What, has our president become a movie star? This has been one of the questions asked by the Dar es Salaam chattering classes, wondering just what was happening with President Samia Suluhu playing the lead role in a Royal Tour production depicting her showing off Tanzania’s tourism attractions in the company of an American super producer, Peter Greenberg.
The relative novelty of this kind of activity was guaranteed to kick up a comment storm, because, quite simply, presidents are not in the habit of starring in Hollywood-style productions, and a lot of time some people would incline to think that it is infra-dig for a head of state to abase herself by posing for the camera; she is supposed to be rather more dignified, above the reach of such popular media.
