Geography (CBG).

He later moved to Milambo Secondary School, in Tabora and graduated from sixth form with a second grade.

He missed the fee

His academic journey continued until 2006 when he joined the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) to study a Bachelor of 

However, before the end of the first semester, he and some students were suspended for non-payment of fees.

"If you remember well that year, higher education loans were very disturbing and the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology at that time, Professor Peter Msolla, announced that boys with a second grade pass would not be given loans," he says.

He says, "That thing hurt me a lot in my life.

We were supposed to return home with a promise that next year we will be given loans and continue with school.

We had to postpone classes."

In 2007 he returned to college to continue his studies.

Although he wanted to continue with the degree he was studying, he consulted with his fellow students and saw that to ensure that they continue with college the following year, they should also apply for degrees for which there is a guarantee of getting a loan.

He decided to apply for a Bachelor of Science in Teaching.

"I was very hurt, I was told that if I want to study the degree then I should postpone another year until the following year and I was not ready so I had to continue with the science and education degree."

He graduated from the college in 2010 with the second highest grade.

He entered the street and worked several jobs before getting a scholarship from the Chinese Government to study the Second Degree in 2011. But due to various reasons, he did not go that year.

The following year, he applied for scholarships in various places, and managed to get three different places;

two being outside the country and one in the country.

After discussing with his family, he decided to go to China at Northeast Normal College in Changchun, Jilin Province, where he studied for a Master of Science in ecology.

 "I finished my degree and did so well that my teacher made me write an official letter to the body responsible for providing scholarships to the Chinese government, namely the Chinese Government Scholarship Council, to continue with my PhD."

sighting of the animal at that place and succeeded in publishing the research in the international journal of Pakistani Zoology.

The post showed the presence of wolves in the Khingan mountains, in the Hanma reserve located in the small town of Jinhe in Inner Mongolia.

In this research I also collaborated with my fellow Chinese researchers.

However, I would like to acknowledge closely the researcher from Pennsylvania State University in the United States, Dr. Asia Murphy for her great cooperation while writing this work.

I received the information about the victory through my Chinese friend who lives in Inner Mongolia.

I was sent an advertisement by my Chinese friends telling me about the issue.

I knew I had all the criteria and from the first day I felt I could win.

We thank God we have won.

The organizers of the competition are the institute of natural reserves in the state and so the award was given by leaders from the institute.

I am currently waiting to receive it in person because I am currently in Tanzania.

Along with that post that gave me the win, I have published over eight posts and all of them as the first publisher and all of them are about the behavior, relationships, existence, environment and life of wildlife in general.

The secret of success

The award I won was contested by researchers from different countries around the world.

And I had no fear.

My belief has always been that if you believe you can do something, go for it.

There is always no failure but there is winning or learning. It is not that every time I participate I win.

Offcourse not!

I have also participated in various awards and missed out.

I always miss, there is something I learn and it helps me before the trip.

For example, last year we participated with my fellow researcher in the United States in asking for money provided by a famous wildlife organization in the world and we were not lucky enough to win but we learned a lot.

Last year we participated through another competition and won even though it did not have good funding.

What made me more confident this time I think is the way the people of China received information about the presence of the animal in the area.

They were very happy and the news was broadcast by the country's CCTV television.

It gave me a lot of confidence.

The big secret of success is loving what you do and putting God first.

It's not that I'm better than my peers.

There are many things you need to do so that your research can have good results including how you organize your research well

You have to read various texts and know in a good way what area, what time, what time of the year if you put your cameras you can get pictures/videos of certain animals if they exist.

That's exactly where you have to play your cards well and I think that's where I was different from others and finally managed to catch the animal that there was no doubting evidence of its existence since 1972 according to the texts of the locals of those areas.

My research has great implications for animal ecology in that area considering the 

 is one of the top predators in the area.

So he has a big impact on the whole system of life in that place.

More importantly, in terms of tourism, this research is a big deal.

You will help a lot to make money for more tourists to go to see the 

  in the future and thus promote the economy of the state as a whole.

I remembered that I was a good hunter in my childhood and I really liked animals.

I wrote to him and he said then I think if you read anything about these issues you will do well.

Without forgetting all my brothers and my family, including my younger brother Columbas, in general they have always been giving me strength.

What he likes, what he doesn't like

In an interview with Hamenya who is now living in Arusha waiting to return to China to finish her PhD studies, I find out what she likes and what she doesn't like.

He used to prefer music.

That is why he turned out to be a good dancer when he was in secondary school and was even given an award in the Sports Union for Secondary Schools (Umisseta).

But now he prefers to watch football saying that is his biggest addiction.

"Because I don't drink alcohol...I have never drank alcohol.

I love football and it's the thing that entertains me the most."

He mentions the team he is a fan of in Tanzania is Yanga.

The outside teams are England's Liverpool which, when closed, feels sick.

Another thing he likes is politics.

He says politics is a system of people's lives.

"Some people tell me that I am a good professional so I should leave politics and help the nation.

My answer is always this, if you see an intellectual enters politics and fails to help the nation, then that is his personal problem and not the problem of all intellectuals."

"I personally have big goals for this nation, the day I get any leadership position in the government I am sure I will show a very good example," says Hamenya stressing that she has big dreams for her nation and that is why she is doing everything she can to promote Tanzania internationally.

Hamenya also likes to build friendships with more people in the world, which she says is successful because she has close friends with whom she collaborates on various things, especially in science and research in almost all continents of the world.

Regarding the things she doesn't like, Hamenya says "In general, I don't like people who are lazy and don't like the progress of their peers... But I also don't like people and especially leaders who don't keep their promises."