MAREHEMU SENSEI BOMANI SENSEI NANTAMBU CAMARA BOMANI AMEFARIKI DUNIA.
SENSEI BOMANI, AMBAYE NI MWANZILISHI NA MWALIMU MKUU WA SHULE YA SANAA YA KUJILINDA KWA MIKONO MITUPU AMA KARATE YA HEKALU LA KUJILINDA YA TANZANIA GOJU RYU KARATE DO, AMEFARIKI JUMAMOSI ILIYOPITA JIJINI ACCRA, GHANA, NA KUZIKWA SIKU YA PILI YAKE HAPO HAPO ACCRA.
KWA MUJIBU WA SENPAI RASHIDI ALMASI WA GOJU RYU DOJO YA ZANAKI JIJINI DAR, SENSEI BOMANI ALIFARIKI KUTOKANA NA MARADHI YA SHINIKIZO LA DAMU. ALIKUWA NA UMRI WA MIAKA 63.
BOMANI ATAKUMBUKWA KUWA MMOJA WA WAKUFUNZI WA KWANZA WA KARATE NCHINI, AMBAPO DOJO LA KWANZA ALIIANZISHA YMCA JIJINI DAR MWAKA 1973, KABLA YA KUHAMIA SEHEMU ZINGINE KADHAA NA HATIMAYE KUTUA SHULE YA SEKONDARI YA ZANAKI NA SASA DOJO BADO IPO SHULE YA MSINGI YA ZANAKI.
SENPAI ALMASI AMESEMA DOJO LA DAR AMBALO LIKO CHINI YA SENSEI MALEKIA, MURUDKER PAMOJA NA YEY MWENYEWE, LINAANDAA TAMASHA LA KUMBUKUMBU KWA AJILI YA MAREHEMU WATALOLIITA BOMANI DAY NA WANAFUNZI WOTE WALIOPITIA ZANAKI NA WENYE DOHO ZA GOJU RYU MIKOANI KAMA VILE MWANZA, MOROGORO NA ARUSHA WATAKARIBISHWA.
MOLA AIWEKE ROHO YA MAREHEMU BOMANI MAHALI PEMA PEPONI
AMIN
Naongea kikwetu sasa. Sensei no kota zetai ni wasuremaseni. Iroiro benkyoushite, sensei no okage de, arigatougozaimashita. Owakare tsurai desu.
ReplyDeleteSensei no gakkusei data. Anonimasu to iimasu.
Hapo wabongo labda wa Tokyo tu.
Aisee nikiwa mwanafunzi wa Dojo Gojuryuu napenda kutoa pole za dhati kwa familia ya Marehemu.
ReplyDeleteR.P.I. Sensei Bomani
ReplyDeleteMAY GOD BLESS SENSEI BOAMANI'S SOUL KWA MCHANGO WAKE MKUBWA KATIKA MAENDELEO YA MARTIAL ARTS TANZANIA.
ReplyDeletePole sana Dada Fathia kwa msiba wa Sensei Bomani. Jamillah, Jamaal na mdogo wenu poleni sana.Mara ya mwisho tulikuwa wote Seattle na Sensei, dada Fathia, Jamaal na Jamillah 1993 kwa chakula cha pamoja alicho andaa Sensei. Heshima zangu zote na nidhamu nililiyo jifunza kwake itaishi moyoni mwangu milele. Mungu iweke roho ya Sensei/ Guro N.C. Bomani pahala pema peponi, amin.Usemi wake mkubwa ( Sensei Bomani) " Karate is my way in both heart and mind as well"
ReplyDeleteMwanafunzi wako,
Sensei Rumadha Fundi.
Asante sana Mkuu Michu, mie jiyo picha imesikitisha sana maana namuona Mareheme Seifu(SHAFT) na Bofu katika hiyo PICHA poleni sana wana KARATE WWOTE. Nauliza hivi huyo wa kwanza kushoto ni SENSEI HERI?
ReplyDeleteWewe Tarehe Wed Aug 26, 10:05:00 AM, Mtoa Maoni: Anonymous
ReplyDeleteNdio huyu wa KWanza Waliosimama Kushoto ni Senpai Kheri Kivuli, anayemfuata ni SENPAI MURUDKER, SENPAI RASHIDI ALMASI, (unknown) na wa mwisho kulia ni Senpai Mbezi.
Waliochuchuma kwanza kushoto (sijui), sijui na mwisho kulia waliochuchumaa ni Mnyaksa wa Mbeya Senpai Seifu?
Waliokaa Kwanza kushoto Senpai Charles, (sijui), Benson na mwisho kulia waliokaa (sijui)
Thank you to everyone for your kind words. My father loved teaching and his legacy lives on through his students. We miss him very much and appreciate all the nice things that have been written.
ReplyDelete~Jamillah Bomani and family~
RIP Sensei...
ReplyDeleteSensei Rumadha Fundi,
ReplyDeletetwambie kama mlifundishwa karate tu au pia Aikido, maana mavazi ya Sensei camara ni ya Aikidio, na pia nucnhaku na hizo Bo mlizonazo zinatumika katika martial artis zingine, kama Aikido, Kungfu na Ninjitsu.
All in all, inaonekana alipenda sana umahiri wake na nidhamu tunayopata kwa kujifunza mambo haya inaonekana kwenu wetu. Mungu ailaze roho yake pahali pema.
RIP Sensei Camara
Duuu...Sensei Bomani kafariki!!! Naikumbuka sauti yake akituambia : WEKA MOYO JUU!!!
ReplyDeleteAkitupigia kelele tufanye mazoezi kwa bidii.
Nakumbuka akitufundisha kupisha wazee na watu wazima au vilema wakae katika mabasi ya UDA miaka hiyo ya 1973-77. Nakumbuka akitufundisha kula chakula bora na kuipenda nchi yetu, utamaduni wetu na lugha ya KIswahili. Nakumbuka akimsifia Mwalimu Nyerere kwamba ni kiongozi pekee Afrika.
Nakumbuka akisema tusilie sana shida ila tujifunze kupambana nayo.
Pole sana dada Fathia, nakumbuka enzi hizo Kariakoo...
MUNGU AIWEKE ROHO YAKE PEMA PEPONI. AMINA
Hi all I am a student from Ithaca NY durning the late 70's and early 80's. I spent over 5 years with Sensai. I am really sorry to hear That he is on longer with us. I hope That what he tried to inspire in us all (his Students) will take us to new hieghts and untold depths. Peace and Love
ReplyDeleteCharles DaCosta
My school's web site is:
ReplyDeletewww.white-crane.dk
That Was The Vitold once the dead often remain here to help us, to guide us. When I Met Sensei, I Was a 16 year old emotional reck living with friends. He taught me about disicipline and respect.
Charles
A long time ago I was told that the dead often remain here to help and guide us.
ReplyDeleteWhen I met Sensei Bomani, I had left home at the age of 15. I spent the 10th and 11th grades hanging out and making a bigger mess of my life. I was even supposed to repeat the 11th grade.
I moved to Ithaca New York in 1977. There I began training under Sensei. After a year, all of the sempais want me kick out of the club, but Sensei felt it was the schools responsibility to help guide me. So they all suffered a little longer. I think my problem was that sometimes I just wanted to fight someone. Also, I watched Sensei’s most devoted two students progress from white to Black belts. I believed, I could beat everybody in the club so it should have been me wearing a black belt. I guess I was a little jealous.
Sensei seeing something in me introduced me to a kung fu teacher and suggested that maybe I can find the origins of Goju in Chinese martial Arts. So I trained both.
I progressed in kung fu but remain a thorn in the sides of my Sempais, to the extent that one day, they all set me down to hear their complaints. They wanted me kicked out. I was so lost that I did not care. However, feeling compassion, Sensei requested of them even more patience and of me more discipline and respect for the others. I had to agree, but then I realized maybe I should really concentrate on Kung fu since I was progressing extremely fast in it.
One day, a year or so later, I return to the dojo, Sensei had already moved away and all that was left were my two Sempais, the ones that have been there from the beginning. The youngest asked me, “Have you come to train?” I bowed and said, “Yes.” He said, “You will have to set up the dojo by yourself first, that could take a long time.” I did not care, so I went to work and then started training. No one else came so I set up the dojo and trained alone. Both Sempais stayed in the office until the time had come for class to end. I had not even noticed that I had just trained by my self for two hours.
At the end of class the youngest Sempai came in the dojo, I respectfully bowed, I think I even said, “Hei Sempai” to something he said. This can’t be true, I had a reputation as being a problem. But anyway Sempai Bruce looked around and said, “You only made one mistake …” {in setting up the dojo} I thanked him and went to correct the problem, then I was told, "let us take down the dojo." (My reputation seemed gone).
Later that year, both Sempais, Ed Savage and Bruce, visited me at the Kung fu school. We talked, and then they concluded, “Ours prayers have been answered.” Then they left; that was the last time I saw them.
The last time I remember seeing Sensai, we were sitting in a restaurant, and they were discussing the clubs future (it was unimportant to me so I was just eating as usual), then Sempai Bruce said, “What about Charles, …?” confused, I lifted my head and stop chewing. Sensei said, “… then we put him in the single belt system …” Later I learned the meaning behind this single belt system and Sensai’s plans for me.
Years after this I have run into Black belts in Goju at different times in my life, each time I was given a video tape or other media with all the katas on it. This even happened last year. It was then, the first time in years I had felt Sensei’s presents. This made the DVDs feel like a very special gift. I knew I had to learn this. It represented something inside me.
I could still remember Sensei saying, “The Universe in Breathing, Hard and Soft.” When I got home I began to search the Internet and ask friends and family, “Has anybody seen or know where Nantambu is?” No one seemed to know. So I had promised myself that I would learn all the Katas and teach their principles in honor of the memory of one of my great Teachers (The Silent One). And now I have herd that he is dead. This explains why I can feel his presence again. And I pray that this time, I will not be such a challenge!
Charles