Tanzanians must not shy away from dissecting hard Union issues

Nairobi, May 12 -- I am regularly seeing chickens coming home to roost in Tanzanian politics, when things we did or said in the yesteryear come back to our front porch and stare us in the face to tell... Read More

Press freedom is for public; may the real public please stand up?

Nairobi, May 5 -- As is customary, the Tanzania media fraternity celebrated World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) this past week in Dodoma with a number of calls for the improvement of media working conditio... Read More

At 60, though the Union isn't perfect, it can be made better

Nairobi, April 28 -- Tanzania turned 60 this past week. It is an important milestone and one that deserves to be celebrated with pride, and with thought. In other words, it is a celebration that needs... Read More

Changing electoral body's name does not add independence to it

Nairobi, April 21 -- During the American presidential campaign back in 20008, Senator Barack Obama remarked that you may put lipstick on a pig but it remains a pig, and kicked off a minor furore, espe... Read More

Politicians' ugly deeds stink long after they exit the national stage

Nairobi, April 14 -- Go, all you who would, to the East African coast, and pick a sprinkling of folk wisdom that has accumulated gems which, over centuries, have sustained the Waswahili through times ... Read More

Macky Sall gets a hiding from a young man, and what a pleasure!

Nairobi, March 31 -- Senegal is just concluding a political transition that did not need to be as eventful as it was if the outgoing president, Macky Sall, had not tried to be too clever by half. Sal... Read More

Off we go again with public shows, humbug and clowning

Nairobi, March 24 -- The potential contestants in the approaching elections are already sizing themselves up and assessing their chances of fooling their people enough for them to believe that they ar... Read More

Samia is missing the point about her appointees to the regions

Nairobi, March 17 -- Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan is in campaign mode, and she is doing a bad job trying to hide it. In a legal frame where campaign dates are supposed to be signalled by the elector... Read More

Mwinyi had his faults but he was a man with heart in the right place

Nairobi, March 10 -- Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who passed away recently, was a simple, unpretentious man who made a mark on the country he led for a decade after taking over from a man who had not wanted him... Read More

In electric train era, the more the merrier, and Tanzania is arriving!

Nairobi, March 3 -- Finally, last week, the much-vaunted electric train pulled out of the Dar es Salaam terminal headed for the hinterland, to much fanfare orchestrated by government officials. The o... Read More

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