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…
Bank M (Tanzania) Limited has reported a huge pre-tax profit increase of 75 per cent for the six month period ended June, 2011, growing to TZS 2.83 Bln., as compared to TZS 1.61 Bln. for the corresponding period ended June 2010. The bank mainly attributed the increase in profitability to the growth in loan assets from TZS 98.87 Bln….
More needs to be done to fight children sexual abuse YAKOBE CHIWAMBO Unlike other types of abuses like physical or psychological torment, child sexual abuse in most cases happens secretly. This makes it difficult for culprits to be made answerable. In the first place, it is difficult to find data about children sexual abuse. Children exposed to being abused…
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,…
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…
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…
Damas Mbogoro Political and administrative leadership of the second term of the fourth phase regime has to walk the talk, so to speak. The launching of KILIMO KWANZA was a very bold and far sighted undertaking of the fourth phase government. The test of the seriousness on this issue for the fourth phase regime lies in its successful implementation….
Arusha, 12 May 2006 — From November 2005 Year 11 students at Braeburn School started their Community Service project at the Step-By-Step Learning Centre based in Njiro. This is a new English Medium Program for nursery, lower primary 1 to 4 and most importantly those with learning disabilities at all stages of development. On learning that a student at…