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...place a big emphasis on coming here to learn in part because I want to clarify that I did not come to Tanzania to “help.” There is definitely a common mindset that Westerners going anywhere in Africa are supposed to be helping or creating change by alleviating poverty...
...been a fact of life here since the colonial period, and up to this very day with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and influx of non-governmental organizations. In a Foucauldian sense, all these institutions assert incredible power by defining what is better for Tanzania through the idea of development. But in many ways these organizations are selling a pipe dream to Tanzanians. Development, whatever that means, isn’t happening in my home-stay village, no matter how much Western education is emphasized...
...bottom line is that I came to Tanzania not to help, but simply to learn, and so far I’ve accomplished my goal. I’ve learned that giraffes make funny runners. I’ve learned that warm milk straight from the cow is not my cup of tea. I’ve learned that Tanzania still loves Celine Dion. I’ve learned to succumb to the awkwardness of sitting in silence...
Megan A. Shutzer ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. She is studying abroad for the semester in Tanzania...
...most dangerous export is terrorism. Before the Bush Administration's Iraq digression, Somalia was target No. 2 in the war on terrorism, behind Afghanistan. After all, it was a Somalia-based al-Qaeda group that killed 224 people in the twin bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. But it wasn't until the end of 2006, when Somalia was invaded by the U.S.-allied Ethiopia, that American covert missions targeted the embassy bombers. One of the masterminds, explosives expert Abu Taha al-Sudani, is now dead, as is Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, an Afghanistan...