The Alliance between Tanzania's CCM and China's CPC

Even as I am writing this, most Tanzanians are not optimistic whether national peace will continue to prevail, given the fact that a socialist ideology which was highly contributive to national peace and the economic agenda does not prevail in the country today.

What we see are contradictory and antagonistic political players who may easily exploit the widening gap between the haves and have-nots in our country today. There is greater need today to learn from the Chinese paradigm in ideological and national cohesiveness.

How much I wish I had divine powers to airlift all Tanzanians to go and see China with their naked eyes!

Tanzanians will be amazed at how one billion plus people, whose population is equivalent to the whole population of the African continent, have succeeded to empower almost all their citizens to go to bed well-fed in good quality houses for all, including in the villages.

Eh! Bwana! I have seen China a couple of times myself, and every time I am there, I watch with my mouth agape in surprise at the development strides Chinese people are making each passing year.

Furthermore, contrary to Western propaganda, the Chinese listen to minority voices, but have only a single national political party in place [Editor's note: China has a system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party. There are eight non-Communist parties in China], as we used to have here before.

This is the Communist Party of China. It is amazing also how they maximize their land in growing food and other spheres of development.

It is not by mistake that they are second largest economy in the world. Frankly, China should be considered the global economic leader, because Chinese resources are adequately well shared by their whole people, unlike other western powers, which are demarcated in classes.

As I pointed out, this country is now in a multi-party order, which, for me, is just too unpredictable.

Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) must move quickly to re-define itself to embrace its original socialist agenda. It must take a leaf from history and learn from other parties, such as the Community Party of China.

CCM should revert to Socialism (Ujamaa) as a rational choice. It should draw social-economic programmes that augur well for the have-nots as a way of averting a social-economic crisis –whose sparks have already been seen and heard in this country by anyone with eyes and ears.

CCM must demand equity shares for its natural resources away from royalties offered by Western multinationals. It should move to resurrect the public sector in terms of building factories and industries to create jobs for the people in line with the current political line of party leader, Chairman Dr John Pombe Magufuli.

In this context, as recognised by the CCM Congress, Tanzanians can count on the Chinese Communist Party as a tested ally and for one good reason: Its modus operandi is a win-win stance with all developing countries.

Makwaia Wa Kuhenga is a Tanzanian columnist, author and a television presenter.