Following the late President Magufuli’s recent death, Vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been sworn in as his successor, making her Tanzania’s first woman president. Magufuli, who won a second term in October 2020, dramatically centralised power and pursued an interventionist economic policy agenda. He courted controversy on a number of fronts, most recently, by claiming that Tanzania – contrary to mounting evidence – was Covid-free.
AuthorThabit Jacob
Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. His research is broadly on political economy of development, with a focus on governance of extractive and energy resources. Current research explores renewed interest of the Tanzanian state in the extractive sector focusing on the role and prospects of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), questions relating to governance, political and institutional challenges, management of resource revenues, distribution of rents, environmental costs of the extractive sector and the struggles over access to land in extractive activities involving SOEs.