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Klabu ya Usomaji Vitabu ya “Taswira” Yazidi kupaa.

Klabu ya Usomaji, inayotambulika kama Taswira “Book Club”, yenye maskani yake katika Mkahawa wa Vitabu, Soma, inaendelea kufanya vyema katika shughuli zake za kuhamasisha usomaji miongoni mwa WaTanzania. Soma, taasisi inayohamasisha usomaji nchini Tanzania, katika azma yake ya kuchagiza wanajamii kujijengea utamaduni wa kupenda kusoma na kuyasaka maarifa pamoja na Klabu ya Taswira zinaonekana kufanikiwa kwa […]

Celebrating Women Creative Agency in Liberation Struggles in Tanzania and Ireland

As part of the global commemoration of the Centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Rising, on 17/06/2016, Soma is collaborating with the Embassy of Ireland to celebrate the creative agency of women in the liberation struggles in Ireland and Tanzania. This is an acknowledgement and a remembrance of women’s rightful place in our collective histories and a […]

The prospects of readership in Magufuli’s regime

The entire internet went viral days after President Magufuli took office. It was all “hashtagged” #WHATWOULDMAGUFULIDO, a rather rhetoric question that was questioned in Africa and overseas. Questions were asked on all matters regarding the prospects of Magufuli’s regime. It all ranged from investment to employment, corruption to embezzlement, health to education and so forth.  E&D […]

After School Dance Academy @ Soma

Do you want to Dance? Learn to Dance with Aloyce Makonde and Ally Mzuri @Soma book café 3 Months  (3 times a week) course at the end of which you will be able to: 1.      Tell a story through Contemporary Dance; 2.      Make a Street and Contemporary Dance presentations for an audience. Open to young […]

New tittles – children books

Baraka Blackbird is bored with her home. Her friend the Mbuyu  tree tells her; Your wings are gift of freedom, so fly” she follows her friend’s advice and explores the new lands, makes new friends and discovers courage that can be archieved by facing one’s fears.This is a charming allegorical tale Tsh:  16000/= Furaha must […]

New tittles available at soma bookcafe

This book reproduces some of the leading judgements written by Justice Samatta. It highlights , in a critical fashion, some of the  high points of his beliefs and observations as embedded in his decisions and speeches Compiled and edited by Issa Shivji and Hamudi Majamba Tsh: 30,000/=   Why planning does not work presents a […]

Pambazuka’s Book Titles Available at Soma Book Café

Price: Tsh 27,000/= The thirty-one African-born contributors to this book move beyond the linked dichotomies of victim/oppressor and victim/heroine to present their experiences of resistance in full complexity: they are at the forward edge of the tide of women’s empowerment that, at the start of the twenty-first century, is moving across the African continent. Contributions […]

Soma literary Competition 2013/2014 on April 2014

ANDIKA NA SOMA-SHINDANO LA UANDISHI WA HADITHI FUPI Shindano la Hadithi Fupi kwa Shule za Sekondari linaratibiwa na Taasisi ya Usomaji na Maendeleo-Soma. Shindano hili hufanyika kila mwaka. Kuanzia mwaka 2014 kilele chake kitaangukia  siku ya vitabu duniani ambayo ni tarehe 23 Aprili au karibu na tarehe hiyo. Siku hii huadhimishwa duniani kote kwa matamasha […]

Uwake Poetry Meet Up–Kesho 29th Oct.

Mabibi na Mabwana, Salaam! Greetings Ladies and Gents, Hope you’ve had a good two weeks. Karibuni tena kesho pale Soma Book cafe kwa usiku wa mashairi mwanana. Mada ni ‘Joy’-‘Furaha’. Apologies for not sending the moots of our last session earlier… On our last meet on the 15th of Oct, present were Demere, Jasper, Happy, […]