AS Senior Curator of Ethnography at the Village Museum, Wilbard Lema is responsible for overall supervision of the annual National Cultural Day Festival held within these grounds. While on a recent visit there, off the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road in Makumbusho, Dar es Salaam, he told the ‘Star’ that prior to last November’s episode they used to invite one ethnic group at a time.
BAHATI Maulid is a mother of five, with a sixth on the way. She has an interesting story connected to her last pregnancy. The setting was in 2007 and she was awaiting the birth of her fifth child, at the same time worried about how she was going to win a court battle over her house. Her husband had auctioned the house in mid 2000, to pay off debts he had accumulated.
“All’s well that ends well” is the title of a play by William Shakespeare written between 1594 and 1595 now classified as one of his three “problem plays” because they are neither comedies nor tragedies in typical Shakespearean tradition. The over two weeks long strike by doctors in public hospitals was, in many respects, a terrible tragedy.
Many vehicles that took people to be healed died enroute. Around this time last year, millions of people were fighting amongst themselves for a chance to travel to Samunge, the remote village from which, a certain ‘magic cure’ was being issued.
LOCAL experts think a newly introduced draft on declaration of editorial freedom would play a decisive role toward promoting press freedom and quality journalism in the country. This was a major focus of a symposium that deliberated on the relevance of the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Editorial Freedom, Independence, and Responsibility (DEFIR) in a contemporary society.
FOR centuries the wisdom of elders in any society resulted into prosperity of that particular society if listened to and respected.
STUDIES on irrigated agriculture conducted in the early 1980s by the Rufiji Basin Authority (RUBADA) recommended wetland rice as the main crop for both large scale and small scale irrigation.
USUALLY when you think about health, the first thing that comes to your mind is sick patients and a trip to the hospital. For other people, their current health status requires them to take medication daily without fail. Does health in general always have to border on the state of being unhealthy and not vice versa?
