Tanzania may be a feeble republic but it is by no means a monarchy
Tanzanians employ all the politicians who run (or misrun) public affairs, and there should be no reason the people should be afraid to call them out when they fall short of expectations — which is all too often. PHOTO | FILE
I sometimes have this uneasy feeling that someone out there is bent on making fools of all of us. What good that would be for whoever is behind such a move I do not know, but I am always wary of what seems to me to be the intensification of what the late Professor Chachage Seithy Chachage termed “collective imbecilisation”.
The noun in Chachage’s formulation, I was quick to point out at that time, does not exist in the English language, but the concept is useful as something we should be taking urgent measures to guard against.
