Sarah Mount

Last month a prominent journalist, Daudi Mwangosi, was killed during a public assembly in Tanzania, whilst interacting with police. The week before Mwangosi’s death, a newspaper vendor, Ally Zona, died in a protest that the police were trying to shut down.

2011 was a watershed year for the protest movement, with huge protests across the Arab world resulting in the toppling of long-standing regimes. ‘The Protestor’ was even named Time Person of the Year for 2011.