Barrack Muluka

Mkapa was a philosopher king and model kingmaker

Tanzania restored political pluralism in 1992. Mkapa became the first president under the new dispensation in 1995.

Barrack Muluka

Eat, drink and make merry, the spirit of Opposition will live on

Is the Opposition today cast at the crossroads of the country’s soul and the good life?

Barrack Muluka

Fly and land all you want, we don't go where leaders point

In Emanyulia, we avoid loud and vexatious persons, for they are a distress to our spirit

Barrack Muluka

We are victims of the culture of claptrap and dead psyche

The top brass around power is either a cocktail of perfect dissemblers, or they are simply dead. Whatever the case, they are to be pitied.

Barrack Muluka

IEBC must assert itself and earn our faith in its fairness

I am waiting to understand how election campaigns will be conducted in the prisons. Elections are about candidates selling their agenda to the electorate and offering themselves for election.

Barrack Muluka

NASA leaders must herald an epiphany we can believe in

This NASA moment bears both the bright character of an epiphany and the dull outlook of yet another false promise – a political de ja vu.

Barrack Muluka

Fringe parties could save us from failed leadership

In his introduction to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Stephen King envies the reader who is experiencing Golding’s dystopia for the first time. He recalls his own first encounter with Lord of the Flies and Golding’s subsequent testimony on the origins of this disturbing story.

Barrack Muluka

Inward-looking democracy is the huge paradox of our time

We live in the Age of Ethnic Hate. Whether you define ethnicity as tribe, race, culture or religion, local and international communities seem only too eager to embrace dangerous neo-nationalism, riding on the wheels of destructive ethnic narrow-mindedness.