Hey friends,

Welcome to the first issue of the Lughayangu newsletter! Happy to have you on board. I am very excited to start this chapter of Lughayangu and look forward to seeing the community grow. If you do enjoy the newsletter....

At ten in the morning, a man collects his mail and drives to the coast to read it in peace.

It is February 1969, in Dar es Salaam, the seaside capital of Tanzania.

The man likes working at a friend's villa in Oyster Bay,....

Once a year, in the village of Makunduchi, south of Zanzibar, men line up and beat each other with banana stalks.

No one loses. It's how the village clears the past year's grudges.

You hit, you get hit, and by sundown nob....