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Election going well. I came in to the office as the power was off at home and the batteries down. Lots of people quietly queued to vote. All peaceful. John [Cousens] has been observing the voting in his capacity as Election Observer in our area and says it is really going well and he is being welcomed at all the polling stations. [Photos are of Yoweri Museveni, president since 1986 and main challenger Kizza Besigye. more

Dear Sam and Betty, I hope that you are both well. I am delighted to inform you that the 30 computers: CPUs, Monitors, and Keyboards have all arrived, and we have received them at the time when they are greatly needed. They are being checked for technical details after which Mackay College will receive its share of ten. Thanking you once again. Regards. Senteza Kajubi

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April, 2006
Jakaya Kikwete is Tanzania's fourth president, elected last December with 80% of the vote. Dar-05-ers met his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa, who did not seek a third term. Kikwete was Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 1995-2005. He holds a degree in economics from UDSM. more
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins has won a Pulitzer Prize for recovering "the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya," according to the jacket. The book details the fear, hunger, death, destruction of documents and detention of over a million Kikuyus. The BBC reports it as a "devastating chronicle of organized violence." bbc
More power to Uganda! If TEAA computer assistance is to have its desired effect, the severe power shortages must be overcome. So it's relevant news that President Putin has offered to get Russian oil companies to invest in hydro and thermal power in Uganda.
Kenyans win Boston Marathon: Robert Cheruiyot set a new course record and Rita Jeptoo won the women's race. This was Kenya's fourth sweep since 2000. more
Solar eclipse redux: "Seeing an eclipse was thrilling," writes TEAA-er Emilee Cantieri, just returned from Libya where it could best be seen, but only in dark glasses, please!. "It occurred soon after noon and the weather was perfect. The Libyans were friendly and welcoming, had super security and even police escorts for the busloads of tourists, and had set up tent-like shelters of beautiful fabric so we could wait in the shade until the right moments."
March, 2006
Drought: Recovery of food and cash crops - coffee, maize, bananas - at a village in Tanzania's Mara region shows "how fast the drought-parched lands come back when the rains finally come. Of course they can go as quickly as they come." writes TEAA-er Frank Mitchell. He passed along this photo from just-graduated Willy Andrew (Bwiru Boys) who scored in Division I on his Oct 2005 NECTA exams.
Solar eclipse: TEAA-er Emilee Cantieri is in Libya for 4 minutes of total solar eclipse. The photo demonstrates that the diameters of sun and moon have roughly the same ratio as their distances from earth. physics
The next generation: TEAA daughter Nelia Dwyer reports that "The Riverside Student Council is taking on a service project for MacKay. Some 8th graders will be organizing a book drive as per Gertrude's wish list and they'll also be organizing pen pals." Nelia visited MacKay in 2005 with her father, John Dwyer, on his way from Dar-05 and they journeyed on to his old school in West Nile.
Kenya still a running power: Melbourne (Reuters) - Janeth Jepkosgei upstaged two times champion Maria Mutola to win the 800 metres Commonwealth Games title on Friday as Kenyans continued to dominate the distance races. more E.A Federation talks: (Xinhua) - East African leaders are scheduled to meet in Tanzanian's northern town of Arusha next month to seek ways of fast-tracking the formation of the East African Federation, officials said on Thursday. more Uganda election challenge: Kampala (The Monitor) - Opposition leader Kizza Besigye suffered a setback yesterday at the start of his challenge of President Yoweri Museveni's re-election when the Supreme Court rejected his application to refer a major question to the Constitutional Court for interpretation. Dr. Besigye, who lost last month's presidential election by 37% against Museveni's 59%, ... more Nepotism charge: Nairobi (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank head, under pressure to stand down after being charged with nepotism, should leave office pending the outcome of his court case, the east African nation's attorney-general said on Friday. more
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: TEAA-er Brooks Goddard reports that he "attended Kenya laureate, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's lectures at Harvard on Remembering Africa: Burial and Resurrection of African Memory, March 14-16. Ngugi documented the destruction of names and identity wrought by slavery and colonialism the African holocaust. These are not new notions, but the documentation was impressive. Intriguing is Ngugi's idea that indigenous language use is healing and that what is visible in a European language is invisible in an indigenous language. Ngugi teaches at the University of California at Irvine; these McMillan-Stewart lectures should eventually be in print." King Lear: TEAA-er Pat Gill has sent about 300 pounds of books to Uganda and Tanzania, using M-bags, which can take up to 6 months. "Books came from friends, purchases at Goodwill and ones I had; also garage sales, where I find dictionaries. A Uganda form 6 had King Lear to read for their exam. They only had two copies and had xeroxed 4 more for 30 students. Unplanned there were 5 more copies in the box I sent. I felt really good." At left is Orson Welles as the mad king.
Motherlode: TEAA-er Frank Mitchell has just finished sending 1400 pounds of high-quality books to Bwiru Boys' HS near Mwanza, Tanzania. How did he get them? What did he learn? To find out, read more
Nairobi Protest: "About 3,000 opposition supporters and human rights activists marched Tuesday in downtown Nairobi to protest police raids on Kenya's oldest newspaper and its sister television station... Last week's raids were the first time since Kenya's 1963 independence that the government shut down major media operations." AP story and photo sent in by TEAA-er Ed Schmidt. more
To train or not to train: Significant pre-service teacher training may not be necessary for African primary teachers to be effective, according to TEAA-er Ward Heneveld's research. more Education research in Africa: Here Ward describes his continuing work to improve the quality of primary education in Africa. more
"African Art is on good display at two museums in Paris," reports TEAA-er Brooks Goddard. The Dapper is devoted entirely to the art of Africa and its diaspora, while the Louvre has new rooms for its African collection. more
Good News from Butonge (Kenya): The principal writes that our library project "has changed what two years ago was a ghost room to one of our most sought after facilities." more
Success at Mpwapwa (Tanzania): TEAA-er Jonne Robinson has just learned that, with TEAA funding and encouragement, 12 computers that she saw dormant last summer are now up and running and in demand. more Kampala Music School ... is a must on your next trip, writes Sam Bell. Before their Dec-05 trip, he and Betty Castor met the son-in-law of the head teacher at this internationally known institution. more
Frbruary, 2006
MacKay (Kampala) 4-year scholarships ... continue to go out to high-performing students with financial need, thanks to TEAA-er Arlone Child. more
Uganda Election Feb 23, 2006, from Fawn Cousens in Kampala: Election going well. I came in to the office as the power was off at home and the batteries down. Lots of people quietly queued to vote. All peaceful. John [Cousens] has been observing the voting in his capacity as Election Observer in our area and says it is really going well and he is being welcomed at all the polling stations. [Photos are of Yoweri Museveni, president since 1986 and main challenger Kizza Besigye. more
Computers reach Nkumba! It has been months since Sam Bell obtained, packed and shipped 30 computers to Nkumba University, near Kampala. Today we learn that they have arrived, apparently safely. The head of that university writes: Dear Sam and Betty, I hope that you are both well. I am delighted to inform you that the 30 computers: CPUs, Monitors, and Keyboards have all arrived, and we have received them at the time when they are greatly needed. They are being checked for technical details after which Mackay College will receive its share of ten. Thanking you once again. Regards. Senteza Kajubi A modern computer Odyssey. [Earlier correspondence from Sam:] The computers were loaded on a rented truck by yours truly, all 60 boxes and driven by me from Tallahassee, Florida to Tampa. There they were wrapped, placed on pallets and then shipped overland to Miami. Placed in a ship, they went from Miami to Antwerp, to Jeddah, to Mombasa and then overland to Kampala. We have now confirmed the arrival in Kampala, but are still awaiting confirmation that they have made it from the Transami warehouse in Kampala to Nkumba University.
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	Sharon Hartmann (Morogoro, Tanzania 1961-63 and Kampala-03 participant) flew over Kilauea, the hot volcano of Hawaii's big island (aka, Hawaii) and took this great shot. If you've got a great photo from a terrific place, send it in and if our crack panel of photo evaluators is stunned, you're on.
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