September 2025: I am so proud of myself. I can hardly believe it. My passion project, a decolonial travel guide for Tanzania, has come true. With 20 authors from Tanzania and Germany presenting colonial traces in Tanzania and reflecting on inequalities in tourism, this book and website contribute to a critical discourse on tourism and decolonization.

This idea has been maturing in my mind since my trip to Tanzania in 2023/2024 for my phd project on colonial heritage tourism. Because after all, who is going to read my sociological doctoral thesis? I believe this knowledge should be accessible to everyone. And I didn't want to write a book like this alone. And it shouldn't only be in German but Swahili and English as well. So I drafted a project plan, applied for funding, consulted various experts, wrote articles, edited some, searched for images, had the texts translated, hired a graphic designer, worked together with a layout artist to make the book beautiful, and created the website. And I did all this while the baby was asleep or in the evenings with a cup of coffee at my desk surrounded by moving boxes because i recently shifted from Munich to the country side. What a wild time the last nine months have been. I guess it was worth the hustle.