by Donovan McGrath Editor’s Note: This section of Tanzanian Affairs, is very popular with readers, as it includes interesting and often moving stories that readers can relate to. It is reliant on the contributions by the TA readership, and it … Continue reading
by Ben Taylor On 8 August 1914, the Royal Navy bombarded the German wireless relay station in Dar es Salaam. War had broken out in Europe just days earlier, and already it had come to East Africa. In the shadow … Continue reading
Big Progress in Transport Death of a Journalist A Tale of Two Museums Meaning in Miscellanea Faith News A pdf of the issue can be downloaded here
Lake Tanganyika’s MV Liemba Approaching its 100th birthday, the lake steamer MV Liemba still travels once a week to ports on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and Zambia. Built in Hamburg in 1913, it was sunk by its German crew during … Continue reading
Edited by John Cooper-Poole THE CULTURE OF COLONIALISM. THE CULTURAL SUBJECTION OF UKAGURU, by T.O.Beidelman, Indiana University Press 2012. ISBN 978 0 253 00215 0 (h/b) £59.00, or p/b £20.99. Some 35 years ago I read Beidelman’s Colonial Evangelism, a … Continue reading
Compiled by Donovan Mc Grath To our readers: We need to broaden the sources on which this column is based. If you see an interesting mention of Tanzania in the newspapers and magazines you read, please let us know or … Continue reading
Compiled by Donovan Mc Grath ‘A disgrace that we have to import food’ – New African (November 2010, No. 500) In celebration of its 500th issue, New African magazine reprinted several noteworthy articles of the previous century to be read … Continue reading
Edited by John Cooper-Poole (UK) and Marion Doro (USA) BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, edited by Jim Igoe and Tim Kelsall. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005 xvii + 309 pp. ISBN 1 59460 017 1 This book … Continue reading
CIVIL ENGINEERS ARE NOT BORING NEW CIVIL ENGINEER (May 13) reported on the meeting held at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London on May 4 when the authors of a new book on Livingstone (see the Reviews Section) described … Continue reading
SALIM AHMED SALIM THE NEW OAU SECRETARY GENERAL Describing how Mr Salim Ahmed Salim (47), Tanzania’s Deputy Prime Minister and, at different times, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Defence and Prime Minister (as well as former President of … Continue reading