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Preface: The Hard Road from Arusha
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., Julius K. Nyerere, then president of Tanzania, paid a four-day official state visit to Jamaica at the invitation of the prime minister, Michael Manley. I was a secondary school student at Jamaica College at the time, unsteadily trying to find my way in Marxist debates about socialist transition...
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Preface: The Heretical Humanism of Anthony Bogues
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Heretics, Black Prophets develops a counterpoint to this enduring form of racism by demonstrating the distinctive conception of the human that animates a political theory of society. One chapter that is to my mind especially illuminating is the one on Julius Nyerere (1922–99), the political thinker...
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Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Karudi, “Re: Support for Ongoing Mission of Repatriation and Related,” 12 November 1986, 1, box 7, folder 192, C. L. R. James Collection. 37 Ibid. 36 Edwards [Mkhululi], letter to Nyerere, “Afrikans in the West.” 35 See Bedasse, Jah Kingdom , 115–19. 34 Yawney, “Exodus,” 171...
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“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
...). 37 Rodney, “Class Contradictions in Tanzania,” 273. 36 Shivji, “Remembering Walter Rodney,” 44. The critical exchange around this essay also appears in the recent magisterial three-volume biography of Julius Nyerere cowritten by Issa Shivji. See Issa G. Shivji, Saida Yahya-Othman...
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Of “Realities and Possibilities”
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Nyerere’s policies of African indigenous modernization, as postulated in the 1967 Arusha Declaration by the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). Drawing on the declaration’s claim to define a type of scientific socialism, the villagization program mobilized its own rigid interpretation...
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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
... historical research in African history, in 1967 Rodney took a teaching post at the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, which brought him into contact with Julius Nyerere’s Ujamma project, though he would later reveal that he never considered his time in Africa “an end in itself.” Rather, he always...
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Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and in dialogue with the shifting winds globally and within the country. 13 Addressing the contradictions of capital as a universalizing phenomenon, Rodney was immersed in this debate. He was initially quite convinced that Nyerere’s Ujamaa was in fact scientific socialism and not African socialism, believing...
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African History in the Service of the Black Liberation
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and the type
of analysis being carried out by that remarkable man, Julius Nyerere. Take a document
like “Socialism and Rural Development,” which is something blacks should all read.⁸ He
is attempting to select the elements of culture in Tanzania, the process of cultural history
before the Europeans...
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Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the alliance of the Cuban Revolution, Amílcar Cabral in Guinea-Bissau, and Julius Nyerere’s African socialism, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, on the one hand, and China, Vietnam, and North Korea, on the other. Rodney was not in Havana in January 1966 when the Tricontinental unfolded. But he...
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Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Kagame, Kwame Gyekye, Henry Oruka, Marcien Towa, Amilcar Cabral, Joshua
Sempebwa, Julius Nyerere, John Mbiti, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Nkire Nguzi, Wole
ssmallmall Soyinka, and Paulin Hountondji. 1 is group’s work has certainly succeeded in rees-
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Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney's Expulsion from Jamaica
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of the congress is comparable to his Jamaican post-expulsion manifesto, in which
he offered a jeremiad against the Jamaican governing class.20 Politically, he had rained on
17. Julius K. Nyerere, Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism (Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1968); Issa G. Shivji, Class...
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Dread Dialectics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Fanon, Julius Nyerere, Amilcar Cabral, Walter Rodney, and perhaps most surprisingly, the founder and leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. (66–67) In his thoughtful reflection on black Marxism, Minkah Makalani cautions against positivist projections into what...
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Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 66–83.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... In this context—the context also of the Marxism-influenced armed African revolution—Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa (1967) and Mwongozo (1971) came to seem more compromised than before, and Rodney’s attitude of critique of the growing petit bourgeois hegemony within the Tanzanian state less accommodating. 8 One...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of white minority rule, and Abrahams left South Africa in 1939. But unlike most of his Pan-Africanist comrades—C. L. R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, George Padmore, and Julius Nyerere—for Abrahams the post–World War II decolonization era (1940s–1960s) failed to yield a newly independent or almost...
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History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
... at the University of Dar es Salaam. He was in Tanzania from 1969 to 1974, a stay only interrupted by his travels abroad. In Tanzania, he found a dynamic, progressive environment fostered by President Julius Nyerere. It had become a hub of Pan-Africanism and the continent’s anticolonial movements, taking over...
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The Dialectic of Defeat: An Interview with Rupert Lewis
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 85–177.
Published: 01 September 2001
... think, secondly, the kind of changes that he experienced in Guyana and in Tan-
zania [in 1967] with Nyerere’s eff orts to develop something independent of the Soviets,
and to some extent the Chinese, gives Walter a very strong sense of this independent
Marxism, independent socialism...
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“To be Liberated from the Obscurity of Themselves”: An Interview with Rex Nettleford
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
Published: 01 June 2006
... produces.”
He was very good that way, and it brought to the attention of the people from below how to
break that cycle of dependency. The IMF, or as Julius Nyerere called it, the International Ministry
of Finance, controlled Jamaica’s future. So in fact he took us into the wider world...
