Mountain gorillas, Safari Rally, M-Pesa and the vast possibilities of EA tourism
Selling things nature and God gave us: wildlife, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and spectacular views (including sunrises and sunsets) is the way East Africa, and nearly all of Sub-Saharan Africa, makes most of its tourism money. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
In February I attended a speaking event at Tanzania’s largest bank, CRDB. Banks are staid, mostly boring, places so you never expect big surprises. But I got one at CRDB.
Turns out that at its admittedly well-appointed headquarters building on Dar es Salaam Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road, CRDB is developing a museum of banking. It is a modest museum, but it is easy to see how in the distant future that is something that would be taken out and made into a fully fledged museum on money, not just banking. Perhaps a Great Museum of East African Money.
