Tanzania After October 29, 2025: Reclaiming the Island of Peace, by my #Twaweza colleague, Baruani Mshale
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Nature-lover, music-lover, Tanzania-lover. Politics by necessity
Tanzania After October 29, 2025: Reclaiming the Island of Peace, by my #Twaweza colleague, Baruani Mshale
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In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
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What Went Wrong in Tanzania?
How the βisland of stabilityβ in a turbulent region descended into chaos - and where it goes from here.
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My two cents on the mess in Tanzania:
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people have no idea what time is. They think it's a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can't see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.
That fella Powers is more than a little bit of genius
12.10.2025 09:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg sharing a look of real affection and respect.
02.10.2025 08:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Glad you liked it
02.06.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And a few more for good measure #NewMills
02.06.2025 18:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And I took my camera out this time, not just my phone, which brings the bunnies into range
02.06.2025 18:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0More from #NewMills. It's quite pretty round here.
02.06.2025 18:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What I found on my walks around #NewMills this week: badger up close, fox cubs at a distance, many many rabbits (not shown), and some distant glimpses of Manchester
01.06.2025 15:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry W Longfellow
3/3
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
2/3
The Arrow and the Song.
I SHOT an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
1/3
Stunning here this week #NewMills
10.01.2025 17:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The world exists in black and white and green this morning #NewMills
05.01.2025 12:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I can't wait to read this: In the name of the President, by my friend Erick Kabendera. All about Tanzania's late strongman leader, President Magufuli, under whom Erick was jailed on dubious charges. My copy is on its way. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
03.01.2025 13:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now reading: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
03.01.2025 12:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy New Year
02.01.2025 15:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My walk today was full of such:
02.01.2025 15:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My plan for 2025: seek and take joy in the small beauties of nature that surround us #NewMills
02.01.2025 15:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Some highlights of today's walk. #Eskdale
28.12.2024 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's hard to argue with Tundu Lissu's line that President Samia "has done with a smile what Magufuli did with a snarl." #Tanzania
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Loving the exterior decor at Torr Vale Mill, New Mills.
01.12.2024 19:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely. The Overstory genuinely changed my life. #1
24.11.2024 22:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anything by Richard Powers. His latest, Playground, is brilliant. And there's one about trees.
18.11.2024 22:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I haven't posted much of my music online before, but here's my setting of the wonderful poem Red Fox by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C_0...
18.11.2024 12:48 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Album cover for In Rainbows, by Radiohead
Album cover for Graceland, Paul Simon
Album cover for Cold Fact, Rodriguez
Album cover for Little Girl Blue, by Nina Simone
Reintroduce yourself with four records
18.11.2024 12:09 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0