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Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Cebu, The Philippines in 2015. Photo Courtesy of Global Voices I started my blog in 2005. I was among very few Tanzanians who were inspired by Ndesanjo Macha to start blogging.  For those of you who do not know, the history of Tanzanian blogosphere recognizes the contribution of this great man. His influential  weekly column in a local newspaper invited many of us to his blog. In fact he was the first Tanzanian to blog in Kiswahili . That was in 2004. I had the privilege of meeting him in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 and in Cebu, The Philippines in 2015. We were both attending Global Voices Citizen Media Summits. For me, blogging was fun. I never thought that blogs could actually threaten politicians. That was until 2010 when I had an opportunity to attend the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit   in Santiago de Chile. I was shocked to hear friends talking about restriction of freedom of speec

Mkutano wa Global Voices, mtandao wa wanablogu, uliofanyika Cebu, Ufilipino, 2015 PICHA: Global Voices Nilianza kublogu katikati ya mwaka 2005. Wakati huo ilikuwa nadra kusikia mtu anaongelea blogu.  Ndesanjo Macha ndiye hasa aliyenifanya nikavutiwa kuanza kublogu. Wakati huo alikuwa mwandishi wa safu ya Gumzo la Wiki iliyochapishwa na gazeti la Mwananchi kila Jumapili. Historia ya blogu hapa nchini haikamiliki bila kumtaja Ndesanjo Macha. Kimsingi, Ndesanjo ndiye mwanablogu wa kwanza kublogu kwa Kiswahili. Huo ulikuwa mwaka 2004. Nilipata bahati ya kukutana naye mara mbili kwenye mikutano ya waandishi wa kiraia kupitia mtandao wa wanablogu uitwao Global Voices. Mara ya kwanza ilikuwa jijini Nairobi, 2012 . Mara ya pili ikatokea jijini Cebu,Ufilipino, 2015 . Nakumbuka mwaka 2010 nikiwa nahudhuria mkutano wa wanablogu uliofanyika  Santiago de Chile , nilistushwa na masimulizi ya baadhi ya washiriki waliokuwa wakiongelea 'kuminywa kwa uhuru wa kujieleza kwenye nchi