This Woman’s Butt Keeps Her in Business

By Ayoub  Mzee

 Meet Devota Kasanda Mdachi  the Tanzania Tourist  Board ‘s Marketing Director, the first woman to hold this position in  Tanzania. She  is   billed  as  Tanzania’s  most  powerful  business woman  by  Newdeal  Africa – based  in London. It’s been a ground breaking year for  her in  business .Within  a  short  time  since  her  appointment   Tanzania’s  fortunes  have  doubled  as  far  as  Tourism  is  concerned in  Tanzania

Ms. Mdachi will be based in the TTB head office in...

The rise of the female millennial will come under the spotlight at the first Leading Women Summit on March 10, 2016

JOHANNESBURG March 8, 2016 – More than 120 leaders and influencers in business, politics, technology, media, philanthropy, fashion and entertainment will be participating in the first annual Leading Women Summit presented by MTN Business in association with Forbes Woman Africa, which will be held in Johannesburg on March 10, 2016. The invitation-only summit will bring together...

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Hip Hop artistes have always been in love with dogs. I will bet my last coin that the next song in the pipeline awaiting recording will have something to do with dogs. Lyrics will carry something like “who let the dogs out” and the choruses will feature vicious barking dogs -- “woof, woof, woof” and the artistes will make thousands of “msimbazis”.

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

Hotel hiyo ambayo inaitwa Hotel Football na ipo karibu kabisa karibu na uwanja wa Old Trafford.Hotel hiyo ambayo ni wazo la kwanza kabisa la Neville na Ryan Giggs lakini baadae wakaja wamiliki wapya kama Phil Neville, Nicky Butt na Paul Scholes, kuanzia nje hadi ndani imekua branded ki-football zaidi.Kuwa na uhusiano wa ki-football unaipa advantage ya kuwa sehemu busy sana siku za mechi au hata sio siku za mechi. Ukiingia ndani kuna picha za malegend wa soka na pia juu kabisa kuna uwanja wa...

>The Tanzania Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is pushing for auditing existing tax exemptions in Tanzania to determine their merit or otherwise. [See ‘PAC calls for audit of all tax exemptions,’ Daily News: Jan. 14, 2015].

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

One of my favourite columnists in our East African region in this day and age is a professor of Economics at the Dar es Salaam Campus of the Mzumbe University going by the name and style of Dr Honest Prosper Ngowi .