Stories about Tanzania from November, 2006
Tanzania: IT related words in Swahili
Jesp wrote about the difficulties of accumulating a proper Kiswahili vocabulary as an IT professional in Tanzania. This is what he did not know when he was writing his post, “The Kamusi Project has a list of 700 IT related words translated from English to Kiswahili, made publicly available in...
Africa: LGBTs issues in Africa
Black Looks writes about current development in LGBTs issues in Africa, “The Kenyan Times published an article in support of the South African Bill and states that it does not believe that homsexuality is “unAfrican” which in itself is quite a leap forward as that is one of the principle...
Tanzanian bloggers’ virtual conference
Tanzanian bloggers held their first virtual conference on November 18th, 2006. The aim of the conference was to discuss various steps to be taken to make the community more effective and expand its reach. Most bloggers feel that there is an opportunity for blogs to be a tool for critical...
East Africa: films in East Africa
First there was Hollywood, then Bollywood followed by Nollywood. Here comes Bongowood, a blog about films made in East Africa and about East Africa. Bongo is a colloquial name for Tanzania.
Tanzanian bloggers’ virtual conference
Tanzanian bloggers worldwide are meeting formally for the first time today October 18th, 2006. After calls by several African bloggers for African bloggers to organise their ‘own’ media and blogging conference following the Digital Citizens Indaba controversy and especially after several prompts from a Tanzanian Rastafarian blogger Ras Laihamu, Jeff...
Tanzania: freedom of information
In order to fight corruption effectively, Tanzanians need to have free access to public information, argues Jaduong Metty
Tanzania: how to prevent traffic accidents
A blogger offers his advice to the Tanzanian government regarding traffic accidents.
Tanzania: Samsung's investment
Tanzania In Focus discusses Samsung's economic interests in Tanzania.