Samia's leading women in her first year of gender agenda
President Samia Suluhu Hassan retained all four female ministers from the Magufuli administration, shuffled them around and added four new fresh faces. TEA GRAPHIC | NMG
Samia Suluhu Hassan may have been the unlikely president of Tanzania, having taken over after the death of John Pombe Magufuli, but since her swearing-in on March 19, 2021, nothing about her words and actions are unlikely.
She’s been steadfast in her short political career as a non-conforming thinker, pro-women, open to the rest of the world and all the opportunities it presents, but also very calculating in her political manoeuvres both in Tanzania and abroad.
