“Soo Cold” is a captivating blend of Afrobeats and classic RnB, designed to bring chill vibes to your audience, whether at brunch, a Friday evening party closer, or a soundtrack for intimate moments. This track is crafted to resonate with the diverse tastes of listeners, introducing some to a new style of the growing Afrobeats Genre. What makes “Soo Cold” special to me is the genuine emotion and dedication that went into its creation. I can gladly say that after all the effort put in, I am proud of the results and I hope that listeners get to enjoy it as much as I do.”
He is currently working on an EP slotted for release early next year. You can follow him on Instagram @lord__kama to keep up with his journey
Food! The one thing that we all love in common. From chips and chicken to the local cuisine of pilau and biriani, this article is aimed for the food lovers who would love to explore the food joints in the beautiful city of Dar es Salaam.
Mamboz Grill/Restaurant
To all the barbeque lovers, Mamboz Restaurant is the place to satisfy all your bbq cravings. The restaurant has various branches around dar es salaam, such as Mamboz Masaki and Mamboz SinzGrill, offering local bbq (nyama choma) and spicy indian cuisine such as chicken tikka gajjar.
Pictures from mamboz instagram
2.Batapoint
This is a fast food restaurant in Dar es Salaam that has an extensive pallete of food to satisfy your soul. The place offers a combination of various food such as barbequed sausage, beef, chips, mishkakis and fried eggs in one platter. The customer can decide whatever combination of food that they want.
Pictures from Batapoint instagram
3.Chefkile
Chefkile is a BBQ delicacy restaurant where you can find the most delicious chicken wings, T. bone platter, smooked beef and butter garlic chicken among other things found in the outstanding menu. It’s a fresh new joint located in Mbezi beach open to all food lovers.
Pictures from Chefkile instagram
4. Neeko Foods
Online food service is on the rise in Dar es Salaam. With online food joints such as Neeko foods, customers can purchase food online through the weekly menu provided.
Neeko foods provide local crafted, unique and attractive meal boxes.
pictures from Neeko foods instagram
5.Mudi Mabiriani
Fridays are no longer dull in Dar. Get yourself some delicious biriani from Mudi Mabiriani for a fair price. There are a variety of biriani available such as chicken biriani and beef biriani. They are located in Dar es Salaam, Sinza mori. pictures from Mudi Mabiriani instagram
Tanzania is situated in the eastern region of Africa and is famous for its beautiful geographical features, endangered species, and rich tradition. In addition to Mount Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, and the beautiful Spice Islands of Zanzibar, Tanzania has also another thing that makes it a special country in the world; its coffee. For the people of Tanzania, coffee is much more than a beverage; it is practically a culture, it is – economically – very important and it is a process of teamwork before one can actually enjoy sipping it. From the fertile beans growing highlands to the freshly brewed coffee in your cup, every ounce of Tanzanian coffee tells a tale of love and dedication to preserving tradition and never compromising on quality.
The journey of coffee begins right from the highlands of Tanzania where the soils are fertile for coffee growth. There are various regions in Tanzania that are very good for coffee growing, especially those surrounding the Mount Kilimanjaro, the southern highlands around Mbeya and the Victoria area. The country can be categorized in terms of two major coffee bean types such as the Arabica and Robusta.
Mount Kilimanjaro: Mount Kilimanjaro is probably the most popular region for growing coffees in Tanzania as coffees are grown on the slopes of Africa’s tallest mountain. In this region, cooled volcanic soils, high altitude, and moderate temperatures as well favor the growth of Arabica coffee. Most farms in this area yield very high quality coffee with some sweetness, with bright acidity, floral, with fruit overtones.
Mbeya and the Southern Highlands: The southern highlands should be considered and referred to along with Arabica beans Subzi. The coffee here is cultivated at altitudes of one thousand up to two thousand meters and americanos and the coffee here is very smooth and balanced with slight measures of chocolate and nut flavors.
Lake Victoria and Kagera: In the northwest, the area called Vic Portrait about the Lake Victoria, Robusta beans are cultivated. These beans have a tendency of being more potent, having a stronger and more rustic flare to it, and are commonly included in espresso blend or instant coffee.
Every region has a different taste resulting from its soil, height, and microclimates. Such differences have made Tanzanian coffee a sought after drink by coffee lovers around the globe.
The history of Tanzanian coffee starts with a tiny seed that is put in the ground by local farmers, who mostly cultivate small-scale family-owned farms. The majority of coffee growing in Tanzania is done by hand using rudimentary farming techniques that have been passed from one generation to another. It takes several years for coffee plants to grow and produce berries and during the period of cultivation, the hands of farmers need to be vigorous to the plants as they should develop well.
This involves growing trees used as shade for the coffee plants so that the plants do not get dry. These trees do not only let the coffee leaves flourish but also promote environmental conservation in the area by affording the forest cover.
New Years resolutions are the best explanation to the great question of why its so hard to change a behavior. Before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 every year millions of people around the globe list down their New Year’s resolutions hoping to archive them but for the most people its just like the year before, nothing really changes.
The only difference between people who stick to their new habits and those who don’t, is that the former looks for reasons why they failed previously and avoid to do common mistakes.
I’ll give you simple tips that can help you make progress with most of the goals you have,
Don’t try to Change Everything at Once
At the start of a new year, we experience an intense rush of excitement and motivation to change our lives for the better, and begin to pursue many goals, The problem is often we fail to recognize that this newfound motivation is an artificial high that’ll only last for a few
weeks, once its gone we lose focus and eventually give up. You should focus on changing a very small number of habits at the same time or Pick one thing and do it well.
Don’t make a backup plan (just yet)
I red somewhere that “You might want to wait until you have done everything you can to achieve your primary goal first” or on the other word don’t make a backup plan, just yet.
Having a backup plan undermines your likelihood of success. Even by putting a little effort into thinking about alternatives makes you work less hard to achieve your goal. Research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison backs this up.
What I’m trying to say is You need to always act as if failure is not an option, If you prepare for failure, you may be more likely to fail. I’m not suggesting that you always avoid making backup plans. But maybe you could hold off on doing so until you’ve put as much effort as possible into your primary goal.
Starting With a Habit That is Too Big
Have you thought about the relationship of big thinking to success? Did something work out better when you started smaller? You know the answers, The bigger a project seems, the less likely you are to do it because it seems like too much effort. So if you really want to form better habits start really, really small–one pushup at a time.
Success doesn’t happen in an instant. It happens through the progression of lots of little successes, strung together over time.
Failure to change environment
We often rely completely on willpower to stick to habit change, but in practice that rarely works. Much better is changing the environment around you.
In one study conducted on “habits vs. intentions,” researchers found that students who transferred to another university were the most likely to change their daily habits. They also found those habits easier to change than the control group because they weren’t exposed to familiar external cues.
The Rule of Never Miss Twice
Look, you WILL mess up and slip on your habits. And it’s OK, The rule of thumb is that when you fail, you get back on the horse immediately so that you never miss twice.
I find the “never miss twice” mindset to be particularly useful. Maybe I’ll miss one workout, but I’m not going to miss two in a row. Maybe I’ll eat “kiepe yai”, but I’ll follow it up with a healthy meal. You know where i’m going with this.
If you follow the rule of “Never Miss Twice” you can fail your way to any goal you desire.
The archaic parents’ myth of when I was your age I did so and so to become who I am today…to their children has to stop otherwise the dysfunctional families is here to stay’
Family patterns and secrets continue to circulate and affect not only the family level but the entire generations; yet no single parent dares to bravely come up and take responsibility. Despite of the modern environment and availability of many resources, about 85% of African parents pass to their children what has been instilled to them by their own parents and still find someone else to blame for all the damages that may occur.
For many years in Tanzania, most of the failures and evil conducts such as rape and domestic violence happening in societies are rooted back from Poor parenthood and holding on to the culture of keeping silent. It is about the time the beans are spilled on the table.
What is the cause?
From the research and different interviews done by this magazine, the gap of communication between parents and children is mentioned to be a number one reason to family dysfunctionality in this country. Many parents have been taken away from their families especially children by their jobs, and other tasks. Currently; Mothers for instance, have been clueless on what potential do their children have or what kind of women are their daughters supposed to become because they have offered their precious parenthood job to the nannies. As a result, many children are not raised rather they grow up based on the nannies mindsets.
In her recent speech at the Parliament House in Dodoma, the Minister of Healthy H.E Honorable Ummy Mwalimu has called for all parents to become more watchful and closely communicate to their children because different people from neighbors, to School to friends and other strangers are either directly or indirectly involved to the growth of these children.
Speaking as a parent Ummy Mwalimu said; “Dear parents, despite of your busy schedule you must allocate a significant amount of time for your child. Ask them how their day was … because I can assure you many Children experience different levels of abuse such as sexual violence and find nobody to share with”.
In their Mid-Year Human Rights Report 2018; Legal and Human Rights Center (LHRC) stated that Sodomy incidents have increased from 12 in the first half of 2017 to 533 in the first half of 2018. Such incidents are also common in schools, including primary schools and boarding schools. In the mid-2017 to the mid-2018, Child rape incidents rose from 759 to 2365. Unfortunately due to the gap of communication, these cases always remain unsolved because it is a shame to the families. It is very likely to find a circle of molestation grow enormously because the culprits are strongly being protected.
Explaining her own experience from how she was raised to what she has seen in different parts of the world, the former diplomatic Maryam Ismail said Dysfunctionality is a global problem that happens everywhere and to all classes and races regardless of the educational background the family may have. Maryam told The Tanzaniene that many parents have become available but not present to their children due to both parents being fully occupied. She said lack of communication is also happening between the parents. “They both have money and titles. They cannot even discuss and resolve their own personal issues, how you are expecting them to have time for their children in the world of several nannies, Maryam questioned.
I would go to visit my 9 years old son at School in Uganda; the teacher will be astonished to see me at the end of every month because there are kids whom have not seen their parents for six months…this broke my heart. I have been to Asia, Europe and America… we all have the common problem”. She said. Maryam added that; acknowledging issues is the first step towards healing but many parents have their dark stories that are too ashamed to address as a result, their children are more likely to experience the same pattern. On a serious note however; the concept of parenthood must be well understood to both male and female parents. Given that the mothers have been given the privilege of being the primary teachers and providing nurturing to the children, fathers should also not forget of their equally responsibility of communicating because it is not only their right but a failure to do so, may lead to society not being able to accommodate tones of unhappy individuals whose childhood went unchecked.
Something is amiss…
Looking a bit deeper into this issue, it is probably about the time that parents start to evaluate their parenthood mechanism by directing more focus on them other than their children…that is what a US Clinical Psychologist Doctor Shefali Tsabary calls a Traditional Parenting versus Conscious Parenting. Sadly; many parents in the world are the victim of the traditional parenting whose focus is on fixing the child. In this methodology, Dr. Shefali explains that the parents have been conditioned by the culture and experience they gained during their own childhood of which they impose to their children regardless of its hidden psychological dangers. Eventually; the parents unknowingly find themselves talked their ideas, dreams and expectations to their children instead of listening to a child’s own calling. Expressing their opinions to this Magazine a group of High School students in their mid-20s opened up on how much difficult it is for them to cope between who they are and who they should be according to the parents’ ideation. Many have agreed that their parents had invented high expectation on them based on their desires and not children’s perspective which had made a child’s road to make decision even tougher.
“I love drawing, it is my passion but since my childhood my parents insisted I must work harder to become a doctor like our neighbor’s child. Unfortunately I didn’t do well in my studies so here I am coping with what the government offered me” emotionally said Jamal.
The conscious parenting on the other hand, is about raising the parent. It has nothing to do with the child and all to do with the child’s wellbeing. It suggests that parents must be present and mirror on their own being when raising their children. The parents have an opportunity to ask themselves how that moment is showing up for them to grow, and what does it say about the parents’ unhealed baggage because if they don’t govern these psychological baggage, the chance to project them directly to their children is high.
A dysfunctional family is the one that has at its central vicious and destructive parenting with no concern for the child. The effects on the child may completely go unsung and normally nothing is done to rectify the situation.
The biggest news to hit Tanzania is the issues on taxes fixed on Sanitary pads. The taxes were re-introduced during the announcement of the 2019/2020 years budget.
The Finance minister Philip Mpango said removing the tax was not productive at all, it allowed traders to raise the rate of pads and increase their profit.
There was a growth in complaint about the pricing of the pads, some range from Tsh 2500 to Tsh 3000. A member of parliament, MP Peneza brought these grievances to the parliament and stated in her speech “…we met with distributors and traders of sanitary pads in the country and these traders, with illustrations, informed us that they had reduced prices. The problem was on the retail end, that is where the pricing has not been reduced”
Looking at how the government implemented on matters concerning plastic bags and made sure that everyone stopped using them, how can they fail to make sure that the retailers stuck to the low pricing?
This has angered many people in the society, mainly women and girls. Taxing Sanitary pads is a great injustice to women since it’s a biological phenomenon and not a luxurious thing. The women and girls who live in rural areas have been hit hard with this news due to the fact that they cannot afford sanitary pads.
Many girls in the village do not own sanitary pads due to the pricing and also unavailability of them in shops. This leads to them missing out on school on days that they have their menstrual cycle. According to surveys done, most girls in rural areas use inappropriate materials such as rags, raw cotton among other things to substitute sanitary pads.
The government should give out sanitary pads free of charge in schools in order to help the girls not miss out on classes. Kenya is a perfect good example where pads are given out free of charge in schools. In addition the prices should be affordable to every woman who earns a low income wage. Periods are not luxuries.
Another year is upon us and many goals are already set to focus on what to do to move forward.
Most people especially those in their mid and late twenties are working to the bone to focus on starting a family, having a new job and other future plans in this New Year. Although these are important things to think of, they take up much the time for one to think about themselves for a while. This is happening to our youth today and they end up being so stressful and unhealthy. One should stop and ask themselves, is it worth it? Would you be happy, stress free and healthy if you achieve these goals now rather than later? With this I say self-care is important for everyone.
Self-care means taking care of our mental, physical and emotional health. From doing exercises, eating healthy, meditating, taking a vacation one can fulfil caring for themselves without having other matters in mind. This does not mean neglecting other responsibilities just to feel good with yourself. It just means taking a breather from all the hard work and concentrating on ourselves for better health.
In order to achieve this, one should make a list that has all the things that make them happy and stress free. Since everyone has different taste on what to do for their self-care, am going to mention a basic check list that can be followed by anyone.
Eat healthy meals. Caring for your health is the most important part of self-care and so the consuming of junk foods and unhealthy snacks should reduce. Vegetables, vitamins and proteins are more important to keep the body healthy. By eating healthy one can achieve a lot.
Exercising. Doing any type of exercises that you are comfortable with helps in not only physical health but also emotional health. Scientists say it increases serotonin levels which lead to improved mood and energy. You can choose to just walk for 30 minutes every day and it would be exercise.
Get enough sleep. Many neglect this while it’s important. It’s a fact that adults need 7-8 hours of sleep. Follow this and your body will be very relaxed.
Do something you enjoy once a month. This will keep you happy to get time for your own or with friends doing something pleasurable. You can go watch a movie, read a book, have lunch alone or with your friends, go to a party and many other activities. This helps you relax and reduce stress.
Travel or have a road trip. This helps you escape your everyday life and lets you go out and explore the world.
Making self-care a priority in your life is the most important thing that you can do for yourself. It changes the perspective of life. Doing all these things will make you see life in a new way where you are able to take care of yourself and this makes it possible for you to take care of everything and everyone around you. This month, consider ways that you can make self-care part of your schedule. Remember, you deserve this as much as the next person.
The beach is always a nice place to clear your head and be stress free. The feeling of sand on your feet and the sun on your skin always makes one forget about any worries clouding their mind. This article is about a secret private island on the shores of Bagamaoyo, Tanzania.
Last July I was lucky enough to be invited for a getaway to bagamoyo. A friend of mine asked me and some other friends to accompany her and I couldn’t be more excited to leave behind everything else for a breather.
Imagine living on a private island with your house facing the ocean and witnessing the sun rise and set every day. This was what it was like to stay at the lazy lagoon hotel for that amazing but short weekend.
When we arrived at Bagamoyo a place called FETA mbegani campus, a school for fishermen, we were escorted to a boat that we used to cross the ocean to the island. The island had only the one hotel on it since the rooms there are not similar to other hotels in the city. Each guest is given a private house that faces the ocean and has enough space to accommodate a family.
The services was wonderful. All the people there were friendly and helpful with whatever we needed. The manager was the friendliest of them all. He was always around to keep us company since we were very few guests around including two couples and the group I was in. Whenever it was time for breakfast, lunch or dinner we always got a different menu from yesterday’s which was so refreshing. Funny thing was the first meal we had was nice but it was very little to satisfy us. Me and my friends asked the waiter why the small potions, was it because we were ladies? The waiter explained that many foreigners who come to stay there prefer small potion
I always woke up earlier than my friends and sat outside to watch the sun rise. With the wave sounds on the beach it always calmed me and it could always make me feel free of anything else. During the day, whenever we were tired of staying on the beach, we went to play some games with the Maasai who were around. I even learned to play pool and shoot darts. We were not lucky enough to go snorkeling because of the tides but we went swimming instead. Sometimes my friends insisted a lot to just rest in our room but I always wanted to stay on the beach and chase any small crabs I could see.
Those three days were the best I had in this whole year. When it was time to leave, most members of the hotel came to see us off. We were really sad since they said we made it livelier than any guests before. I never said this but we were always talking, laughing and mostly loud that they came to know us all very well.
It was a fun time for sure and so worthy to skip the city for. Lazy lagoon will always be a place to remember and I hope
this article will convince you to take a break from every day life and breathe!
African Literature has been a phenomenon since Chinua Achebe graced the world with the famous trilogy that encompasses Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. Usually, themes of Colonialism, Liberation, Nationalism, Tradition, Displacement and Rootlessness are the ones mostly explored. It is 2022, we have a plethora of authors, novelists and poets who have since explored a myriad of themes that are based on African culture, the society and what it entails.
Woven with Brown Thread is book of poems compiled, edited and curated by Upile Chisala. Upile is a storyteller, sociologist and activist from Malawi. She is the author of two books of poetry and this was all before Woven with Brown Thread came into being.
An outstanding trait from her biography is that she hopes to tell stories from the margins and through her work help others and herself come to terms with pasts, celebrate presents and confidently dream beautiful futures, which is what we believe this book of poetry represents.
The Tanzanian Times 