There is more worth in what is public than in what is private

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People stand inside a Dar Rapid Transit bus in a street of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 18, 2016. PHOTO | AFP

A conversation I have been having with my compatriots can suffer some escalation to regional level, especially because our different countries have had largely similar experiences in many respects.

In the 1960s, Dar es Salaam had a more or less efficient bus transport service, run by the Dar es Salaam Motor Transport Company (DMT) organised along lines not dissimilar to the London metropolitan bus service. The city service once even boasted double-deck buses, immortalised in the Kilwa Jazz song, Kifo cha Penzi ni Kifo Kibaya.