Deeper writing across the topics that occupy my mind — faith, business, digital skills, and the texture of a life lived with intention.
Faith & Religion
Why development work without a moral foundation eventually collapses
Aid and development are not neutral acts. They carry assumptions about human dignity, about who deserves what, and about what progress means. When those assumptions go unexamined, even well-funded programmes can hollow out the communities they meant to serve. A case for rooting development work in something deeper than metrics.
Lutimo Pazza
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14 min read
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March 2026
Business
The freelance economy in East Africa: opportunity, trap, or both?
More young Tanzanians are building their income outside formal employment — one project, one client at a time. But the promise of independence comes with invisible costs: no health cover, no pension, no institutional backing when things fall apart. Here is an honest accounting of what freelancing in this context actually looks like.
Lutimo Pazza
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11 min read
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February 2026
Digital Skills
A practical guide to M&E data systems for small NGOs in Tanzania
Most small NGOs in Tanzania are still running their monitoring and evaluation on WhatsApp threads and shared Excel files — not because they do not care about data quality, but because nobody has shown them a better system that is also affordable and practical. This is that guide, built from six years of field experience.
Lutimo Pazza
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18 min read
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January 2026
Life
On being from Morogoro: notes on place, identity and belonging
There is a peculiar pride that comes from a city that most outsiders use only as a waypoint — the rest stop between Dar and Dodoma. But Morogoro has its own particular light, its own particular people, and its own particular way of making you feel that this is exactly where you should be. A meditation on home.
Lutimo Pazza
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9 min read
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December 2025
Faith & Religion
The theology of community development: what scripture says about data
The first census in the Bible was not a management exercise — it was an act of counting people who mattered to God. That thread runs through the whole of scripture: a God who calls people by name, who numbers the hairs of heads, who notices the sparrow. What does that mean for how we design our monitoring frameworks?
Lutimo Pazza
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16 min read
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November 2025
Digital Skills
Building your first portfolio website without a computer science degree
You do not need to know how to code to have a professional online presence. But you do need to understand what you are building and why. A step-by-step guide written for development professionals, teachers, NGO staff and anyone whose career deserves a better home on the internet than a LinkedIn profile.
Lutimo Pazza
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12 min read
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October 2025