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In Tanzania not many women have roles to play in heavy construction projects, but that is beginning to change. One woman breaking that barrier is Halima Rashid. She is the only female driver of the excavators deployed on the site for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project. She hopes to inspire other women to take up role in male dominated jobs.

1970 marked the start of construction work on the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, or "Tazara" for short.

Black people were among the victims of the Nazis. The documented case of Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed also offers insight into Germany's colonial past.

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