Samia Suluhu’s Discomfiting Revelation: Gender Alone Does Not Inoculate One From Dictatorship and Demagoguery
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Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery
In Samia Suluhu’s rise and subsequent consolidation, one sees not only the imprint of her own personality but also the enduring strength of a political structure that prizes unity and control above all. It is a cautionary tale of how, even when a break in the glass ceiling is achieved—shards of hope glinting in the sunlight—the underlying machinery of control can pull a leader back into conformity. The post Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation…
Playing soothingly after her predecessor's death, she had given hope to a whole people. Yet, four years later, she orchestrated a fierce repression against her opponents, a few months before a new presidential election. Nothing stops him, says the South African weekly The Continent.
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