Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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Dar es Salaam. In 2025, young Tanzanians launch tech start-ups, process digital payments, and travel across the world for trade missions, and legally buy and sell gold. Forty years ago, these would have been near impossibilities.
As Tanzania marks 64 years of independence, the country’s economic story reads like an arc of transformation, one that a few could have predicted during the early years after 1961.
