Tanzania’s next chapter will not be written by the most righteous side, but by the side most willing to bend without breaking.
Odinga’s story mirrored the tragedy of postcolonial Africa, where yesterday’s liberators often became today’s oppressors.
Democracies are strengthened not by the comfort of uncontested victories but by the fire of real opposition.
As the West demands solidarity against the war in Ukraine, its silence on Gaza sends a clear message: the rules don’t apply if the victims are not European or Western.
The new Africa needs an army first, then a political union will follow.
First-grade victims of sanctions are civilians. A new architecture for global order policing is needed urgently to save innocent lives.
Tanzania has been trying to lean more towards politics of isolation, secrecy, centrally-run systems, and less public involvement in state matters.
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