Tanzanian-American students explain ways to harness potential of Western-educated diaspora for national development

Becki M’mari, originally from the Kilimanjaro region, is a second-year student at Emory University, pursuing a double major in neuroscience and African studies while also on a pre-medical track.

Diaspora Tanzanite Card is in the pipeline, a positive step towards recognising Tanzanians living abroad who have taken up the citizenship of other countries.

The diaspora community has now a newfound optimism that seemed to have faded after the introduction of the Immigration Act of 1995, which rendered dual impossible.