Research Catalog

Title

Let the people speak : Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism / Issa G. Shivji.

Author

Shivji, Issa G.

Publication

Dakar, Sénégal : Codesria, c2006.

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Description

x, 303 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 most distinguished public intellectuals, argues in this collection of essays, there is bound to be a backlash - witness Latin America. African scholars are already debating the resurgence of nationalism and Pan-Africanism, and searching for alternative paths of development and democracy. The ninety essays contained in this book are selected by the author from his writings published in newspaper columns during the period 1990-2005, a critical time in Tanzania that witnessed the rise and fall of nationalism, and transition to and consolidation of neo-liberalism. The essays give an overview of the intellectual history and traditions in Tanzania, one of the few countries in Africa which can still boast of political stability and reasonable openness. The writings reflect the hopes and fears of the progressive intellectual community, and project a strong sense of the enduring ideas and values in the period. The author's aims are to recover the history of the recent past in Tanzania, build a narrative of where the country is coming from, and provide a historical understanding of the events and climate of the present." Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Codesria book series

Alternative Title

Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism

Subject

• Since 1964
• Geschichte 1990-2005
• Neoliberalism > Tanzania
• Territory, National > Tanzania
• Tanzania > Politics and government > 1964-

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Enter multiparty : a critical review of the Nyalali report -- Pt. II. On constitutionalism and constitution-making -- Pt. III. The union question -- Pt. IV. Parties, power and politicians : the tycoonisation of CCM -- Pt. V. Intellectuals in politics -- Pt. VI. Down the road to neo-liberalism -- Pt. VII. The loss of vision and the rise of chauvinism, race, religion and ethnicity -- Pt. VIII. State violence and impunity -- Pt. IX. Freedom of assembly, association and expression -- Pt. X. Pan-Africanism or imperialism?

ISBN

• 2869781830
• 9782869781832

LCCN

^^2006315645

OCLC

• 74354646
• SCSB-12659857

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library