A
BRIEF STORY OF MY SCHOOL LIFE
After my birth, my parents judged to send me to
nursery school when I was four years old. According to my parents, at that
time, it would help me to be familiar to studies. Since then I like to read and
to write. I had completed nursery school in July 1986 at SNCZ social center of
Kalemie, after I have started the primary school on September of the same year.
I had started the primary studies at KIFUNGO
primary school. KIFUNGO primary school is a government school located in
Kalemie operating since 1955; my parents had chosen it for me to enjoy the
company of my two sisters. After completing grade three, my parents had
decided to take me to SNCZ primary school of Kalemie, which became SFE primary
school later, for me to improve French language. That time, SNCZ primary school
was the best primary school of the town and there I had completed primary studies
in July 1992. Two months later, on September of the same year, I joined
secondary school at LYCEE AMANI that became INSTITUT AMANI later. The following
are my class teachers of primary:
§ - Grade
one: Mme Musanda Dorothee;
§ - Grade
two: Mme Mushota and Mr. Lubamba Mbaya;
Grade
three: Mme Kaimba;
§ Grade
four: Mr. Chulu wa Mwamba ( we were calling him: papa Zemu);
§ Grade
five: Mr. Khungwa Malilo;
§ Grade
six: Mr. Kalume Lukadi.
My secondary
school life had many challenges because of political situations of the country where I had been living before, the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.). That is why I
have changed my living places and schools several times. Nevertheless, in spite
of those changes I struggled with the studies to complete the secondary school
in 2002 at INSTITUT MWANGE in Mwange refugee camp of mporokoso in the Republic
of Zambia. While in the refugee camp, I was learning the evening English
courses at MWANGE LEARNING CENTER, meantime, I was studying the Bible with
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES. I have been baptized on Thursday August 15th 2002 in Mwange river.
I had crossed a difficult secondary school time. The
problem started with the declaration of
multiparty system in the Republic of
Zaire (the former name of the current Democratic Republic of Congo, D.R.C.),
because, those who had been ruling the country in time did not want the multiparty
system. Soldiers and other employees in government sector had become unpaid for
innumerable months; teachers became unpaid too; so parents had been obliged to pay
school fees every month for their children to study and teachers to gain an
amount of money that could fit for their basic needs. The government had failed to
manage the situation so that a looting had occurred all over the country: shops,
boutiques, outlets, markets were emptied, foreigner businessmen left the
country, many companies were closed, starvation hit the population, There
occurred a tribal war between people from different provinces of the country and that war had killed many
people; I had lost many of my classmates during that period. Bit by bit the situation had been becoming worse.
In
1996, the rebellion started at
the East part of the country. It
is what was called “the war of
liberation”. People had been supporting the rebellion all over the country until to turn upside down the dictatorial government within seven months,
and the former President who had changed the name of the country in to THE
REPUBLIC OF ZAIRE in 1971 had run away from the country in May the 16th 1997 and the
country became THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (D.R.C.).
A year later, in
August 1998, another war started, this one had become the bloodthirsty war that had never occurred before in the country. Yes, it may happen, but
I do not wish. I had seen that it was a terror and a malediction
of my existence. I had seen no usefulness of being born; happy was the one who
had not been born yet and happy was that one who had already died. I left our
family and ran the war up to reach the United Republic of Tanzania in January
1999 where a Tanzanian man Mr. Boniface MKASA KIBOKO adopted me. I was living
at Kabwe village in Nkasi district, Rukwa province. When I was in Tanzania I
was studying English and Kiswahili afterward
Mr. BONIFACE MKASA helped me to
join the secondary school, which had a Congolese program in Mwange refugee camp
of Mporokoso in the republic of Zambia. Fortunately, I have succeeded the form
six national exams of August 2002 and I had got a diploma in teaching.
A year later,
in 2003, I went to Lubumbashi to meet our father KIBWE KIPOKA Jean Marie after
five full years of separation because of war. The same year, 2003, our father
decided to take me to the University of Lubumbashi to deal with medical
sciences. Before I go to the university, I have learned computer at
Franco-Congolese alliance of Lubumbashi (alliance Franco-congolaise de
Lubumbashi) for four months. To the university, ISTM/ UNILU (the Institute of medical sciences
of the University of Lubumbashi), I have done only three years of nursing to
become an assistant Doctor; afterwards I decided to improve in languages
particularly French, English and American Sign Language. I attended some
colleges and other schools including the school of language of Jehovah’s
Witnesses in Lubumbashi and MISSAF language center where I had lent American
Sign Language. (MISSAF is a N.G.O. that operates in Congo D.R. in assisting
deaf and dumb ones; and I have been working as the in charge of
public relation). I
became a French and English teacher to various schools in Lubumbashi. I have
been teaching and interpreting American Sign Language at Jehovah’s witnesses’ language school of
Lubumbashi. In 2006, I have been helping deaf and dumb ones to
prepare the first presidential elections of the country. On Saturday August 2nd 2008, I married LYDIA, my wife, and decided to come back to
Tanzania because of some problems.
Currently in Tanzania, I am teaching French,
interpreting conferences and translating mails, letters and other documents.
The following are some of the Conferences I have already interpreted:
-
The Central Corridor Presidential Round
Table held on 25th to 26th, March 2015 at Julius Nyerere
Convention Centre which has
gathered the Presidents of East African
countries;
-
The East and Central African Ministers of Transport meeting held
at Serena Hotel on 12th, March 2015;
-
The East and Southern African
Association of Accountants General, ESAAG meeting, held on 9th to 11th
, March 2015 at Julius Nyerere Convention Centre;
-
The T.R.A. Tax payer’s celebration day
held on 21st, November 2014 at Julius Nyerere Convention Centre;
-
The African higher Education
harmonization and tuning workshop on Joint Degrees held on 4th to 6th
November 2014 at Kazi house, (Holy Day Inn Hotel).
-
The International Community of Women
Living with HIV/ AIDS meeting held on 3rd to 6th December
2015 at Blue Pearl Hotel (Ubungo Plaza) ,
-
Africa and Middle East youth of Building
and Woodworkers International meeting held on 18th to 19th,
August 2014 at Kunduchi Beach Hotel.
-
Common Market of Eastern and Southern
Africa, COMESA, the meeting of experts on the Lukuga barrage held on 18th
to 20th July 2013 at Kunduchi
Beach Hotel,
-
Mandela Institute for Development
Studies, MINDS, held at Serena Hotel on 14th, March 2014. This had
gathered some of the former Presidents of African countries.
-
National sustainability conference: to
eliminate child labour in Tanzania. Held at Serena Hotel in Dar es Salaam from
12th to 14th May 2015.
-
Nile Bassin Initiative. Held at Saint
Gaspar Hotel in Dodoma on 2nd, June 2015.
-
Many conferences of the Central Corridor
Transit Transportation Facilitation agency.
This is a non-exhaustive list.
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