'JIFUNZE GITAA'
"Jifunze
Gitaa" .Is one of the books that i wrote a few years ago as my first
finger works. My aim was to help those people who would like to learn
how to play the guitar. Though i trained as a pianist, i have learnt
over time many aspects about music right from when i was at the Music
School and during my career life. This includes music
history,conducting music,music theory,how to play the
trumpet,guitar,recorder and other music instruments. I therefore
acquired good knowledge that i would willingly like to share with other
people in the world who probably didn't get the chance like i
did, no wonder i wish to write more and more books!. I believe it's
easy to carry the guitar wherever and play anywhere. Infact, a guitar
belongs to the class of instruments classified as "chordophones" though
it can also be used as a leading instrument. For more information
please check information file.
'PIANO'
"Piano" is a kind of text book designed to teach people who wants to learn how to play the piano but they failed to do so due to lack of piano teachers especially in developing countries like Tanzania where music isn't officially included into school's syllabus.
It was my dream since my boyhood to write a manuscript and share whatever i have with my fellow musicians or anybody who wants to learn how to play the piano.
"Piano" is written in a very simple(swahili)language & it's easy to understand.
You can learn basic technics in a very short time & you can make your own sound and develop as you like. It's helpful even for those who wants to read without engaging themselves into practical cus it has a wide range of musical history, theory and alot of things unrelated to practical. For more information.. check information file p/s!.
It was my dream since my boyhood to write a manuscript and share whatever i have with my fellow musicians or anybody who wants to learn how to play the piano.
"Piano" is written in a very simple(swahili)language & it's easy to understand.
You can learn basic technics in a very short time & you can make your own sound and develop as you like. It's helpful even for those who wants to read without engaging themselves into practical cus it has a wide range of musical history, theory and alot of things unrelated to practical. For more information.. check information file p/s!.
THIS SPEECH PREPARED AND DELIVERED BY LISTER ELIA AT CHIBA UNIVERSITY.
2006.02.2nd
2006.02.2nd
Africa, to most people is a unknown continent.
And for those who tend to have alittle knowledge of africa they know nothing but negativity and the dark side of the continent. Wars, aids, malaria, refugees, poverty, street children, tribalconflicts, corruption is the image of most people.
The strongest images of Africa are savanna traversed by animals such as the zebra and lions, jungle INHABITED by roving bands of mountain gorillas.
Indeed this has been the works of mass media from news papers to Television broadcasting programs here in japan to mislead the people by spending most of their time writing and showing mostly the dark side of Africa.While Africans living in this country do not seem to care about taking the bad side of japan like japan's past history that caused so much pain and suffering to other neighbouring countries,or the issue of japanese homeless to their own people in Africa as the
image of japan.
Instead,most africans are trying their level best to learn good side of japanese people in terms of technology, economical to build their continent for the better.
Africa's diversity and vastness surpass such images. From Egypt to South africa,Madagascar to Nigeria there is alot to talk about development,culture,trade,agriculture,science,economic
strategy,politics,and international relations. Africa was divided and colonized by europeans and that left some scars that Africa needs to work hard to overcome the effect of the so called
DIVIDE AND RULE. The ideology did srengthen tribalism that mostly causes wars in africa
.While the so called five permanent members of the United Nation England,France,China,Russia and the United states of America enjoying by selling arms to both corrupt African goverments and to the rebels who wants to take over and continue with their personal agendas. A dacade ago, massacre happened in Rwanda between the main tribes of Tutsi and Hutu. More than a million people died in a short period of time and the so called permanent members of the United Nations and other developed
nations could only sit back and watch what was going on.
Africa is scattered by KALASHNIKOV(a russian famous gun)mines and other dangerous weapons.
From Mozambique to Liberia,Eritrea to Somalia gun running has been a disaster to most Africans.
A place like Darfur in Sudan, refugee camps are every where because of the unfolding events between Sudanese government supporting the muslim janjaweed rebels to discriminate blacks of western sudan. Burning villages,killing people and raping women has been the subject of daily life in darfur despite the involvment of UN there.
Africa is very rich in terms of natural resourses like diamonds,oil fields,gold,the tanzanites and other precious stones but politicians,corrupt leaders and bad contracts are the main problems hindering development from this natural resourses.
Despite all this problems Africans are moving fast into the world of technology and communication.
Free market system is widely used almost everywhere in Africa and thus making it easier for normal Africans to buy whatever they want in their own countries. Internet caffee are everywhere and people can gain access to the internet and communicate with their loved ones wherever in the world.
Some African countries economies is booming like a flower Agriculture is the main source of income to most Africans. Countries like Uganda,Kenya and Tanzania are the main coffee and tea
producers in Africa. Ghana and other west african countries produces KAKAO COCOA and
CHOCOLATE.Countries like Tanzania also produces sisal,maize,groundnuts,cassava and many more.
Bad news is that....the price of African tea and coffee is always controlled by developed rich countries and thus Africans end up selling alot but receiving small amount of money.
AFRICAN MUSIC. We have two different kinds of African music.
We have TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC and AFRICAN MODERN MUSIC.
When we play tradition music mainly we use traditional instruments like Marimba,kalimba,tradition drums and many more. Just like Western musical instruments,african traditinal instruments
are divided into 5 different groups. We have strings instruments,Idiophones,membranophones, wind instruments and chordophones instruments. I want to elaborate and emphasize about few things here that basically African traditional music does not have chords like western music.
There is no way you can find full minor chord,minor melodic,augmented chords,major seventh,minor seventh,or diminished chords. There is no way you can find a major western scale into African
Traditional music. Traditional music is based into TRIBAL PENTATONIC SCALES.(elaborate
more about pentatonic). MODERN AFRICAN MUSIC.
When we play modern African music western musical instruments like keyboards,guitars,trumpets,saxophone can be used and normal western scale.We simply call AFRICAN POPS. This two types of music is always rythmic and danceable.
AFRICAN CULTURE. African culture also depends on tribal structure and religion.
The main religions in Africa are christians and muslims. But most Africans have somethings in common like to get all baby boys CIRCUMCIZED before they become adults.
Women circumcission is also common to some tribes though it has been critisized by scientists and womens right societs around the world. Men circumcission is a common practice in the Arab world , middle east and parts of Europe as well.Africans does same kind of ceremonies during
birth,funerals and festivals. Every tribe has it's own culture,own language and thus making it
possible for most Africans to speak more than one language.
TANZANIA.
Africa is a continent that contains 53 countries and Tanzania is oneof them.
Geographic,Tanzania is in the eastern part of Africa.
The main city is Dar-es-salaam which lays in the coastal area of an Indian ocean.It has 120 different tribes but people speak swahili and english as the main languages. It was under british colonial rule until Dec 1961 when she gained independence.
Tanzania is surrounded by three great lakes.Lake victoria(the biggest in Africa),lake Tanganyika(the deapest in Africa) and lake nyasa. She has the most beautiful parks where animals and birds can be found. Ngorongoro crater,serengeti,and selou is one of the most famous tourists destinations for folks from all over the world.
Mount kilimanjaro at 5,896 meters is the highest mountain in Africa
and it is also a tourist destination.
Tanzania has alot of minerals like diamonds and the Tanzanites a
precious stone that can be found only in Tanzania .
The population is about 45 million people.
Zanzibar also is a nice place to visit filled with tourist attraction.
Main food is rice for those who lives in the coastal areas and UGALI
a kind of hot bread made by maize flour for those who lives in the mainland.
Tanzania is the place where a skull of the first and oldest human being was found in olduvai Arusha by Dr Livingstone.
Tanzania is the main speaker of swahili language and the result of that more than six countries in Africa use this language as one of their languages.Swahili is the biggest spoken language in Africa. There are many japanese scientists in my country making research about various issues like forest creatures.
We have so many japanese companies there doing business with our country like KAJIMA,MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC COMPANY,KONOIKE and many more.
Believe me or not almost 80% of all cars in Tanzania are japanese cars made by japanese industries.
So you can just figure out by yourself the magnitude of business between this two countries.
LANGUAGE SIMILARITY.
There is alot of similarity between swahili and nihongo.Like MIMI,NANI,YUKO,(Fresh will say something).
TANZANIAN FOOD.
Tanzanian food is very much influenced by indian way of cooking.You can always find fresh food,meat,fish,potatoes,vegetables,fruts like mangos,passion fruits,pinaples,apples,guava,oranges always available and fresh. People can eat many more tropical fruits.
SPORTS ACTIVITIES.
Soccer is probably the most famous sport in Tanzania followed by boxing, athletics like marathon runners,netball and other sports. Juma Ikangaa is one of the most famous Tanzanian marathon runner here in Japan he won TOKYO MARATHON competitions here in japan a couple of
years ago. Sports like baseball, sumo,kendo,figure skating,gymnastic,ski and other
winter sports is widely unknown in Tanzania and probably many parts of Africa.
TANZANIA EDUCATION SYSTEM.
We have seven years of primary education in Tanzania followed by 4 years of secondary school,two years high school education and three or four years university education this depends on majors.
We have alot of technical schools where people can learn various studies inorder to help and build their nation. Primary education is free and every kid is eligible to primary education.
A couple of years ago Tanzania was leading in Africa in terms of a number of adults who knew how to read write. It was a campain led by Tanzanian Government to make sure that those adults who for some reasons missed primary school education especially elderly people from rural areas they could learn how to read and write so that they could have the opportunity to fully participate to build
their country.
PEACE.
For centuries Tanzania is well known as a country of peace.perhaps because of those who used to rule the country even before colonialism. Despite having 120 different tribes,there is no tribal conflicts for
centuries. People from north to south,west to east live together.It's a common practice for Tanzanians to marry someone from a different tribe and even religion.
Because of the sense of freedom,togetherness and peace, Tanzanians helped many African countries gain independence from brutal colonial rule.
And for those who tend to have alittle knowledge of africa they know nothing but negativity and the dark side of the continent. Wars, aids, malaria, refugees, poverty, street children, tribalconflicts, corruption is the image of most people.
The strongest images of Africa are savanna traversed by animals such as the zebra and lions, jungle INHABITED by roving bands of mountain gorillas.
Indeed this has been the works of mass media from news papers to Television broadcasting programs here in japan to mislead the people by spending most of their time writing and showing mostly the dark side of Africa.While Africans living in this country do not seem to care about taking the bad side of japan like japan's past history that caused so much pain and suffering to other neighbouring countries,or the issue of japanese homeless to their own people in Africa as the
image of japan.
Instead,most africans are trying their level best to learn good side of japanese people in terms of technology, economical to build their continent for the better.
Africa's diversity and vastness surpass such images. From Egypt to South africa,Madagascar to Nigeria there is alot to talk about development,culture,trade,agriculture,science,economic
strategy,politics,and international relations. Africa was divided and colonized by europeans and that left some scars that Africa needs to work hard to overcome the effect of the so called
DIVIDE AND RULE. The ideology did srengthen tribalism that mostly causes wars in africa
.While the so called five permanent members of the United Nation England,France,China,Russia and the United states of America enjoying by selling arms to both corrupt African goverments and to the rebels who wants to take over and continue with their personal agendas. A dacade ago, massacre happened in Rwanda between the main tribes of Tutsi and Hutu. More than a million people died in a short period of time and the so called permanent members of the United Nations and other developed
nations could only sit back and watch what was going on.
Africa is scattered by KALASHNIKOV(a russian famous gun)mines and other dangerous weapons.
From Mozambique to Liberia,Eritrea to Somalia gun running has been a disaster to most Africans.
A place like Darfur in Sudan, refugee camps are every where because of the unfolding events between Sudanese government supporting the muslim janjaweed rebels to discriminate blacks of western sudan. Burning villages,killing people and raping women has been the subject of daily life in darfur despite the involvment of UN there.
Africa is very rich in terms of natural resourses like diamonds,oil fields,gold,the tanzanites and other precious stones but politicians,corrupt leaders and bad contracts are the main problems hindering development from this natural resourses.
Despite all this problems Africans are moving fast into the world of technology and communication.
Free market system is widely used almost everywhere in Africa and thus making it easier for normal Africans to buy whatever they want in their own countries. Internet caffee are everywhere and people can gain access to the internet and communicate with their loved ones wherever in the world.
Some African countries economies is booming like a flower Agriculture is the main source of income to most Africans. Countries like Uganda,Kenya and Tanzania are the main coffee and tea
producers in Africa. Ghana and other west african countries produces KAKAO COCOA and
CHOCOLATE.Countries like Tanzania also produces sisal,maize,groundnuts,cassava and many more.
Bad news is that....the price of African tea and coffee is always controlled by developed rich countries and thus Africans end up selling alot but receiving small amount of money.
AFRICAN MUSIC. We have two different kinds of African music.
We have TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC and AFRICAN MODERN MUSIC.
When we play tradition music mainly we use traditional instruments like Marimba,kalimba,tradition drums and many more. Just like Western musical instruments,african traditinal instruments
are divided into 5 different groups. We have strings instruments,Idiophones,membranophones, wind instruments and chordophones instruments. I want to elaborate and emphasize about few things here that basically African traditional music does not have chords like western music.
There is no way you can find full minor chord,minor melodic,augmented chords,major seventh,minor seventh,or diminished chords. There is no way you can find a major western scale into African
Traditional music. Traditional music is based into TRIBAL PENTATONIC SCALES.(elaborate
more about pentatonic). MODERN AFRICAN MUSIC.
When we play modern African music western musical instruments like keyboards,guitars,trumpets,saxophone can be used and normal western scale.We simply call AFRICAN POPS. This two types of music is always rythmic and danceable.
AFRICAN CULTURE. African culture also depends on tribal structure and religion.
The main religions in Africa are christians and muslims. But most Africans have somethings in common like to get all baby boys CIRCUMCIZED before they become adults.
Women circumcission is also common to some tribes though it has been critisized by scientists and womens right societs around the world. Men circumcission is a common practice in the Arab world , middle east and parts of Europe as well.Africans does same kind of ceremonies during
birth,funerals and festivals. Every tribe has it's own culture,own language and thus making it
possible for most Africans to speak more than one language.
TANZANIA.
Africa is a continent that contains 53 countries and Tanzania is oneof them.
Geographic,Tanzania is in the eastern part of Africa.
The main city is Dar-es-salaam which lays in the coastal area of an Indian ocean.It has 120 different tribes but people speak swahili and english as the main languages. It was under british colonial rule until Dec 1961 when she gained independence.
Tanzania is surrounded by three great lakes.Lake victoria(the biggest in Africa),lake Tanganyika(the deapest in Africa) and lake nyasa. She has the most beautiful parks where animals and birds can be found. Ngorongoro crater,serengeti,and selou is one of the most famous tourists destinations for folks from all over the world.
Mount kilimanjaro at 5,896 meters is the highest mountain in Africa
and it is also a tourist destination.
Tanzania has alot of minerals like diamonds and the Tanzanites a
precious stone that can be found only in Tanzania .
The population is about 45 million people.
Zanzibar also is a nice place to visit filled with tourist attraction.
Main food is rice for those who lives in the coastal areas and UGALI
a kind of hot bread made by maize flour for those who lives in the mainland.
Tanzania is the place where a skull of the first and oldest human being was found in olduvai Arusha by Dr Livingstone.
Tanzania is the main speaker of swahili language and the result of that more than six countries in Africa use this language as one of their languages.Swahili is the biggest spoken language in Africa. There are many japanese scientists in my country making research about various issues like forest creatures.
We have so many japanese companies there doing business with our country like KAJIMA,MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC COMPANY,KONOIKE and many more.
Believe me or not almost 80% of all cars in Tanzania are japanese cars made by japanese industries.
So you can just figure out by yourself the magnitude of business between this two countries.
LANGUAGE SIMILARITY.
There is alot of similarity between swahili and nihongo.Like MIMI,NANI,YUKO,(Fresh will say something).
TANZANIAN FOOD.
Tanzanian food is very much influenced by indian way of cooking.You can always find fresh food,meat,fish,potatoes,vegetables,fruts like mangos,passion fruits,pinaples,apples,guava,oranges always available and fresh. People can eat many more tropical fruits.
SPORTS ACTIVITIES.
Soccer is probably the most famous sport in Tanzania followed by boxing, athletics like marathon runners,netball and other sports. Juma Ikangaa is one of the most famous Tanzanian marathon runner here in Japan he won TOKYO MARATHON competitions here in japan a couple of
years ago. Sports like baseball, sumo,kendo,figure skating,gymnastic,ski and other
winter sports is widely unknown in Tanzania and probably many parts of Africa.
TANZANIA EDUCATION SYSTEM.
We have seven years of primary education in Tanzania followed by 4 years of secondary school,two years high school education and three or four years university education this depends on majors.
We have alot of technical schools where people can learn various studies inorder to help and build their nation. Primary education is free and every kid is eligible to primary education.
A couple of years ago Tanzania was leading in Africa in terms of a number of adults who knew how to read write. It was a campain led by Tanzanian Government to make sure that those adults who for some reasons missed primary school education especially elderly people from rural areas they could learn how to read and write so that they could have the opportunity to fully participate to build
their country.
PEACE.
For centuries Tanzania is well known as a country of peace.perhaps because of those who used to rule the country even before colonialism. Despite having 120 different tribes,there is no tribal conflicts for
centuries. People from north to south,west to east live together.It's a common practice for Tanzanians to marry someone from a different tribe and even religion.
Because of the sense of freedom,togetherness and peace, Tanzanians helped many African countries gain independence from brutal colonial rule.
Tanzanians helped countries like Mozambique,Zimbabwe,South Africa to
gain independence. As we speak there are so many refugees coming from unstable countries
like Rwanda,Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo where tribal conflicts, corrupt politicians and rebels causes trouble in the region. The number of refugees is always going up and causes trouble to normal Tanzanians because of crimes commited by refugees, some of them
bringing guns and other weapons with them. Alot of refugees entering through Tanzania borders illegally are causing trouble for the government of Tanzania to separate the "good and bad apples" because some of those refugees are soldiers or rebels running away to escape fighting in their own countries. The problem of children-soldiers makes even more difficult for the government to neutralize the situation due to a big number of children-soldiers crossing Tanzanian borders..
Nevertheless Tanzanian government is always neutral into civil wars of its neighbour and the goverment of Tanzania respects human rights and all resolutions of the United nations.
So refugees are always treated well regardless how they entered as long as they do not commit crime while staying in Tanzania.
LAST WORD.
We just want to congratulate you for reaching the end of your term and as you prepare to start a new semester,always remember A FALL IN A PIT IS A GAIN IN YOUR WIT. Adjusting to a new thing is always tough. If there are somethings that went wrong,you have to rectifie them so that you will be able to start a new term with a new strategy. BE HUMBLE TO OTHERS,ADDRESS YOUR PRESENCE AT THE SAME TIME SHOWING VIVIDLY YOUR PERSONALITY.
Finally,always remember that,FAVOURS AND FRIENDS ARE LIKE MONEY IN THE BANK...ALWAYS READY FOR EMERGENCIES IF NEED SHOULD ARISE. Making friends and good understanding with people will trigger peaceful life that will no doubt lead to a successful career for you guys.GOODLUCK AND GODBLESS.