It was an age untarnished by cellphones, where Tsh100,000 ($43) could buy you a house and icons like Patrice Lumumba and Samora Machel were still alive, The Spy Fiction novella series by Elvis Aristablus Musiba you get a streetside seat to this era in Tanzania, through the antics of his lead character ‘Willy Gamba.’
Kuanzia 1978 mambo yalikwenda mrama. Kwanza, Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki ilivunjika… Ukame pia uliathiri uchumi wetu … Na kama nilivyosena hapo awali Shirika la Fedha la Kimataifa na Benki ya Dunia havikutupatia hata senti tano wakati huohuo wenzetu walipewa mamilioni ya fedha za kigeni.
