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

Katiba review: We may as well start dissecting substantial issues

Nairobi, Feb. 25 -- The constant theme serving as the soundtrack for the continuing demonstrations of Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema has been the call for a new constitution. It will be rem... Read More

Lowassa was a rare Tanzanian species, a victim of the system

Nairobi, Feb. 18 -- Tanzanians have spent this past week mourning a former prime minister, Edward Ngoyai Lowassa, who left office 15 years ago amid accusations of graft. Notwithstanding the manner of ... Read More

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