• Daniel Paget

Authoritarian populism isn’t the only authoritarian project we should be worried about, as Tanzania under the late John Magufuli showed.

• Paul Bjerk

Has the recent death of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli created new political possibilities?

• Rasna Warah

The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.

• Khalifa Said

With their government obsessed more with control of information than COVID-19 itself, Tanzanians are bracing for the worst.

• Paul Bjerk

The legacy of Julius Nyerere’s state and state-run economy in Tanzania is a government (and ruling party) that values decree over debate, and control over entrepreneurship. John Magufuli is a model student of this system in its ideal form.

• Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

No, Albert Einstein never said this on Facebook: “Having an okro mouth does not mean you will be given banku to go with it.”