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AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> NATIONHOOD, patriotism and citizenship are concepts which have an important bearing on whoever relates oneself to a country of one\u2019s birth or through naturalisation.<\/p>\n

The association that a person has with a given country, is supposed to be coupled by immense love or affection for it.<\/p>\n

We dare say, indeed, that the association is in the league of the one that a person has with one\u2019s biological parents.<\/p>\n

It is supposed to be rock – solid. A truly patriotic person becomes immensely outraged whenever one\u2019s country \u2013 alternately k nown as motherland \u2013 is undermined.<\/p>\n

It is indeed standard practice, worldwide, for well-intentioned citizens of a given country, to join forces whenever it becomes a subject of negative tendencies ranging from, say, unfair criticism over policy decisions to military provocations.<\/p>\n

Whenever such situations arise, all citizens literally send all other considerations on leave and join forces to form a united family in order to attain common objectives.<\/p>\n

Those who would go against the objectives of fellow citizens \u2013 as members of a supposedly united family \u2013 would be perceived to be traitors.<\/p>\n

History is indeed replete with examples of crude forms of punishment being meted out to traitors, whose misdeeds, by word and deeds, are perceived to be the height of absurdity.<\/p>\n

Now, the narrative so far, wouldn\u2019t have arisen, since the points there-in are supposed to be part of common knowledge.<\/p>\n

It pains, us, indeed, though, that, we have been compelled to dwell on them, due to the absolutely unpatriotic, and indeed crude, stance of Chadema.<\/p>\n

For, being Tanzania\u2019s main opposition political party, it is supposed to be a role model for others in the camp.<\/p>\n

Due to the unpatriotic and uncivil behaviour of its leadership, though, it lays itself prone to being dismissed as a patriotism-sabotaging group!<\/p>\n

The latest crude manifestation to that end was the distortion of the national anthem, by substituting the word-concept Tanzania with Chadema!<\/p>\n

The doctored song was enthusiastically sung by members who included top leaders, as the opener of a recent major political event in Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n

The mischief, which we imagine is even beyond kindergarten children, is absolutely damnable! Yet, paradoxically, it is the brainchild of a party that aspires to become the ruling party some day, in a country known as; curiously, which? Tanzania or Chadema? The electorate will provide the answer, come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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