Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About

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I remember when I tried to temper the extreme optimism about Tanzania and was given hell

Now theyve morphed into a totalitarian police state

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Even here in Kenya I told peeps,hold your horses on Tz and Magufuli,but NOOOOO! Everyone screamed in support-now look,2 dead opposition leaders with 6 others jailed for 'sedition.' Tbh,I'm not a supporter of democracy-neither do I support one man dictatorships, though.

Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition chief who was shot by unknown assailants in September last year says the country’s politics had taken a dangerous turn thanks to the dictatorial regime led by President John Pombe Magufuli.

Lissu is currently recuperating at a Nairobi hospital where he was flown to for specialized medical care. The trained lawyer and avowed critic of Magufuli was shot and wounded by unknown gunmen in the country’s administrative capital, Dadoma.

In an interview with the BBC he described the attack as an assassination attempt and that he felt unsafe at the thought of returning home. He further described the intolerance of political dissent as similar to military dictatorships of decades ago


http://www.africanews.com/2018/01/0...-of-dictator-magufuli-shot-opposition-chief//
 

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They've improved in most sectors under him and their economy has been growing 7% and is projected until 2026(I know we don't take projections serious, but all sign point to their economy going the stable right)

I'd rather my country be Ghaddafi Libya than DR Congo or early '10 Ghana

some folks don't deserve freedom of speech anyways
Lol and what happens when the Great Leader dies, loses power etc?
 

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As far as GDP growth goes strictly, here were the top performers this year: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania.

The majority do not have strongmen and Ethiopia, while still a long way away, is also moving on the opposite direction. The insistence that only strongman can deliver relatively positive economic returns is based on hyperbole.
 

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Lol and what happens when the Great Leader dies, loses power etc?
eh....I wouldn't want either scenario but still, I like this president.:yeshrug: his laws aren't even that radical. You all are making this way more of a bigger deal than Tanzanians. Most Tanzanians don't give a damn about a blog posting fee.......
 

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As far as GDP growth goes strictly, here were the top performers this year: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania.

The majority do not have strongmen and Ethiopia, while still a long way away, is also moving on the opposite direction. The insistence that only strongman can deliver relatively positive economic returns is based on hyperbole.

Been drumming on about Senegal and Ivory Coast for years now...
 

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also anyone notice some of the weird edits and just straight up wrong info thats on African and Caribbean wiki pages?
 

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Its a great idea, and you need a foundation before you can progress, so I actually applaud the work thats been done so far. But it is still at a very early stage, Nigeria and SA still on board yet, and whats been agreed to so far has been very high level, so theres still a way to go. We will see, I guess.
 
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