The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for GOD to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.* * Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his new…
By AM To begin with let me state that yours truly by all means, is not a racist neither an African bigot nor a rich fish (Fisadi) or a poor monkey. Yet, usually, he does not accept free gifts offered by George Bushians and Gordon Brownians. For your information, a rich fish can be translated into many things like…
*By John Ulanga* *Executive Director,* *The Foundation for Civil Society, Tanzania* *A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of MS Tanzania,* February 19, 2008, MS TCDC Arusha, Tanzania 1 INTRODUCTION Over the last couple of years there has been a lot of discussions on the importance of the role of civil society organizations in the development processes. Attempts have…
By Felix Kaiza The Doha sitting of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has declared a halt on the Tanzania and Zambia campaigns to pump ivory from their stockpiles into the market, purportedly to plough back some of the accrued revenues into elephant population conservation programmes. These essentially entail anti-poaching activities. On this one,…
Faidamax.com reporter CHURCHES in Germany have been asked to support Cultural tourism in Tanzaniasince this type of tourism is the most viable for sustainable economicdevelopment in rural areas of Tanzania. Speaking at an Annual Synod General Assembly of the Lutheran church – inMecklenburg Germany – an activist in Cultural tourism and former member ofthe Board of Trustees of Tanzania…
Elly D.Kimbwereza Email: Elly.Kimwereza@gmail.com ‘‘Take off your shoes, for this is Holy ground “ is what many visitors who travel long distances to Malameni rock in Mbaga, Southern Pare Mountains feel or tell themselves. So do many local and International visitors entering this remote and in the recent past virtually inaccessible area. Our journey starts from a small town…
MIKI TASSENI ORAL tradition is acknowledged as one among the principal methods inwhich history is transmitted in African societies even afterindependence, as few ethnic groups developed an articulate form ofwriting in which to preserve the beliefs of the people, their historyand genealogy of their rulers, dynasties. While the Bible isacknowledged as the word of God, it is in actual…
ERIC TOROKA In many ways the modern economy of Tanzania wasbuilt by the Asian immigrants who arrived from thewest coast of India over a period of four hundredyears, albeit with a huge influx from the late 19thcentury. There are only a very limited number of accounts ofthis story, and even fewer which focus on the historyof our successful extended…
Southern Pare Mountains I wrote this yesterday, but I was out of internet range so I’m posting it today.http://jminafrica2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/southern-pare-mountains.html I’m currently in the village of Mbaga in the Southern Pare Mountains, about 100 miles or so southwest of Moshi. The mountains rise abruptly out of the plains, and are very steep and rugged. Getting here was its own interesting…