This could be a beacon for Africa. Its people are friendly and earnest and intelligent. They have hope for the future. They want and deserve to do much better. They seek release from the pall of corruption that has fallen over them.
Politicians fill in annual statements of 'personal wealth' - but somehow they never get published.
I wandered the other day across a field on the edge of Dar es Salaam filled with women, young and old, squatting amid a pile of boulders and chopping them, by hand, into the smaller stones that would help lay a road or make a wall. That is what they do from dawn to dusk. They break up the stones. They probably had to offer a little bundle of shillings for the privilege. And it is not possible to pass them by.