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Tanzania protests

Riot police disperse protesters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on October 29, 2025.

Photo credit: Reuters

The myth that the Tanzanian people, and especially their youth, are cowards, was emphatically debunked this past Wednesday, when young men and women across the country took to the streets of many of the towns and cities demanding reforms to the electoral system, along many other revendications.

Still, it would be disingenuous to deny the relative truth in the claim that Tanzanians have been less vociferous than the Kenyans when demanding their political, economic, cultural and social rights.