Why Magufuli was loved and loathed at home and abroad

Commiserations with the sister nation of Tanzania are in order, following the death of President John Pombe Magufuli (pictured). Humans are bonded in a common silent pact against death. The English poet John Donne wrote in 1623, “No man is an island entire of itself... any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”