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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Introducing Neighbours Without Borders (NWB)


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
I WAPI RIPOTI YA NEMC KUHUSU BARRICK NORTH MARA?
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Updated: Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD)
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Debating Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania
We want to share with you the latest developments in TGNP’s efforts to ‘break the silence’ around issues pertaining to sexuality and gender identity. The ‘question’ of sexuality has provoked major debate during and after this year’s Gender Festival, and attracted a lot more media coverage than the issue of land grabbing by global agribusiness, for example, or the growing movement for a new Constitution, or the demand for sustainable livelihoods and employment for all.
During this year’s Gender Festival 2011 which focused on ‘land, labour and livelihoods’, there was a separate workshop 3 on ‘sex, sexuality, bodily integrity, politics of choice and struggles against GBV and HIV/AIDS in the workplace: public and private’. The topic of sexuality and gender identity also came up in workshops on health and on the new Constitution. This followed Gender Festival 2009’s ground-breaking keynote paper on sexuality that was presented by Sylvia Tamale, and followed up later by plenary and workshop presentations by young gay men. Many more LGBTs participated in this year’s Festival, and several chose to flaunt their gay identity openly by style of dress, walk, talk, etc. Lesbians have been present throughout but not as visible nor audible.
The subject of sexuality and gender identity has now become the major focus of several of Tanzanian email lists and blogs, including
Vuguvugumedia [TGNP’s list]
http://groups.google.com/group/wanabidii/topics
Reading the ideas circulating thus far, a sizable number of people assume that heterosexuality is the ‘norm’ in Africa, and have expressed alarm at the breakdown of traditional African values, the importation of Western ideas and behaviour, and moral decadence. Several argue that NGOs are following ‘the money’ of donors by opening up to LGBT people; that the very idea of homosexuality in whatever form is a Western imposition funded by donors!
Many other people have argued that this is a question of human rights and democracy; that activists are expected to welcome diversity in all aspects of our lives. Some have asked why there is so much concern about who people choose to sleep with at this moment of high level state corruption and land-grabbing?
Another line of argument is to say that people should condemn the practice of same sex, but not those who practice it; they are victims of childhood abuse. Many of the LGBT voices who chose to speak aloud during this and 2009’s Festivals emphasised their personal experience of childhood abuse, and/or of being punished and eventually expelled from their families and communities because of their identity.
Others, albeit few in number thus far, have argued that human beings have the ‘natural’ potential to act in a variety of ways, sexually, but have been shaped by the dominant patriarchal heterosexual ideology to silence and repress alternative ways of being. That there are many men and women with same sex identities who have chosen to hide their preferences; they marry, bear children and often lead very unhappy lives because they are not free to be themselves openly.That it is necessary to unlearn, as Sylvia Tamale explained back in 2009, the enormous baggage of patriarchal and bourgeois thought and ideology about sexuality, including imperial and racist views about the sexuality of African women.
We welcome more contributions from members of the African feminist movement to help broaden the scope and depth of the conversation about sexuality and gender identity.
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Airing New Television Documentary on Tanzania
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DAN RATHER REPORTS” TRAVELS TO AFRICA TO FIND THE NEXT AGRICULTURAL POWERHOUSE
Will a plan to build massive farms in Africa help to feed the continent – or is it just a “land grab?” Tuesday, September 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET
DALLAS (September 26, 2011) –Tomorrow night, “Dan Rather Reports” travels to Tanzania to investigate a plan underway that would see more than a hundred thousand refugees moved from their homes and replaced by a massive commercial farm to be owned and operated by American investors.
With global population set to rise by two billion by mid-century and an estimated 90 percent of the world’s arable land already being cultivated, scientists worry that we could be on the brink of a global food crisis. And with the land going for pennies on the dollar, big U.S. investors have started putting money into agriculture in Africa. But, they are not just buying commodities or stock – investors are buying the farmland directly.
One of these U.S. investors is AgriSol Energy - and some are skeptical that their investment in Tanzania is anything more than a “land grab.”
AgriSol Energy is headed by Bruce Rastetter, an large-scale agricultural operator and major player in Iowa business and politics. Now Rastetter and his colleagues are hoping to export their Iowa agribusiness know-how to approximately 800,000 acres of land in western Tanzania. But why might one of the world's most respected agricultural universities - Iowa State - be helping to seal the deal? And what will happen to the over 125,000 refugees who currently call that very land their home?
“We walk with no peace in our hearts,” says refugee and farmer Sembuli Masasa, “We are miserable to know that we will be moving.”
But, the project has the blessing of the Tanzanian government with one of the biggest proponents being Tanzania’s own Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda.“Surely one would not be naïve to that, to accept an investor into an area at this kind, provided it’s well balanced, provided it has a effect on people around [and] enable [them] to have access to a better market. Definitely it would be a very good idea,” Pinda tells “Dan Rather Reports.”
Africa is now a hot spot for foreign investors in everything from agriculture to precious metals. And according to world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, if the investment is handled properly, it could make a huge difference in that part of the world. But if the investments are given away, these people in one of the poorest parts of the planet get little or nothing in return.
Source Site: http://www.hd.net/
Contact Person: Colette Carey HDNet (302)542-5576 ccarey@hd.net
Also Visit: http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Mkapa anaweza Kugombea Urais tena kama Putin?
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
President Kikwete "no prophet is accepted in his own country"!
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Mjadala Mkali wa Ushoga na Tamasha la Jinsia
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Haiti - A Prototype of Africa's Underdevelopment?
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
"Tanzania: land of constant complaints"?
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Monday, September 12, 2011
UTENZI WA AJALI YA MELI ZANZIBAR
hata tukiififisha
kamwe haiwezi kwisha;
yarabi atupe motisha,
moto tuweze washa;
Tuli hatuwezi pisha,
Hata wakitutapisha;
Katu haya si maisha,
Bora yalotutamanisha;
Kwanini haya yasoisha,
Japo miongo yatupisha?
Si Juma wala Aisha,
Wote kiyoro haitoisha;
Kibaya isotosha, kipi
Kwa haya maisha?
Pole walo mnazi,
Masahibu si zizi;
Tukiamua ni wazi,
Kutushinda hayawezi,
Muhimu kuweka wazi!
Walituambia juzi,
Ajali hawatoenzi;
Ahadi kama juzi,
Ajali kama enzi;
Bukoba walituasi,
Tukajua wako nasi;
Nungwi tena hasi,
Tena hamtuasi?
Si nzuri hali,
Kilio kila pahali;
Ahadi bado kali,
Si bado hatuna hali?
Ah, wacha tulie,
Wetu tujalie;
Hata tutulie,
Pemba itulie!
Majaribu yapo,
Siye pia tuwepo;
Wakuu watukerapo,
Hasira iwepo!
DBW, Leo.
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And the Winner of the Best Project Award is...
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Hungry for More? A Satirical Film on Land Grabs!


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Sunday, September 11, 2011
REMEMBERING PHILIPPE WAMBA IN YET ANOTHER TRAGIC SEPTEMBER

FROM UDADISI ARCHIVE:
GLOBAL PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT-TANZANIA BRANCH
(PAM-TZ)
PRESS RELEASE
Ag. Secretary
Pan African Movement-Tanzania Branch

LEST WE FORGET:
Philipe Wamba Fund for Road Safety in Africa:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112364279808
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Taifa Msibani, Umoja wetu na Utu wetu shakani
(Nimeandika makala haya nikiwa katika Benchi la Hospitali ya Mnazi Mmoja hapa Zanzibar. Mniwie radhi kama kuna spelling mistakes kwani nilitaka hisia zangu ziwe as raw as possible -Zitto Zitto and not Zitto a politician).Jana asubuhi tarehe 10 Septemba 2011 Taifa liligubikwa na habari za kushtusha za maafa. Mwanzoni taarifa zilisambaa kwamba zaidi ya watu 2000 walikuwa kwenye Boti MV Spice Islander lililopinduka na kuzama mbele kidogo ya Nungwi likielekea kisiwani Pemba.Habari hazikuwa za uhakika sana kwani vyombo vyetu vya habari na hasa Televeshini ya Taifa havikuwa vikitoa habari juu ya ajali hii.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tracking Real-time Information on MV Spice Islander Tragedy via Ushahidi Crowdmapping
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Sudi ya Ajali Mbili za Meli Tanzania/Zanzibar
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Profiling Tanzania's Scholars in the Diaspora - 6
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