Word: arusha
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...just another Wu Tang wannabe. For starters, Gsann and his crew—his brother Nelson (aka Nelly) and fellow rapper Abdalla (aka Ziggy)—hail from Tanzania, an ocean away from the flashy champagne parties and East-West beefs that characterize American hip hop.Their hometown is Arusha, a small city in northern Tazania. It lies in the center of the land occupied by the Masaai people—traditionally, nomadic cattle herders.The three rappers, along with Gsann and Nelly’s younger siblings and traditional Masaai singer Yamat (aka Merenge), use their Swahili...
When the British colony gained independence in 1961, Nyerere became Prime Minister and soon set the new nation on a socialist course. In 1967 his Arusha Declaration established ujamaa, the extended family system under which some 13 million peasants were by 1976 resettled, often forcibly, into 8,000 cooperative villages. All crops were to be bought and distributed by the government. At the same time, the country's major industries were to be nationalized and run by state-owned companies...
...accused give sworn testimony in front of judges, who hand out sentences according to national guidelines. "The law will be applied to everybody," says Domitilla Mukantaganzwa, executive secretary of the National Jurisdiction for Gacaca Services. Over the past 10 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, has completed trying just 23 cases of political leaders charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. By some estimates, it would take 100 years for Rwanda's regular court system to wade through the hundreds of thousands of other crimes - including murder, torture and looting. So the government opted to expedite...
...Bosch awaits her fate in Gaborone-at a time when African governments are generally moving slowly away from legal executions despite rising crime rates-another blonde white woman sits in a cell in Tanzania's Arusha Prison. Kerstin Cameron, a 40-year-old German national who has lived most of her life in Africa, is charged with the 1998 murder of her estranged husband Cliff. For her, too, conviction could mean death by hanging...
...Kerstin Cameron's legal troubles began on July 4, 1998, when her husband left an Arusha hotel in which he had been drinking heavily and went to visit her and their two young children at their home. A few hours later, he was dead in her bedroom, a bullet in his head. The Tanzanian police twice investigated and twice concluded that Cameron had committed suicide. Two employees of his air-charter company told police he had threatened, in the hours before his death, to blow his brains out. A coroner's report listed suicide as the cause of death...