A contested legacy: Julius Nyerere and the 2020 Tanzanian election
LUKE MELCHIORRE, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Universidad de los Andes TANZANIANS will head to the polls on 28 October in which the incumbent, John Magufuli, faces a determined opposition. Elected to a first term in 2015, Magufuli’s time in office has lived up to his nickname tinga tinga, Kiswahili for “the bulldozer”. He has been applauded by some for advancing a series of major developmental projects. Others have denounced him for his arguably more autocratic, repressive rule Magufuli leads Chama Cha Mapinduzi, one of the longest-serving ruling parties in Africa. It is also the party of Tanzania’s socialist founding father,…