Friday, March 27, 2026

Karomia gigas: Greetings, Christian Acemah, from Friendly-informed free wiki World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and Swahili, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya WUaS in Swahili and pot for free WUaS degrees online from home, in Swahili with many STEM WUaS degrees

 

Dear Christian (Acemah - cacemah@olneyfriends.org), Bob (Brockwell, and mainoffice@olneyfriends.org), & Lloyd (Guindon, Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation),

Greetings from the SF Bay Area's East Bay, having become a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2004, first started attending unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in around 1975 or 1976, about an hour and a half away from Olney Friends School Barnesville, OH, (and having transferred my RSOF membership to the SF Quaker Meeting possibly 15 years ago. Great to meet and talk with you Bob (Brockwell) on December 27, 2025 (and see my email to Bob in the PPPPS below), as I was driving west from Xmas in Pittsburgh with my mother, and having been in asylum on the eastern seaboard of the US for 2 1/2 years though December 10, 2024, and in returning to the SF Bay Area (thinking it has become safer, and it has to some degree). I know Lloyd (Guindon - and did you graduate from Olney in 1977?) from Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation from about 1987-1990, when I was first a student for a year, and then worked in the Pendle Hill Bookstore / Publishers for about 2.5 years, before heading west to the SF Bay Area to study Yoga at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of SF (in a 2 year CA certificate teaching program I completed in a year); it was great to connect with my uncle Bruce MacLeod, a member of Abington Friends' Meeting while in the Wallingford / Media / Swarthmore / Philadelphia area while at Pendle Hill.

I'm writing to you, Christian, and to Olney Friends' School, about Friendly-informed free wiki World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and planned in Swahili, and in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, for free WUaS degrees online from home, in Swahili, with many STEM WUaS degrees. (WUaS is also planned in each of all 200 countries online, and in their main languages for free online WUaS degrees from home). And WUaS is accrediting, and would seek to offer our free WUaS degrees online from home to Olney graduates especially too.


A Friendly Quaker query :

How best to grow free World University and School  in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and in Swahili and with a significant STEM focus emerging from WUaS building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/? How best to begin to offer free online WUaS Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high sch / similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and in Swahili ? And how best to grow WUaS free schools in all the languages in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in these languages and for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning and as WUaS develops free universal education wiki, MIT, and highest quality in Swahili regions?

Christian, how best to communicate further about this too? I recently updated the beginning Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya WUaS universities (in the PS below), and the Swahili language wiki subjects / schools. from which major online world class WUaS teaching and research universities will emerge (in all 200 countries and in all 7159 living language), but the Swahili language wiki subject page is not yet in the Swahili language for example, and WUaS seeks to grow too potentially from these countries and in communication with Tanzanians, Ugandans, and Kenyans  and related people there. IN the PS a and in some TwitterX posts, I inquire about the Quaker Yearly Meetings in these countries, and contacting them, but WUaS is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-great-to.html - and potentially in communication with James Manyika a Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet, who is a Zimbabwean-American - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Manyika & https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmanyika/) and is exploring growing in Swahili and in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya independently of these Yearly Meetings too ... and potentially in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM (and think Google Street View with time slider, GMaps, GEarth, TensorFlow AI Gemini AI and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels too).

Christian, I noticed that you may have been Executive Secretary of UNAS, The Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) as recently as around 2022 ... Is this the case? And might MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch somehow develop in collaboration with UNAS in Uganda - with WUaS's science and STEM focus, and in Swahili, and in Tanzania and Kenya too?

I'll bring these questions to the World Univ & Sch WUaS Weekly Business Meeting this Monday April 6 2026 at 10 am Pacific Time, 1 pm Eastern Time, for further consideration. Christian, Bob and Lloyd, might you like to join this open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the manner of Friends), or meet online at another time?

Friendly NtF Quaker regards, More later, Kindly, 
Scott

I've created a blog post for this - 







And re WUaS 'process' - 

Hindu Kush mountains: Recording of 3/23/26 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting #TaiwanWorldUnivAndSch ~ * (was - M 3/23/26 & 3/30/26 open @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting Agenda & News)

Recording of 3/23/26 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting #TaiwanWorldUnivAndSch ~

https://youtu.be/jUjMXAYVYd4

using this 3/16 agenda -

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-new-mexico-m-31626-32326-open.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-nm.html

https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos ~





PS

Searched on 
Swahili - Where is it spoken ? & universities taught in swahili in Tanzania Kenya Uganda?











PS a

#WUaSunivs @WorldUnivAndSch may reach out to #KenyaYearlyMeetingQuaker -https://www.fwcc.directory/africameetings/
-#UgandaYearlyMeetingQuaker
-https://www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/about-us/yearly-meetings
#TanzaniaYearlyMeetingOfFriends -https://www.westernyearlymeeting.org/missionsandprojects#:~:text=Raising%20$15%2C000%20will%20provide%20for,Singida%2C%20Tabora%2C%20and%20Shinyanga & #HeadOfSchool #ChristianAcemah2001 #OlneyFriendsSchool #BarnesvilleOH ~



All retweeting the Twitter posts below

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2037263043437252668

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2037263412305215738

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2037264379121721701

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2037263589996953992

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2037264193385296083

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2037263260312093162

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2037263210441744444



PS b

How best in the #SwahiliLanguageWUaS building on #MITOCW in 7 languages to grow #TanzaniaWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tanzania,_United_Republic_of - #KenyaWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya & #UgandaWUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Uganda in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Swahili planned in Swahili for #freeToStudents #FreeWUaSdegrees ?

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2037259306350108909

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2037259389439271104

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2037258835157733809

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2037260366087131267

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2037260729833971909

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2037259989937775014

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2037260278484918639



PS c

Gemini AI - 

Where is Swahili spoken ?




PS d

universities taught in Swahili in Tanzania Kenya Uganda?


Key universities teaching Swahili in East Africa include the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) in Tanzania, Kenyatta University in Kenya, and Makerere University in Uganda, which offer comprehensive Kiswahili studies, research, and linguistics programs. These institutions serve as primary hubs for both local and international students focusing on Swahili studies.
Tanzania (Center of Swahili Studies)
  • University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM): Houses the Institute of Kiswahili Studies (IKS), known for B.A. and postgraduate programs in Kiswahili linguistics, literature, and research.
  • State University of Zanzibar (SUZA): Hosts the Institute of Kiswahili and Foreign Languages (Taasisi ya Kiswahili na Lugha za Kigeni), a key site for intensive language training in Stone Town.
  • Mzumbe University: Offers specialized Swahili language classes through their program.
Kenya (High-level Education & Language Research)
  • Kenyatta University: Offers comprehensive Kiswahili programs, often hosting international students for study-abroad terms.
  • University of Nairobi: Provides extensive study in Swahili linguistics and literature.
Uganda (Regional Expansion)
  • Makerere University: Known for training Swahili teachers and offering specialized language studies.
These institutions also facilitate cultural immersion and are popular locations for international researchers and academic programs as highlighted by Go Overseas



PPPS



PPPPS

Dear Bob Brockwell, and mainoffice@olneyfriends.org, - Olney Friends' School, a Quaker Boarding School in Barnesville Ohio, - https://www.olneyfriends.org/

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Dec 29, 2025, 6:28 AM
to mainoffice, WUaSCorpCEOclerk
Dear Bob Brockwell, and mainoffice@olneyfriends.org, 

Friendly greetings! Very nice to meet you Bob at Olney Friends' School on Saturday December 27, 2025 (as I was passing through from Pittsburgh, PA, where I first started to attend Quaker Meeting in around 1975 or 1976, and in returning to the SF Bay Area near Berkeley), near the Stillwater Friends Meetinghouse. (I was a student at Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation in 1987-1988, and worked in the Pendle Hill  bookstore / Publishing house for about 2.5 years following this - where I know Lloyd Guindon from - before returning to the SF Bay Area to study Yoga at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of SF, where I completed a 2 year state of California teaching certificate in a year; I also have a Bachelor's degree from Reed College in Portland OR, in Religion (and German), a Master's Degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a DR from the University of Edinburgh).

And glad to share with you too about Friendly-informed wiki (for people-to-people idea sharing) World University and School, like Wikipedia in 342 languages, and building upon MIT OpenCourseWare in ~7 languages. While WUaS isn't yet accredited yet for free online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school/ similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees are planned, and in all 200 countries and in 7159 living languages if helpful - I hope free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric World University and School - in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program - will be of help to Olney Friends' School, and students, and re college counselors, and for all Friends' Schools, eg from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects and see too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends).

More later, and will add you to the open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting emailings ...

Friendly regards, 
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod
(I became a member of the RSOF in Central Edinburgh Quaker Meeting in around 2004, when I was studying there for a second full year in Scotland).


Open Weekly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the manner of Friends) on Mondays at 10 am PT, 1 pm ET,  in various time zones in Africa, 10:30 pm India Time - 




PS 

Glad to visit #Quaker #OlneyFriendsSchool in #BarnesvilleOH on Sat 12/27/25 in returning to #Canyon94516 to grow the #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter there. How might #FreeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch be of help to #OlneyFriendsAlumni - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ? #FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰


https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2005641368686018742

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2005642619804942790

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2005641450831163459

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2005641677395161496

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2005641625163411688

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2005641368686018742

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2005642619804942790

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2005642382973301019

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2005643232353599849


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_quaker-olneyfriendsschool-barnesvilleoh-activity-7411410130979979264-rIcq


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_quaker-olneyfriendsschool-barnesvilleoh-activity-7411409900800647168-JPrm


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_the-college-at-world-university-and-school-activity-7411409497023275008-EtD7






PPPPPS



The Back Forty: Reflections from Forty Years of Tending the Land in Quaker Community
By Lloyd Guindon

Pendle Hill Pamphlet #496 (December 2025)



Here’s a poem our brother, Lloyd Guindon ’77, wrote about it on the occasion of Mom and Dad’s (Clif ’41 & Dottie (Hon.) Guindon) 60th wedding anniversary.





Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 (Google voice #) - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org 
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 




https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/never-before-seen-flower-blooms-on-rare-karomia-gigas-tree



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https://discoverandshare.org/2021/05/18/rare-karomia-gigas-tree-reveals-first-flower/





https://www.bgci.org/our-work/projects-and-case-studies/conserving-one-of-tanzanias-rarest-trees/













https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2021-06-03/one-of-the-worlds-rarest-trees-recently-bloomed-at-the-missouri-botanical-garden




https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Images-of-Karomia-gigas-depicting-A-Tanzania-Forest-Service-staff-collecting-fruits_fig1_381230344





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karomia_gigas

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Karomia

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