Over our school’s Easter break, I had planned on visiting a few rugged areas of southwest Tanzania—a huge lake, another[…]
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Flat Stanley in Tanzania
A month after I got to Africa, I received my first letter from home. It was from my seven-year-old nephew,[…]
Read moreWays Tanzanians Are Different Than Americans
A commentary I wrote last week about a controversy at a St. Paul university made it into Wednesday’s Minneapolis Star[…]
Read moreCreeping Crawling Wildlife of Tanzania
Quick. Name an animal in Tanzania. “Lion…uh…hippo…uh…rhino….elephant!” Yep, those are all here. But they’re not in this post. The stars[…]
Read moreUrban Africa 2: The City Jail
Oh we went to town last week. Taking the bus from my village, we first entered the outskirts of Ipigolo…[…]
Read moreUrban Africa: Arrival to Iringa City Center
Our stuffed bus pulls up to the Iringa city bus station. Waiting men greet our arrival, so eager to take[…]
Read moreTanzania TV
Okay, I know I said last week that I’d get back to where we left off two weeks ago–taking the[…]
Read moreZanzibar Sneak Peeks
It’s our school’s Easter break, so I did what most people do over a holiday–I went to Zanzibar. *** In[…]
Read moreThe Saga of the Stuck Bus
I type this intrduction fromn the seat of my bus into the city. If thyis print was hand-wrtten, an element[…]
Read moreInterviewing a Special Woman in the “Real” Village
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about life here in my village, Magulilwa. Soon after, I got an[…]
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