Dar es Salaam, Aug. 5 -- AS the sun rises over the fertile slopes beneath Mount Kilimanjaro, Mwanahawa, a smallholder farmer in Moshi Rural, prepares to attend a lively ward meeting.

For Mwanahawa and thousands like her—farmers, teachers, youth leaders and entrepreneurs—the upcoming Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) parliamentary primaries are no ordinary political event.

They represent a choice, a chance to shape not just leadership, but the very economic future of their communities.

Moshi Rural, sprawling across 32 wards and over 180 villages with a population surpassing 270,000, stands as a microcosm of Tanzanias rural democracy. Here, politics and development are deeply intertwined and the stakes of leadership transcend party l...