How did 2019 simultaneously manage to be the longest year in living history, and the shortest? Is it physics, or is it just perception? At this time last year, writing this very same closing article, I complained about the overblown ceremony that was organised to receive the first of the larger aircraft for the newly resuscitated Air Tanzania Corporation.
I was not happy, being of the opinion that the money for the ceremony and the aircraft would have been better spent on social services rather than what is undeniably a vanity project. I ended by exhorting us to meditate on what patriotism means, hoping that 2019 would be better. As the saying goes, if you want to make God laugh, make plans.
