6 - The Travails of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

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Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism? Lessons of Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union by Issa G. Shivji. Mkuki na Nyota Publishers in association with OSSREA, ISBN 978-9994- 455-21-8/978-9987-449-99-6

Once again, Professor Shivji has come out with a compelling book that will force all of us to scratch our heads and think, a work so powerful and so insightful that it will be well nigh impossible for anyone who will have read it to engage in any discourse about political and constitutional developments in Zanzibar, or about the nature, history and problems of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, without making reference to it...