EYAKUZE: A toilet rag that’d make professionals nauseated

Tanzanian newspapers carry headlines on alleged corruption in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 27, 2014. Like any profession, the media self-regulates to higher standards than the state could. PHOTO | DANIEL HAYDUK | AFP

One of the unexpected outcomes of writing a column is the amount of questions one gets about the state of the Tanzanian media.

Having grown up in the single state media-controlled 1980s and 1990s, I am a very big fan of how far we have come with liberalising our media space. Thus, it is always a surprise to me that so many consumers are unhappy.