How Nyerere’s intellectual legacy influenced 2015 voting in Tanzania

The Western powers have always portrayed Tanzania as an African success story of democracy as contrasted to its politically fractious and raucous neighbourhoods; the likes of Kenya whose 2008 post-election violence left an indelible scar on its flesh of national building; or Uganda now having its young democracy getting by personal megalomania of President Museveni translated into an institution of life-presidency, South Sudan under York of tribal war, and more recently Burundi that have bloodshed due to deliberate injury  to  its democracy by the executive.

I mean all these countries have been rocked by conflicts and brutal injustices against human rights. More discouraging  still is the contrast with Rwanda, a close neighbour of Tanzania; her 1994  unprecedented genocide and human annihilation orgy fuelled by tribal sentimentality is still an open  wound  on the conscience  of  modern political civilization.