Everyone is an Accomplice/Nadir Tharani

Stroll into a Kempinski lounge, pause at a roadside bar or perch on any street corner and one can inevitably hear a litany of grievances and suggestions about life in Dar es salaam, mostly borne out of personal experiences but often out of imaginings. Here are some: the lack of sidewalks, street lights, drainage, garbage collection; complaints about traffic congestion caused by over 350,000 veh...

Naomba, Naomba/ Nadir Tharani

In this article, originally posted on Dar Guide, August 2004 as Naomba, Naomba, Architect Nadir Tharani demonstrates how our spaces are bereft of human interaction and how as architects, designers, government and the common man, we have all failed towards human enrichment in our public spaces . When we sit down at the end of the day and look at our African Cities through a thin scope, don’t we ...