The scholarly literature on sentencing reform has largely overlooked the African continent. The paucity of legal scholarship is particularly striking with respect to Tanzania, one of Africa's largest and most populous countries. This article explores the first significant sentencing reform in Tanzania's history. In 2020, the Tanzanian judiciary issued a comprehensive set of sentencing guidelines for courts to follow. Until this point, sentencing was a highly discretionary stage of the criminal process, and the Tanzanian penal code offered very little guidance with respect to the exercise of that discretion. After providing a brief summary of the new sentencing regime, we explore the innovative guidance contained in the reforms. In the conclusion we discuss the extent to which the Tanzanian reforms reflect core African values of Ubuntu, or more specifically in the case of Tanzania, Ujamaa, the philosophy popularized by Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere.

关于量刑改革的学术文献在很大程度上忽视了非洲大陆。坦桑尼亚是非洲最大和人口最多的国家之一，法律奖学金的匮乏尤为突出。本文探讨了坦桑尼亚历史上第一次重大的量刑改革。2020 年，坦桑尼亚司法机构发布了一套全面的量刑指南供法院遵循。在此之前，量刑是刑事程序中一个高度自由裁量的阶段，而坦桑尼亚刑法典很少提供关于行使这种自由裁量权的指导。在对新的量刑制度进行简要总结之后，我们探讨了改革中包含的创新指导。在结论中，我们讨论了坦桑尼亚改革在多大程度上反映了 Ubuntu 的非洲核心价值观，