Tanzania: Dear Diary - Beat Drums Not Men and Women

Tanzania: Dear Diary - Beat Drums Not Men and Women
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I met this woman who had a black eye while leaving home for work. So I stopped and after exchanging pleasantries asked her what happened to her eye. This is all she had to say, "Domi alinipiga ngumi". Loosely translated to mean Domi punched me.

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Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Nov

DEAR DIARY: Beat drums not men and women

I met this woman who had a black eye while leaving home for work. So I stopped and after exchanging pleasantries asked her what happened to her eye. This is all she had to say, “Domi alinipiga ngumi”. Loosely translated to mean Domi punched me.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Nov

DEAR DIARY: Men should stop street harassment

>I saw a video a few months ago, of a guy who dressed himself up like a woman and walked down the street to know how it feels like to be a woman.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Nov

DEAR DIARY: Where is the respect for women?

>It was just last week when I wrote about street harassment. I talked about two videos I had seen, one was of a male journalist in Egypt who disguised himself as a woman. He experienced physical and verbal abuse.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Nov

DEAR DIARY: Hail all women in Parliament

It is a new dawn for Tanzania because of the extra ordinary women who threw their hats in the political ring and emerged victorious.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Sep

DEAR DIARY: Women breaking through the glass ceiling

 I am excited to share with you this edition of Woman. I have been behind the scenes editing without much interaction with you dear readers for the past one year and a couple of months but from this point on, there is no going back.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

17 May

DEAR DIARY: Stop killing innocent women

>Bring back our girls! It seems like everywhere I turn, that is what I see people chanting about after more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Islamic extremists, Boko Haram. The US First Lady Michelle Obama even posted a photo of herself holding a placard with the plea! People in the West, East have all joined hands to raise one voice, bring back our girls.

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

06 May

Women Out to Beat Men in Coming Elections

Women Out to Beat Men in Coming Elections
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar — LITTLE known young politician Fatma Omar Haji has ambition to become a president one day. "I know it isn't all that simple, but I am motivated. I believe I can, and we want playing ground levelled," says Haji. The future politician revealed her ...
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11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

DEAR DIARY: It’s not goodbye but see you later

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Dec

DEAR DIARY: They are girls not brides

I was following the First Ladies Summit on child marriage which recently took place in Lusaka closely since I had received an invitation to attend the same but could not make it due to unavoidable circumstances.

 

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