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...results have been discouraging. Though Tanzanian farmers have traditionally been among Africa's most productive, the country's pricing and distribution system is notoriously inefficient. The government has been forced to import food to feed the population of Dar es Salaam, the capital. As a result, ujamaa has been allowed to die a quiet death, and roughly 85% of the population has gone back to subsistence farming. Meanwhile, the nationalized industries are working at only about 20% of capacity. Tanzania's expensive 1979 military intervention in neighboring Uganda to topple the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin further accelerated the economic...
...sought power for power's sake. He is a real man of the people." Nyerere has abjured personal wealth, and throughout his presidency collected a salary that was lower than that of his Cabinet ministers. The road between the state-house and Nyerere's modest home in Dar es Salaam's Msasani district is said to be full of potholes. When asked why he had not ordered it repaired, Nyerere reportedly answered, "Why should I have a good road to go to work on when the rest of the Tanzanians...
Then, in 1988, she attended a campus screening of Mira Nair ’79’s 1988 film Salaam, Bombay. As Mallozzi watched a Harvard graduate receive the honor of introducing her own film on campus, she recalls thinking “‘Wow, that’s really cool! You can make films at Harvard!’” Mallozzi ended up joint-concentrating in English and VES, and now, close to 17 years later, film dominates her life...
...than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this semester, which were comically poor. Exchanging another semester at Harvard for one at [the University of Dar es Salaam] would be a grave mistake indeed.” This from a guy who scratched at Harvard’s cage in Cambridge harder and longer than anyone else I know. Another friend’s European accomplishments were upping her already admirable tolerance to alcohol and getting addicted...
...Qaeda used similar devices in the truck bomb that blew up the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam in 1998 and in a 2002 attack on a Tunisian synagogue. Shortly after the document surfaced last summer, the Department of Homeland Security began contacting limousine firms to warn of the danger. With hundreds of limos expected to jam the capital this week, authorities are on the alert. --By Adam Zagorin