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Ujumbe magazine issue 30

Hello.

Welcome to our ‘environment’ issue. Depending on what paper you read, or your social media feed, it’s more than likely you’re being screamed at on a daily, hourly basis that everything’s going to hell in a handbasket. While there’s plenty to worry about, the shrill online clamour often drowns out any news of the humble, hard, and often unglamorous work being quietly done every day, by ordinary people doing their best to fix complex problems. If you’re going to change the world, your backyard is the best place to start.

Be Happy, Stay safe, get out and enjoy Tanzania and remember, ‘Maisha ni Safari’

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Ujumbe magazine issue 31

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

Hello,

Welcome to our first issue of 2019. Reading through the wide variety of our contributor’s articles, it strikes me that the underlying thread is of people from all walks of life, and all corners of the world, just getting on with it, and making a difference in Tanzania, each in their own way. From giant strides in liveable permaculture, to running a factory entirely on recycled water, to local Tanzanians starting their own businesses and expanding them across the country, staking out new frontiers for their endeavours – all people working to make their corner of the world better.

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Ujumbe magazine issue 32

For our usual travel and tourism theme, our alternative guide to Arusha has some tips for the longer than overnight guest, on how to suck more of the marrow of this l’il town. Our weekend getaway is Jambiani, Zanzibar – a working fishing village far away from the madding crowds of the mega-resorts and the sad paper umbrella cocktails of the lumpen package tour denizens. And finally, our man in Stonetown spends four days at Zanzibar’s Sauti za Busara music festival and emerges tired but glad.

On a wildlife and environment note, we get to know the indomitable honey badger better, catch up with some groundbreaking, pragmatic work in water recycling, and learn better gardening through composting. We talk about the challenges, pitfalls, and successes of ‘responsible tourism’, that much-vaunted, but so often unanswered aspect of running a tourism endeavour in Tanzania, in our ‘Paradise with a Purpose’ article weighs up .