Keeping Public Leaders to Account
PHOTO: Over 30 women who had spent 8 hours with out being attended to by a doctor on duty at Shinyanga Regional hospital got tired of the wait and stormed…
Quiet revealing moments at Kolandoto
I like to think that I am a pretty tough one. Afterall, who doesn’t want to quietly believe that he/she can confront tough situations and handle them well. The excuse…
Of mentally ill regime and malnourished citizens
Not many years ago, former Minister of industries and Trade, Idd Simba caused a flare when he used the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2004/2005 to suggest that ours is…
A word of Welcome
I take great pleasure in inviting you to this blog, which is dedicated to a Tanzania Media Fund Fellowship for the year 2010, involving four young journalists working on projects…
A powerful symbol of challenges facing the rural girl child
In my course of duty down in Bukombe, Shinyanga, I just returned from a burial of an eight month old baby which passed on due to, largely what villagers view,…
Broken promises
My nephew turned nine last December. He is a class three student at a public school on the outskirts of Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salaam. School hours start at 8am…
South still inaccessible by road during rains
Despite stories of the country’s two southern regions of Mtwara and Lindi being easily accessible by road throughout the year after major road works and construction of Mkapa bridge, the…
An unfolding informative date with Shinyanga
I have made friends, with a mate I expect to be with for a period worth every effort. A friend who will show me realities far away from Dar es…
We must prepare for a war vs Egypt over Nile waters
In 2005, I was assigned by my editors at The EastAfrican to follow up with government officials what they made of an Egyptian threat to declare war on Kenya or…