KOLKATA, India – “When I first visited the slums…The community became my canvas and the children became my paint brushes and colours,” said Amlan Ganguly, founder of Prayasam (Endeavours) to me during an interview on the balcony of his home and…
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India: Prayasam’s endeavour into Calcutta’s slums
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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…
Tagged with: African hip hop, Arusha, development, Kijenge, KINGS, music, Ngalimi, S.U.A., Saving Underground Artists, Sekei, slums, tanzania, Tanzania music, underground hip hop
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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…
Tagged with: Alphonce Kyessi, Ardhi University, Arusha, developing countries, human settlements, Moshi, slums, tanzania, urban planning, urbanism
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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…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, Arusha town, human rights, Impala roundabout, Njiro, Olorien, P.P.F., poverty, railway, slum series, slums, tanzania, Unga limited, Welcome to Arusha
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