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The World Children’s Day which is marked annually on 20th November, has been celebrated for the sixty-eighth time since its first observance, with a theme: ‘Inclusion for every child.’ In rthis analytic discourse we establish new ways to make inclusion more visible and practical as a social empowerment initiative.

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on November 20, 2022. With the biggest sports tournament in the world, the FIFA World Cup coming to its close in Qatar, there are a lot of lessons for the future. Discourses of quality sportsmanship that the 32 participant teams have displayed in the course of the 4 tournament weeks alongside the individual giftedness of players, cannot be taken for granted. It will exhaust a handful of column pages like this if we were to focus there. We can also not appreciate enough how these international sporting events,…

Diabetes has been responsible for at least $966 billion in health expenditure in 2021 which is 9% of the global total spent on healthcare. There is a need for global action to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue.

On November 7, in the Playfair Library of the University of Edinburgh – Scotland, the Centre of African Studies at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh hosted a crowd of Tanzanians and friends of Tanzania in commemoration of Mwalimu Nyerere’s centenary.

The idea of people gambling over mystery boxes, lottery, fixed odds, and wagers dates back to the time before the development of modern written history. It is a centuries-old pastime.

Slavery walks with shoulder high in its multiple faces. While people are rarely put in chains in caravans or whipped in big sugar cane plantations, on a global scale many people are in enslaving entanglements in their home countries and abroad, being forced into dangerous things they would not freely choose to do.

According to UNESCO, about 58 tsunamis have hit the world with devastating effects but more are still expected in the future as the sea level rises due to climate change. Tanzanian coastline is not spared from the possibility of higher tidal waves.

Globally, statistics show that 1.3 billion people still live in multidimensional poverty with almost half of them being children and youth. In Tanzania, numerous poverty reduction strategies seek to increase the quality of life such as access to education, clean water, sanitation, and health services.

With the world celebrating the International Day of the Girl Child on Tuesday 11 October, it is an opportunity to review the progress made so far both in policies and in praxis.