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…