We’ve potentials; let us harness them and thrive

Tanzania is arguably East Africa’s most endowed country in terms of natural resources. It is one of Africa’s largest gold producers, has diamonds and tanzanite as well as vast expanses of arable land and good favourable climate.

According to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Development, this country has the potential to produce 11,000 tonnes of shrimps annually.

The business community in Tanzania under the umbrella of the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) over the weekend showcased the country’s potential investment opportunities to their US counterparts.

Idioms. Must we say it again? Yes, we should, if only to remind colleagues who forget that these are expressions that are fixed. You don’t re-do them, ostensibly to make them “sound more sensible”.

Talking to the business community of Tanzania on December 3, the President of United Republic of Tanzania reminded the business community on the need to be patriotic in their endeavour to become rich.

The world is not only shrinking into a village, in which the global community has no choice but to work together, it is also getting more and more business oriented international-wise.

Despite more than two decades of implementing the privatisation policy, we still have no substantial investors to forge partnerships with foreign investors who are rushing here in the wake of huge discoveries of natural resources, especially lucrative minerals and hydro-carbon resources.

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Sophie Yohani, a professor in the U of A's Department of Educational Psychology, is currently at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania pursuing research on gender-based violence and refugee mental health in the region.

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