“YEAR’S end is neither an end nor a begining but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us”~ Hal Borland It was a very...
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MEMO TO OUR MISLEADERS: TANZANIA’S PUBLIC DEBT WILL SOON BEGIN TO BITE
IT is Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israel diplomat and politician, who said, “men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” This week, one of the...
Economy
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TANZANIA PUBLIC DEBT SUSTAINABILITY; QUANTITATIVE OR QUALITATIVE METRICS?
ONE of the interesting topics in the budget discussions at the moment, is the public debt issue. The original part of this debate gravitates on our aspirations as a...
MUCH of government policy in Tanzania is targeting recovery. We shouldn’t forget, however, that even when the economy was growing rapidly, the growth profile remained jobless and barely sustained....
A decade ago, Dr. Azaveli Lwaitama, one of Tanzania’s towering public intellectuals, pronounced, “the Tanzania project is in tatters.” Dr. Lwaitama was reflecting on Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s major...
AWAMU ya kwanza ya uongozi wa nchi yetu, chini ya Mwl. Julius Nyerere, ilichora ramani ya maendeleo kwa kuzingatia siasa ya Ujamaa na Kujitegemea. Kupitia sera hiyo, mamia ya...
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TANGANYIKA AT 60: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT SAMIA SULUHU HASSAN ON PREBENDALISM STIFLING REFORM
Your Excellency, IN the past five years, I have delivered 6 public lectures, 11 talks and 8 paper presentations. I have also written 61 articles, and made countless live...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize propels dual citizenship debates in Tanzania
WHEN the Nobel Prize Committee announced on 7th October 2021 that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, little did they know...
LENGAI Ole Sabaya, aliyekuwa Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Hai, ametiwa hatiani kwa unyang’anyi wa kutumia silaha na amehukumiwa kifungo cha miaka 30 jela. Katika hukumu hiyo iliyotolewa na Hakimu...
Leo 14 Oktoba 2021, katika kuadhimisha Siku ya Baba wa Taifa Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, serikali imeamua kuunganisha siku hiyo na tukio la kuzima Mwenge ambalo linafanyikia Chato, mkoani...