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The Pan-Africanist Magufuli was a simple man

The Pan-Africanist Magufuli was a simple man

KHULU MBATHA THE Tanzanian politician who served as the fifth president of Tanzania, from 2015 to 2021, was a very controversial leader and so was his presidency and now his death too.  John Pombe Joseph Magufuli was born in Chato, one of the five districts in the Geita Region of north-western Tanzania and he was a Sukuma (Northerners), the largest Bantu ethnic group in the country and the south-eastern African Great Lakes region. His weapon was service delivery and for that matter, delivery had a fixed time and not endless promises.  There was no hiding behind policies or budgets that…
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