IT DOES OCCUR!

Many things occur in the world  which you can not explain unless you know the background of the issues. One of such things is people occupations. Kojani people in Pemba are always fishermen to the extent some one may call all fisherman Kojanis. Some body from Kenya when he sees tyres seller, he thinks about Kambas. In Zanzibar when we see a Maasai we presume he is a watchman. May be events of cattle bandits have made Maasai always ready to fight. But traditional life of Maasai also has given them another specialty:  selling beads and traditional medicine. The woman in the picture was selling women decorations and traditional medicine at Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam. Maasai women from their relatively dry regions in Northern Tanzania have no other occupation to do outside their territory accept this because they are not prepared to do anything outside thier houses. Decoration and madicine are their born with talents and that is their business.

BLESSINGS OF THE COAST

They say: 'Mgaa gaa na mpwa hali wali mkavu' (One who plays on the shoreline might not eat plain rice). but the coast has more than that. Coast is the source of rains while the amount of rains decreases with increasing distance from the coast. Corals have many uses   building materials, rocks for road construction, fish breeding grounds, tourism attractions,  .............Sea is also the source of protein: fish, octopus, squid, lobsters....  No wonders that more than half of the world population live with in 500 kilometers from the coast line.

Picture above shows a girl fishing oysters along the coast.Ah .. Did I say fishing? No, it is just collecting the small creatures. If she lives a few meters from the shore why she eats plain 'ubwabwa'.

JUST DO! WHAT YOU DO DOESN’T MATTER

Dar es Salaam is a great city with a population of about 3.5 million people. Most of the people have primary education. (some may complete standard seven with out knowledge of reading or writing). Life is very hard for many of the people. To earn leaving you must do anything which can earn you something to it. They say: Any job is like any other bora mkono wende kinwyani  (only that your hand must reach the mouth (get some thing to eat).

In this picture, a man with a sewing machine is working along a narrow street – without a shed). This is among the busiest dirty street in the city where people go to and fro on foot, by bicycle, carts or three wheel motor cycle commonly known as ‘kibajaj’ or ‘boda boda’. Here municipal law can not work. You can do any business any where as far as people know you.