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Since the mid 1990s, Harvard faculty and students have flown out to two outposts in Botswana and Tanzania??the cornerstones of Harvard’s presence in Africa—to conduct ground-breaking HIV/AIDS research...
...coming home. I see the same people on my walk back every day, and am greeted by my students in the marketplace. When another mzungu shows up in the village, I get protective of my turf. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to experience all the parts of Tanzania??the bustle of Arusha, the beaches of Zanzibar, the savanna of Ngorongoro. But it's the walk home to my house in the village after a long day of teaching, with sunflowers on my right and Kilimanjaro to my left, that will always be my Africa...
...Tanzania, and more generally, East Africa, is a prime target for biofuel production because many, including Tanzania??s Ministry of Energy, would argue that there is plenty of land and labor to grow this global environmental solution. In addition, much of East Africa has a suitable climate for jatropha and sugarcane, crops that produce bio-diesel and ethanol. And the good news continues for Africa, because with foreign investment comes capital and the opportunity for job creation and poverty reduction. Farmers may gain access to credit and better technology for their own production, while Tanzania gains political leverage...
...comfortable for them as it is uncomfortable for me; I am caught with indecision about whether or not to wait it out for the sake of cultural experience or gulp down the milk and run for my room. Fortunately the battery-operated radio is still bringing us Tanzania??s latest hits, and a healthy dose of Celine Dion’s greatest hits— just enough noise to accentuate our own silence...
...these gentle tensions masterfully and in doing so reveals how an architect “sees” architecture and urbanism, in the several senses of the verb.Adjaye, the Graduate School of Design’s Tange visiting professor in architecture, was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania??just years after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. Adjaye moved to London to finish his education and has become one of Britain’s leading architects. “African Cities” shows roughly 40 photographs each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped...