*By Emmanuel Kihaule : *IF there is anything that amuses me most about my beloved country Tanzania is the manner in which authorities react immediately after a problem has occurred such as an accident in which many lives were lost. The following day the police will call a press conference in which they will enlist a windful of measures…
*By Emmanuel Kihaule: *How much has Africa benefited from development aid from donors? Is Africa anyhow better now than it was say fifteen or twenty years ago? These are questions which normally dominates discussions on the state of poverty in Africa versus development aid. To some people, including myself nothing much, in terms of development, has been recorded out…
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…
Tanzania National Parks and Game Reserves Tanzania is home to some of the best National Parks in the world. The primary role of Tanzania National Parks is conservation. There are 14 National Parks in Tanzania, which form the core of a much larger protected ecosystem that has been set aside to preserve the country’s rich natural heritage, and to…
TBL boosts Lugarawa community in Ludewa THE community around the Lugarawa secondary school would have no reason but a smile after the construction of water reserve tank with a storage capacity of 50,000 cubic litres financed by the Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) in Ludewa. This is a part of TBL’s Without Water There Is No Life project in which…
Who do visitors keep on coming back to Mount Kilimanjaro? Some say a climb of Mount, which takes one through the mists of equatorial jungle to reach the snows and breath-taking views from the summit, is one of the most exciting adventures in Africa. The Mount located at the north/eastern tip of Tanzania, with elevation: 19,335.6 ft (5,895m) has…
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 Anthony Muchoki : A time comes when one has to call it quits at the regular work place, or to use the language of the queen, the time to say goodbye to formal employment. Some only retire due to old age, others when they go to the grave while the bright chaps do it because they want to…
By Anthony Muchoki: Yes. God hears the voice of a woman more than a man’s. After all, women are mothers. Secondly, the sins that are committed by men in terms of magnitude, they reduce women’s sins into nothing. A man will go to church, even a priest – look up in the skies and say father forgive me. But…
*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…