and from the unfolding dynamics of the multi-party state and competitive electoral politics are also likely areas of review. These processes provide a unique opportunity to clear up misgivings and, where necessary, redress some grievances, long in gestation - if muted, about consolidation and the sustainability of the national experiment with diversity in unity, notably: (i) the legal foundations and legitimacy of the Union to reflect the popular will of Tanzanians; (ii) the resolution of conflict of laws between the Union Government and Tanzania Zanzibar; (iii) the review of the division of legislative competency between the Union Government and Tanzania Zanzibar, especially given the discovery of oil and other mineral resources in various parts of the Union. Any such review should match fiscal resources with legislative competency based on the new revenue-sharing provisions; (iv) the scope of Union competencies as applied to Tanzania Zanzibar, especially in relation to corruption, rights-promoting and election-related matters; and, (v) enhanced and entrenched political devolution by the Union Government to satisfy understandable demands from mainland Tanzania for some form of home or limited rule, if not shared sovereignty, on par with Zanzibar. The prospects for improving institutions and mechanisms, and structures for managing diversity in Tanzania and building a durable Union, to ensure and move forward democracy and development in the manner outlined and analysed above, are bright, though challenging. Translating them into reality, however, requires deft political manoeuvering by a foresighted transformational leadership that practises politics, beyond preaching about it, as a public interest vocation. Such leadership must also give scope and encouragement to the open expression of voice on public matters, if it is to carry the population along in the exciting - if exerting - process of governance as a collective exercise in national self-development. There is every reason to hope that the visionary leadership, the pragmatism and flexibility that have combined to make the URT a unique, Pan-Africanist project, will be sustained over the long term. As many have pointed out, this uniqueness, founded on rejecting blinkered nationalism as the way forward to African unity, and on the realisation that national, regional and continental unity must be driven by the people, is the lesson African countries must to learn from the URT. xiv