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Tanzania’s constitutional reform predicament and the survival of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar Union

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dc.contributor.author Katundu, Mangasini A.
dc.contributor.author Kumburu, Neema P.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-22T13:03:31Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-22T13:03:31Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Katundu, M. A & Kumburu, N., P. (2015). Tanzania’s constitutional reform predicament and the survival of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar Union. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 8(3), 104 – 118. en_US
dc.identifier.other https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282133534
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/327
dc.description.abstract A Constitution is the most important piece of legislation that any country has. It reflects the history of the nation and mirrors the interests and aspirations of its people with regard to how they wish to be governed. In its simplest form a constitution is the social contract between those who govern and the governed. As such, the making and remaking of a constitution is a societal and national project in which all sectors of society must participate. Tanzania embarked on a Constitutional reform process in 2011. However, the move to write a new Constitution has been a contentious issue in Tanzania especially over the structure of the union. This paper assesses the contextual factors that precipitated Tanzania’s Constitutional reform of 2014 and its implication on the status of the union. It identifies the weaknesses in the methodology used by the Constitutional Review Committee in gathering, processing and interpreting public opinions. Literature on previous constitutional reforms in Tanzania, the data set of Tanzania’s Constitutional Review Committee of 2014 and the special parliament Hansards were content analysed. It has been found that the current constitutional reform in Tanzania has been mostly dominated by partisan interests. Majority of the Tanzanians did not rank the union as the top most important issue in the constitutional review. The process of data collection, analysis and interpretation was marred by serious methodological shortcomings such as excluding the rural population, excluding those who cannot read and write; failure to specify the sampling methodology, the over and under sampling in some regions as well as interviewing the minors. It is recommended that people should be cautious when interpreting data of the 2014 Tanzania’s Constitutional Review Committee and its resultant conclusions. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher The Journal of Pan African Studies en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol.8,;No.3,
dc.subject Union en_US
dc.subject Tanganyika and Zanzibar en_US
dc.subject Constitutional Review en_US
dc.subject Partisan Interests en_US
dc.title Tanzania’s constitutional reform predicament and the survival of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar Union en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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