The year 2006 was the worst in the brief history of my life, because it ended with all media houses relaying awful images of a human body, dangling in a rope that had been loosened round Saddam Hussein’s neck, wringing him to death.
A thirteen-month baby, David Banda has been the axis of a recent fracas, soaking up worldwide media as regards whether he ought to have been given away to a well-to-do couple of the Western origin.
The State cannot evade culpability for the recent demonstration by the students at the University of Dar es Salaam over delayed student loans.
How many of us would come across a roadside parcel, evidently filled with enormous notes of money and walk away, leaving it untouched?
This year alone, some of the world’s notable personalities celebrated their “youthful old age” with pomp.