Word: tanzaniaã
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...building and proceed into the appropriate office. It is absolutely frigid, and I am well aware Tanzanians have lately been experiencing severe power rationing. Of course, Science and Technology—or rather, issuing the permits that make Science and Technology permissible, insofar as these materialize at all in Tanzania??€”needs the comforts only arctic climes can offer. The first words uttered by the relevant bureaucrat, Mama Gideon, order to close the door, lest any well-contained frostiness escape.Waiting is the name of the game in Tanzania. It’s tempting to say this is a petty...
...Tanzania??€™s president is elected by popular vote. The prime minister is appointed by the president and serves as the government’s representative in the elected National Assembly...
...found in the city center is what I had been promised by guidebooks and hinted at in works of fiction—an expatriate revanche: The Brits, Germans and Arabs once chased from Tanzania??€™s shores returning in force and bringing with them their food, drink and stylings generally. Their presence is everywhere. A visit to the tidy expat watering hole Smokies Tavern is revealing. A full stock of 20 types of whiskey, an outrageously large buffet meal, Cuban cigars and prostitutes (local and imported) are there if the price is right...
...Salaam nowadays, the families of those one-time colonial mandarins are still taking care of a number of African states, although no longer affixed with the government’s imprimatur. The Indians brought on railway construction contracts by the Brits are today firmly in control of Tanzania??€™s economy—those parts, at least, not controlled by middling and bent civil servants. They run the mining industry, hair salons, banking houses and cafeterias...
...ostentatious symbols have been replaced—in Tanzania, though not in Kenya, the white wigs worn by jurists of the Common Law have gone. But for every picture of Queen Elizabeth II that decorated the walls of Tanganyika five decades ago, there is at least one picture of Tanzania??€™s current leader, the less graceful Benjamin Mkapa, today...