Many people do not know the world. That is ok. Nobody can know everything. It is impossible to know everything.
It is impossible to know about every place on this earth.
Ignorance is human. That is why we humans are always seeking the answers to the questions of life. That is why we humans are always seeking the solutions to the problems of the world. That is why we humans are always seeking harmony, happiness and long lasting peace of mind.
That is why some of us humans are driving very fast on the freeways of the western countries immediately after finishing the day’s job of a our 40 hour week job, as if the physical place we call home will not be there when we get.
But this earth of ours is still ours. And it is still very beautiful. We can learn about other people, our friends, other oceans, islands, countries, rivers etc.
The sky is the limit and there is no limit in the sky.
So it is ok.
If you have an atlas take it out. If you have a world globe look at it. There is a large water mass called the Indian Ocean. This ocean is south of a lot of Asian countries. This landmass is south of countries like Japan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. This ocean mass is east of Australia. This ocean mass surrounds Madagascar. If you are in Jamaica, this ocean is way north of you. But one moment please.
Now imagine. Imagine that you are in the heart of the tropical sky, hovering above Indian Ocean. Imagine that you are an eagle and because the wind north of Madagascar is not very favorable in your flying, you decide to fly towards the west. You keep on flying, cause you want to set your wings through the air that way above the first land your eyes can see below you. Then you come above Mombasa, which is a port on the East Coast of Kenya, a country that is on the eastern part of the African continent. If you look at a compass for direction, the point you are above, which is the stratosphere above Mombasa, will place you with Iran way in the northern part. If you decide to fly all the way towards the northeastern direction from this point above Mombasa you will head towards Iran, India, Afghanistan and even the landmass of continental Asia. But imagine that you decide not to make your mind that way. As an eagle you decide to keep on flying towards the land east of Mombasa, ignoring more of the enticing grassland of Kenya. Then from a distance you are amazed. You see a white glacier-like monster of land way far on the western horizon.
Then you fly above a land full of beautiful vegetation, with the white glacier like monster north of you. You are now flying above a small city called Moshi. This is filled with traffic of people who live on the slopes of the mountain which has a top covered with glaciers all year round. As you fly around above Moshi, you check your compass and find out that you are south of Kenya. And north of Kenya there is Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Germany and Europe. You are now flying above Moshi, on the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Now stop imagining. Wipe off any remnants of a sleeping pill. Sit back and relax you are looking at your atlas and you are about to find out the whereabouts where HUBERT TEMBA was born.
Moshi is a city at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. If you leave this city and drive towards the higher slopes of the mountain you may end up in Kirua Vunjo. There is a small village called Yam where HUBERT TEMBA was born. As a child he witnessed his parents and siblings practice mixed farming which is a type of farming which is famed by the United Nations Organization and that is why this area is one of the few parts of the world that UNO wants to preserve as endangered species. This type of farming depends on symbiosis, which UNO decided is very advanced.
People here, before HUBERT TEMBA was even born have been growing among others coffee, plantains, raise cows, goats, sheep, rabbits, chicken, farm corn, millet, yams, potatoes and other crops. They practice mixed farming, which is very rare in the whole world. In a tiny village Yam was muddy during the rainy seasons. As you go higher on the slopes on the Kirua Vunjo hills, you will come across villages likes Kwamare, Nduoni etc. HUBERT TEMBA would take care of his parents' goats and sheep as a herdsboy as early as he was eight years old. He would take the animals to a grassland next to a river that flew down the slopes down towards the Indian Ocean, about 200 miles away on the eastern part of your compass.
HUBERT TEMBA was a child prodigy. He taught his older brother Phillip how to play the acoustic guitar when he was only seven years old. He taught in his own class when the teacher was not there, on a teacher’s personal leave problem. He corrected teachers when they made English language grammar mistakes at around the age of ten. He was a graphic artist at that age also, drawing complicated maps and graphics for his teachers to help in the teaching of his peers in a school when he around ten years old. He was the youngest and the smallest in size at school when he around ten. And he would teach bigger and older kids, he would also instruct them. He would help his teacher in grading examination and course papers of his own classmates.
He would write tests for classes one or two year lower than his, after being requested by his teachers, When he was in the sixth grade he composed exams and tests for kids in classes that were in the fourth and fifth grades, after being requested by his teachers. And for the sake of records and accuracy, the name of the school where he did all this is/was called Yam Primary School.
He would lead in keeping the time between all the classes. He was the main actor in their home coming days. He would surround by a multitude of kids when he brought his brother Phillip’s acoustic guitar to school during an open day. That was when he was in the third grade. His teacher’s name was Mary.
His teachers thought that his cousins and brothers all of whom were older than his taught him a lot. And he would overhear them saying that or he would read them about that. The teachers did not want him to sit next to girls in a classroom, in order to preserve his genius. Cause they thought if he hang around girls, that would bring down in his school achievements or affect his talents.
But in the fifth grade due to lack of space the teachers had to make him sit next to a girl. And Hubert already having been exposed in Western Pop music, called the student next to him: “Sugar…” as from the song “Sugar…”
Heaven turned to hell. And Hubert got punished for calling a girl “sugar”. Remember it was only before the sixth grade. He was so angry at everything that he did not want to his teachers anymore. He was really mad.
After time quickly healed that. Hubert had very bad asthma. When he has asthma attacks he would really get sick and stay home for a long time. Sometimes he would stay home for two to three weeks, and when he comes to school he would be the number student.
The teachers feared that if Hubert interacted with girls on a love or sexual levels, his talents would be negatively affected. So they did everything in their power to make sure all the girls who were bigger and older than him could not seduce him or do romance with him.
HUBERT TEMBA was born in the village of Yam, on one Friday, on the 3rd of November. The village’s known as surround his birthplace village of Yam: Tela, Manu, Mkonga, Upare, Kiboriloni, Mochi, Iwa, Kwamare
Bibiana, Elizabeth and Francesca are the names of his three living sisters. They are all much older than he is. He is the baby of the family. These three sisters chose the name “Hubert” from the Catholic book of names because he was born on the third of November, the day of the saint of hunters – HUBERT. . His name is German, and it means, “burning bright.”
Mary is the name of the other sister. She is older than Hubert. But poor Mary died before Hubert was born. He still has love for Mary. And then there is Alexander. He is the oldest brother who died mysteriously. Alexander loved his little brother very much. He would do all kinds of acting, mimes to please his little brother Hubert.
HUBERT TEMBA would do very well in school and would attend three universities in various continents in the world. He would also travel in many places all over the world even at a young age. He left Yam and Kirua Vunjo, because of a combination of many things, which remain a puzzle to him even today.
Since then he has traveled thousands of miles all over the world, visited dozens of exotic world cities including 14 cities in Europe. Among those European cities he has set foot on are Vienna, Linz, Innsbruck, Salisburg – which is great composer Wolfgang Amedius Mozart’s place of birth. Here Hubert was able to see Mozart’s tiny first violin, his clavichord, and a reproduction of his pianoforte, which are on display. HUBERT TEMBA was also able to learn that this child prodigy, Mozart, was doomed to live as an "eternal child," thanks to the education---nay, exploitation---he suffered at the hands of his father, who trotted him and his sister around Europe to entertain crowned heads for months at a stretch. In a life that lasted 35 years, Mozart spent ten on the road.
HUBERT TEMBA learned from Mozart’s exploited childhood the eternal lesson that child prodigies can be exploited extensively without themselves knowing the damaging extent of that exploitation. And HUBERT TEMBA has gone through several such situations too.
Hubert also visited Berlin, Munich, Bonn, and Cologne among some cities in Germany. He also visited London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, and William Shakespeare birthplace town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
HUBERT TEMBA has won various awards including the Fulbright Award.
He is working on three new books and another book entitled “Passages of Love” was published in August 2006. In this new book he is gifted to predict the 9/11 2001 disaster about 20 months before the event that changed history.
He is an established musical and literary master.