Articles · Vol. 4 No. 2 (2008): Africa Review of Books, Volume 4, n° 2, 2008

6 - The Travails of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

  • Jenerali Ulimwengu
    Jenerali Ulimwengu journalist and political commentator based in Dar es Salaam
    JENERALI ULIMWENGU is a long serving journalist and political commentator based in Dar es Salaam. He has worked in various capacities, including ten years with the Pan-African Youth Movement in Algiers in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as a Member of the Tanzanian Parliament...
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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...

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  • Jenerali Ulimwengu, journalist and political commentator based in Dar es Salaam

    JENERALI ULIMWENGU is a long serving journalist and political commentator based in Dar es Salaam. He has worked in various capacities, including ten years with the Pan-African Youth Movement in Algiers in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as a Member of the Tanzanian Parliament and a District Governor in the1990s. He writes regularly in local papers and has been active in civil society movement in Tanzania and other parts of Africa.