WRITING AND CONTEXT kansmus@gmail.com Hello readers. Having discovered, from our writing trainees and those who approach us at writers’ hub 256, that there is need for them and other writers to understand what context in writing is, below is a simple break down to help you understand why and how to incorporate context in our pieces of writing. According to Fellowes and Oakley 2014, “writing is the use of language to compose text for the purpose of communication language.” The field of writing is diverse in style, situation and purpose. In each of its specialties, writers are called to a gradual process of appreciating the broad base of knowledge to be effective writers. Writing, like any other mode of communication, has the important element called CONTEXT. Context is one of the four cardinal components of writing that include context itself, text form, the process of writing and conventions. But among these, context is everything to define the when, where, who, w...
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I WALKED WITH CORONAVIRUS TO MOMBOKOLO: Coronavirus and the world’s RURAL kansmus@gmail.com Yet there is hope in the fight against coronavirus: Not a subject to statistics for reason suggests that objections will be fallacies on logic. The destruction authored by COVID19 thrust on my countryside Mombokolo is identical to the conditions of a battle between a legless one eyed hare and a lion that neither suffered a toothache nor broke its paws. Scene: This follows a story of my two days’ 60 km walk to the deeper countryside. The walk that presented me a do or die menu of jumping fences, swimming across streams, climbing trees just to set foot on the next stony hill, negotiating a lonely thorny slope and wallowing through a forbidden swampy valley all with the features of the never-never land void of call or radio signals. The lifting and resting of feet, the falling rivers of sweat and the Boston terriers dog likened panting were neither related to the famous ‘L...
REDUCING ECONOMIC LOSS OF DISASTERS: kansmus@gmail.com Economic losses from disasters in low and middle-income countries are undermining efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and deprive governments of funds to spend on health, education, social protection and other important public needs. The world has had an enormous physiographic diversity and vast areal expanse though being devastated by the hostility and predatory by natives on the environment. The world has a fairly identical story on the unfriendliness to environment. When combined, such geographical variability with constant anthropogenic interference, people of any country get vulnerable to human made and natural hazards. Though Susceptibility to and Vulnerability from disasters differs from one community to another as is subject to the different levels of climatic wars and terrain. The destiny of disasters is an eternal one and so should be our battle. The climate change question has a c...
QUARANTINE, ECONOMY, ROPES AND RATS kansmus@gmail.com Shouldn’t I think that I am writing about suicide today? Then why the rope and the rats? Shouldn’t I think that I am writing anthrax today? Then why the quarantine? Or shouldn’t I think that I am writing poverty today? Then why the economy? I also do not know. Before my final punctuation, I shall have known what I am writing about. Today morning I forced myself from the tempting friendliness of my warm bed. I did not yawn like on other cold mornings. I stretched in the falling morning dew and shouted words in the title of this writing as I thought about what to ink down about it. Having travelled upcountry due to family demand, the imminent surging of the cost of living in the city (I am not shy to state but yes I mean food prices), the popular belief that it is ‘good to die’ from home and the countrywide need for social distancing, I am in the one-meter distance company of my young brother Crescent who does no...
At the fall of 365: kansmus@gmail.com Some of you think us started to understand after reading confessions of an economic hitman. My start was different. Instead I listened to the confessions of a traditional old man. In our rural home since 1998 when I was just 24 #months old preciously put as two years, there lived an octogenarian man, a one named Eliphaz by an Anglican missionary stophel in the year of the rain that fell the village’s remaining spiritual groove: the oak tree. He lived with us till he was a nonagenarian in 2009. We didn’t know his exact age but his tales of having been born in the season of the scotching sun and a drought that killed the only surviving camel in the Ankole Shaza of Sheema, we stretched down the historical and time series lane and established in approximation that he was 90 years old in 2009. Having been someone who knew he had lived for long and to have seen a one John Speke, Eliphaz thought good mathematical sequence would count 200 years fo...
But why can't anyone invent their own currency!!! Overtime, even after the invention and operation of real money, people in crisis such as war have invented items or modes of exchange such as the cigarette currency in the Prisoner of the War Camp. This has disguised a market situation and aided trade but however there is increasing debate on whether these invented means of payments and medium of exchange can be regarded as mere money, near money or no money at all but tools that aid barter trade. The debate has for long been tainted with the popular premise of likening everything used in exchange to money and the arguments become more grounded when such means of payment have a monetary value, are durable, portable and divisible. We need to delve inconsequentially, analyze critically and explicitly, into the details that guide the arguments that will either qualify or disqualify invented currencies as money. "The difficult question as to the best definition of money has been...
SAFE CIVIC SPACES FOR YOUTHS kansmus@gmail.com As a world, we are bound to draw attention to a well thought fundamental collection of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. "safe spaces for youth" should be a mantra even though it carries sheer talk in most countries that have direly mastered the divisive art of deprivation of the youths' right to safe spaces which include public, civic, physical and digital spaces. More emphatically to note is that having youth in a country is no reason to celebrate them but rather having the will to give the youth safe spaces. Lest, let the civic society carryout pro-youth campaigns, the nonviolent crusades that brand the quest to quench the thirst birthed by the deficiency of safe spaces and the uncertainty immersing the safe spaces platforms. The consideration of youths gives the countries where peace, economic dynamism, social justice and tolerance for the youth has not been prioritized to indemnify the youth ...