In 2021, in the pages of Tanzania’s leading English daily, The Citizen, I argued that a change of leadership in Zambia could benefit both Tanzania and Zambia. Over the past five years, Tanzania and Zambia have moved beyond the language of historical friendship towards the harder business of economic partnership. Consider the Port of Dar es Salaam, perhaps Zambia’s most consequential piece of infrastructure that Zambia does not own. Tanzania and Zambia are building the interconnector that will eventually link the Eastern and Southern African power pools. They will vote on whether the future Zambia began building in 2021 deserves the chance, under the uncompromising supervision of its citizens, to be completed.