• Mejah Mbuya

Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.

• Michaela Collord

In Tanzania and beyond, political elites manage informal workers not by ignoring them—but by shaping their identities, dividing their ranks, and using class to tighten their hold on power.

• Karen Chalamilla

More than two decades after its release, Lady Jaydee’s debut album still resonates—offering a window into Tanzanian pop, gender politics, and the sound of a generation coming into its own.

• Alasdair Howorth

Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.

• Eric Burton
• Katharina Föger

Many know Frene Ginwala, the iconic anti-apartheid activist, as democratic South Africa’s first speaker of parliament. But few know of her time building pan-African media in Dar Es Salaam.

• Ari Gautier

A historical novel by Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin narrates an unusual love story between a slave and a princess.

• Abdulkader Tayob

We need to rethink how people seek sustenance and wealth, but not divorced from their moral values, convictions, and expectations.

• Franziska Fay

Amil Shivji’s latest film, 'Vuta N’Kuvute,' is a gift, not only to the people of Tanzania, Zanzibar and its diasporas, but to the world.

• Regina Guzman

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis—and why that is only half of the story.

• Stephen Corry

Western conservation NGOs condemn violence against Maasai, but also don't want herders or subsistence hunters on land they want to control and profit from.

• Leo Zeilig

In the early 1970s, Walter Rodney, expelled from Jamaica, took a post in Tanzania. In Leo Zeilig’s new book, he captures those exciting, but also difficult years and how it formed Rodney.

• Jevgeniy Bluwstein

Why are Ngorongoro's Maasai at risk of being evicted again? Tanzania's conservation-tourism industrial complex wants them out.

• Andrew Harvey

Two tourists take a package trip to visit the Hadza people in Tanzania and are so jazzed with what they see, they make a podcast about it. What could go wrong?

• Tom Menger

Gurnah’s Nobel Prize invites us to ponder Germany’s colonial past between the Scramble for Africa and the First World War in what is now Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

• Nicole Rizzuto

Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels offer a skepticism against the cultural politics of packaging African stories for global circulation and consumption.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature win raises questions about the role of the LitNobel and how they construct what we think of and buy as African literature.

• Paul Bjerk

Has the recent death of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli created new political possibilities?

• Rasna Warah

The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.

• Khalifa Said

Tanzania’s workers are at the highest risk for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Why are trade unions not taking action?

• Michaela Collord

Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.