The trip was organized by BioCosmos Africa, CCT staff and of course the local university. In each university we were met by CCT Chaplain that had been involved in preparation with handing out leaflets and placing the banners on campus etc. We were a team of 3 doing the public lecturs, chair/ CEO BioCosmos Africa (BCA) Mr. Dag Kr. Norli, professor emeritus Kjell J. Tveter (boardmember BCA) and BioCosmos Kenya (daughter foundation of BCA)
The title for the public lectures was “The Question of Intelligent Design: We follow the evidence where it leads”. The book “a short introduction of Intelligent Design” which we had printed in Tanzania was given out for free to all the students and lecture in all the universities we visited. We had also some samples of the majesty and mystery of life and how and why the west lost its faith which we gave each university to have in their library.
The 11th of November 22. UDSM college of CONAS
The roundtrip started at the UDSM the 10th of November 22, our host was the principal of the college of science CONAS professor Flora Magige. We gathered around 100 students and some lectures. Reverend/ chaplain James Lubjana (CCT) was assisting in the organization of the public lectures. We had as a preparation for the roundtrip printed at a printing house in Dar es Salaam, 7500 books of a Tanzanian version of “A short introduction to Intelligent Design” where professor Godliving Mtui had written the endorsement of the book.
The picture above: From left; Professor emeritus Kjell J. Tveter (BCA), principal CONAS professor Flora Maggie, Rev Chaplain James Ljubljana (CCT), Mr. Dag Kr. Norli chair/CEO BCA, Dr. Richard Ochieng chair/CEO BCK
Saturday, the 12th of November we travelled by car from Dar Es Salaam to Morogoro invited by reverend/ chaplain Godson to do public lectures in the church as part of the church service at the campus of Sokoine, Sunday the 12th of November. The church service started at 7am but we were welcomed to have our lecture at 9 -11 am. There were more than 500 present at the church service and most of them young people (students at the Sokoine university).
Monday the 13th of November we had the public lectures at the Sokoine University hosted by principal dr. Karugila and HOD dr. Beda, college of natural and applied science. We had around 200-250 students and lecturer present and we had a lot of questions when the lecuterers were finished. We had an impression that what was presented in the lectures made sense to most of the audience, both students and lecturers.
Picture from Sokoine public lecturers
Eventhough we had to drive back to the airport in Dar es Salaam to catch the last flight to Dodoma, they insisted that we had to visit the special area at the campus dedicated for the South African freedom fighters who were living at that area during the time where South Africa with Nelson Mandela were fighting their fight for freedom. Freedom fighters travelle to Tanzania (hosted by former president Kenyatta) to stay there for some time to rest and regain their health.
Tuesday the 14th of November we had our public lectures at the University of Dodoma hosted by principal professor Vuai and HOD dr. Naza, college of natural and mathematical science, and we had around 100 students and lecturers in the audience.
Wednesday the 15th we flew back to Dar es Salaam to catch the flight to Mbeya for public lectures at MUST and TEKU.
Thursday the 16th we started with public lectures at the Mbeya University of Science and Technology, hosted by DVC Professor Godliving Mtui and HOD of department of science Dr. Eliezer Brown. More than 400 students and lecturers were attending the public lecturers. The visit was very successful.
In the afternoon we had public lectures at Teofilo Kisanji University hosted by Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology Dr. John P. A. Msindai. More than 1300 students and lectures were attending the public lecturers, and the reception of the lectures were very positive.
We had planned to fly back to Dar es Salaam late in the evening for meeting Friday before we flew back to Kenya and Norway.
