Respect head of state but servile attitude to power has to stop
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks at the end of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi's national congress in Dodoma on December 8, 2022 . PHOTO | THE CITIZEN
Welp. Since we are agreed that the glow of the Independence era has died a natural death, let’s talk about growing up. A polity is only demonstrating maturity and self-awareness when artists are allowed to examine and satirise the founding fathers and the current leaders.
And when citizens and scholars alike are free to muse in public about the ideals and ideologies of society. The perpetual examination of leadership structures and the individuals in power must be bound by accountability, otherwise bad things happen. And then they happen again. And again. And again.
