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    Sema (The Planet-t Experience)
    (Tangaza University College, 2009) Tangaza University College
    Tangaza College takes pride in providing quality tertiary education. Various institutes in Tangaza are clear indications of the college's yearn to harmonize the secular world by encouraging service to others with the love of Christ. From all the institutes, it can be derived from those that have graduated from them, that indeed there is a big impact in the society ln fulfilling her mission, Tangaza college not only caters for her immediate family but opens up to embrace our other brothers and sisters who are disadvantaged in the society. Let's all then take pride in our Tangaza, as we continue learning the valuable lessons in lile not forgetting external factors in our country and the world at large. Going back to year 2008, we experienced a new dawn, after the country was rocked by post election violence. However, the signing of the peace deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga' sparked a ray of hope for a better future to most Kenyans' while others were skeptic whether it was One going to work' year down the line, a lot is yet to be desired, with the Country's economy deteriorating, scandal after scandal, poverty, violence, star- vation and too much talking with no actions. Look at the world at large. Still, similar Problems. Maybe its time that we all came together in creating a new world. A world free ol injustice, inequality, violence and poverty. Or will this still remain a dream in our hearts? No. We can all contribute in mending our torn and wounded world by ensuring that quenches the thirst of our our leadershiP seek . People. As we strive to do this it is important lhat we guidance from above with a clear conscience and a renewed heart. And as we climb every mountain, let's put our trust in God.
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    Tangaza Update(Silver Jubilee Lanched)
    (Tangaza University College, 2010-10) Tangaza University College
    This academic year marks the 25th A Anniversary for the college. This far W' we have come and now we celebrate our Silver Jubilee. At the opening mass, Fr. Patrick Roe, the College Principal launched the Silver Jubi­ lee and a banner bearing the Jubilee theme, "Proclaiming the good news in joyful ser­ vice and hope" was unveiled by one of the new students and Fr.Wokorach, a member of the Governing Council and one of the founding students of the college. The Principal welcomed all the guests and in particular past Tangaza Principals who he thanked for making the college what it is. Two past principals were pres­ent, Fr. Andre McGrath and Fr. George Kocholikal. Fr. McGrath made some com­ments at the end of the mass. Fr. Roe remembered the late Fr. Denis Mason of the Augustinian community, who passed away in July. "His wise guidance en­riched our Board of Trustees and our Gov- eming Council". He also remem­bered the late Fr. Joe Mclain of the Vincentian commu­nity, a professor of theology at Mary Immaculate Semi­nary, Northampton, Pennsylvania. 'His crowning life-work was the building of the Mary Immacu­late Library Collec­tion which Tangaza now enjoys: He de­scribed the ministry of the late Fr. Joe. Another memorial that pained the Prin­cipal and indeed all in the college was the passing away of Nicholas Musyoki an ISMM alumnus and till his demise a student of Af­rican Studies (MIASMU). Nicholas had just passed away that previous weekend. "He showed such enthusiastic commitment as an activist for justice and peace," He also had kind words for the new students, "Most especially we welcome our new first years in the various schools and institutes.You are the new life and future of Tangaza ... Welcome! We pray that Tangaza can fulfill your expectations and needs for the future of your ministry in the Church." On the Jubilee, the Principal had this to say, "Our Jubilee in Tangaza is not pri­marily about our institutional past history, however admirable and praiseworthy that might be. It is, first and foremost, about the biblical values of Jubilee which ministers, clerical or lay, trained at Tangaza are sent to proclaim and announce. ''Tangaza fumbo la imani". For the opening of the new college year we celebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit and hear in the second and third read-
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    Tangaza Update(Culture Galore)
    (Tangaza University College, 2009-11) Tangaza University College
    Running right through the bible is a tension which echoes in each of us in one way or another. Our feelings of insecurity create a desire to feel we 'belong' within a community. Unfortu­nately human communities usually function by creating a distinction between insiders and outsiders. Insiders are those who belong; outsiders do not.Thus the tension is created between inclusion and exclusion. These communities of inclusion/exclu­sion may be based on race, nationality, tribe, class or age stratification, culture and religion or indeed gender. What lies at the basis of such distinction is the desire to feel secure in a community of shared assumptions and prejudices, which allows us to intelligibly in­terpret the world around us in. Perhaps this is all the more desirable in matters of faith, because this deals with our deepest aspira­tions. Many parts of the scripture tradition, as indeed of Jewish and Christian history are saturated with such aspirations.The very no­tion of chosen people is an obvious case in question. In itself it is an exclusive concept ... chosen for a special place in God's con­cern or affections, often leading to extremes of religious fanaticism, nationalism and in­ justice. Some of the prophets are incisive in questioning the notion. As I return to the Tangaza community af­ter many years of absence, I find myself asking if there is such a thing as the Tangaza com­munity. And if it is there, then it must have a set of shared assumptions and prejudices. {I use prejudice here in the original sense of praejudicium : assumptions which precede our judgments, with no necessary nuance of something to be disdained). I pose the ques­tion today to ourselves as a Tangaza commu­nity : what are the set of shared assumptions and prejudices which distinguishes us from other similar communities of learning in Ke­nya or throughout Eastern Africa. Last March, when I was approached to consider accepting the role of Principal of Tangaza College, I found myself asking : is Tangaza still a community of learning whose assumptions and prejudices I can sympathise with and share, and which I could try to deepen and develop? It was at this point that Dr. Maurice Schepers presented me with the Strategic Plan to get some idea of what are the basic assumptions which make Tangaza tick, as it were. This was the most recent ef­fort of the community of learning of Tangaza to articulate its communal identity. I looked to Chapter 2 where I read that our vision is to produce agents of transfor­mation in the light of Jesus' mandate to make disciples of all nations, agents whose con­sciousness is global, and which honours cul­tural diversity as a core institutional value. At a time in the history of Kenya, and indeed the whole continent of Africa, when rising tides of ethnic prejudice threaten to Fr, Roe, the Principal greets students dur­ing the opening mass. tear communities and countries apart, per­haps there was never a more relevant time for the vision of Tangaza College to reassert • itself, inviting each one of us, and the com­munities which are touched by our mission and ministry, to rediscover the broader vision ... the horizon which corresponds to the horizon of Jesus, a common brother­hood and sisterhood under the influence of the same Heavenly Parent. But before we preach it to others, per­haps we should ensure that we have estab­lished that universal horizon in our own consciousness, in the practice of our Tangaza community, and in the orientation we give to our academic life and priorities. This is our task for the coming year and the years that follow. We live in a society afflicted increas­ingly with manifest poverty and destitution. Let us not insulate ourselves in an academic ivory tower, from the poor, so beloved to the heart of Jesus. On a world horizon we are living through a crisis of the capitalist model of economic organization of society, which leaves open the opportunity for a re­ newed consciousness of the limitations of the capitalism, and an opportunity to focus attention on the heritage of Catholic social doctrine which has tended to be ignored in recent years. Perhaps the time has come for an institution like Tangaza to renew its commitment to what the strategic plan calls programmes and projects which will con­ tribute to a future society in which wealth is distributed more equitably and social justice prevails. Jn the new academic year 2009-10, let us invoke God's Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us in pursuing the universal vision of the horizon of Jesus in our study and our life as a Tangaza community in the service of God's Church in Africa and to the ends of the earth. It is that same Holy Spirit who sends us and missions us. May the coming year be a time of blessing and growth for us and for all entrusted by divine providence to our care.