The long echo of Radio Africa

The long echo of Radio Africa

. Tanzania’s Magufuli, His reformist flame was snuffed out too soon COMMENT | ANDREW BESI | In 1985, the British band Latin Quarter released their haunting anthem Radio Africa. One of its verses rhymes thus: “ Mozambique and Mugabe Still got FRELIMO I hear them say But exchange means Recession means It all means it’s harder to take Tanzania could be moving up a gear Instead they’ve got to step on the brake.” Nearly four decades later, the verse …