Submitted by: Riyaz Jiwani
Via: email comment correction.
I just found out the Mrs Sherbanu Mohammed Habib of Musoma passed away she was 92 yers old. But I do not remember her. Hope you know who she is. Her funeral is tomorrow, Sept 10, 2011 at 9.30 am in Toronto.
It is Sherbanu Habib Mohamed, wife of late Habib Mohamed (brother of Dhanji Mohammed) of Musoma Bus Services. Late Sherbanu is mother of Mansur, Izzat, late Firoz, and Naseem. Used to live next to Kotecha. Funeral was held this morning (Sept 10, 2011).
This message was received by Jashwant C Rao via email and MusomaBlog is taking the liberty to share it with fellow Musomians for their information and to allow the opportunity to share any additional information, news, stories that they may care to share in response.
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My name is Yasmin < alibhai jamal> born in Musoma in 1957, left Musoma in 1962.
My dads family lived in Musoma – Uncles; Amershi, Esmail, Alibhai, Abdulmalek Jamal were in Musoma until 1975; Cousins are Sadru, Nizar, Amin, Norallah, Nizar; My brothers Firoz, Zulfikar, sister Nasim were in Musoma since 1947 but I don’t remember many people from there. My cousin is in New Jersey – his name is Moez, I could not make it to the reunion but will try next time.
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Came up with this picture from the MusomaBlog photo collections.
Can you identify this location? More importantly do you know of interesting stories and anecdotes surrounding this location?
The debate on the Serengeti Highway goes on. Apparently the Tanzanian Government backed down under pressure, but only in words.
The reality is that Tanzania, like Kenya and many other countries in Africa, aspires to become an industrial nation and to do this they must seek the most economical way of growing their economy. Conservationists, me included, have been focused only on the threat of this road to the Serengeti, and I don’t think we have tried hard enough to understand that the that the main purpose of the road was to develop two struggling isolated towns of Musoma and Mwanza on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria. These two towns desperately need the road; it will enable them to become major lake port cities connecting Tanzania to massive trading opportunities in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo.
Now the Tanzanian government is saying that the road will be built, but it just won’t be paved. The world has erupted in shock and horror that they seem to be taking back what was said earlier. Why are we surprised? They have done this twice before.
via Wildlife Extra News – Serengeti Highway.
What do our fellow Musomians feel about the Serengeti Highway. Environment or progress. Remember, the Highway is supposed to be helpful to Musoma! Feel free to discuss via comments below.
This may not be directly related to Musoma, but Tarime being a neighbouring town to Musoma, hope someone can come forward with some information. Please reply in the comments section below. To protect privacy, please do not share telephone numbers or email IDs in the comment. If such information needs to be shared, please submit it via the [Contact] page referring to this post.
Can you please help to locate Surjeet Kuldeep Vij of Tarime who migrated to Florida USA in 1970 (appx), and are now probably in the UK.
Thank you.
Lata
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