Publisher's Synopsis
The first comprehensive study of Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, who took office in 2005. Julius Nyang'oro offers an insightful analysis of President Kikwete's beginnings as a party functionary and analyses his rise to the highest political office in the country. In his analysis of Kikwete as a politician, Nyang'oro manages to weave a compelling narrative on the relationship between Kikwete's political evolution and the contemporary history of Tanzania since independence.
