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Author: Dan Paget

Dan Paget

Dan Paget is a PhD student at the University of Oxford, focusing on contemporary Tanzanian politics. You can follow him on Twitter at @pandaget and see more of his work on danpaget.com.

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    Whether his moves in the mining sector work or not, President Magufuli knows what he is doing. Ever since his election in 2015, Tanzania’s President John ...
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