I had a day off and I wanted to find a witch doctor so I decided to take a dala dala the 70km to Bagamoyo. The dala dala are bigger and less cramped than ‘taxis’ in Uganda and Matatu in Kenya. I had a seat and a window so I was happy. I took a… Read More »
There was only one other person waiting to see the witch doctor. Like me, he had made the 70km journey from Dar es Salaam. Unlike me, he was looking for a spell. I wondered what problem had brought him all the way down this dirt track, to this village arriving in this small neat courtyard.… Read More »
I thought I’d walk along the beach to The Slipway to get my haircut. It was a hot day (when is it not!) and the tide was out. The distance didn’t look too far, anyway I didn’t have much else to do. Skipping over the rubbish left behind by the receding tide, I soon came… Read More »