Before I aimed for Matemwe village some tens of kilometres away from Unguja on Saturday,I spent a night on the urban side in sight of the expansive Indian Ocean waters.

I spent time walking though the narrow streets on this Zenj town,starting...

I have been visiting Nyakahanga hospital this week in Karagwe district.This district in Kagera region is just reeling from shortage of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs)/ anti malaria drugs commonly known as Alu.The shortage was at its...

There is a quiet turn of things taking place in this Kagera district. What is happening is a radical result of what started as a haste intervention by the state, 3 years ago, to stop deaths of children from what had initially been viewed as a strange...

A few months ago, I did a story on Muleba’s changing political chess board. It was a month before the Chama Cha...

IN class six, about 40 mostly pupils, with white-turned brown uniforms and others with ‘yebbo yebbo’ as shoes , squeeze themselves on a bench in the classroom.
Others, with an air of absent mindedness, crane their necks to catch a glimpse...

I am treading a sensitive path ,I know. Villages losing their best! So what?

Well, finally, I have settled down on the rural side where I’ve already been for a couple of weeks.With all ordinary folks everywhere , I have enough of them...

Villages are multi faceted societies. I got the good side in my first 5 days in Mwamapalala. But, it so seems,- that is where one side of  it only stops.There are more dimensions.

The community am living with, in Mwaluhushu village, Bariadi...

“Nswaganelele’ is how I would describe myself in the last five days. A Sukuma word literary meaning a very active thing that  quietly works or strongly destroys from within without the outside noticing. Some 40km away from Bariadi district...

I returned to ‘Shy town’ to watch the opening session of what any one worth being called ‘African’  would be proud of.

So...

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 into the office of the hospital head, Dr Fredrick Mlekwa to explain their fate.

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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 is,-a typical African man, I am!

But this one in Kolandoto on Monday quite...