THINKING ALOUD: Are civil societies performing to better Tanzania?

What you need to know:

In a democracy, civil society groups should have respect for the law, for the rights of individuals, and for the rights of other groups to express their interests and opinions. Part of what the word “civil” implies tolerance and the accommodation of pluralism and diversity.

Civil society in all its forms has an important role in hold-ing all stakeholders, including itself, to the highest levels of accountability. Globally, culture and traditional values differ, what is accepted in one society may not be readily accepted else-where. In the early 90s I had a intern in my research project from Baltimore-USA, on her first day in Matimbwa Village in Bagamoyo District, in the mobile clinic that I was con-ducting she literally screamed and said how indecent it was for mothers to breast feed their small children in public, no one does that in USA. I calmly explained to her that it was a taboo here to see teenagers/adults kissing each other on railway platforms or in public and a crime if the kissing couple is of the same sex. To her, kissing in public was normal and acceptable.

THINKING ALOUD: Are civil societies performing to better Tanzania?

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