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CAF chaos: Yanga's calm, Simba's crisis, Azam's Nairobi goal treasure hunt and Singida's steel

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 7 -- THIS week in East African football felt like a Bongo movie director secretly infiltrated CAF headquarters at night. He found the desk with the “Fixtures & Logic” ... Read More


Fading echoes of clubhouse games: Tanzania's forgotten sporting past

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 30 -- THERE was a time when a weekend in Dar es Salaam, Arusha or Moshi felt like an eccentric colonial radio broadcast drifting into real life. Youd hear the muezzin calling the ... Read More


The meteoric rise of Dr Kedmon Mapana

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 23 -- THERE are weeks when the universe wakes up, stretches in that leisurely cosmic manner, points directly at you and proclaims with suspicious excitement, “Yes, you. Today... Read More


From Tandale to Times square: What Diamond must do to bag Music Grammy Award

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 16 -- WELL, my dear readers, let us begin by meeting that most common creature of modern society The armchair critic. You know the type. They sit comfortably at home or in a radio ... Read More


Tanzania's World Cup wake-up call - When hope replaces planning

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 19 -- THERES an old saying whispered around East African football circles, usually after the Taifa Stars have suffered yet another heartbreak: “Tunahitaji miujiza.” We ... Read More


The long run of short-sighted nation: Why Tanzania only runs marathon, little else

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 5 -- ON any given weekend in Tanzania, just as the rooster crows and the sun is still stretching itself awake over the Indian Ocean, you can hear the pounding of rubber soles on ta... Read More