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2013 In Review: Tanzania’s Loliondo Land Dispute Is Far From Over
Crossing the dusty plains, draped in red and black cloth with a stick in hand to control unruly cattle, Maasai men continue to leave the village in search of jobs, while women are left to fight for their land. A dispute between the Maasai and the Tanzanian government is being led by village women. With…
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Tanzanian Women In Action For Development
ARUSHA, Tanzania – When a six-year-old girl named Salma, accompanied by her grandmother, entered Maria Mushi’s office in Arusha claiming she hadn’t been payed for work as a housemaid, this 55-year-old sprang into action. Mushi listened to Salma’s case and decided to help the child, especially since she dislikes child labour. Salma and her grandmother had asked women…
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‘Fahari Yangu’: The Pride of Agricultural Radio in Tanzania
ARUSHA, Tanzania – A large, yellow, wind-up, solar radio crackles as farmer Esther Mbwana tunes it into her favourite radio station. “I love the Fahari Yangu farmer program. I listen every week,” she says as she spins the dial and stops on 105.7 FM, Arusha’s Radio 5. Mbwana is a 48-year-old mother of three from Poli village, located…
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Almost 20 Years On – International Justice Still Fails Rwandans
KIGALI , Nov 26 2013 (IPS) – “There is a saying that all Rwandans believe in. You can’t forgive if you forget, but when you remember, you know what harmed you and you can forgive and move forward,” Honore Gatera tells IPS as he walks through the grounds of the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda’s…
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Catching a break in Nairobi: How two Canadian freelancers covered the Westgate mall shooting
Two recent Canadian journalism graduates, dreaming of careers as international journalists, caught the break of a lifetime landing a fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. Wanting to combine her passion for journalism and travel, French journalist Flavie Halais applied for, and was awarded, the international fellowship. “I dreamed of working abroad as a journalist…
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Q & A on the growth of slums with Tanzanian urbanist Alphonce Kyessi
Alphonce G. Kyessi is a researcher and consultant in the field of human settlements planning, development and management. He is currently employed as an associate research professor at the Institute of Human Settlements Studies at Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam. His areas of research include housing, urban poverty, public transport, urban agriculture and urban environmental planning and management.…
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A portrait of gentrification in Johannesburg
The mean streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, put fear into the hearts of the most hardened. But a Canadian documentary filmmaker brushes off how she was once carjacked at gunpoint as if it were like being stuck in traffic on the Ville-Marie Expressway. Shannon Walsh, director of H2Oil, is screening her latest project at the…
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Albertan finds adventure on impromptu African epic on the back of an inexpensive scooter
Fifty years after a young Che Guevara crossed South America on the back of a motorcycle nicknamed La Poderosa (The Mighty One), a Canadian decided to traverse Africa on a Chinese-made scooter nicknamed Anne Murray. The Alberta-born Brendan Van Son, 29, is a travel enthusiast, photographer and social media entrepreneur who provides travel advice, hostel…
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The slum series – Welcome to Arusha
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Driving from Arusha’s Impala roundabout to the suburb of Njiro, a relic of a railway cuts across the road, almost acting as a demarcation line between extreme wealth and extreme poverty in this city. On one side of the tracks is the P.P.F. housing estate, a gated community where many of Arusha’s…
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