From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… Those who are of my age will vividly recall the age of the ‘maxam’. This was the era when the shelves of the then RTCs or Regional Trading Companies and other ‘dukas’ had nothing, literally nothing. There was nothing to buy from the many public and few private shops [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… My friend Dr. Lemwel Makando was busy doing the rounds in his hospital, the St Thomas in down town Arusha when suddenly he heard unusual sounds of shots and explosions in the street below. He peaked through the window and God forbid, what he saw was a typical war [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… The other day my eldest daughter, actually she has now become a young lady, was home for her holidays. You see she is in Form III now. For one reason or another, her latest stay with me was the first serious and close interaction with my daughter. In the [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… Late Monday afternoon I left office and was rushing to a downtown shop to fetch rims of my eye glasses. You see at my age I need the services of extra eyes to be able to see like a normal human being. My mobile contraption, that is my car, [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Lutengano… Necessity took me to Moronga and Imalilo villages, in Njombe district, up on the slopes of spectacular Kipengere Mountain Range, at about 3000 meters above sea level. The range also known as the Livingstone Mountains lies in southwest Tanzania at the northern end of Lake Nyasa. From the town of [...]

From Tanzanian Correspondent Lute Wa Lutengano… Sometimes in the early 80s I found myself in the city of Berlin, East Berlin, to be more precise. I was there attending a College, training us third world young men and women on how to become professional scribes. The college famously known as the International Institute of Journalism, [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… I have failed not to write something about football. After all, all talk now is about the ‘beautiful game’ taking place in ‘Ku-Joni’ as my tribal ancestors used to call what is now the land of Madiba a.k.a. Mandela – South Africa. You see where I come from in [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… I was last in Kipengere, a sleepy village below the imposing Kipengere Mountain peak on the eastern end of the famous Mount Livingstone ranges, in the mid 60s. The village which is roughly mid-way from Njombe town to Tandala in Ukingaland, Makete used to be an important stopping stage [...]

From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… As you read this third rate column I will be somewhere in Benaland in Njombe district in the famous southern highlands of Tanzania. I will be there with a group of three other Arusha friends who are now getting used to Njombe. For this will be the third time [...]

From Tanzania Correspondent Lute Wa Lutengano… Sitting on the veranda of one of the Maruhubi Beach Villas I could not fail to understand why Zanzibar has for centuries attracted people from all over the world not only to visit it but settle there. The evening sea breeze braised my cool face as I sipped my [...]