Uber in Tanzania. The politics of digital regulation in Tanzania: Uber, its drivers and the state

This article focusses on the decision by Uber to halt its operations in Tanzania in April 2022, and its subsequent resumption in January 2023, to explore the complex interplay of political, economic, and social dynamics related to the regulation of the digital economy within Africa. This article highlights some of the challenges of integrating global tech giants into local economies, and how different players, such as Uber, its drivers and the Tanzanian state attempted to defend their interests, and their differential power to fulfil them.