Taking the spice out of politics

摘要

Tanzanians are proud of the fact that it was their president, Jakaya Kikwete, who won the race to the White House. Ghana may have been Africa's first sub-Sa-haran country to host Barack Obama as president, but Mr Kikwete was Africa's first head of state to be received in Washington, DC, by the new American leader: a striking endorsement of his country. With messy Kenya and chaotic Congo across the border, and lawless Somalia just up the coast to the north, Tanzania is now viewed in the West as a regional haven of calm in a turbulent neighbourhood.