Why Tanzania’s decision to ban Diamond Platnumz is creepier than you think

Tanzania’s nanny state has gone to a weird space.

It has banned its biggest superstar Diamond Platnumz from performing in that country.

This is over a song he did with Rayvanny (who also got slapped with a ban) called Mwanza which has a word in it that in Swahili translates to Horny in English.

Now some people would just call that the ravings of a crackpot dictator but it is a warning sign for a lot of people.

While John Magufuli has moved aggressively to clamp down on free speech and expression as well as anything he deems immoral, back here, the chiefs came out with unsavoury attacks against what they also termed behaviour inconsistent with some values. They were then talking about the Samba girls coming to Zimbabwe coming through in their bikinis and bras for the carnival saying they were, yes without moral standing.

It starts with whiffs like that where a group of men decide what the rest of the people should do. Next thing it becomes a law, we start censoring everyone and before you know it, we can’t even talk about sex anymore. We’re in the 1900s and stuck.

Diamond Platnumz sounded unphased. He was like…

If they don’t want me to perform my songs I can live in another country and play there. If Tanzanian law says I can’t perform here, I can go to Kenya where I am not banned

The weirdos wanted him banned from performing outside the country too but it is hard to see how they would achieve that.