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Elsie Eyakuze

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27 Mar

Good morning! How are you today!

...what do you mean, not again?

Come on. You knew there was going to be a post mortem didn't you? Besides, you don't just come down from live tweeting for several days just like that.

Anyways, its the weekend so this is really just a chill...

...session to say a few things that coukd not be said before the burial of the late President Magufuli.

First of all, I apologise to my fellow Tanzanians. I am aware of our unwritten social contract and the clauses that define the appropriate conduct expected of a patriot

...when soeaking of national matters in an International language.

To add insult to injury, I inserted myself in the situation instead of focusing strictly on the events and the late President Magufuli.

Finally, I may have come across as a sycophant of the government by

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Elsie Eyakuze

@MikocheniReport

26 Mar

@AlbertRweyemamu

Good morning. Today we lay the late President of the United Repubkic of Tanzania, John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, to rest.

It is a solemn day for all of us.

As a fellow Catholic, a Tanzanian, a Lake Zoner I must honor the importance of this day.

Tasibota @AlbertRweyemamu

For my peace of mind, I am watching the Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation channel.

I woke up too early, my mind was already running a marathon. My skin was too tight and hot in the cool predawn. I felt a bit weepy, a lot restless.

I have been here before. I did not expect...

@fatma_karume

... to be here today.

Shangazi @fatma_karume called yesterday specifically to tell me that need to watch the burial ceremony.

Na'am.

I was ambivalent, but aware that this week of live tweeting's conclusion was inevitable. Now, I was under instructions to do the necessary.

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Elsie Eyakuze

@MikocheniReport

20 Mar

Now. For the real story I have been at a loss to tell for too long. #thread.
In March of 2020, the Covid19 pandemic started to rampage throughout the world. It did not spare Tanzania. But in April of 2020 we stopped all public efforts to halt is spread in the country.

The death toll in Tanzania started at least as early as May or June- I forget. Not because I do not know, but because my mind has refused to remember. The first friend to go was a shock. How could someone so full of life just... disappear? We grieved.

Then my sister told me one day: hey, remember the bakery where ee used to get the best goods? She's gone. And after that, it was someone else. People got sick, many recovered, some did not. A classmate from secondary school died. By this time, I was 'incapacitated' by it all.

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Elsie Eyakuze

@MikocheniReport

20 Mar

Good morning. Today, St. Peter's Church will be holding her final Mass for the late President Magufuli.

This is the last time his motorcade shall turn left off Ali Hassan Mwinyi at Mbuyuni.

Raha ya milele umpe ee Bwana, na mwanga wa milele umuangazie. Apumzike kwa amani.

@TBConlineTZ

This being #Tanzania, @TBConlineTZ is talking to the Mufti and members of Masjid Aboubakar Zuberi in Chamwino that the late President helped to build. It is a beautiful structure, especially in the golden morning light.

Thats how we roll.

Waiting for Mass.

So, I was mistaken. The late President Magufuli is in fact being transported from Ikulu in Magogoni down by Ocean Road, one last time over Salendar bridge and a cruise on down past Leader's Club, then turn right into St. Peter's Church.

A lovely drive through a beautiful city.

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