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Neema Komba
Neema Komba is a poet, writer and researcher from Tanzania. She is the author of Mektildis Kapinga: A silent hero, and See Through the Complicated, a poetry collection. She is the 2022 recipient of the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship and was nominated as a literature protégé for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2022. She is the 2014 winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in the Flash Fiction category.
“Tanzanians want democracy, respect for their basic human rights and dignity” – Tundu Lissu
The Tanzanian opposition leader, who has been forced to flee the country, talks to Index about the recent election