Instead of building a nation, CCM has built itself. They confuse nation building with CCM grip on power.
As an example, a bongolala proudly posted a fragment of a law about mining which stated 'the president will manage minerals and other such resources on behalf of the people’s
We all know power corrupts, and we all know human nature. The day CCM will lose power is when they will understand.
With all this contradictions, I wonder, is Tanzania a united country as portrayed?
I hypothesize no. Kanu could as well claim the same back in the days when it was the only party by law. We confuse wide use and adoption of swahili with a united country. We also rate her better just because we compare her to tribalism in Kenya. Tribalism in Kenya has greatly reduced because of 2010 constitution building institutions and separating powers. What is the problem is nepotism and credibility of elections .
I equate Tanzania to Somalia Republic. I have read a lot of books on the internet about somalia and they all say at independence somalia has challenges but to the outside world somalia presented an image of a unified country,one language,one religion,one ethnicity.in reality the Italians had struggled to make economic sense of their colony.the independence republic had to rely on foreign aid.The majority ethnicity actually surpressed the minority to achieve an image of one ethnicity among many other challenges.
So Tanzania will be a somalia or Nigeria on our southern borders.
The same Tanzanian glass house can be seen in uganda where Museveni and his NRM are the state institutions. What will happen the day they will be out of power?
As for Rwanda, institutions to some level seem to be working, but not because of the law but because of Kagame . It looks like the day Kagame will be out the curve will start to decline .
In the long term, I foresee Kenya will remain the anchor state, in a turbulent neighborhood. We have seen the worst of our presidencies, we can only get better going forward.