Abstract
This article seeks to understand the continuity and change in relations between the state and street vendors under the late President of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli (November 2015–March 2021). Focusing on the concessions made by the state to street vendors under the Magufuli regime, the article diverts from the standard characterisation of such gains as an expedient gift from an authoritarian leader to conceptualising them as a product of street vendors’ struggles against eviction from the city centre. It examines the key tenets of the Mwanza Declaration on the Right to the City as well as the contestations around its application, and argues that the Declaration represented a shift in thinking on the part of President Magufuli and attributes this to street vendors’ struggles.
Recommended Citation
Nyamsenda, Sabatho and Kamata, Ng’wanza
(2025)
"The Mwanza Declaration: Magufuli, Street Vendors and the Right to the City in Tanzania,"
Tanzania Journal of Sociology: Vol. 11:
Iss.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://commons.udsm.ac.tz/tjso/vol11/iss2/7