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EYAKUZE: Our will to live, and live together—is still alive

Residents queue before vote at a polling station during the local elections in the town of Arusha, north Tanzania, on November 24, 2019. PHOTO | FILBERT RWEYEMAMU | AFP

By  Elsie Eyakuze

Columnist

So the results of Tanzania’s 2019 local elections, such as they were, are in. Our ruling party won by the kind of landslide you can only achieve if you have done everything to get rid of the opposition.

To be honest I am keeping away from the “official” “facts” and “figures” because what if I look at them and confirm: Tanzania is not so exceptional after all. Banana republic.

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