PROCESSED MEAT, TANZANIAN ELECTIONS AND OTHER NEWS

Living overseas and switching on mainstream TVs –early this week- the headlines were not Tanzania’s elections but the meat issue. As for international politics of governance, – Sunday October 25^th appeared to incorporate  elections in over five nations, Ivory Coast, Poland, Argentina, Congo Brazzaville and Tanzania...  Speaking of Tanzania, London’s BBC and other major channels hardly mentioned her on Sunday.

It was Al Jazeera.

YOGA SHOULD BE EMBRACED BY ELITES AND POLITICAL LEADERS

If you are reading this...

If you are reading this you are either highly educated; therefore, speak English fluently. You are among the minority ten percent in Africa, who crossed the line. It means you might have a car, domestic helps, money in the bank, a relatively good life. You might even possess a jutting out tummy.

“AHSANTE CHILDREN” PHOTO EXHIBITION BEAMS LONDONERS TO TANZANIA

 It was not a huge place.

 Nor well known.

London has mega art spaces like Tate Modern where 240 seat auditorium and nine passenger lifts to numerous floors are normal. Turbine Hall for instance entertains at least 1,500 heads. This was nothing like that.  Nevertheless, it opened eyes to the little known country of Tanzania overseas.

Some of the kids ...stars who stole the whole show...pic by Jason Roper.

 Pictures always tell a story and these ones really did remarkably well. The venue was The Chapel, St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green, East London. You can easily find St Margaret’s House online. Oh, lord it was ordinary, simple and beautiful.  Simple, because it was individual effort of three young Europeans who had worked briefly on a small rural project in Mbeya. 

  Hold a sec.

Many a foreigner have visited remote parts of the world and grabbed images, which they later brag about to family and friends. “I was here,” “I was there”, “Look at this abandoned dog”, “See that smiling poor boy...” Photographs keep memories.

 

Viewer checks out the images of Rungwe kids...pic by Amy Read.

DRIVERS RAGING OVER THROWING PLASTICS ON A BIG ROAD

 Road rage?

Angry drivers? Watch these phrases...

While a passenger in many a car rides in Dar es Salaam I noticed, what annoyed motorists were small Dala-Dala buses.  Vipanyas.

Once I was in a ride with a good friend who had lived overseas for decades. He seemed to have found a solution to Dar’s reckless drivers.