Muhidin Issa Michuzi is a Tanzanian photojournalist who is well known for initiating the

Michuzi Blog Muhidin Issa Michuzi is a Tanzanian photojournalist who is well known for initiating the Michuzi Blog. Early life and career Michuzi had a keen interest in photography. In the 1980s, he joined an evening photography course at the Goethe-Instit ...

Early life and career

Michuzi had a keen interest in photography. In the 1980s, he joined an evening photography course at the

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Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...

. One of his photographs was selected for the front page of the '' Daily News'', a government-owned newspaper. He was subsequently employed as a

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for three years before being employed formally on 1 January 1990. In 1992, he joined the Internationales Institut für Journalismus in

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for an advanced photojournalism course. He later joined the Tanzania School of Journalism (present-day School of Journalism and Mass Communication) at the

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and graduated in 1996. In 2006 he was awarded a scholarship to attend a specialized course in

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and has since been associated with the ''Daily News''.

Blogging career

In September 2005, Michuzi had accompanied the former Tanzanian

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who was attending the Helsinki Conference in

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. There, he met Ndesanjo Macha who assisted him in setting up his blog. The first blog entry was made on 8 September 2005. His intention was to inform the Tanzanian diaspora about news related to the motherland via a

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Personal life

Michuzi has two brothers, Ahmad and Othman who are also well known bloggers in Tanzania. Together, they've formed a media company known as Michuzi Media Group (MMG). He is an avid fan of

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and supports the

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club

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and Pan African at home.

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