You heard that Tanzania had a flawed election last year, followed by post-election violence from disgruntled young Tanzanians protesting against Africa's first female dictator. You heard that thousands of people were massacred and dumped in mass graves. You heard that this was "Democracy" versus "Dictatorship."
But what if you found out that everything you have heard about what happened from October 29 to the first week of November in Tanzania was completely fabricated? What if everything you "know" about Tanzania's 2025 election is the result of a brutal information campaign waged by an adversary more powerful than any African government?
The Spearhead has spent 7 months working onsite across Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to produce our first feature-length documentary titled "What Happened On October 29?"
The documentary will premiere in Accra at 5PM on Tuesday May 26 at the WAGMC Auditorium, University of Ghana. Subsequently, it will also premiere in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before going up for general viewership on YouTube on May 31.
Tanzania is a strategic regional gateway. Any neighbour who wishes to prosper must align with Tanzania and wish it well. Museveni was here. PK was here. Ruto, being Kenyan, decided to go the extra mile. Some extravaganza. He will also address the parliament. Probably the highest honour. He must have made some concessions for Tanzanian hardliners to allow for all that. Either way, this is a good sign for the region. We are most likely to make collective progress if we recognise the dynamics among us. This is a good sign.
@SGahamanyi@LarryMadowo@SuluhuSamia Larry is a political operative not a journalist as he claim. He finds every possible way to report Tanzania news negatively to escalate post election tensions between the people and the GoT
We are not dismissing the source of the chaos, nor are we pretending that people are content. The frustrations are real. The grievances are valid. The sense of exclusion is justified. We acknowledge that. We are in agreement on the cause.
Where we differ is in the method of navigating the transition. You are focusing on the emotional force of frustration and the moral urgency of change. We are focusing on the structural conditions required to ensure that change actually improves the situation rather than worsens it.
Chaos does not automatically mean liberation. Chaos only produces liberation when there are strong institutions ready to manage the aftermath. Without them, chaos produces power vacuums, and power vacuums are filled by whoever is already armed, financed, or strategically positioned. That does not lead to justice. It leads to replacement of one form of domination with another.!!