The year that was: CCM’s 99pc electoral win and Trump 2.0
CCM Chairman President Samia Suluhu Hassan greets delegates of the party's General Assembly as she arrives at the hall to preside over the meeting in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Philip Ochieng, the Kenyan scribe (of blessed memory since 2021) was a weekly columnist in Dar es Salaam in the early 1970s and had a mordant wit that wielded a childlike sense of humour and infectious laughter.
He was to me a friend, colleague and mentor in the tricky art of penning a weekly newspaper column followed by many in a column titled “The Way I See It.”
