGR imebadilisha kabisa sura ya usafirishaji wa watu na mizigo Tanzania (Biashara)

✅️ Vivutio (Mikumi, Uluguru, Udzungwa n.k) sasa vyafikika kirahisi (Utalii)

✅️ Zaidi sana inafanya Watanzania tuamini tunaweza zaidi ya hapa. Ni jambo la kujivunia mno ( national pride)

[martin warioba @martinwarioba]

Let’s keep on building until it is done. This is just the beginning for @DawaMkononi

[Frank J. Minja MD @frankminja]

Emory School of Medicine Distinguished Service Award for 2024!

Thank you @EmoryMedicine for this incredible honor! Thank You to all of our Village for making this possible! And @BrentWeinberg & @SusanPalasis for the nominations!

"And, when you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho.

"Na ukitaka kitu, ulimwengu mzima utafanya njama mpaka ukipate."