China Grooming Africa’s Future Dictators in CCP School in Tanzania

JOHANNESBURG—It was a day like no other before or since in Kibaha in eastern Tanzania. On Feb. 23, 2022, a convoy of Land Rovers and army Land Cruisers, containing scores of officials from the Chinese and Tanzanian governments, roared into the small town. Farmers put down their hoes; fishermen dropped their nets. Accompanied by senior members of China’s Communist Party (CCP), Tanzania’s first female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, cut a ribbon to inaugurate the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School, the first political education school built by the CCP on foreign soil. China’s “training school for present and future African leaders” is named after one of Africa’s post-colonial heroes....