The prominent Hollywood megastar Idris Elba plans to invest in a major film studio in Tanzania, the Director of Presidential Communication, Zuhura Yunus revealed upon briefing journalists on Monday about the outcome of President Samia’s recent trip to Davos Switzerland. Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina Elba encountered President Samia at Davos in Switzerland at...
The Zanzibar Revolution, which occurred on January 12, 1964, was a significant event in the history of Zanzibar and East Africa. The revolution saw the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the establishment of a socialist government. The revolution was led by the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), a political party that had been formed by...
The Bank of Tanzania’s (BoT) latest Monthly Economic Review (MER) for November 2022 has put Tanzania’s stock of external debt – for both the public and private sectors – at $27.482 billion as at the end of October 2022. While the amount symbolises a $140.4 million increase compared to what it was at the end...
From Moroccan-based rule of Iberia to a Portuguese fortress in the Maghreb, the two former foes share a bloody past. After a sensational victory over Spain in the last 16, Morocco will take on Portugal in the World Cup quarter-final on Saturday. The match against the Spanish, which the Atlas Lions won in a penalty shootout, was layered...
Archaeologists working on Zanzibar’s famous Stone Town have discovered that the settlement was not built by Omani Arabs, who were major traders in the area in the 18th century. Instead, it was established by local Swahili people. “Our excavations found walls of houses, stone architecture and established it was urbanized in a much earlier period...
Queen Elizabeth II became 96 years old on April 21 and was the longest-reigning monarch in British history. She uses her handbag to send signals to her staff. If there is one thing about The Queen, you never catch her without her purses and bags. She reported owning 200 types of the same type of...
Most of Tanzania’s tourist attraction sites are famously known globally. Despite being some of the most iconic sites in Africa and the world, many of them are shallowly known. Today April 18, 2022, the Tanzania Royal Tour will be unveiled in New York, America, and President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be the guest of honour....
Reginald Mhango entered Tanganyika in the early 60s from Malawi, where he was deported and granted political asylum in Tanzania. Malawi was plunged into chaos by post-independence political unrest. When Mhango entered Tanzania, he was a journalist, so he started working for the Tanganyika Standard Dar es Salaam newspaper. Journalists in Malawi lived like birds;...
His mother was a slave. Sheikh Abeid Karume was the son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urundi who moved to Zanzibar when the boy was young. Abeid Karume was not born in Zanzibar The first President of Zanzibar, Sheikh Abeid Karume, was born in Nyasaland, now Malawi, on August 05, 1905. Karume hated and feared...
In 1965, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, the Argentinean revolutionary and critical member of the Cuban revolution, visited Zanzibar. This was at the tail end of his political and personal struggle two years before his assassination. Che’s visit included a dinner engagement with a young family whose own political journey had just begun. This visit marked an...