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Tanzania Contested Elections Vol. 4

by Rutashubanyuma Nestory
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235095939
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
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  • Pages: 232
  • Original Price: GBP 15.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Politics

Tanzania at the Crossroads: Essays on Democracy, Justice, and Electoral Politics

This compilation presents twenty-nine analytical essays examining the legal, institutional, and political dynamics shaping Tanzania's 2025 electoral cycle.

The chapters are organised around three interrelated themes:

1. Judicial independence and fair trial rights

The volume analyses the treason prosecution of opposition leader Tundu Lissu, focusing on procedural disputes over witness listing, anonymous testimony, media restrictions, evidentiary integrity, and allegations of record manipulation. These raise broader questions about the balance between state security claims and constitutional fair trial guarantees.

2. Electoral governance and opposition exclusion

A second strand examines the regulation of political competition through nomination procedures, party registration rules, and electoral commission decisions in both mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. It highlights disputes over candidate eligibility, sponsorship verification, institutional discretion, and the uneven application of electoral rules.

3. Civil society, religion, and political memory

The final strand explores non-state responses to political constraint, including religious critiques of governance, arrests of journalists under cybercrime legislation, the exile of clergy, and opposition-led commemorative politics as a form of resistance under exclusion.

Across these themes, the chapters identify recurring structural patterns: the use of procedural mechanisms to constrain political competition, the gap between judicial remedies and administrative practice, the erosion of media freedom through vague statutory enforcement, and the shrinking space for independent civic authority.

The compilation concludes that while Tanzania's 2025 elections largely complied with formal legal procedures, they occurred within a structurally constrained environment that limited genuine political competition, raising fundamental questions about democratic legitimacy in dominant-party systems.

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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