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Adult and Non-Formal Education Transformation in Tanzania

"This book, Adult and Non-Formal Education Transformation in Tanzania, stands as a testament to that reflection—a scholarly and practical contribution that honors the past, engages the present, and envisions the future… The chapters in this book reflect the diversity, complexity, and innovations that define the field of adult and non-formal education today. They explore critical themes such as digital inclusion, community-based learning, innovative assessment, curriculum development, financing, and the transformative potential of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence" – Book Foreword

Dhulma

“Katika mitaa ya Zanzibar na Dar es Salaam, maisha ya vijana watatu–Badar, Karim, na Fauzia–yanasukwa na matukio yasiyotabirika. Badar, kijana maskini asiye na mizizi wala elimu, anajikuta katika dunia ya watu wenye mamlaka na mali. Akiwa mtumishi, bahati inampiga mawimbi anapokutana na Karim–kijana wa mama mwenye nyumba, mwenye ndoto na matarajio makubwa. Wakati huo huo, Fauzia, bado akiwa kaelemewa na changamoto za utotoni, anatafuta njia ya kujinasua…Hakika simulizi hii inatupeleka kwenye safari ya maisha ya wale wanaotafuta nafasi yao katika ulimwengu unaobadilika haraka, usio na huruma na wenye dhulma bila kujali walipotoka” - Mchapishaji

Class Struggles in Tanzania: 50th Anniversary Edition with New Introduction

“In this 50th Anniversary edition, Shivji provides a critical analysis of the transition from nationalism to neoliberalism over the last four decades, exposing in doing so, the complicity of the comprador class with international monopoly capital to the immiseration of the masses of the people. The new and extensive introduction to the book, titled Class Struggles under Neoliberalism, is an incisive analysis of the transformation of the country driven by accumulation by extraction, the form of accumulation in Africa that is most characteristic of a neoliberal political economy” - Publisher

Class Struggles in Tanzania

“Issa Shivji’s Class Struggles in Tanzania is one of the most significant books to be published in the early decades after the country’s independence. It offers a brilliant account of why Marxism is an essential method and approach to understanding African realities, how the question of the peasantry is central to national liberation Marxism, and why class struggles are not only present in the African reality but must be analyzed from a Marxist lens” – Publisher

In The Name of the President: Memoirs of a Jailed Journalist

“Upon my abduction from my residence, growing pressure from local and international media and organizations forced the government to either formally charge me with a crime or disclose my whereabouts to the public. When the government finally succumbed to the pressure, it slapped me with a barrage of fabricated charges. These ranged from sedition for an article published in "The Economist" to organized crime, money laundering and economic sabotage. It went so far as to falsely accuse me of being an illegal immigrant in my own country. I would endure seven grueling months of pre-trial detention at the notorious Segerea Maximum Security Prison..." - Author

The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories

“The mystery of a failing marriage, the uncertainty of dystopia, a spirit with a dubious handle on his job. Esther Karin Mngodo turns her eye and pen to inventing worlds both realistic and speculative as she deftly moves us through the lives of Tanzanians. Mngodo’s stories are invitations: go on, sit beside her, she has something to tell you.” - Book Critic

Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders

“The face of African politics has changed significantly since the mid-1990s as more women have entered politics in both democracies and autocracies. At the same time, in authoritarian countries this has created a conundrum: these successes in attaining leadership roles for women potentially end up strengthening the very regime that violates human and women’s rights… Drawing on cross-national research in Africa and over 188 in-depth interviews in Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Morocco, and in two democracies, Namibia and Botswana, the book explains how and why authoritarian countries promote women as leaders in Africa” – Book Abstract

Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith

“Karim Hirji’s Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith is a path-breaking, inspiring and challenging book on AI that will help strengthen the social movements of resistance throughout the world. It delegitimizes the ideological obfuscations of imperialism—from the crimes of Eugenics to the fantasy of a happy AI future. It takes us on a fascinating and challenging journey, warns us of the grave dangers posed by corporate AI, and prepares us for the next stage of the lifetime battle for anti-imperialist and socialist humanity” – Book Reviewer

Religious Leadership for Family Planning: Insights from Tanzania

“Challenging the conventional view of development as a linear process between developer and developee, this book reveals development as a layered and dynamic process shaped by intersecting visions and competing desires for spatio-temporal transformation. The book uses the Kiswahili concept kujiendeleza [to make oneself go] to capture the awkward, unequal, and creative connections between NGOs and the Muslim and Christian religious leaders they work with for the implementation of their plans…. Providing an innovative and nuanced theorization of development, religion, and health, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, and of faith- based development"-Author

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