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Since Sheikh Yahya left us, Tanzanian football has needed a new ministry of prophecy

DAR ES SALAAM, July 19 -- EVERY serious country needs experts. When electricity disappears, we look for electricians. When water vanishes, we remember plumbers. And when Tanzanians want to know wheth... Read More


East Africa, take notes - AFCON 2027 is around the corner!

DAR ES SALAAM, June 28 -- AS the 2026 FIFA World Cup rolls across the United States, Canada and Mexico, most of us will be doing what football people do best: arguing loudly, predicting bravely, forgi... Read More


When our own songs need permission from Hamburg

DAR ES SALAAM, June 21 -- THERE is something both funny and faintly alarming about hearing an old Tanzanian song, feeling the dust of Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Tanga, or Tabora rise from it, recognisin... Read More


Mzee Tido, the elephant in newsrooms has finished the peanuts. It is now eating the furniture

DAR ES SALAAM, May 31 -- THERE is an old African belief that if a visitor stays long enough in your house, eventually he stops asking for permission before opening the refrigerator. The same principle... Read More


A gentle warning to those still sleeping through the digital storm

DAR ES SALAAM, May 4 -- IN 2005, when I first stumbled into what would later be called “blogging”, Tanzania was not exactly buzzing with digital excitement. In fact, let us be honest, mos... Read More


Why Tanzanian muziki wa dansi not in Paris (yet) and what must change

DAR ES SALAAM, May 3 -- THE other morning, at a perfectly respectable hour when one ought to be minding ones tea and pretending to be productive, I received a music video clip from Paris. Because it ... Read More