Authors: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

In Nyerere Dialogue Lecture

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This Lecture by Professor Paul Zeleza astutely traces the development of higher education in Africa and globally in its various dimensions. It articulates the major concern of most educationists, which is the commercialisation, vocationalisation, disarticulation and direct or indirect privatisation of higher education, particularly university education.

Authors: Sylvia Tamale

In Nyerere Dialogue Lecture

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In this magnificent lecture Professor Sylvia Tamale of the School of Law, Makerere University, adroitly lays bare one of the appalling silences in the history of Pan-Africanist and nationalist ideas. She does not simply and mechanically transpose it to her story. Through research and analysis, she demonstrates the central role played by women in the very origin and development of Pan-Africanism.

Authors: Ng’wanza Kamata

In Nyerere Dialogue Lecture

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This, Ng’wanza Kamata’s lecture, titled Mwalimu Nyerere: Pan African Nationalist or Nationalist Pan African? was delivered in November 2015. In this lecture, he traces and compares the origins of Nkrumah’s and Nyerere’s Pan-African thought, his main thesis being that whereas Nkrumah arrived at territorial nationalism via Pan-Africanism, Nyerere’s Pan-Africanism was through territorial nationalism.

Authors: Prabhat Patnaik

In Nyerere Dialogue Lecture

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In November 2018, Emeritus Professor Prabhat Patnaik, delivered the annual Nyerere Dialogue Lecture published here. In this lecture, Professor Patnaik discusses the place of petty production in the development trajectory of the countries of the global South.