Tanzania’s Hollow Democracy
Aamena Dhanji is a first year Politics and International Relations student. She is a member of the BBI and an Avicenna Scholar, available at http://linkedin.com/in/aamena-dhanji Introduction On the 29th of October 2025, Tanzania went to the polls. What was meant to be a routine act in the name of democracy led to a nationwide curfew, an internet blackout and a violent six-day crackdown, which saw the killings of several protestors, with many of their bodies since unreturned to their families....
