WORKFORCE

68.8 Percent of Tanzanians Have No Education Beyond Primary School. In Kenya It Is 34.6 Percent. That Gap Has a Price.

The NBS Household Energy Consumption Survey 2023 confirms that 68.8 percent of Tanzanians aged five ...

Jul 18 10 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania's Vision 2050 First Goal Is Job Creation. Where Will the New Jobs Come From?

Tanzania employment targets: 1,700,000 new jobs in FY2026/27, 8,500,000 cumulative by 2030/31. Basel...

Jun 22 3 min

BUSINESS LEADERS

Tanzania’s Most Recognised Political Cartoonist Stopped Commenting on the Economy and Started Trying to Build One. It Has Already Cost Him More Than USD 300,000.

Masoud Kipanya, Tanzania's most recognised political cartoonist, founded Kaypee Motors to build Tanz...

May 9 18 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Already Has Its Industrialists. They Are Currently Traders. The Path to a USD 1 Trillion Economy Runs Through Converting One Into the Other.

The assumption embedded in most of Tanzania's industrial policy discourse is that industrialisation ...

Apr 30 19 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa Is Producing More Graduates Than Ever. It Is Also Running Out of the Skills It Actually Needs. That Contradiction Is Not an Accident.

Across East Africa, university enrolment has grown faster than at any point in the post-independence...

Apr 5 15 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa's Investment Surge Has a Skills Problem. The Capital Is Arriving. The People Who Know How to Deploy It Are Not.

Tanzania registered USD 10.95 billion in approved investment capital in 2025. The World Bank committ...

Apr 5 16 min

BUSINESS LEADERS

The Supply Chain That Starts in a Tanzanian Farm and Ends on a Shelf Abroad: How Irene Ivambi Is Building Mrembo Naturals Into Africa's Case for Local Manufacturing

Mrembo Naturals sources raw materials from over 5,000 women farmers across Tanzania, employs 20 peop...

Mar 25 11 min

WORKFORCE

Eight Million Jobs by 2030: Why Tanzania Must Reform Education, Rewrite Its Stories, and Raise Builders

Tanzania’s goal of creating eight million jobs by 2030 will fail unless the country abandons an ed...

Nov 28 5 min

WORKFORCE

Vision 2050 Reveals Tanzania's Biggest Economic Bet. The Country Is Betting On Productivity, Not Resources.

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 centres on productivity rather than natural ...

Aug 4 6 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Is Betting On Science Instead of Cheap Labour. Vision 2050 Signals a Quiet Economic Revolution.

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 signals a different bet, one that gets consi...

Aug 4 7 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Has 17.8 Million Young People Aged 15 to 24. Up to 26 Percent Are Jobless. The Economy Is Growing at 5.9 Percent. The Demographic Dividend and the Demographic Crisis Are the Same People.

Tanzania's 2024 Integrated Labour Force Survey confirms informality rose from 92.5 to 94.6 percent, ...

Jul 19 8 min

DIASPORA VOICES

Tanzania's Diaspora Sends Billions Home. Why Aren't We Importing Their Skills Too?

Tanzania receives USD 1.27 billion annually in diaspora remittances and has built infrastructure to ...

Jul 4 8 min