This project examines humanity’s enduring relationship with wildlife, tracing how centuries of fluid coexistence between communities and ecosystems were reshaped under German colonial rule. Driven by imperial and economic priorities, colonial policies curtailed traditional land use and instituted legal frameworks that replaced dynamic reciprocity with rigid spatial boundaries—segregating “human” and “animal” territories and enforcing strict hunting and zoning regulations.

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This project focuses on bringing you conversations with local poets and musicians, sharing their works. Filmed in different parts of the city as well as featuring live performances and readings, it aims to bring the lively and exciting world of Tanzanian poetry and music.

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We are looking at ways in which culture is propagated through time; carried on through stories and through material inheritance. While the abstraction of a story and the apparent concreteness of material presence seem to be in separate worlds, it is ultimately in their unity that the value of each is given different dimension, distinction and specificity: a landmass attached to a name and clan; a piece of wood attached to a tradition; a story attached to a body.

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 In Tanzania, poetry has been sung as much as written, and jazz has given musicians license to experiment with new sounds as much as reach back to the sonic past.  

This session of Pichatime x Nafasi Library explores the loose and free flowing connections between Jazz and Poetry, inviting poets and musicians to share their craft and highlight the creative impulses that drive them both. 

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The session  brings together artists, writers, and other creatives to reflect on letter-writing, stamps (and the art they showcase), and modes of communication and story-keeping that are perhaps fading away in today's busy, electronic world.

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Over the past century, khanga has evolved into a central fabric in the lives of East Africans, carrying memories and stories of their social, political, and economic experiences. Emerging in the mid-19th century, its existence is linked to interactions between the East African coast and the wider world via the Indian Ocean—interactions that predate colonial occupation and trace back through maritime trade.

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