The United Kingdom (U.K.) based news portal, the Daily Mail, is receiving flak for referring to the Tanzanian capital, Dar Es Salaam, as a ‘fishing village.’
'Fishing village' to 'coastal city': Twitter 'schools' U.K. portal about Tanzania capital
The description was used in the first paragraph of a story they filed about English Premier League (PL) side, Everton, who arrived in the country on Wednesday for a pre-season friendly game.
‘‘Everton touched down in Tanzania ahead of their pre-season friendly, with Wayne Rooney and Co welcomed by hoards of supporters as they arrived in the fishing village of Dar Es Salaam,’‘ the paragraph read.
But Maria Sarungi Tsehai, a communications expert and founder of the group Change Tanzania, took to Twitter to school the Daily Mail on the status of Dar Es Salaam – the capital town and largest port city of Tanzania.
The portal was forced to amend the said sentence replacing ‘fishing village’ with ‘coastal city.’ The rewritten paragraph read, ‘‘Everton touched down in Tanzania ahead of their pre-season friendly, with Wayne Rooney and Co welcomed by hoards of supporters as they arrived in the coastal city of Dare Es Salaam.’‘
DailyMailUK nice "fishing village" of Dar es Salaam - somewhere in Africa - right?Can you be more condescending? You could have Googled! pic.twitter.com/96nGPZagQC
— Maria Sarungi Tsehai (MariaSTsehai) July 12, 2017
Hey DailyMailUK this "fishing village" is adding more residents than New York .. and has a projected population of 4 - 5 million or more pic.twitter.com/4aNpl4xiLf
— Maria Sarungi Tsehai (MariaSTsehai) July 12, 2017
Cc DailyMailUK FYI photos of the "fishing village" of Dar es Salaam https://t.co/BVrKy8Dns3
— Maria Sarungi Tsehai (MariaSTsehai) July 12, 2017
Others joined in their condemnation of the portal blending the presentation of facts with humour at some point.
Fishing village, that was pre 1900's Dar es Salaam. At least keep your Google searches updated — Nabil Omar (@NabilTanzania1) July 12, 2017
Hopefully, the office of British High Commissioner in Dar Hon HCSarahCooke will help DailyMailUK to correct this. https://t.co/DPhlaCnmXC— Mathew Mndeme (MM) (@mathewmndeme) July 12, 2017
#SomeoneTellDailyMail Dar es Salaam is not a fishing village but one of the largest city in East Africa.https://t.co/ekGs5J8mIn— Musa (@jstMusa) July 12, 2017
A fishing village with an airport!!Ironic the same as the claim that Kilimanjaro & Lake Victoria were discovered by the British missionaries— Mathew Mndeme (MM) (@mathewmndeme) July 12, 2017
This statement is an insult to our capital city! Is there a fishing villege in the world with a population of 5M? (of people, not fish)— Mathew Mndeme (MM) (@mathewmndeme) July 12, 2017