Zitto Kabwe

Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

Simon Mkina

4 min read

Braving it: Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s former MP with the Chadema opposition party who was shot in 2017,
returns from exile to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year. (STR/AFP)

ACT WAZALENDO

30 SEP 2020

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

Simon Allison
Simon Mkina

3 min read

PresidentJohn Magufuli speaks during a ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on October 21, 2015. (Photo by Daniel Hayduk/AFP)

AFRICA

25 MAY 2020

Bumbling, irrational, deadly: The Tanzanian president is getting the Covid-19 response all wrong

Discerning leadership is critical in the time of Covid-19 and John Magufuli’s decisions — or lack thereof — have put Tanzanians at greater risk

Zitto Kabwe

3 min read