The personal Blog of Gualbert Kashasha: TREAP TO NYALI VILLAGE

While back me and my friend Hamza Matete decided to take a little ride out of town. We went to this village called Nyali, it’s about 22 kilometers from Magomeni Kilosa. The rest of the road heads all the way to Mikumi national park. Hamza’s father lives at Nyali, he has a farm and there were other relatives of his he wanted to say hi to. So I decided to tag along, we rented a motorcycle and start our journey at evening. It took us about 50-60minutes to reach there. The place was nice, Agriculture is a basic activity of this village. Most of people in Nyali are farmers and some do small business like owning small shops or genges were they sell important goods like sugar, cooking oil, salt etc..

HOUSE HOLDS

Most houses are built by mud, or mud and bricks (matofali in swahili), the mud houses are nice and very traditional. They are built by mud and tree woods, the tree woods are like pillars used to support the house from falling, it’s like a human body! the skeleton is inside and skin outside except the house doesn’t move. No need for foundation. The roof is the last thing to be put on top of the house (It’s sometime made up of grass, long grass, coconut tree branches or even iron sheet). Most of these houses usually have two or three bedrooms, one room on each side and a sitting room in middle. There is no floor and the windows are very small (note that other houses are built by only mud without tree woods).

I lived in one for couple of years back, trust me, there is no heat inside on summer seasons.

ELECTRICITY & MEDICAL CARE

There is no electricity on this village, so people use candles and chimney as a source of light at night. Some people who are rich use generator and solar powers, they charge others to charge their mobile phones and batteries. There is no hospital either, people are required to walk to a near village called Zombo for medical treatment at the dispensary. Most villages in kilosa depends on Mlimani district hospital.

EDUCATION

There is only one primary school, Nyali primary school. students who pass their standard seven exams are taken to start their secondary education At Zombo secondary School which is in a village nearby.students walk long length to reach their schools. which makes it hard for some of them to reach there on time and sometimes miss few classes and some dont go there at all. (kids on picture are going back to school after school hours to play football)

MEANS OF TRANSPORT

Nyali village is in the middle of kilosa and mikumi, people who travel long distance use bus or motorcycle. Some who go short distance usually use bicycle or walk on foot, example to near villages like Miyombo, Zombo, Ulaya, Chimbwi etc.

FUN

Most Villagers have fun after they come back from work, they go to local clubs (kilabuni in Swahili) and drink traditional alcohol mbege, mnazi, gongo( but gongo is illegal in Tanzania) some who can afford drinking beer such as Safari lager. Young people also have time for having their own fun too, most of them play football, watch movies on local theatres, swim on rivers and dancing on weekends days or on special holidays (most of these dancing are called vi-go-do-ro, sand dust everywere u don’t need a white shirt when this happens).

(kids are playing football)
Hamza fixing a motocyle