Tanzania Is Our Strait Of Hormuz - Dr Maponga to Tanzanian Journalists
At the screening of 'What Happened on October 29?', Dr. Maponga had a direct message for Tanzanian journalists: Stand with the truth.
African Journalism cannot afford to be lazy or driven by external narratives. If claims are being made about Tanzania, Tanzanian journalists must be the ones asking the hardest questions, verifying the facts, and telling the world what is really happening on the ground.
Dr. Maponga challenged journalists to look beyond party politics and understand Tanzania’s strategic place in regional and global power struggles. Tanzania sits at the center of trade routes, ports, railways, minerals, and competing global interests.
So when violence, instability, and misinformation spread, journalists must ask: who benefits? Who pays the price? And whose future is being destroyed?
Capitalism Looted The World: Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro gives an interview to Epigmenio Ibarra of the Mexican television channel on July 20, 1991, after attending the First Ibero-American Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico.
In the one-hour interview, Castro, the Cuban revolutionary and nationalist leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008, argued that Western capitalism had looted the world. Unlike socialism, which he described as a system rooted in human prosperity, true freedom, and collective progress, Castro said capitalism had produced environmental destruction, mass inequality, unchecked consumerism, and an inability to solve humanity’s greatest crises, from poisoned oceans to the endless exploitation of resources.
Castro further insisted that socialism was not dying, but waiting to be reborn “like a phoenix from the ashes.” He believed humanity’s future depends on rational planning, education, healthcare, dignity, and sustainable living, rather than on endless consumption and corporate greed. “It is capitalism,” he argued, “that is in an irreversible crisis.”
Meanwhile, with the capitalist West, specifically the US, strangling Cuba with imperial-driven sanctions, Castro’s argument that capitalism is killing the world holds even after nine years of his death.
@cbginsight1 It's simple, any system they can't control they find a way to destabilize it. And how do they achieve that, by arming oppositions who share same interest as theirs, to create tensions, falsified informations and create radical movements ti discredit the government in power.
“Nigerians please come and help me, I have been arr£sted and fals£ly accused of being a traff!cker and a k!dnapp£r. I was just set up by the young girl who I was trying to help here in lagos, I came to buy market in lagos and met a little girl whom told me that her madam brought her to lagos to work only for her madam to forced her into Ol0sh0 work the little girl told me to help take her back to her parents , I bought the little girl a new phone and on our way back to her parents a car stopped us and accosted us and the little girl flipped the story on my head and said I was the one who wanted to take her to Cameroon for Ol0sh0 work” - lady cries out
The best thing you can do for yourself as a Nigerian is to use that internet connection of yours while you still can, and follow/read/watch information from a wide variety of sources from all over the world.
Your Nigerian media is a Europe-US information cage. When I say "Nigerian media", I'm not just talking about news platforms. I mean your popular social media bloggers. Your big content aggregators. Your online discussion and image boards. Everything is bought and paid for, and the money is always European or American.
Do yourself a favour and unplug.
Look for news, web content, TV series, movies and discussion forums from Asia, Latin America and other parts of Africa. Watch Brazilian TV shows. Watch Chinese documentaries. Watch Vietnamese movies. Follow social media content creators from Indonesia and Russia. Lurk on Pakistani message boards. Gain a wider picture of the world while you still have access to a relatively open internet that allows you to do so.
It's the best thing you can do for yourself.