Why is organ donation taboo in Africa?

Andy Jones’s music documentary As Old as My Tongue is subtitled “The Myth and Life of Bi Kidude,” an apt addendum for a film about a larger-than-life performer who came to global attention only when she was well into her 80s. 
Or so it was thought; when the reigning queen of Taarab died two years ago this week, she was thought to be several years past 100 but no one knew her age for sure – not even Bi Kidude, which only added to her allure when she was discovered by the growing international...

Constituent Assembly (CA) member Freeman Mbowe, has expressed the need to have two crucial commissions in the new Constitution.

Ni sehemu ya kutoa tiba kwa sehemu au viungo muhimu vya mwili vilivyoshindwa kufanya kazi na kutishia uhai wa mgonjwa.

Teachers want the new constitution to establish an organ that will handle their affairs as a way of reducing multiplicity, which they regard as a major cause of their perennial problems.

Tanzania Postal Bank (TPB) has donated Sh2 million to Tanzania Sports Writers Association Club (Taswa SC) to conduct its sporting activities. 

Vehicle donation to benefit the blind
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TATA Africa Holdings Tanzania Limited has donated a vehicle worth 50m/- to the Tanzania League for the Blind (TLB) in Dar es Salaam. Tata Executive Director Ajay Mehra said that they donated the vehicle, a TATA double cabin, with the aim to promote the ...

A Qatari court jails a US couple over the death of their eight-year-old daughter, adopted from Ghana, amid claims they sought to harvest her organs.

Water well donation benefits Vingunguti school
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WATER scarcity is now a thing of the past for Vingunguti Primary School in Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam, following the donation of a water well by a Turkish organisation on Thursday. Speaking during the handover ceremony, the Turkish Ambassador to ...

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday broke his silence, blaming intelligence agencies, specifically the Internal Security Organisation for failure to detect and thwart the Saturday afternoon bloody attacks in Kasese and Bundibugyo that have so far left more than 90 people, including eight members of security forces, dead. Most of the dead are said to be suspected attackers belonging to the Bakonzo, the majority ethnic tribe in the area.