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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

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1870784022

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Where is Uhuru?

Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

Neoliberal policies promised to correct multiple distortions in postcolonial Africa. But democratic politics, land reform, rights and freedom all suffered. Shivji calls for Africa-centred thinking that embraces the continent's right to self-determination.

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190638746X

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9781906387464

The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry

By: Utsa Patnaik,Sam Moyo,Issa G. Shivji

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The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry

By: Utsa Patnaik,Sam Moyo,Issa G. Shivji

A compelling and critical destruction of both the English agricultural revolution and the theory of comparative advantage, upon which unequal trade has been justified for three centuries, this account argues that these ideas have been used to disguise the fact that the Northfrom the time of colonialism to the present dayhas used the much greater agricultural productivity of the South to feed and improve the living standards of its own people while impoverishing the South. At the same time, the imposition of neoliberal reforms in the African continent has led to greater unemployment, spiraling debt, land and livestock losses, reduced per capita food production, and decreased nutrition. Arguing that political stability hangs in the balance, this book calls for labor-intensive small-scale production, new thinking about which agricultural commodities are produced, the redistribution of the means of food production, and increased investment in rural development. The combined effort of African and Indian scholarly work, this account demands policies that defend the land rights of small producers and allow people to live with dignity.

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0857490389

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9780857490384

Tanzania

The Legal Foundations of the Union

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Tanzania

The Legal Foundations of the Union

By: Issa G. Shivji

Issa Shivji's book, first published in 1990 provided the first detailed analysis of the fundamental legal foundations of the union in 1964 between Tanganyika and Zanzibar which led to the birth of the United Republic of Tanzania. Used by students of law, politics and the Tanzania union as a basic reference work the book is a product of wide ranging scholarship and close analysis of legal texts that constitute the primary sources of the Union-and the author's long engagement with the morality of constitutional politics that bear on Zanzibar's status in the Union. Out of print for over a decade this second expanded edition includes a few minor revisions, comments and references have been put in square brackets to distinguish them from the original text.

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9976600690

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9789976600698

Silences in NGO Discourse

The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Silences in NGO Discourse

The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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 eroded the gains of independence, Issa Shivji shows in two extensive essays in this book that the role of NGOs in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their political and historical context. As structural adjustment programs were imposed across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programs to minimize the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by their policies. As a result, NGOs have flourished--and played an unwitting role in consolidating the neoliberal hegemony in Africa. Shivji argues that if social policy is to be determined by citizens rather than the donors, African NGOs must become catalysts for change rather than the catechists of aid that they are today.

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0954563751

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Where is Uhuru?

Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

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Accumulation in an African Periphery

A Theoretical Framework

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Accumulation in an African Periphery

A Theoretical Framework

By: Issa G. Shivji

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. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.

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9987080316

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Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

By: G. Shivji

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Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

By: G. Shivji

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 forty years ago are not showing any sign of abating. Meanwhile, imperialism under new forms and labels continues to bedevil the continent in ever-aggressive, if subtle, ways. The political federation of East Africa, which was one of the main spin-offs of the Pan-Africanism of the nationalist period, is reappearing on the political stage, albeit in a distorted form of regional integration. It is in this context that the present study is situated. Backgrounding the major dramas of the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar this book studies the personalities involved and their politics, and includes an account of the Dodoma CCM conference that toppled President Jumbe. It is also a detailed legal analysis of the union incorporating powerful new material.

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9987081053

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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

By: Issa G. Shivji

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Book's by Issa G. Shivji

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

Where is Uhuru?

Where is Uhuru?

The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Tanzania

Tanzania

Silences in NGO Discourse

Silences in NGO Discourse

Where is Uhuru?

Where is Uhuru?

Accumulation in an African Periphery

Accumulation in an African Periphery

Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

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