"The Politics of Poverty successfully provides a detailed historical account of a relatively understudied region - Southeast Tanzania - and at the same time a balanced reflection on development relevant to broader histories of colonial and post-colonial Africa …" - Reviewer

"...In a provocative, scholarly analysis Stefan Ouma draws upon his extensive research across five continents to explain and critique the 'financialization' of rural space. It is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of food and farming” - Reviewer

"In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state. Moving from the politics of generation contracts down to the street-level experience of blackouts and disconnection patrols, he reveals the logics of infrastructural modification and their effects on everyday life" - Publisher

".... 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