One of the most significant development challenges in Tanzania is the tendency to keep doing the same things over and over often at the expense of exploring more beneficial alternatives. Even when what we are doing has some utility, failure to expand our horizons by exploring new opportunities has needlessly limited our development potential. We need to break free from these ‘yale yale’ (business as usual)tendencies.
In previous articles about migration, I highlighted that this is one of those ‘billion-dollar’ opportunities that appears to be poorly utilised in Tanzania. Properly harnessed, migration could contribute up to 10 percent of the national GDP. However, our ad hoc approach to migration has hindered our ability to capitalise on this opportunity. We don’t know what we want and are consequently entangled in contradictions in our practices.
