Why dual citizenship now crucial issue in Tanzania

Most of the Tanzanians living and working abroad were eagerly waiting to see the final Draft Constitution providing for dual citizenship following their long time request.

Pursuant to our call for the right of dual citizenship for all Tanzanians, the Tanzanian Communities in the United States of America and the Diaspora Council of Tanzanians in America (DICOTA) have agreed to file a petition for this cause to the Constitutional Review Parliament that is now taking place in Dodoma, Tanzania through our Representative Honorable Kadari Singo, who is also a member of the our Diaspora Community and who resides in California. With the highest honor, we invite you...

Tanzania’s constitution is one of the surviving few that make a natural born citizen revoke his/her citizenship upon naturalization in another country.  Ironically, foreign nationals from other countries can naturalize as Tanzanians and maintain their origin country’s citizenship, but the same is not permitted for natural born Tanzanians. 

My fellow Tanzanians need to know this:

A person could be born in Tanzania, then leave Tanzaniato go to England, and then become a British citizen. ...

I would like to provide alternative point of views about the way to frame the advantages of dual citizenship and hence contribute to the on-going narrative about the same.
First, I would like to make it clear that I support dual citizenship but the reasoning that have been put forward so far in support of it just do not make sense.  To my knowledge, the proponents of dual citizenship have put forward among others, two major points, in support of their position.  That a) It will facilitate...

A representative of Tanzanians in the Diaspora in the Constituent Assembly (CA), Mr Kadari Singo, said on Friday that there is no hope that dual citizenship would be introduced in the the country.

Dual Citizenship Now On Horizon
AllAfrica.com
Dodoma — THE Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry, through its Diaspora Directorate, is conducting a research on the exact number of Tanzanians abroad and their specializations as part of the preparations for the dual citizenship initiative.

By Hassan Saudin The current debate on dual citizenship in Tanzania has come to a crucial juncture now that the Constitutional Assembly has begun deliberations on the draft constitution. Tanzanians are eagerly following-up developments emanating from Dodoma, particularly on issues that concern them the most,  and one topic of contention that directly touches millions Tanzanians in the diaspora is that of dual citizenship. The basis of apprehension by those who oppose dual citizenship ought...

I have read many opinions by Tanzanians on dual citizenship. What I have learned from what Tanzanians write on this topic is that the majority of Tanzanians living abroad want dual citizenship to be included in the new constitution.  In spite of the different opinions Tanzanians may have, one of the issues that Tanzanians agree on is the issue of dual citizenship. However, there is still a need to educate the masses about the benefits of dual citizenship.   In other words, many Tanzanians...