Dar Es Salaam - Post Report Question and Answers
Are there problems with ethnic, race/racial minorities or religious prejudices? Gender equality?
Gender equality is certainly a thing. Yikes. Foreign women don’t have it so bad, but I hurt for the women here. - Nov 2022
Ethnic problems - no Gender - women aren’t equal in TZ culture, although the Muzungu (foreigner) may get a bit more Leigh way than others. - Jul 2022
Women are treated differently in some cases, unfortunately. - Jan 2022
For expats, no. Otherwise, while TZ doesn't have massive issues around tribal identity like much of Africa, there are brewing social tensions between the large muslim population and the government. There is a problem with killings of albino people. Women are still mostly forced into traditional roles and denied real opportunity. Outside of Dar and Arusha, this country is ridiculously poor, with limited infrastructure, massive corruption issues, a sub-standard educational system. TZ is struggling to feed itself: malnutrition remains a significant impediment to nearly every attempt to advance/change things. - Jun 2017
I never felt so welcomed and everyone calls you sister. - Dec 2015
Not really that I have experienced. - Jul 2015
Some religious violence both in Dar and in Zanzibar. - Mar 2014
I never heard of or saw any issues with race or religion, but I did experience going to the local doctors, and they wouldn't speak directly to me (being a woman), but only to my husband. That being said, they were professional otherwise. - Feb 2013
No. - Feb 2013
Not overtly. Dar is fairly cosmopolitan, with large Arabic, Indian, and African communities living fairly peacefully with each other, and all religions. - Aug 2011
There don't seem to be - Jun 2010
