„Civilization doesn’t consist in clothes, cars or other trivialities […] Civilization means a more highly developed personality. Educated is the one who has learnt to strive methodically and systematically for knowledge and to make use of it in advantage of oneself and the people in his environment. A cultivated person is the living personification of the history, the customs and traditions of the people.” Kenneth Watene

Africa is a continent where there are plenty of conflicts because of its for the world indispensable sources of raw material. The remission of debts by the Western countries is attached to a requirement that brings on the one hand short-term prosperity to the people and that is on the other hand highly dangerous, the privatization and liberalization of the country’s economy, in order to get a license for the exploitation of the African raw materials. While Africa has a passive role in the global economy, the Western investors as the former colonialists profit from the African economic capacity. Now it depends on the African elites that have appropriated the national resources and must keep the conditions of the WTO, the World Bank, the IWF and other development programs, if they will either sell their country or take an active part in their country’s development, in order to create an independent economic and social system by supporting the informal economy and the contemplation of civil societal values.

In the last years you could see an immense upswing in Tanzania. In “Bongo”, Daressalam, the unofficial capital of Tanzania, many skyscrapers were built, everywhere you can see men at work reconstructing the city center. What about the impact on the poorer Population?
All the little shops that were sometimes called by their owners sarcastically “Disabled Shops” you can now mostly find outside the city center. In the main city center most of the traders were chased out during the last two years. On the one hand the slowly developed middle class in Africa can reap the benefits of the increasing economic activity, but the part of the population that lives in absolute poverty and illiteracy, still survive by their bread in the mouth on the fringes on society.
The state-run cleaning-up operations in Bongo, Zanzibar and other coastal regions result in threat to several existences, without putting alternative jobs or rather new basis of their livelihood at the people’s disposal. For the past years many new all-inclusive operators have established themselves that provide the tourists with services that are more expensive than the original services that would be offered by the local people.
While the investors make profit, the natives are fobbed off with low wages and are confronted with raising prices of food and other consumer items. Foodstuffs as anyhow tight goods got prohibitively expensive in the times of the dollar. The Zanzibarians claim, “nchi imeshauzwa”, that means “the country has already been sold”, actually to the investors. How can it be possible, that the local population as well can make much of a profit from tourism and to take an active part in entrepreneurial activities? The ordinary people feel excluded from the democratic and economic processes in their country and always exposed to the despotism of the governmental institutions. In order to overcome injustice, it is necessary to create equality and proportionality. It is not only necessary to ratify the human rights conventions, but to implement them as universal laws. But who would like to give somebody some of one’s cake in order to create justice while others act in an injustice way and additionally gain some profit?

You can find Tanzania in East Africa. Its size is 945.087 square kilometre. That’s more than two and a half times the size of Germany. Zanzibar makes 2.644 square kilometre. In the national census of 2002 the Tanzanian population makes up 38.3 million people with a growth rate of 1.8% in 2002 because of the enhancement of hygienic and medical supply. There are about one million people living in Zanzibar. Because of the fast growing population and the high birth rate the age structure is still in balance or rather pyramid-shaped, whereby the influence of Aids on the age structure might not be underestimated. Aids affects especially people in reproductive age and it would cause a diminishing of the age pyramid. But in fact there are many young and only few old people at the moment. That doesn’t cause the problem which you can see in the Western countries that the old people become a burden on the population that is able to work – the great number of children and youths has to be provides appropriately and to be educated well that demands the economic resources of developing countries on a large scale.
Because of early Arab influence and later on the conversion to Christianity on the mainland of Tanzania you can find approximately 40% Christians and 30% Muslims. On the Zanzibarian islands live 95% of Muslims. Immigrants make up approximately 25.000, 20.000 of that are Indians. There are more than 130 different tribes in Tanzania. The Bantu tribes make up 60% of the whole population. Bantu is a language family, that contains Kiswahili, Kizulu, Kikongo and so on and occurs mostly in Southern Africa. Because of the influence of Nyerere, the first national president of Tanzania, Tanzania is one of the few African countries that use a standardized African language, Kiswahili, as official language of the country. English is official language and language for higher education.