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Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo

Liu Ye

Review of African Political Economy2025https://doi.org/10.62191/roape-2025-0020article
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Based on Issa Shivji’s theoretical contribution and a recent interview with Shivji, this article examines the political and ideological gains and losses within Tanzania’s national liberation movement. The first part explores the complex relationship between Marxist intellectuals of the Dar es Salaam School and the nationalist progressive forces embodied by Julius Nyerere’s party and state. The second part analyses the interaction between the worker-peasant masses and Nyerere to elucidate the rise and decline of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and Revolutionary Party’s (CCM) leadership and hegemony, illustrating both the agency and constraints of constituent founders in modern African history.

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@article{liu2025,
  title        = {{Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo}},
  author       = {Liu Ye},
  journal      = {Review of African Political Economy},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.62191/roape-2025-0020},
}

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