Who wants to get things done these days? Especially in Tanzania? This land has equatorial weather. It deserves to be enjoyed like our ancestor Lucy enjoyed it. Our primary goal is to lessen peoples’ productivity so we can all sit around and appreciate basic nothingness.
In preparation for the first East Africa Future Day to be held in Nairobi on November 12, Ahmed Salim and Aidan Eyakuze of the Society for International Development preview what is at stake for East Africa’s future.
Most voters expressed that, in some ways, doctors can work with traditional healers. What ways might these be?
Technology is all about development and making everyday tasks easier. But we need to clear out our human cache memory because development is not always about technology.
The conference comes at a time during which there is “growing emphasis on youth as both victims and perpetrators of violence” and when violence “has become an accepted component of young people’s social interactions”.
Last Friday Kigali Hip hop lovers started their weekend in style with an amazing live performance by Mahogany Jones with her band at Petit stade in Kigali, Rwanda.
A lady named Peace allegedly committed suicide today, hanging herself on the ceiling of her house.
All voters agreed we should discuss religious diversity, and most expressed that we can do it anywhere.
Most voters thought that development needs to be the focus of East African leadership rather than democracy.
In the end, it all boils down to each and every one of us to uphold the relative peace that Tanzania enjoys and prides itself for…
Anita Umutoni and Florence Mukundwa are recent graduates of the Akilah Institute for Women, a college that offers a leadership and hospitality management course. They dared to take risks by starting a business while they were still in college.
Ugunduzi kubadili chembechembe hai ya aina yoyote ili iwe na uwezo wa kujibadili kuwa aina nyingine, umewapatia Sir John Gordon na Prof. Shinya Yamanaka tuzo ya Nobel ya Fiziolojia na Tiba ya mwaka 2012. Tunamhoji Daniel Maeda ili atueleze kwa kina kuhusu teknlojia hii.
Women, unsurprisingly, are pressured into paying through “alternative means,” fostering what the Citizen calls an economy of “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.” If women balk at swapping special “favors” for studio-time, their careers will likely come screeching to a halt.
Most respondents felt that Tanzania should join the East African common currency (if and when there is one). Up for discussion now is the question of why she should join, and how a common currency would affect the economy.
How do media houses control the kind of content we read, hear or watch after it has been created by the original authors? I asked five journalists working in the Tanzanian print industry about their experiences with the editorial process.
Most respondents felt that Tanzania’s past is “somewhat important” to building her future. What, then, should we pay attention to? What should we ignore?
If you happen to be waiting for a daladala amidst the loud hooting and smoggy air of Dar es Salaam you are bound to find a man kicking off a shout storm with a microphone in one hand and a sports shoe in the other. Mistaking him for a street preacher, you would not be incorrect.
Let us think together about a problem of economic growth. In so doing let us reduce the problem into its smallest constituents.
Results indicate that we had 16 responses, most of whom voted that both, Swahili and English, should be the languages of instruction in public secondary schools.
This is a moving tribute to the late Hamza Mwapachu, a medical practitioner, educator, political strategist, and civil servant during Tanganyika’s colonial days.
If people are not empowered to express their thoughts, aren’t they mere parrots, narrating someone else’s thoughts, talking but not really saying anything?
Pitia au wanunulie watoto wako wa wadogo zako kitabu kinachoitwa “Enjoy Chemistry, Furahia Kemia”, kisha tupe maoni yako. Hiki ni kitabu cha kwa kwanza cha kiada kilichoandikwa kwa lugha mbili (Kiingereza na Kiswahili) kwa ajili ya wanafunzi wa kidato cha kwanza.
Results indicate that we had 10 respondents (thanks, folks!): None voted “No”, 10% voted “I’m not sure”, 40% voted “Possibly”, 50% voted “Yes”.
We’re excited to introduce a new polling project at Vijana FM that aims at conducting research among our website visitors. The project will consist of asking one question every week in the sidebar that relates to topics we blog about.
I was honored to travel with the Tanzanian Presidential Delegation to Addis Ababa for the state funeral of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Quotes from this piece are from a variety of people including diplomats, politicians and long-time followers of Ethiopian politics. I purposely did not include the names of those quoted in this piece, except for when I asked for permission.
In our quest to revive anecdotal experiences of men and women who shaped the history of the land that we now call Tanzania, we came across an interesting text written in 1935 about the life and times of the educator and civil-servant Martin Kayamba Mdumi, M.B.E (1891-1939).