TIME IN TANZANIA

In rural Tanzania, the local people do not use watches and are very flexible about time. Relationships in Tanzania are more important than being on time.

The Tanzanian term for white people is Wazungu, which literally means people going around in circle. So the Tanzanians may say no thanks to our request that they let us hang around with them.

Unless you look at your watch, time is subjected. It divides our day into discrete units into which we feel compelled to insert  some sorts of productive activity. Even our leisure time tends to get a located to something useful like raking leaves.