He's one of a new generation of African leaders, championing a free market, stronger ties to the West and the ultimate unification of Africa. Kikwete was elected president of Tanzania with 80 percent of the vote in 2005, and maintains strong support at home and abroad. However he faces some tough challenges combating poverty and growing Tanzania's economy. But ultimately he says his mission is focused and simple: "Essentially it is service to the people of Tanzania; this is my interest."
Thabit Manka is up on the back step of his house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for good reason: If he posed on level ground with his eldest son, their height difference would be accentuated to the point of absurdity. Even like this, in the last photo they would ever take together, the top of Thabit's kufi only meets the giant boy's shoulders. It's April 2004, and the son, 17-year-old Hashim Thabit Manka, as his name was written then, is seven feet of limbs drowning in baggy jeans and a retro Philadelphia 76ers shirt, staring straight into the camera with only the faintest hint of a smile. The father's billowy kanzu and the gray edges of his facial hair give him a regal air at the age of 56; he is grinning, with his gaze fixed slightly off to the left.
President Bush gave Tanzania's president, who played basketball as a youth, a pair of Shaquille O'Neal's shoes Sunday, along with millions of dollars to help combat disease and poverty in the east African country.
He's one of a new generation of African leaders, championing a free market, stronger ties to the West and the ultimate unification of Africa. Kikwete was elected president of Tanzania with 80 percent of the vote in 2005, and maintains strong support at home and abroad. However he faces some tough challenges combating poverty and growing Tanzania's economy. But ultimately he says his mission is focused and simple: "Essentially it is service to the people of Tanzania; this is my interest."
Thabit Manka is up on the back step of his house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for good reason: If he posed on level ground with his eldest son, their height difference would be accentuated to the point of absurdity. Even like this, in the last photo they would ever take together, the top of Thabit's kufi only meets the giant boy's shoulders. It's April 2004, and the son, 17-year-old Hashim Thabit Manka, as his name was written then, is seven feet of limbs drowning in baggy jeans and a retro Philadelphia 76ers shirt, staring straight into the camera with only the faintest hint of a smile. The father's billowy kanzu and the gray edges of his facial hair give him a regal air at the age of 56; he is grinning, with his gaze fixed slightly off to the left.
President Bush gave Tanzania's president, who played basketball as a youth, a pair of Shaquille O'Neal's shoes Sunday, along with millions of dollars to help combat disease and poverty in the east African country.
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