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Tanzania

Tanzania is a country in East Africa with a coastline on the Indian Ocean. Neighboring countries include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Mozambique. Tanzania suffered under brutal German colonial rule from 1885 to 1918.

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EP1: Unite the anti-colonialism fight: Nduna Mkomanile

How Nduna Mkomanile fought German colonialism

How Nduna Mkomanile fought German colonialism

Nduna Mkomanile is now regarded as one of Tanzania's most important female freedom fighters.
HistoryDecember 4, 202408:16 min
EP1: Unite the anti-colonialism fight: Nduna Mkomanile

Unite the anti-colonialism fight: Nduna Mkomanile

Unite the anti-colonialism fight: Nduna Mkomanile

Nduna Mkomanile united East African communities against German colonialism during the Maji Maji war.
HistoryDecember 4, 202401:26 min
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Queen of the Bees: Li'ti Kidanka

Queen of the Bees: Li'ti Kidanka

We meet Li'ti Kidanka one of Tanzania's most unusual and unsung heroines.
HistoryDecember 4, 202401:09 min
Tanzanians look at election results posted on a wall

Tanzania: Opposition cries foul after CCM election victory

Tanzania: Opposition cries foul after CCM election victory

Tanzania's opposition accuses President Suluhu's ruling party of intimidation and enforced disappearances.
PoliticsDecember 2, 2024
A brand new South Korean-built carriage for Tanzania's new mega railway

Can Africa's mega transport projects be a game changer?

Can Africa's mega transport projects be a game changer?

Given the risk of corruption, analysts say, transportation projects must prioritize sustainability and efficiency.
Cars and TransportationNovember 18, 2024
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Tanzanian women turn to mariculture for economic empowerment

Tanzanian women turn to mariculture for economic empowerment

Along the Indian Ocean coast, some Tanzanian women have embraced seaweed farming as an income-generating activity.
SocietyOctober 25, 202401:45 min
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Three men wear traditional Maasai cloth and holding wooden cattle herding sticks.

Tanzania pushing out Maasai to attract rich tourists

Tanzania's government is expanding its nature preserves but in doing so it is displacing Maasai herders from their land.
PoliticsJuly 5, 2024
Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain

From Kaiser Wilhelm Spitze to Uhuru Peak: Why names matter

Colonialists uprooted communities and also tried to destroy their identities. That's why place names matter in Africa.
HistoryFebruary 15, 2024
Screenshot which says "Healthy me: Overcoming heroin addiction" and shows the program host in the foreground with needles in the background.

How a woman in Tanzania overcame her heroin addiction

A former addict in Tanzania talks of how she started using heroin and the methadone program that helped her get clean.
HealthFebruary 13, 202405:33 min
Sign showing the town of Lüderitz

Shady deals: How German colonists bought an empire in Africa

Dodgy land contracts by German merchants helped legitimize German colonial claims in Africa.
HistoryDecember 6, 2023
A group of Hadzabe people sit together on the ground in their village

Meet one of Africa's last hunter-gatherer tribes

Threatened by climate change, what's being done to protect small, Indigenous communities like the Hadzabe in Tanzania?
SocietyNovember 19, 202302:19 min
German President Steinmeier in Tanzania

German president apologizes for colonial crimes in Tanzania

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes for the Maji Maji massacre and other German colonial abuses in Tanzania.
PoliticsNovember 1, 202305:01 min
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