The sudden death of Tanzania’s populist president John Pombe Magufuli on 17 March 2021 catapulted his then little-known vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, to the helm of political leadership. In one year, President Hassan has reversed her predecessor’s policies, from Covid-19 control to media freedom and foreign relations.
Nicodemus Minde has studied political dominance and democratisation in Tanzania. We asked him to assess the president’s first year in office.
