Issa G. Shivji

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

1 The dominant discourse...

Where is Uhuru?

Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

Neoliberal policies promised to correct multiple distortions in postcolonial Africa. But democratic politics, land reform, rights and freedom all suff...

Silences in NGO Discourse

The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa

One of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have erode...

Tanzania

The Legal Foundations of the Union

Issa Shivji's book, first published in 1990 provided the first detailed analysis of the fundamental legal foundations of the union in 1964 between Tan...

Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

The Pan-Africanist debate is back on the historical agenda. The stresses and strains in the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar since its formation some ...

Accumulation in an African Periphery

A Theoretical Framework

The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. T...

The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry

A compelling and critical destruction of both the English agricultural revolution and the theory of comparative advantage, upon which unequal trade ha...

Intellectuals at the Hill

Essays and Talks, 1969-1993

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State Coercion and Freedom in Tanzania

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Let the people speak

Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism

"The African national project has been defeated, and the imperial/globalisation project is on the offensive. And yet, as Issa Shivji, one of Africa's ...

Constitutional and Legal System of Tanzania

A Civics Sourcebook

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Not Yet Democracy

Reforming Land Tenure in Tanzania

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The Legal Foundations of the Union in Tanzania's Union and Zanzibar Constitutions

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Pan-Africanism Or Pragmatism?

Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

The Pan-Africanist debate is back on the historical agenda. The stresses and strains in the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar since its formation some ...

Development as Rebellion

A Biography of Julius Nyerere

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Law, State, and the Working Class in Tanzania, C. 1920-1964

Dr. Shivji gives an impressive example of the fact that it is social history which underlies legal development and that law ultimately reflects social...

Fight My Beloved Continent

New Democracy in Africa

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The Legality and Legitimacy of Constitution-making

The East African Experience

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Maasai Rights in Ngorongoro, Tanzania

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An Intellectual Journey with My Teachers

Essay in Honour of Professor Yash Pal Ghai

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Development as Rebellion

A Biography of Julius Nyerere

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Escalating State Violence and Impunity

A Reader

"A collection of writings by various writers produced over the last fifty years on a serious social and political fault line in Tanzania. The rising i...

Accumulation in an African Periphery

A Theoretical Framework

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Liberating Democracy and Democratising Liberation

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Development as Rebellion

A Biography of Julius Nyerere : Book Three: Rebellion Without Rebels

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The Rise, the Fall, and the Insurrection of Nationalism in Africa

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Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Land Matters

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General Ethics /Agnes Heller

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