The Tanzanian political scene has recently become an intriguing ballet of musical chairs, revolving doors, shifting sands and banana skins, whose musical soundtrack should contain that immortal refrain, “Anything you can do, I can do better.”
The most recent episode in the melodrama has been the announcement by Edward Lowassa, who contested the last presidential election on the opposition ticket and lost to the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi’s John Magufuli, the current president, all the same managing to secure an impressive six-million-plus votes to the victor’s eight million-plus.
