DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 11 -- DEAR readers, I have taken the bold decision to register anew beauty pageant.

Before you scratch your head and say, “Ankal, ninisasa tena? Another pageant?”, kindly hold your horses, yourjudgement and, especially, your WhatsApp voice notes.

This one is different. This is the pageant of pageants, the mother of all beauty crowns: The Miss Tanzania

Pageants Pageant.

Kindly pronounce it slowly.

If your tongue gets stuck halfway, take some water and start again. Even the name needs rehearsals, you know

Allow me to explain before anyone asks whether I have finally run out of photo ideas and started photographing my own problems.

Looking at the international circuits in Tanzanias expanding pageant con...