WHEN I was in secondary school I never understood why Saud Arabia, Iran and other Arab countries were considered Middle East. Middle from where, I used to wonder. Mr Mselle, my geography teacher at Lyamungo, failed to shed light on why green Africa was the Dark Continent and Israel and its neighbours were in a red zone.
RESEARCH shows that after 5-7 drinks, the brain is numbed to an extent that a person cannot even hold a pen and write properly.
ARE you cool? Can you be put in the same corner as cool people and be considered cool? If you had to think about it for more than 5 seconds, then you are by no means, cool.
THIS is a thought shared and history shall be my guide. As such, most of the material herein is going to be borrowed from various sources to better furnish you the reader.
George Kapata, a middle-aged man, lived in one of the Dar es Salaam slums in a valley. But it was the area he lived in that attracted most Amir Panju, a rich Asian merchant, who wanted to build a cotton ginnery.
September two of this year has gone into history where a Tanzanian Journalist was killed while performing his duties in an assignment that was linked to political coverage.
THE border dispute between Tanzania and Malawi on Lake Nyasa in Tanzania or Lake Malawi in Malawi, perhaps more than anything else amplifies Africa’s geographic, ethnic and linguistic problems in the post colonial era and the continent’s contemporary history.
Preparations for the start of commuter train services to ease congestion in Dar es Salaam are well advanced as can be gauged from an article in the Custodian (September 11, front page) titled: “Residents near rail track told to vacate”. The Deputy Transport Minister had tough words for those living near the railway line.
