“Politics and elections are only vehicles, not destinations” – David Axelrod

A brief reflection on the book so as to look at it in totality is posted in the book review. Information about the author and the background to the book is found in the reflection as well. Nevertheless, for the richness of this book, I strongly felt that I should outline lessons learnt for politics and campaigning purposes. In this entry I will thus focus on things through which aspiring politicians or candidates of various political offices from Presidency downward can gain insight. Continue reading →

In his farewell speech at the Parliament, Zitto Kabwe highlighted one important structural issue that we (citizens of Tanzania) need to fix ASAP. The issue is, I paraphrase, “the exceeding powers of political parties vs. people’s power”. Continue reading →

Below is an audio record of my presentation at SOAS on the 28th Feb. 2015. The talk was about The New Constitution in Tanzania. The panel was chaired by Prof. Andrew Coulson, who wrote the book: Tanzania: Political Economy.

It’s my hope that I made sense…please make sure you listen to the very last bit to understand my main argument. It’s only 14 mins. Enjoy.

Audio Record click:

http://www.wavuti.com/2015/03/audio-aikande-kwayus-presentation-at.html