Drawing the wrong lessons from Magufuli’s rule in Tanzania
The Tanzania government's brand of heavy-handed state intervention risks fueling skepticism about the role of the state in development.
Tanzania
A photographer of African liberation
Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa's liberation struggles.
France no longer has an excuse to hold on to African cultural heritage
The point of Senegal's new Museum of Black Civilations (Musée des civilisations noires) in Dakar.
Bus politics in Dar es Salaam
The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers' union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.
Sounds of wisdom
The Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar aims to show that music is much more than a collection of tunes.
The fundamental questions about wildlife conservation in Africa
How did wildlife survive for millennia together with people who never earned anything from it?
Witnessing the crimes and end of empire
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” The saying, commonly associated with the poet of
Is a Chinese education the best shot at success in Africa?
On a recent research trip to Tanzania, I interviewed an undergraduate student of the University of Dar es Salaam. Soon our conversation descended
Enter the bulldozer
As with any foundational figure, Julius Nyerere’s memory bears all the contradictory passions of Tanzania’s modern
#WhatWouldNyerereDo?
Seventeen years ago today, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Father of the Nation, passed away. For Tanzanians this
The Great Question in Dar es Salaam
It’s the Great Question in business, and the Great Question in public offices.
The impasse in Zanzibar
After a tough election in Tanzania, won by the ruling party, a constitutional crisis looms in Zanzibar.
The year of the girl child in Tanzania?
October 11 is International Day of the Girl Child, and October 25 Tanzania will run Presidential
The oil giants are coming to Tanzania
International oil giants are bearing down on East Africa. Off the coast of Tanzania, the discovery
An Unflinching Take on Albino Killings in Tanzania
White Shadow, a feature film directed by Noaz Deshe and executive produced by the actor Ryan
Films to fall asleep to
Are development agencies derailing the film industry in Tanzania?
The Black Atlantis
The negative effects of tourism, globalization, and commercialization in Zanzibar.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Two
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Spring 2011.
We need to talk about Jeremy Clarkson
In the spirit of recent posts on AIAC about reality TV shows in Germany and Italy
RIP Bi Kidude, Empress of East Africa
Bi Kidude, who died on April 17, 2013, was probably Tanzania's foremost singer and performer of Taarab music.