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The man that Praseka wanted to vote for had been thrown into jail.
And so last October, when polling day came, she took to the streets.
Tanzanians across the country did the same.
Only when the police started shooting did they see that this was war, she says.
Security forces killed hundreds of people, maybe thousands.
Where she lives, in the Mara region, the smell of dead bodies wafted from the bush.
How many people were killed may never be known.
A commission that is supposed to investigate the deaths had its deadline extended for the second time on April 4th.
It is not just Tanzania.
In the past couple of years, young Kenyans stormed parliament.
Post-election protests paralysed Mozambique, and a popular uprising helped topple the president in Madagascar.
These revolts show deep dissatisfaction of Africans with the status quo, and their tenacity in seeking to change it.
But can they produce better results?
The street has long been a feature of African politics.
Adam Branch of Cambridge University and Zachariah Mampilli of the City University of New York identify a wave
of anti-colonial protest in the 1940s and 1950s,