EYAKUZE: One hundred days probation? No, let’s wait for 2023 to rate Samia

So, as everyone has kindly noted, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has completed her first trimester of gestating her leadership of our beloved United Republic of Tanzania. So lovely to see all the positive feedback, although that much enthusiasm makes me... uncomfortable. Rather than grade Her Excellency on the 'formal' stuff — there is plenty of good content out there already — let me offer three thoughts. 

First, Mama Samia proved herself a relatively “known” quantity with a month of her inheriting the responsibilities of Head of State. The state funeral was a strong opening, supported by a few videos that were circulated of her excellency speaking in her role as Vice President. There were even pictures handed around of her in her youthful activist days where she posed in one of those awkwardly sweet group conference photos... giving us a glimpse of what's probably still going on beneath that collection of tasteful hijabs.