Multifunctional Mosque

“Do you have a local radio?”, we were asking in a not so remote village along the main road from Iringa to Mbeya, searching for ways on how to spread the news about our ongoing project. “No”, people answered, but a smile spread over their faces: “But we do have a mosque with a loud speaker!”
About half the people of Tanzania are Muslim, and the Muezzin calls them for prayer at four thirty in the morning for the first time. The two mosques in our immediate neighborhood regularly remind us so. However, in the early evenings we are equally regularly rewarded with beautiful, quite often long lasting songs of the very same muezzin while the tropical night is falling. The particular thing about it: unlike in many Arab country's the call of the Muezzin is always life!