".... this book raises vital social and cultural concerns relevant to individuals, families, communities and nations: the meaning of life, personhood and death; moral regimes of gender and sexuality; the complexity of kinship and familial relations; and the intersectionality of gender, class and race" - Editor

".....this book provides a unique perspective on how the politics of Christian–Muslim difference and the formation of socio-economic inequalities in contemporary Tanzania have become deeply entrenched in students’ and teachers’ quests for a good life in faith-oriented schools" - Author

"The book focuses on the vision of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere on adult education and the context in which the various adult, non-formal and continuing education programme were conceived, originated and managed" - Editors

"Hii ni tafsiri ya kwanza kwa riwaya za Abdulrazak Gurnah katika lugha ya Kiafrika" - Kitabu

"This book is about those intellectuals who addressed their visions to their fellow urban-dwellers, creating urban publics and mentalities that were connected to concrete conditions and practices of urban life" - Introduction

"I thus challenge understanding of legitimacy as a formalized, contractual exchange between the state and the invisible subject in favour of legitimation as negotiated practice, undertaken by an array of ambiguous institutions, in this case NGOs, as they reproduce and compete for public authority" - Introduction

"This book leaves us with no doubt that women are capable of excellence in science and as scientific and institutional leaders" - Foreword