Tanzania faces severe flooding as the Masika rainy season intensifies, highlighting the urgent need for better urban planning and infrastructure management.
This Women’s Day, we must ask why history has buried rebel leaders like Tanzania’s Liti Kidanka, whose spiritual resistance against German colonisers challenges us to redefine whose stories we celebrate.
Before the Suez Canal, before container ships—East Africa was the centre of the Indian Ocean economy. Its ruins tell the truth we keep ignoring.
In a country near the equator, where intense UV radiation is a constant threat, sunscreen remains an unaffordable ‘cosmetic.’ For people with albinism, this misclassification has fatal consequences, but the risk extends to all Tanzanians.
Patrick Hege’s new book reveals that the colonial city was built not from grand plans, but through the daily actions of police, traders, and intermediaries.
Legal hurdles explain why the fossil hasn’t returned to Tanzania. But has “complicated” become a convenient reason for inaction?
Tanzania’s significant Tendaguru dinosaur fossils, excavated during the colonial era, are currently much more visible in European museums than in their country of origin.
Independence didn’t begin in 1961. It started with the flames, unity, and sacrifice of the Maji Maji War—Tanzania’s first national awakening.
We owe it to those who lost their lives to ensure such violence is never repeated.