Issa G Shivji

In this 40th year of my association with the University of Dar es Salaam, I am humbled and honoured to be appointed to the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere chair in Pan-African Studies.[1] The inauguration of the Mwalimu Nyerere chair in Nkrumah Hall is neither accidental nor coincidental.

I am honoured and humbled by your invitation to deliver the Second Billy Dudley Memorial Lecture. Memorial lectures are no doubt occasions for us to celebrate the lives of our colleagues and comrades and learn from their contributions to the causes that we hold dear.

Speaking at the 40th anniversary of Ghana’s independence, Mwalimu Nyerere said that his generation of African nationalists had set themselves two tasks: liberation and unity. In the first task, that of liberation, they had succeeded, but in the second they had failed.

Lawyers in Neoliberalism

Authority’s Professional Supplicants or Society’s Amateurish Conscience

Issa G. Shivji

Professor of Law
University of Dar es Salaam
Tanzania

15th July, 2006

Buriani Kamaradi [Issa Shivji, 12 Julai 2006]

Ndugu yangu
Rafiki yangu
Kamaradi Chachage:

Nani kasema umetuacha?
Eti umefariki!

Kwani mwili ndiyo maisha?

Maisha ni fikra.
Maisha ni vitendo.
Maisha ni ubinadamu.