Plataforma de Diálogo: - #02 - Armadilhas do Nacionalismo
Channel: NETEL • UFABC
Date: 27/08/2020

Pitfalls of Nationalism

Descrição
Issa G. Shivji is Professor Emeritus of Public Law and First Julius Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Professor Shivji is an eminent Marxist scholar and Pan-Africanist, and one of Africa's leading experts on law and development issues. He has published widely on the renewal of Pan-Africanism, the problems of democracy in Africa, and the evolution of land and agrarian questions under imperialism. His latest book is the long-awaited political biography of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere, co-authored with Saida Yahya-Othman and Ng’wanza Kamata. In this second session of our Dialogue Series, the authors will launch their book to our global audience and Professor Shivji will then proceed to address the problems and trajectories of nationalism, its relationship to Pan-Africanism and its appropriation today by right-wing and reactionary forces.

Key Speaker
Issa Shivji
eminent Marxist scholar and Pan-Africanist

Discussant
Dzodzi Tsikata
Research Professor (development sociology) and Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

Moderator
Sandeep Chachra
Executive Director, ActionAid Association (India)

Book launch
Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere
with co-authors: Saida Yahya-Othman, retired professor of English Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam and Ng'wanza Kamata, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam