Tanzania is expected to halve poverty by 2015. Over the past 10 years, annual GDP growth has averaged between 5 and 6 percent, while GDP per capita has doubled. In 2000, only 59 percent of children in Tanzania went to primary school; today almost all are attending. From the onset of...

This woman is a legend but well known in some western European Countries. One day while on a trip in a small village in Belgium, after I introduced myself, an middle aged guy asked me if I knew Khadja Nin: Of course I did. Back home, she is not really known by many young people: But her music is...

Saba is white italian gal who Born in Mogadishu to an Italian father and Ethiopian mother, Saba has come to represent the meeting of African and European cultures: as an actress she starred in a long-running TV drama, playing the role of a policewoman fighting against the prejudice of her...

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The hard driving, brass-dominated, sounds of the Juwata Jazz Band has been an influential musical force in East Africa for more than three and a half decades. Formed under the auspices of the National Workers' Union and funded by the Tanzanian government, the group has continued to inpire...

Loosing the east african focus for a while. However, good music reaches beyond borders. For a new friend on the tube, natumaini utaupenda.

www.danceagogo.com Anyone can dance but only a real woman can Dance a GoGo. This is the only DVD of its kind, a dance instruction video by women for women ... all » that combines not just choreography and exercise but also sexiness, grace and empowerment. Created by expert dancer/choreographer...

One in 4,000 people in Africa is an albino. While they have traditionally lived with discrimination and attracted suspicion, albinos in Tanzania now face a more serious threat. In recent months, dozens of albinos have been murdered and their bodies dismembered as some witch doctors claim that the...

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