Author: findtime

Most people who land in Tanzania for the first time carry one invisible piece of luggage they never declared: their own assumption that time works the same everywhere. It does not. The concept of time in Tanzania is genuinely different from what most visitors and business partners expect, layered across at least three distinct cultural frameworks operating simultaneously, and shaped by over a thousand years of Indian Ocean trade, agricultural tradition, and communal philosophy. I made every possible mistake in my first year engaging with Tanzanian time culture. I showed up to meetings that had not yet started. I scheduled…