Dar es Salaam

younger, I never quite understood people who didn’t like to travel. Why stay home when you could be elsewhere? Of course now, I get that there are a lot of different impediments that come with every trip: long plane rides, communicating in foreign languages, annoying people. But if you can get past all that, it’s worth it. Travel is finding beauty in places that are not always luxurious. It is finding a home in communities that are not home. It is tasting foods that feel different in our mouths and hearing mouths speak words that sound different to our ears. Last summer, my mom and I embarked on a trip to Dar es Salaam for two weeks. When I brought this up in conversation, it went something like this: “Dar es Salaam? Is that in…

China has extended to Tanzania a number of economic supports in terms of direct aid, loans and investment in various areas such as military training and support, health, education and infrastructure development, just to mention a few. Among the iconic Chinese projects in Tanzania include the provision of ¥988 million RMB (equivalent to a $500 million USD) interest free loan for the construction of the TAZARA railway line. The railway can now facilitate exports and imports from Tanzania, Zambia,…

semester which I hope will serve as an introduction to a more personal view of Africa. My theme directly connects the lens of gender studies with a study of theology, so I will also be taking several classes in each of these departments. I am also fulfilling my early and late SFS history requirements with Africa I and Africa II, in order to contextualize my knowledge of present-day struggles across the continent. By involving a variety of disciplines in my area of study, I will be able to learn…

The Importance of Friendship Friendship is, by definition, a relationship between two friends. Some believe that friendships are a necessity for human life. Joseph Conrad was a man who grew up not having many friends. As a young child he had missed school quite a bit from illnesses (Kathleen Wilson 200). This made it hard to have close relationships with other children. He did however gain a love for literature and the sea from his father at a young age (www.notablebiographies.com). This is…

you will be guided on how to display images on the screen of an android device. The kind of images which are highly preferred is discussed. The book will also guide you on how to move these images around the screen. The rate of display of an image on the screen is measured in terms of frames per second. This book will guide you on how to do this and control it so that humans do not notice how the display is done. You will be guided on how to use sprite animation so as to differentiate between a…

Making it an excellent romantic hotel in Dar es Salaam for Valentine’s Day weekend. The hotel's 146 rooms are in different types from standard rooms to one and two bedroom apartments scattered across a large property adjacent to the white sandy beach and the blue waters of the ocean Kunduchi Beach Hotel and Resort Kunduchi Beach Hotel and Resort is among the popular romantic hotels in Dar es Salaam. It is located on Kunduchi beach one of the most pristine beaches in the north of the city.…

a public beach with no entrance fee unlike other beaches in the Dar-es-salaam city in Tanzania. The beach is dirty and polluted which has lowered the attraction for visitors and residents. Hence it is necessary to estimate the recreational use value of Coco beach in order to maintain its environmental quality and avoid the irreversible damage. Non-market valuations have become increasingly important for placing monetary values for the environmental goods and services. The specified techniques…

school to St. Peters. At age fourteen, he moved on to Repton, a highly regarded preparatory school, where he received beatings more frequent and fiercer than anything previously experienced. One of his teachers wrote, "I have never met a boy who persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means. He seems incapable of marshaling his thoughts on paper." Another teacher commented, "A persistent muddler. Vocabulary negligible, sentences mal-constructed. He reminds me of a camel. this criticism…

are two parts to this “War on Terror,” the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan. The War on Terror began with the war in Afghanistan around the early-mid 1990’s. Afghanistan was going through a civil war because of the collapse of the communist government. The Taliban was on one side of the civil war, during this time the Taliban was essentially a governing party. They (the Taliban and their co-conspirators) built up an Islamic state government, by promising a better future for the country, in…

Yeng Feng Glan, a 66-year-old Chinese woman known to many as the Ivory Queen, and two Tanzanian men were taken into custody by Tanzanian officials on October 8th, 2015. She had returned to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from her home in Uganda which gave Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit or NTSCIU the chance to arrest her. It is believed that she has been in the Tanzanian Ivory Trade since 2006. A local paper reports that Yeng has been accused of smuggling 706…