Main entry:

Shivji, Issa G.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, ©2006.

Description:

x, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Codesria book series

Notes:
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 12-13).
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?

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. 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."--African Books Collective.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

2869781830 (paperback)
9782869781832 (paperback)

Subject:

Neoliberalism Tanzania.
Territory, National Tanzania.
Neoliberalism
Politics and government
Territory, National
Geschichte.
Neoliberalismus.
Parteiensystem.
Mehrparteiensystem
Tanzania.
Democracy.
Constitutionalism.
Government.
Politics.
Tanzania Politics and government 1964-
Tanzanie Politique et gouvernement 1964-
Tansania.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
essays.
Patentschrift.
Essais.

Added entries:

Codesria book series.

Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315952
Call No.: 315952
Copy: 1
Status: Available