IF YOU WANT TO HIDE SOMETHING TO AFRICANS "PUT IT IN THE BOOKS"

Its obviously that it wont be the first time to you to hear that saying,it has been used for so many years as a means of discrediting Africans.

When you try to examine what is real within that phrase of words, you will come up with the conclusion that most of Africans do not like to read the books,but if we knew it we could have ran to libraries to open the books so that we can enjoy the intercourse with superior minds. The president of United States of America Barrack Obama has benefited form the practice of consulting the books and in his witness he said that “I thank the books because they opened my mind”....and I think that is why he is the leading speech maker in the world as most of his speeches has been ranked as the best speeches.

Most of us and especially students in higher learning institutions in Tanzania are somehow narrow minded because of our behaviors of not reading the books and we are used to “madesas” given by our tutors and lecturers....and we misses extra knowledges obtained in the books and that is why we fails in making some analyses to some important aspects of life. Also we fails to make relevant references to our arguments in our normal life and we are the same as laymen when it comes to analysis of different life phenomenas.

I here come before you to urge you that books are the best places we can enjoy the pool of knowledges and precious thoughts.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books,great men talk to us,give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest race.
William Ellery channing