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Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

Oduor Jagero — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:41:54 +0000

In Samia Suluhu’s rise and subsequent consolidation, one sees not only the imprint of her own personality but also the enduring strength of a political structure that prizes unity and control above all. It is a cautionary tale of how, even when a break in the glass ceiling is achieved—shards of hope glinting in the sunlight—the underlying machinery of control can pull a leader back into conformity.

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Renewable energy by force: Does the West have any moral high ground to interfere in Uganda and Tanzania’s oil and gas development projects?

Kylie Kiunguyu — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:43:54 +0000

The European Union parliament has passed a resolution that calls on Uganda and Tanzania to halt their oil and gas projects, stating that the immense risk to the surrounding communities and further contribution to worsening climate change is not worth it. While their sentiments are true and well documented, the state of their own failures in tackling climate change or curbing fossil fuel emissions brings their interference into question.

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East African footballers are a rarity on the global stage: we analysed why

The Conversation — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:07:59 +0000

The lack of a system to support youth development is just one reason why Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have produced few top footballers.

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Tanzania: How Maasai women are resisting land grabs

Globetrotter — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:42:00 +0000

In Tanzania large corporations have entered the lands of the Maasai people to mine rubies and tanzanite. The Maasai can neither assert their rights to the land nor benefit from the mining of these precious resources.

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Moving the Maasai: Tanzania is repeating Kenya’s colonial past

The Conversation — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:31:26 +0000

Just over 100 years ago, Maasai in Kenya were moved into reserves, where they could be more easily taxed and controlled, to make way for white settlement.

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