Wading through the streets of Dar, dreaming of a Tanzanian space programme, why not?
When excited nerds talk about how waterways engineering is one of the marks of high civilisation, they are not kidding. Dar es Salaam has been under a sheet of rain so thick and long most of its residents can’t remember what it is like not to have wet shoes.
Not to brag or anything but it takes a certain kind of hearty semi-aquatic esprit to live here. It isn’t comfortable, and honestly there is sometimes just a little too much robust wildlife around the suburbs to give one a proper modern feeling of disengagement from nature.
