How Suluhu changed public perception of female leaders

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu makes his speech during the Africa climate summit 2023 Day Two at KICC on September 05, 2023. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

President Samia Suluhu appears to be poorly schooled in the history of the United Republic of Tanzania under the founding president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, whose Ujamaa philosophy entailed cooperation and collaboration with liberation movements in Africa during the fight against colonialism. It lacks logic for Mama Suluhu to curtail activists from neighbouring countries from showing solidarity with opposition figures in Tanzania whose rights are allegedly being violated by her regime.

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