AMBASSADOR MIGIRO : CALM, ARTICULATE AND TO THE POINT

High Commissioner Migiro chats with some of the attendees

There are several angles to last Saturday’s event in London.

Number one is a  small circulating announcement promising the very first occasion to hear Dr. Asha Rose Migiro’s talk after being here for a few months. Dr Migiro would brief us on “current developments in Tanzania,” this as British Tanzania Society  chair Dr Andrew Coulson warned his audience, was a gigantic task. It is one year into the new Presidency, and “whatever you say will be of interest...you cannot go wrong,” the Birmingham University lecturer (who once taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and worked in the Ministry of Agriculture) said amidst laughter.

The other dynamic was the content of the attendees.

WASANII WAKAZI UINGEREZA WAJIUNGA CHINI YA BALOZI MIGIRO

 Moja ya mambo yanayochekesha na kusitikitisha kuhusu Watanzania wakazi Ughaibuni ni kuogopana. Si tu kuogopana kama ilivyo  Afrika nzima, yaani hofu ya kulogana. Wala si tu  kuwa na wasiwasi wa fitina na masengenyo ya eti mwenzako atakujua unakulaje, unalalaje au utawezaje  kumsaidia.

Hofu ya kukwepa ofisi zetu za Ubalozi.

BRITISH TANZANIA SOCIETY WELCOMES NEW AMBASSADORS AT LONDON RECEPTION

New UK High Commissioner to Tanzania , Sarah Cooke, New High Commissioner to the UK, Dr Asha-Rose Migiro and retiring, UK countrerpart  Dianna Melrose at the SOAS  reception last Thursday.  Pic by author

Last Thursday, The British Tanzania Society – BTS- welcomed newly appointed Tanzanian High Commissioner Dr Asha Rose Migiro and her British counterpart heading for Dar es Salaam, Ms Sarah Cooke.  Outgoing British Ambassador Dianna Melrose and her predecessor, Mr Philip Parham were invited, too.