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Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections - Vol. 6 of 12

by Rutashubanyuma Nestory
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235190047
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
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  • Pages: 156
  • Original Price: USD 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Economy

Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections: The Handcuffed Election, Volume 6 examines the political, legal, and institutional dynamics shaping Tanzania's pre-election environment ahead of the October 2025 general election. Drawing upon thirty-one analytical chapters, the volume explores the relationship between formal democratic continuity and the gradual contraction of substantive political competition.

Three broad patterns emerge. First, electoral competition narrows through opposition fragmentation, strategic defections, candidate disqualifications, and administrative decisions that reduce the range of viable political alternatives. Second, political expression increasingly shifts into informal arenas, including digital activism, social media discourse, artistic production, and protest mobilisation, where verified information frequently intersects with speculation, misinformation, and competing interpretations. Third, institutions such as courts, religious organisations, electoral authorities, and security agencies attempt to preserve formal neutrality while navigating growing political sensitivity and public scrutiny.

The volume examines a diverse range of developments, including electoral disputes, voter cynicism, political defections, judicial interventions, alleged enforced disappearances, civic-space restrictions, religious engagement in politics, infrastructure-related protests, digital information disorder, and emerging forms of institutional stress. Across these cases, recurring tensions appear between legality and legitimacy, procedural compliance and public trust, and institutional continuity and democratic accountability.

Nestory, Rutashubanyuma: -

The author is a Tanzanian national who has been penning down various issues concerning Tanzania political situation. He has been writing on print and digital media for at least the last 30 year and holds an M.A in public administration from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1990).

He has worked in both public and private sectors in Tanzania for the last 38 years.

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