Browsing by Autor "Luke Melchiorre"
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Item type: Item , A contested legacy: Julius Nyerere and the 2020 Tanzanian election(2020) Luke MelchiorreItem type: Item , Africa’s student movements: history sheds light on modern activism(2019) Dan Hodgkinson; Luke MelchiorreItem type: Item , African Youth in Focus: Realizing the African Union’s politics of November(Roskilde University, 2020) Jacob Rasmussen; Luke Melchiorre; Wangui KimariAfter two decades of an academic and policy focus on the demographic “challenges” prompted by a growing youth population in Africa, young people are still being presented as problematic and their grievances and active political participation are often met with repression. A recent initiative by the African Union seeks to renew the focus on youth development, and, ostensibly, realize the potential of the 900 million people under the age of 35 on the continent. Despite the widespread policy speak of inclusion and rights evident in both AU and other state and non-state interventions, the active political participation of African youth is often restricted through various forms of state securitization.Item type: Item , Black November: remembering Uganda’s massacre of the opposition three years on(2023) Luke MelchiorreItem type: Item , Bobi Wine has shaken up Ugandan politics: four things worth knowing about him(2021) Luke MelchiorreItem type: Item , Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960–1964 by Paul Bjerk. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 374, $120.00 (hbk).(Cambridge University Press, 2018) Luke MelchiorreBuilding a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960–1964 by Paul Bjerk. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 374, $120.00 (hbk). - Volume 56 Issue 3Item type: Item , The Youth are not the Problem(Roskilde University, 2020) Jacob Rasmussen; Luke Melchiorre; Wangui KimariItem type: Item , ‘Under the Thumb of the Party’: The Limits of Tanzanian Socialism and the Decline of the Student Left(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Luke MelchiorreBy late 1970, the University of Dar es Salaam had developed an international reputation as a leading centre of Third World socialist thought, with the emergence of a small, but increasingly influential, community of leftist students organising on campus. Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, the prominence of this fledgling student left rapidly declined. Rejecting arguments which attribute this demise primarily to the university’s growing material crisis during this period, this article argues that the introduction of a series of institutional reforms implemented by the TANU/CCM government over the course of the 1970s and 1980s on campus effectively institutionalised the ruling party’s control over the university and its students. These institutional reforms ensured that, even as the ruling party’s ideological hegemony began to wane as early as the late 1970s, the party was able to insulate itself from the kind of disruptive student protests that would undermine the stability of many of its African counterparts during the decade of the 1980s. Furthermore, this article demonstrates that the TANU/CCM regime’s management of the university during these decades provides critical insights into some of the prime limitations of Tanzania’s socialist project under Julius Nyerere: namely, that at the university, as elsewhere, the regime’s need for political order and obedience from its citizens far exceeded, and often conflicted with, the ruling party’s avowed desire to cultivate socialism among the Tanzanian masses.