WHEN POWER FAILS IN MARKETS, IT TURNS TO WAR!

 

By: ZNK

https://zanzibarnikwetu.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-power-fails-in-markets-it-turns-to.html

Dear Readers, the warning issued by one of our esteemed regular readers (Dr. Shaaban K. Fundi) must not be softened, diluted, or ignored.

This is not a routine geopolitical moment.

This is a turning point.

Dr. Fundi is absolutely correct: what we are witnessing today is not simply a conflict in one region or tension between a few states, but a steady normalization of force in a world that once claimed to be governed by rules and laws. 

Power today has begun to speak through force. History has taught us this pattern before. And we Africans know it better than most.

For the Global South, this is not an abstract debate. It is a question of sovereignty, dignity, and survival in a world where the rules appear increasingly flexible for the powerful and rigid for the weak. 

Resource-rich regions, strategically located states, and politically independent nations must understand what is at stake: not only influence, but survival itself.

This is precisely why silence is not a neutral position.

Silence, in moments like this, becomes accommodation and approval.

Tanzania, as a nation born out of the Maji Maji resistance, shaped by anti-colonial struggle, and molded in the furnace of African liberation - should not be just another country observing events in the Middle East from a distance.

The legacy of Julius Nyerere was never one of convenience.

It was one of principle.

Nyerere did not measure justice by geography. He did not remain silent when dignity was at stake, nor did he outsource moral judgment to powerful nations. Whether in Africa’s liberation struggles or in moments of global tension, Tanzania spoke - not recklessly, but with a voice of conviction.

That is the tradition we inherited.

The question before us today is simple, but not comfortable:

Do we still have that voice?

Or have we chosen quiet observation in a world that increasingly demands clarity?

Let us be very clear: raising a voice does not mean recklessness. It does not mean abandoning friends or diplomacy or ignoring complexity. It means refusing to normalize a world where force becomes the first language of power.

Tanzania does not need to shout.

But it must not whisper!

It must stand where it has always stood - on the side of sovereignty, fairness, and the principle that nations, regardless of size or power, deserve to exist without coercion.

To remain silent in such a moment is not prudence - It is retreat.

The Global South must read this moment carefully.

Because patterns, once established, do not remain confined. They expand. They evolve. They become precedents, as Dr. Fundi mentioned.

And precedents, once normalized, are rarely reversed.

To raise these concerns is not alarmism - It is responsibility.

To question the direction of global power is not defiance - It is awareness.

And to insist that justice must not be selective is not ideology - It is the very foundation of international order.

Dear Readers, the world is changing - and we are watching it in silence.

Posterity will judge us all!

/Zanzibar Ni Kwetu