The Tanzanian Times is a digital media house telling authentic, thought-provoking stories rooted in Tanzanian and African culture, identity, and global influence. Built for a collective of innovators, it explores the continent through a modern lens spanning lifestyle, music, business, architecture, and culinary expression—highlighting not just where Africa has been, but where it’s going.
Founders
Ibrahim A Max
Jackie Lawrence
A Brief History
We started as a group of Tanzanian students stepping into our careers and seeing the world for the first time. Through travel and exposure, we realized something powerful: the image of Africa has been too narrowly defined.
When the world thinks of Africa, they picture wildlife, forests, and villages—too often attaching our continent to struggle or limitation. But that’s not our full story. And no one can tell it better than us.
This media house exists to redefine what “wild” means.
Not the wild that’s been boxed into nature documentaries, but a different kind of wild:
- Wild in our creativity.
- Wild in fashion that speaks without permission.
- Wild in art that challenges perspective.
- Wild in business, innovation, and culture that moves to its own rhythm.
We are wild in how we think, how we build, and how we express ourselves. This is not the Africa the world has been shown; this is the Africa we live.
Welcome to our modern wild life.
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