John Magufuli: Enigmatic builder who rained on his own parade

John Magufuli.

The late president John Magufuli (centre), when he toured infrastructure projects in Dar es Salaam in March 2021, a few days before he was taken ill. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

He will remain enigmatic for some time, and even when volumes are churned out on his life, work and legacy.

John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, was paradoxical in many senses. He was a driven man, always anxious to do more than would appear to be what was expected of him as part of duty. At the same time, he left out of his to-do-list too many things that he should have attended to.