Most of Africa has no garbage collection, so people leave their garbage exactly where they are finished using it. Village roads are lined with plastic bags and bottles, streams are plugged up with people’s unwanted items. Seeing the garbage blowing in the wind, getting caught up on trees, and floating in the puddles makes me [...]

I am here in Mkwajuni, in the infamous Mbyea region of Tanzania. It’s the dry season here and the roads are dust. The houses are made from the earth and blend into the dusty brown of the roads. The trees are bare. The only colour is in the orange blossoms of the trees [...]

This is Mtera Dam. It is Tanzania’s main source of power, but now, it’s gates are shut.
Global warming is something we have been hearing about for years - my generation has been learning about it since kindergarten. Africa, although so heavily populated, is one of the smaller contributors of pollution and though not innocent, it [...]

Used to reading the typical Canadian newspaper, I find the content in the Tanzanian newspapers to be an interesting change. Take, for example, the article in The African that caught my eye about a week ago. It was about a man that was recently skinned alive in the Mbeya district of southern Tanzania. He was [...]