Outcry over EA govts attempts to stifle media Tanzania has joined other East African countries in proposing new media laws that would see journalists face severe penalties for professional mistakes, and curtail media freedom.
From Dar to eating on the streets of Stone Town There are three ferry companies operating between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. All the trips are scheduled around the same time; between 12.30 and 2.30pm. With this in mind we woke up to buy...
‘Kings’ of Uganda’s heritage Festo Karwemera, a man who is passionate about preserving the Kikiga culture of southwestern Uganda, and an 108-year-old house built by the late Ham Mukasa, emerged tops at Uganda’s inaugural...
Road trip: From Kenya to Malawi The purpose of the trip was both a holiday and a chance to reconnect with a girl I had met four years ago. She arrived in Nairobi two days before we set off.
Mitumba dance Second-hand clothes, known as mitumba in East Africa, are very popular with both the rich and poor, residents and visitors alike. There have been debates on the merits and demerits of the...
Ban a rag here, beat up a hack there, that’s how to sneak censorship up on the public It looks as though the Fourth Estate is in trouble again. The government’s recent suspension of Mwananchi and Mtanzania newspapers has ruffled all the right feathers and breathed new life into...
Who should be president of East Africa? Go ask the taxi drivers Any national intelligence service worth its name recruits heavily in the transport sector.
Amid violence, Goma youths sing for peace Jean Claude “JC” Wenga, 24, expected to spend the last weekend of August performing in front of thousands of people from across Africa’s Great Lakes region at a historic music festival in his...
Don’t touch my bags, I’m a harmless Tanzanian Just 12 months ago, drugs were not a social problem of much public consequence. By which I mean, we had been whispering to each other about rumours for years and years and quietly averting our...
There will be no peace in Congo till FDLR is disarmed Many good things must have come out of the recently concluded emergency meeting of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) in Kampala.
