Detached buildings shape economies of Zanzibar and Tanga

Dar es Salaam. Zanzibar (West Urban) and Tanga regions are struggling to grow their respective economies, yet they have outpaced Mwanza, the country’s second largest economy in terms of hosting more detached buildings. Tanzania has a total of 14,348,372 buildings – this is according to the 2022 census results. The need for luxury accommodation is increasingly growing thanks to foreign investorsContinue Reading

African ICT infrastructure can pave way for leap forward

African ICT infrastructure can pave way for leap forward. One major lesson for Africa from the Covid-19 pandemic is that it had an outsize negative impact on workers in jobs that cannot be performed remotely.  Such jobs are typically in the informal sectors that dominate Africa’s economies. Services and other sectors more amenable to remote work were far less affected, which…Continue Reading