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OLDUVAI GORGE IS IN TANZANIA
Tanzania
Tourist Board (TTB) has been following up the ongoing discussions on social
media following a video clip being posted on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iveX49WE7fw) which
has been circulating through various media channels showing a person claiming
that Oldupai Gorge, a site in Tanzania that holds evidence of the earliest existence
of mankind is in Kenya.
This
video clip has triggered a lot of discussions on the different social media
among Tanzanians and other people who have good wishes for Tanzania tourism who
know very well that Oldupai Gorge is in Tanzania and NOT in Kenya.
As a public institution, responsible
for marketing and promotion of Tanzania tourist attractions, Tanzania Tourist
Board is also dismayed by this misleading information which intends to distort
the good work the Board has been doing in promoting Tanzania tourist
attractions including the Oldupai Gorge.
The Board would like to take this opportunity to
strongly refute this statement delivered by the said person from a neighboring
country while addressing one of the sessions of the International Young Leaders
Assembly (IYLA) in USA, August 2015.
We
would like to inform the world that as it is the case for Mt. Kilimanjaro,
Serengeti National Park, Zanzibar to mention just a few, Olduvai Gorge which is
referred to as the Cradle of Mankind, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey
discovered important hominid remains of the nutcracker ‘Australopithecus
bosel’, who lived nearly two years ago, is also in Tanzania and not elsewhere
in the world.
It is located in
the eastern Serengeti Plains in the Arusha Region and about 45 km, from Laetoli, another important archaeological site of early human occupation. The
paleoanthropologist-archeologist team Mary and Louis Leakey established and developed the excavation and
research programs at Olduvai Gorge
which achieved great advances of human knowledge and world-renown status. Olduvai Gorge is one of the key tourist
attractions for Tanzania.
We call upon Tanzanians and those with good wishes for
Tanzania wherever they are to continue supporting the effort’s undertaken by
TTB in marketing Tanzania and her all tourism attractions. We believe that it
is the role of every single Tanzanian to promote Tanzania as Africa’s best
destination and ask them to join and support Tanzania Tourist Board in its
efforts to promote destination Tanzania.
We would like to applaud the reaction made by Tanzanians
and non-Tanzanian s alike within and out of Tanzania, who through this incident were able
to stand up as ‘one voice’ and tell the world that OLDUPAI GORGE is INDEED IN
TANZANIA!
Issued by:
Public
Relations Office
TANZANIA TOURIST BOARD
Haka kabinti ni kaongo kasiko na aibu, au pengine ni kajinga kakupindukia.
ReplyDeletekwani hapo ktk mkutano hakukua na vijana wa kitanzania wa kuweza kumpinga hapo hapo?
ReplyDeleteTTB muwatumie waandaaji Wa mkutano ambao upotoshaji ulifanyika ufafanuzi Wa wapo Olduvai IPO. Pia mtumie mwanya huo kutangaza habari nyingine za utalii. Social media peke yake haitoshi. Aidha msilaumu kuwa mtanzania aliyekuwepo hakukanusha kwenye mikutano mikubwa itifaki ya kuongea inazingatiwa.
Deletethe motive for saying that is still the motive for not apologizing.
ReplyDeleteMkutano ulifanyika August 2015 na SIO August 2016.
ReplyDeleteNjaa zitawaua nyie wakenya. Hivi kuna njaa hivi mpaka mwasema uongo wa hdharani mbele ya wanadunia. acheni kuzaa.
ReplyDeleteUnethical.
ReplyDeletesasa mkiajiri wakenya mjue mnaajiri watu wa hivi wasio na maadili wala miiko.
aidha hajui ukweli kwa sababu mitaala ya masomo kenya ni ya uongo na imepinda au kakusudia.
ReplyDeletehuwa mnasema eti jamaa wanaelimu kutushinda. elimu ya uongo.
ReplyDeleteStatement ya bodi yenyewe inamakosa kibao,mara .....who lived neary TWO YEARS AGO, yani 2014!!!!!. In some places they refer it as Oldupai Gorge, others Olduvai
ReplyDeleteThe BIG question is. Did she go out there with deliberate intention of deceiving her audience? I doubt it. She is just ignorant or misinformed or both.She was "educated in one of the best universities ABROAD" I googled and got that, UREKA!! There is your clue to her not knowing where Olduvai is.
ReplyDeleteHata kama wangekuwepo, wangeifyata mikia yao kama mbwa koko vile, wabongo sisi ni kama kuku wakufugwa.
ReplyDeleteNa kama alikuwepo Mtanzania, aka ufyta mkia wako basi na atanhazwe hadharani.
"By their deeds shall ye know them." (Matthew 7:16) From this and other experiences Tanzania knows what sort of neighbour it has and what sort of partner it has in the EAC.
ReplyDeleteHow many preposterous you tube video claims are we going to rebut? We are giving this fool the credibility she does not deserve. Let's not loose focus of the bigger picture: branding of our attractions. Is anybody listening? I doubt it! At least not from what I have seen so far!
ReplyDeleteMsikilizeni vizuri jamani, kasema quote; 'you see up until then I had been taught' kwa hiyo wa kulaumu sio yeye, ni hao waliomfundisha na up until then hakuna aliejitokeza kumwambia ukweli.
ReplyDeleteTTB Check on your last sentence, we are loosing the case with a word "OLDUPAI" on your press release!!!
ReplyDeleteHawa ttb akili zao mbovu. hivi mtu kakutukana kasha unasambaza tena matusi alokutukana? hiyo link ya ujinga huo wameisambaza ya nini? kweli ni kumpa huyu dada umaarufu wa bure. sitashangaa kesho akifanya madai mengine ilimradi tu ttb watampa ukumbi zaidi.
ReplyDeleteNdo tiwe wazalendo, tupige Kura kwenye hio link hapo la sivyo tutakuwa tunaendeleza uzembe wetu (kama baadhi walivyosema). Mi nishapiga kura kwenye hio page ....
ReplyDeleteThere is a different between a LIAR and STUPIDITY. Unfortunately this poor lady has both to the highest degree. If you can standup on UN podium and speak TRUE LIES then hell is waiting for you.
ReplyDeleteUJINGA WA DADA HUYO UMEONGEZEWA NA ULE WA TTB. WOTE OVYO TU
ReplyDeleteUkisoma makosa yaliyopo kwenye hilo tangazo la TTB unashindwa kufahamu lipi baha zaidi: huyo aliodai Olduvai ipo kwao ama hao TTB waliovuriga na kuonyesha mapungufu ya utaalamu wa promotion wanayodai?
ReplyDeleteTangu tamko la Rosemary Odinga hadi leo ni muda mrefu sana. Bila hii video hakuna mtu angeshtuka. Uzembe? Sijui. La Oldvai Gorge linakwisha, je la ndege za Kenya zilizoandikwa MOUNT KILIMANJARO tunalifumbia macho? Tukumbuke Ndege hizi huzunguka dunia nzima.....
ReplyDeletehuyu mdada hapo ni msomi ndio anaongea uongo mkubwa hivi angetaka kuwa clearly na anachoenda kukisema ila ndio hiyo kupenda visvyoa vyao eti my story of my identity i am sure she doesnt even know any of it. na hiyo ya kuweka ktk ndege zao labda kuna mtu aliwauzia right hiyo wewe ngoja tufukue tutajua tu. mie kwa uzoefu wangu huwezi chora rangi za company ikijitangaza ktk gari/nyumba bila idhini ya mwenye nacho uongo. hapa hilo nalo jipu ngoja tuzidi fuatilia usikute mbongo kauza pesa ndefu.
ReplyDeleteKweli katika hili TTB wenzetu walichemsha vibaya sana. tuwe na vipaumbele vinavyoeleweka. swala la kwenda kwenye nyaraka za miaka iliyopita na kulifanya kama la leo limemfanya huyo binti mjinga kujiona wa maana sana. hivi watu hawafanyi uchambuzi kabla ya kujitangazia? nani anawashauri TTB? Magufuli anahaki ya kudai pesa waliyoweka kwenye benki binafsi
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