RE: Magafuli....1 Nov 2023 23:24
Hi GS,
This is very off-topic. I lived in Tz for 6 years in 90s: married a Tanzanian, 2 of 3 kids born there etc etc.
Love the place , go back every year, fluent Swahili speaker etc etc.
Was there for 3 weeks recently,
I really didn't like JPM because of centralising, egocentric, authoratarain tendencies.
However, the more time I spend talking to friends and relatives the more I understand their adulation.
The guy did stuff, banged heads together, tore up contracts, cared a lot about his country and its people and little about himself.
I've patronised them, said but he was a primtive caveman who didn't understand the modern world etc.
However, on this last trip I realised that its me who has missed the point, not them.
Your comment about him winning the election in2015 misses the point.
He was always going to win because of the CCM. The battle he won was to be selected ahead of a load of corrupt party placemen in the CCM.