Memory, Mourning, and the Long Shadow of Power in Tanzania

Prologue: Today

Today.
This time.
Right now.

A leader has died.

The news does not land the way it once did.
It arrives quietly—through a phone notification,
a WhatsApp forward,
a guarded headline carefully edited to remove emotion.

I pause.

I choose to pause.

Because once upon a time,
when a leader died in Tanzania,
the nation stopped breathing.