From the state’s ‘economic strangulation’ to a lack of financial literacy, artists struggle to survive without sacrificing their creative freedom.
In our briefing today: Judge suspends Senior Advocate amidst representation of a lawyer who opposed the Tanzania-Dubai port deal; Artists in Tanzania demand creative freedom: ‘We’re being censored’; Tanzania’s activists up in arms over planned ‘Epic Tanzania Tour’ in Ngorongoro; Twenty-five years of struggle: Transport workers and the ‘rights of the wretched’ in neoliberal Tanzania.
The East African nation has seen artists arrested, prosecuted, and their works banned, which they complain fuels self-censorship.
It follows the decision by the government not to proceed with the case that members of Tanzania’s artistic sector have heavily criticised.
In our briefing today: Samia launched a USD 311 Million glass factory; Tanzania charges musicians who sang about police brutality; Tanzania, Winshear Gold suspend arbitration proceedings, reach conditional agreement; CCM promised youth jobs, it should deliver instead of preaching self-employment
In their song, the musicians also call out the government’s failure to be accountable to citizens.
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