Tanzania

A fire crackles just after dawn in north Tanzania's bushlands. The sun is starting to rise over the Yaeda Valley and the start of a new day means one thing for the Hadza tribe. It's time to begin their daily ritual of finding the food that…

A fisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday's plane crash which killed 19 people in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, has described how he tried to save the pilots stuck in the cockpit and how he nearly lost his life…

You know, people hate faeces. You need a brave heart to touch somebody else's faeces. My name is Julius Hadison Chisengo and I am a pit latrine emptier. In the beginning, we used to do it manually. You would remove the floor and then…

"For us here in Tanzania, it would have been the end of the world." The father of Tanzania's first Olympic swimmer is talking to his daughter, confessing in truth, as he tries to explain why he hid a condition that killed at least five…

It’s high time I told my horrible experience in Zanzibar as a young solo female traveller. This incident happened a year ago in April of 2021 but I haven’t been able to talk about it cause I’ve been in therapy for a year to heal from…

Tanzanian cartoonist Masoud Kipanya has officially unveiled the country's first locally-made electric car. The 49-year-old celebrity cartoonist has named the environment-friendly electric car Kaypee Motor. According to Masoud, the car…

Being the mother of a child with Down's Syndrome in Tanzania is not easy.  A woman named Magreth shares her story of her experience raising a child with Down's Syndrome in her country. “When he was born, I was not comfortable to go…

Debra from Tanzania is one of many who have been banned from returning to school because they fell pregnant while in school. In 2017 Tanzania’s president John Magafuli banned teen mothers from returning to public schools claiming they…

Facing prejudice because of her age and gender is something Barbara Gonzalez has grown accustomed to since being appointed a board member of one of Africa's most followed football teams. Last week, two years after taking her place on…

It’s not very often you find a Zanzibari woman singing lead in a band. More often than not, women tend to sit and wait for their turn, deliver, and retreat back to being behind male performers. It’s the way it has always been in Zanzibar,…