Dar es Salaam, April 28 -- DAR ES SALAAM — Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed wananchi of our great nation – not the wananchi in the now popular Yanga sense – of 62-plus million Tanzanians on both sides of the channel.

I stand before you today with a question burning in my heart. A question that has haunted me for years.   A question that has kept me up at night, tossing and turning in my ‘telemka tukaze bed.

And that pressing question is this: When, in the name of Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Ruaha river and the Serengeti Plains, will we finally witness the birth of the long-awaited national dress of Tanzania?!

I mean, seriously folks, it has been more elusive than a leopard in the thickets!

For ye...