Chambi Chachage

“How do different interest groups define and protect their diverse interests?” – Sufian Bukurura and Donald Mmari on ‘Hydrocarbon Resources in Tanzania’

I have never reviewed a poetry book before.

“Standard economic theory does not offer ready solutions explaining China's path to capitalist economic development.” – Victor Nee and Sonja Opper

“The power of a framework comes from its ability to focus on the most important elements at the exclusion of the rest and in so doing in providing a way of thinking about these elements, how they function, how they have come about, and how they change” – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson [1]

“The litany of class, race, and gender suggests a parity for each term, but, in fact, that is not at all the case” – Joan W. Scott

“We recognize of course that subordination cannot be understood except as one of the constitutive terms in a binary relationship of which the other is dominance, for ‘subaltern groups are always subject to the activity of ruling groups, even when they rebel and rise up’” – Rajinat Guha

‘ What does a black man want?’- Frantz Fanon’
‘Look not upon me, because I am black’- The Song of Solomon 1:6
‘The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself’- Steve Biko

Dar es Salaam is abuzz. It’s giving birth to a novel artistic landscape. Well, at least new in scope.

‘The Indian Ocean, perhaps more than even the Mediterranean, was an arena of open dialogue between people of many cultures and religions’ – Abdul Sheriff

‘Nothing will compensate an African for the loss of his land’ – Sir Godfrey Lagden

Agriculture is back on the international agenda on Africa. A green-cum-agrarian revolution is thus being televised. At the heart of this quest, however, is the question of land use – and control.