Gidabuday Sports Tourism Foundation (GSTF)

I visited the town that dates about 200 yrs ago, I wached a Marathon older than the great Boston Marathon; I mean older than Boston because the town was the final destination for arriving slaves from the west angle of Tanzania in the  peripheries of Congo and Lake Tanganyika. The Marathon has more meaning than the Kilimanjaro Marathon which has become a source of income rather than promotion of spirit of sportsmanship. The town of Bagamoyo , Tanzania, was founded at the end of the 18th century. It was also spelled ( Bwaga moyo ) the original capital of German East Africa and was one of the most important trading ports along the East African coast. Today the town has about 30,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the District of Bagamoyo, recently being considered as a world heritage site. Bagamoyo was the first capital of Tanzania while serving as the German headquarters of German East Africa (first under the auspices of the German East African Company a...

17yrs old Sydney Gidabuday of El Modena HS won the Peter's Canyon Trail Race last night, after an impressive win at the Anaheim Downtown 5K last Saturday. I watched him line up for the start....very unassuming. He placed himself about 5 people deep from the front, showing absolutely no attitude; nobody could have pegged him for the potential winner:) He was totally nondescript, and was dressed like an average jogger. After the start he quickly made his way to the immediate leader, and sat on that guy's shoulder for about 3/4 mile. Then after he got tired of that dude, he just put the hammer down and dusted the whole field on those hills! I think he ran a low 5 minute pace...very fast on that course. This young man is very special! Original comment By Tom Albright Great kid. By Dannis Ryan Yes he is Dennis Ryan . If I'd ever had times like his (especially at that age), I would have been strutting like a rooster, pawing like a racehorse with my toe exactly o...

Dr. David Livingstone Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the 'Scramble for Africa'.   David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south of Glasgow on 19 March 1813. At 10 he began working in the local cotton mill, with school lessons in the evenings. In 1836, he began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In 1841, he was posted to the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. In 1845, he married Mary Moffat, daughter of a fellow missionary. Livingstone became convinced of his mission to reach new peoples in the interior of Africa and introduce them to Christianity, as well as freeing them from slavery. It was this which inspired his explorations. In 1849 and 1851, he travelled across the Kalahari, on the second trip sighting the upper Zambezi River. In 1852, he began a four year expedi...

Ruby Bridges, the brave little African American girl's entry into an all-white school on November 14, 1960. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Mrs. Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class." Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, only allowed Ruby to eat food that she brought from home. Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges said "scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us." At her mother's suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to schoo...