Great confab, useful encounter with our ‘re-humanised’ leaders
Former president of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete (C), who is the head of East African Community election observation mission, at Old Kibera Primary School polling station during Kenya's general election in Kibra on August 9, 2022. PHOTO | NMG
It happened around Arusha, in a small village centre that has built a reputation for hosting events like this one but is now looking like it’s outdoing itself.
The Training Centre for Development Cooperation (TCDC) was set up back in the 1960s as a joint training resource for the governments of Denmark and Tanzania, which trained volunteers from Denmark and their colleagues from the host country in matters development with a special rural bias, and it has gone on to become a tertiary institute awarding degrees, diplomas and certificates in all manner of disciplines, as well as organising youth leadership workcamps that draw tens of youngsters from all over to learn, sing and dance and socialise.