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		<title>Someone seeking to kill us on the job</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/someone-trying-to-kill-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This news story is 18 months old, but it has had no space in mainstream media. That&#8217;s how it found its way to the blogosphere, where sifted stories can be published without fear or favour. Yes, Tanzanian journalists are trying to do their job but someone is seeking to savagely silence  them. This story, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=189&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why should heads of state collapse in public?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS a norm, heads of state never allow themselves to collapse or fall down in public, because it is a sign of weakness. But in the last few months, two of them &#8211; one in Europe, another in Africa &#8211; have been a rare exception.
 President Nicolas Sarkozy of France collapsed when jogging in late July [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=168&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanzania&#8217;s oppostion party tries e-politics</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/tanzanias-oppostion-party-tries-e-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT a time when almost everybody and everything is going electronic, a major opposition party in Tanzania has ventured to lead the way for the rest of Africa in e-politics by introducing a new way of recruiting members and raising funds.
From this week, Tanzanians wishing to join Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) will not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=162&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zanzibar politics: You win, we rule</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/zanzibar-politics-you-win-we-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amani Karume]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What ZANU-PF has been doing in Zimbabwe, CCM is doing in Zanzibar. And if anything, Zanzibar is deliberately turning into an ugly face of Tanzania, characterized by the politics of terror, outright vote rigging, and police and military intervention in elections since 1995.
Proud of systematic vote rigging and shamelessly vowing to ‘never let’ the opposition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=146&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power-sharing regimes: Who wants them?</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/who-wants-power-sharing-regimes-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRST it was Kenya, then Zimbabwe. Now, it is Madagascar’s turn on the road to the demise of, and conspiracy against, democracy in Africa. Surprisingly, African politicians – more of rulers than leaders – are the conspirators plunging the continent in utter chaos by denying winners and losers their due.
In ordinary democracy, especially when it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=137&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polygamy: A fact of life?</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/polygamy-is-it-really-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ngurumo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage and Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may have different,  and sometimes contradictory, views on polygamy, but some of us do believe that it is real. We may have been led to believe polygamy is intrinsically evil and forbidden by God or cultures, or that it is irrelevant in modern times, but it is practised in many societies and there are valid justifications for it.  We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=110&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give it another name, not sex-bullying</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/give-it-another-name-not-sexbullying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN lovers exchange romantic jokes in word, text or photos, they mean nothing more or less than love. They normally do not mean to hurt each other but to lighten up the mood. When it comes to communication, love has no limits. And that&#8217;s how obscenity becomes part and parcel of a romantic relationship because, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=90&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Condom debate: No winners, no losers</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/the-pope-is-right-about-condoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Pope Benedict XVI made his first pastoral tour of Africa this year, he said so many important things, but only one stood out:  his emphatic statement that  condoms are no solution to the AIDS endemic. Then followed harsh criticism from a host of  HIV activists the world over. His message, however, was not about his infallibility but the ethics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=86&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Philosophy of Love</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/the-philosophy-of-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of Jade Goody&#8217;s wedding with fiance Jack Tweed, the latter was quoted saying &#8216;I love Jade more than anything.&#8217; As I was trying to philosophise about love and the words &#8216;more than anything&#8216; I realised that Jade would never utter the same words for Jack. No! She may utter them but not from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=79&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe losing sovereignty?</title>
		<link>http://ngurumo.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/zimbabwe-losing-sovereignty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT is official, Zimbabwe has opted to use US dollars instead of its crumbling Zim dollar. Finance Minister Tendai Biti&#8217;s announcement that civil servants would be paid in foreign currency means a lot of things to different people.
To most Zimbabweans, it is good news. The US dollar is stable and has much more value. It can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ngurumo.wordpress.com&blog=6456543&post=76&subd=ngurumo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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