Problems Of Mordern Society

The above mentioned conditions may result the following

1.    Sexual dysfunctions.

2.    Infertility

3.    General body weaknesses

4.    Restlessness/Impatience

5.    Ulcers (peptic& Duodenal)

6.    Loss of life

These will result frustration and become less productive

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Dar-es-salaam Vital facts..

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Dar es Salaam Facts

Dar es Salaam is an Arabic word which means the 'harbour of peace'. It is the commercial capital and largest city of Tanzania. It was formerly known as Mzizima meaning healthy town.

It was founded in the 1860s as a summer residence for the sultan of Zanzibar. It was later developed by the German colonialists for their interests after 1885. In 1896, it became the capital of German East Africa. Dar es Salaam came under British control in 1916, and its main development as a modern city began in the 1940s. It became the capital of a newly independent Tanganyika in 1961 and continued as the seat of administration when Tanganyika and Zanzibar were merged to form Tanzania in 1964.

Administratively, Dar es Salaam is broken into 3 districts: Ilala , Kinondoni , and Temeke

Today, the city of Dar es Salaam has become a vibrant cosmopolitan and metropolitan city. Dar es Salaam is no longer as the capital of Tanzania. It remains to be the country's leading city, the principal commercial, manufacturing and educational centre.

HISTORY

1860’s Dar es Salaam was set up as a summer residence for the sultan of Zanzibar.

1885 after this year, Dar es Salaam was developed by the German colonialists for their interests.

1896 Dar es Salaam became the capital of German East Africa.

1916 Dar es Salaam came under British control

1940s Dar es Salaam started its main development as a modern city.

1961 It became the capital of a newly independent Tanganyika. Dar es Salaam was elevated to city status.

2004 Today, the city of Dar es Salaam has become a vibrant cosmopolitan and metropolitan city. Many developments are underway that will change the face of Dar es Salaam, making it more modern, attractive and sustainable city.

LOCATION

Dar es Salaam City is situated on the coast of Tanzania East on the shores of the Indian Ocean. It borders Zanzibar to the east, Tanga to its north, Coast Region to its South, West and North.

GEOGRAPHY

Dar es Salaam is spread over a total area of 229.88 SQ KM.

Latitude - 6°48' S

Longitude - 39°17' E

Kigamboni is part of Dar es Salaam and is separated by the Kigamboni Creek.

ACCESSIBILITY

By Air: Mwalimu J.K.Nyerere International Airport (Dar es Salaam International Airport)

By Sea: Dar es Salaam Harbor

By Road: Regional road networks, extend to international connections.

By Rail: Rail links extend inland to Arusha in the north, to Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, and to Zambia.

POPULATION

An estimated population of 4 million

LANGUAGE

The official language is Swahili. English is widely spoken and understood.

ELECTRICITY

The voltage system in Dar es Salaam is 220 Volts.

HOLIDAYS

Sunday is a weekly public holiday and Saturday is a half working day

CLIMATE

As it is close to the equator and the warm Indian ocean, the climate is tropical with temperatures between 25C and 30C and hot and humid weather. The highest temperatures are experienced between Octobers and mid-March with the coolest season being June and September. Long rains occur between March and mid-June while short rains between mid-September and mid-November.

PEOPLE & RELIGION

The people of Dar es Salaam are warm, open, friendly and hospitable. Muslims, Christians, Hindus and other traditional beliefs live together in perfect harmony. There are several mosques, churches and temples around the city. Dar es Salaam is rapidly expanding and the suburbs are fast becoming part of the city and various races live together in various parts of the city.

CLOTHING

Light cotton & summer wear is ideal on the most of the year tropical climate. It’s advisable to keep an umbrella for the rainy season.

LOCAL TIME

Tanzania is three hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time.

CREDIT CARDS

The most used cards are American Express, Euro Card, Master Card and VISA.

DRIVING

There are tarmac roads connecting many parts of the city and surrounding areas.

There are several bridges. The most famous is the Salender Bridge along Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road.

Dar es Salaam drives on the left hand side of the road (keep left).

Several Streets in the city center have parking charges.

Maps are available at major bookshops and stationery shops.

There are several Filling stations all over the city.

EDUCATION

The city is also an educational centre and boasts of many schools, colleges and universities. Some of them are:

Schools: International School of Tanganyika, Mzizima, Shaban Robert and Al Muntazir Islamic Seminary.

Colleges: Institute of Financial Management, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology and College of Business Education.

Universities: University of Dar es Salaam, Open University of Tanzania, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, International Medical and Technological University (IMTU).

SAFETY

Dar es Salaam is generally safe. But one needs to take precautionary measures especially at night. Avoid carrying large amounts of cash. Be on the alert in daytime of pickpockets who would usually pick wallets or mobile phones. If possible, avoid traveling at night. If you must, lock your windows. Keep valuables at home, Avoid traveling alone especially in remote places. If you do get into trouble, dial 112.

MOBILE PHONES

The following companies provide GSM cellular services:

Tigo 0713 800800

Airtel 0784 748100

Vodacom 0754 705000

Zantel

PUBLIC PHONES

Phones cards are widely available in many kiosks and shops with several denominations.

IMPORTANT NUMBERS

Emergency

Crime Stoppers 111

Ambulance/ Fire / Police 112

Anti-Corruption 113

Central Police 2115507

Airport Police 2844354

Salander Bridge Police 2120818

Oysterbay Police 2667322

PHOTOGRAPHY

There are some restrictions to photograph some places like military and government places and people like police. Ask before taking any pictures.

CURRENCY

The monetary unit is the Tanzanian Shilling (Tsh) which is equal to 100 cents. Although cents are no longer used. Notes denominations are in 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10000. Commonly used coin denominations are 50, 100 & 200. There are various forex bureaus throughout the city.

1USD is approximately 1515.15Tsh.

WORKING HOURS

Working hours do vary especially with banks and malls.

The Normal working hours for Weekdays are between 8:30am to 5:00pm

(with a lunch break of one hour).

Most shops are closed on Sundays with exceptions of shopping malls.

TOURIST INFORMATION

Tourist Information Center, Matasalamat Building, Samora Avenue

Tel: 2120373, 2123491

BANKING HOURS

Mon to Fri 8:30 to 15:00

Sat 8:30 to 11:30. It is advisable to check hours with each bank.

AREA CODES

Local calls require a seven digit number

Calling a mobile phone requires the following codes: Tigo (071), Zantel (073), Vodacom (075) and Airtel (078).

In case you are calling Dar es Salaam from any other city or town in Tanzania. Enter 022 followed by the main seven digit number.

The International dialing code for Dar es Salaam is +255 followed by the area code 22 then the telephone number.

The land line phone service is provided by Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL).

INTERNET ACCESS

Internet Services are widely available in many hotels

There are also many Internet cafes.

Several Internet Service Providers are also available for connections.

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10 Best Black Sports Movies

10. He Got Game

 

He Got Game is a 1998 sports-drama movie written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington as Jake Shuttlesworth, a prison inmate convicted for murdering his wife. The father of the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), Jake is released on parole for a week by the state’s governor in order to persuade his son to play for the governor’s alma mater in exchange for a heavily-reduced prison sentence.
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9.  Above The Rim

 

Above the Rim is a 1994 movie, starring Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, and Marlon Wayans. The movie tells the story of a promising New York City high school basketball star and his relationships with two people; one a drug dealer and the other a basketball star now employed as a security guard at his former high school.
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8. Coach Carter

 

Coach Carter is a 2005 film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Thomas Carter. (The White Shadow)  The movie, based on a true story, stars Samuel L. Jackson as basketball coach Ken Carter. In the movie, Carter tries to teach his players that there’s more to life than basketball.  To show that he’s serious, he benches his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
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7. Hoop Dreams

 

Hoop Dreams is a critically acclaimed 1994 documentary film. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players. Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led to five years of filming and 250 hours of footage. It premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Despite its length (171 minutes) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim. It was on more critics’ top ten lists than any other film that year, including Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and The Shawshank Redemption.
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6. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars

 

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a comedic sports movie about a team of enterprising ex-Negro League baseball players in the era of racial segregation. The movie stars Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. The movie was produced by Berry Gordy and released by Universal on November 17, 1976.
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5. Love & Basketball

 

Love & Basketball is a 2000 romantic drama starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. It is the story of two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles, California who grew up loving basketball and, eventually, loving each other.
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4. Brian’s Song

 

 

Brian’s Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the details of the life of Brian Piccolo a white football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with African American Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams), who helps him through the difficult struggle. The movie is based on Sayers’ account of his friendship with Piccolo and coping with Piccolo’s illness in Sayers’ autobiography, I Am Third. The production was such a success on ABC television (November 30, 1971) that it was later shown in theaters.
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3. When We Were Kings

 

 

When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film about the famous Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaire on October 30, 1974. It highlights Muhammad Ali’s trademark wit and charisma, as well as his superb skill in the ring during the fight itself.
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2. White Men Can’t Jump

 

White Men Can’t Jump is a 1992 film starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as basketball hustlers. The movie, which co-stars Rosie Perez, is enjoyable and quite entertaining, especially during the basketball scenes.
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1. Remember The Titans

 

 

Remember the Titans is a sports drama released in 2000. This wonderful movie stars Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone.  The movie, based on a true story, centers around the newly integrated T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. The black and white members of the football team clash in racially-motivated conflicts on a few occasions while at football camp, but after forceful coaxing and team building efforts by Coach Boone, the team achieves both harmony and success.

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Nduruma: The River between breath and death

‘KARIBU Jiji la Arusha!’ reads a sign at the highway bridge crossing River Nduruma in in Meru District, indicating that it was the gate into the City.

Like many rivers originating from the foot of Mount Meru, the Nduruma River valley happens to be a deep gorge with steep walls, featuring naturally polished smooth rocks. The river itself is not that deep with its water making circular waves around the smooth, but hard stones. However, if somebody tries to look from above, the river is in most areas shrouded by thick branches of trees, leaves and lush grass cover. Sounds like an idyllic place right? Wrong! Nduruma is one of the two most mysteriously feared rivers in the Meru District which flows from Tanzania’ second highest peak, cutting across the Arusha-Moshi highway and claiming lives en-route. With an unknown length, River Nduruma, is also a symbolic feature.

The water body historically separates the Meru people and the Waarusha community, tribes that at one time in the past were implacable enemies. When travelling from Moshi, heading for Arusha, one enters the precinct of the Wameru people soon after crossing the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) junction entering the King’ori area and the highway territory covers Kikatiti, Maji-ya-Chai, Usa-River, Leganga, Tengeru, Kambi-ya- Chupa.

The path terminates at the Nduruma River Bridge where the Waarusha territory takes over from Kwa-Mrefu, Ngulelo, Kimandolu, Sekei, Sanawari, all the way to Mianzini. Sakina, is an island filled with mixed people but along the way to Nairobi the original Maasai settlements take over from Kwa-Idd and Ngaramtoni going on to Oldonyo-Sambu, Longido and Namanga as well as across the border into Kajiado Kenya via Bisil.

When new age preachers started making rounds here, River Nduruma gained another title: ‘The Devil’s River,’ on the belief that that it was haunted by evil spirits because of the series of accidents taking place on bridges that that cross it.

Among the most serious was the 2009 multiple car accidents when a semi-trailer truck, a passenger bus, a van and a pickup for some unexplained reasons, crashed into each other on River Nduruma before dropping into the deep gorge below. At least 25 people perished. Three years previously in 2006, another bridge along the same River Nduruma, in Mbuguni area, claimed the lives of 56 people who were riding on a Toyota DCM Minibus, carrying 72 passengers for its capacity of 35. Some passengers were reportedly sitting on the roof luggage carrier because the vehicle was jam packed with people and goods. When it swerved at the narrow bridge, it plunged into the river. Practically, every few weeks as a vehicle either falls into the gorge.

Three years previously (2003), right on Nduruma Bridge, a Scania coach belonging to Mkwema Bus Transport, speeding to Dar-es-Salaam early in in the morning, was involved in a head-on collision with a Toyota-Coaster Minibus travelling from Moshi. A total of 23 passengers were decimated on spot. All the accidents, according to crackpot theorists, had something to do with evil powers that that have haunted the Nduruma River since the time ‘‘the Devil discovered’’ Arusha.

History has it that, before the mainstream, commercial religions found their way into Africa, local communities had never had the term ‘Devil’ or ‘Satan’ in in their vocabularies even though indigenous religions existed and people believed in in the supreme ‘God!’ The ‘Devil’ or ‘Satan’, therefore, including the one who allegedly wreak havoc at River Nduruma, must have been imported here alongside the second-hand religions of ‘Christendom’ and ‘Islam,’ that got shipped here by early sea-faring merchants.

The ‘‘devil’’ at Nduruma therefore is certainly busy. Every few weeks a car falls into the river valley. There are times when vehicles crash into each other on the bridge, or knock pedestrian. If recent cases are anything to go by, cars have also been erupting into flames around the area. Speculations have it that if a car crashes onto the right side of the Nduruma Bridge, (left if the car is travelling from Moshi) nobody inside will die. However, should the accident occur on the left gorge (right from Moshi), then then the disaster will be enormous.

Believe it or not but there was a time my family believed there is a devil lurking in the Nduruma. My late grand farther mysteriously died there on his way back home. My Dad once had a bad accident colliding with a cargo truck while driving to Mbuguni. He was not that physically injured but he was shocked, for a whole week he didn’t talk. I think he thought he was dying like his farther.

So I leave it to you readers, is there really a devil in Nduruma???

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