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Tanzania: Loliondo FM – bringing a community together
Taking a break from the midday sun under a tree, Mindey Ndoinyo tunes the radio on his mobile phone to 107.7 Loliondo FM. The 20-year-old lives in a remote Maasai village called Ololosokwan, 15 kilometres south of the border with Kenya. Mr. Ndoinyo is joined by two friends dressed in traditional red and black Maasai…
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Saving Tanzania’s Underground Hip Hop Scene
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 18 2014 (IPS) – Inside a dark, cramped, music studio on Arusha’s hillside slum of Kijenge Juu, a thumping hip hop beat rattles the window-less room. A soft-spoken 26-year-old who goes by the name Raf MC steps up to the microphone. He glances down at a piece of paper in his hand. Taking…
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Tanzania: The Crop Doctor is in the Market
Dark clouds fill the sky, blocking the view of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro. Rain pours down on the bustling market in Himo town, about 100 kilometres east of Arusha. Farmers come from all over northern Tanzania to visit the bi-weekly “plant clinic” at the market. Some even travel across the border from neighbouring Kenya. Wilson Mchomvu…
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Zambia: Radio Schools Reach Rural Children
A large blue, solar-powered wind-up radio sits on a chair underneath a large tree. The radio crackles as the dial is tuned to the only local station. A handful of children gather around and begin to sing. The children are listening to Learning at Taonga Market, an interactive radio instruction and distance education program broadcast in…
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Media Literacy Talks for Tanzania’s Youth
I’m on the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi, heading uphill, when my driver, Nuru, points out the drive-way leading to the house of Tanzania’s former prime minister and current presidential hopeful, Edward Lowassa. Not even five seconds after we pass the turn off the tarmac ends, turning into a bumpy, dirt road. The air…
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Tanzania: Intercropping and companion planting get results
Just three kilometres south of Arusha’s dusty, congested streets, the village of Engo Sengiu sits at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road, surrounded by fertile farmland. The village’s rutted roads are bordered everywhere by lush, green vegetation invigorated by the recent rains. John Melau-Laizer grew up here studying his father’s planting techniques, the…
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Tanzania: Radio Plants Seed in Farmers’ Minds
Sitting in traffic can be tedious. But 53-year-old businessman Loiruki Mollel uses the time to listen to the radio. He tunes in to Kilimo chetu [Our farming] on Radio Maria 89.1 FM as he manoeuvres his way through traffic in Dar es Salaam. Mr. Mollel had read a newspaper story about the health benefits of…
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Stop Muzzling the Press in East Africa
World Press Freedom Day is every May 3. The theme of this year’s WPFD, hosted by UNESCO, is Media Freedom for a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda. In Arusha, Tanzania, journalists and media stakeholders from around East Africa will convene May 2-3, 2014 at the Arusha International Conference Centre. This year’s theme is…
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