Politics of Tanzania

Abstract

Tanzania has undergone a chequered political history that has seen it transiting from multi-party system to one-party system, and from one-party system back to multi-party system. It has also changed from parliamentary system to presidential system and from liberal economic system to socialist system, a unique brand of African socialism called Ujamaa, and from the socialist economic system back to liberal economic system. But despite these political and economic transformations Tanzania unlike most Saharan Africa countries has not experienced military intervention into politics. Yet like other sub-Saharan African countries which had passed through colonial experience it is confronted with enormous political challenges.