Tanzania, April 22 -- By Ezekiel Kamwaga

When ACT-Wazalendo was founded ten years ago, I had a front-row view of what was happening. Actually, the day before former ACT-Wazalendo party leader Zitto Kabwe announced his decision to join the party, I was with him discussing the country's political landscape.

The odds were stacked against ACT-Wazalendo from the day of its inception. In 2014, Zitto's erstwhile party, Chadema, was the main opposition outfit in Tanzania and was the most organised structurally, organisationally and ideologically among all opposition parties in Tanzania. Chadema was also in a league if its own when it came to financial muscle among opposition parties.

In Tanzania, it is generally considered politically suicidal...