ISSA G SHIVJI
CURRICULUM VITAE
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FULL NAME |
Issa Gulamhussein Shivji |
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DATE OF BIRTH |
15th July, 1946 |
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PLACE OF BIRTH |
Kilosa, Tanzania |
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NATIONALITY |
Tanzanian |
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MARITAL STATUS |
Married |
NUMBER OF CHILDREN Two
Ph. D. 1982 University of Dar es Salaam
LL.M. 1971 University of London (LSE)
LL.B.(Hons.) 1970 University of East Africa
Advocate, High Court & the
Court of Appeal of Tanzania Sept.1977 to date
Advocate, High Court of Zanzibar June 1989 to date
BODIES
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Member, Tanganyika Law Society
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1977 to date |
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Member, Tanganyika Law Society |
{1979 - 1980 |
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Governing Council |
{1983 - 1986 |
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Member, Tanganyika Law Society Standing |
{1994 - 1995 |
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Committee on Law
Chairman, Tanganyika Law Society Standing |
1983 - 1986 |
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Committee on Law
Member, Tanganyika Law Society Legal |
1990 - 1991 |
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Aid Committee
Member, Drafting Committee of the Constitution |
1986 - 1988 |
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of the Law Association of Tanzania
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1986 |
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Secretary, Tanzania Professional Centre |
1980 - 1981 |
Chairman, Committee on Private Legal Practice Reform,
Law Reform Commission of Tanzania 1984 - 1986
Hon. Legal} Tanzania Society (Publisher of
Advisor, } Tanzania Notes & and Records) 1985 - 1990
Member, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators 1997 – 1998
Director, Nyerere Resource Centre, Tanzania
Commission for Science & Technology 1st October 2014 -
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere University Professor
in Pan-African Studies 1 April, 2008 - 31 August 2013
Professor 1 July, 1986 – 15 July 2006
Associate Professor 1 July, 1982 – 30 June 1986
Senior Lecturer 1 July, 1977 – 30 June 1982
Lecturer 1 July 1974 – 30 June 1977
Assistant Lecturer 1 July 1973 – 30 June 1974
Tutorial Assistant 1 May 1970 – 30 June 1973
Other posts and duties:
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Associate} Editor }
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High Court Digest |
1970 - 1971 |
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Chairman, |
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Legal Aid Committee |
1978 - 1986 |
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Member, |
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Legal Aid Committee |
1986 - 1987 |
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Coordinator, |
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Undergraduate Studies in Law |
1981 - 1985 |
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Director, |
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Law Moots and Mock Trials |
1981 - 1994 |
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Head, |
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Department of Legal Theory |
{1985 - 1987 |
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{1988 - 1991 |
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Head, Department of Constitutional & |
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Administrative Law |
2003 - 2005 |
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Chairman, Graduate Studies Committee, Law {1986 - 1987
{1988 - 1991
Member, University Higher Degrees Committee {1986 - 1991
{1988 - 1991
Member, University Senate {1981 - 1987
{1988 - 1991
Member, University Council 1985 - 1987 President, University Convocation 1985 - 1987
Member, Executive Committee of the University of
Dar es Salaam Academic Staff Assembly
(UDASA) 1983 - 1984
Chief Editor, UDASA Newsletter 1983 – 1984
Chief Editor, Eastern Africa Law Review {1972 - 1974
{1983 - 1984
Editor, TAAMULI (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor, African Review (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor, IDS Maendeleo Series (Institute of
Development Studies) 1984
Member, Committee of Inquiry into the Detention
of Students (Sarungi Committee) 1989
Chairman, Drafting Committee: `Dar es Salaam
Declaration on Academic Freedom & Social
Responsibility of Academics (UDASA) 1990
VI. NATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Chairman, Board of Directors, Tanzania Breweries Ltd. 1986 – 1987
Chairman, Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters
(Tanzania) 1991 - 1992
Executive} Land Rights Research and Resources Institute
Director } (HAKIARDHI) 1996 - 2002
Member, Council of the Sokoine University of Agriculture, 1996 – 1999
Founder, Institute of Law and Policy 2000 – 2002
President, Media Council of Tanzania, 2006 - 2008
Chairman, Board of Directors, Zanzibar Indian Ocean
Research Institute 2007 - 2012
Member, Board of Trustees, Tanzania Cultural Trust Fund 2007 - 2010
Visiting } Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA),
Professor } Dar es Salaam Oct.2006- Feb. 2008
Chairman Think Tank of the Media Council of Tanzania 2010 - 2013
VIIA. INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Honorary Executive Director & Trustee, Sam Moyo African Institute of Agrarian Studies
Jan. 2016 to date.
Visiting Professor, El Colegio De Mexico, April-July, 1982
Coordinator, National Working Group, CODESRIA,Tanzania 1983 - 1985
Director, International Third World Legal Studies
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Association (USA)
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1983- 1989 |
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Associate Editor, Third World Book Review, London
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1984 -1988 |
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Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe
Member, Scientific Committee, Africa Development, |
1987-1988 |
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CODESRIA, Dakar |
1987 -1989 |
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Eastern Africa
Social Science Research Review (Addis Ababa) 1987 – 1990
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International
Journal of Sociology of Law (London) 1987 - 1991
Chairman, Drafting Committee to draft the `Kampala
Declaration on Intellectual Freedom' CODESRIA 1990
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Social & Legal Studies:
An International Journal (Sage) 1991 - 2006
Distinguished } University of Hong Kong 1992
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Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick,
United Kingdom 1993-1995
Director, Law and Development Programme, School of Law,
University of Warwick, United Kingdom 1994-1995
Honorary } National Law School of India University, India 1994 Visiting Professor, }
Member, UNDP Mission to Eritrea to assist the Eritrean Land
Commission in National Capacity Building May 1994
Editorial Adviser, Development in Practice (Oxfam Journal) 1995 - 2000
Director, Democratic Governance Institute,
CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal July- Sept., 1996
Visiting Associate Centre for African Studies
University of Cape Town, South Africa Sept. 1997
Chairman, CODESRIA Governance Reform Committee 2000-2002
Member, Advisory Board to the Training Programme
on Human Rights: Adilisha Project (Joint Project
of fahamu with the University of Oxford) 2002
Member, African Review of Books (CODESRIA) 2003 Member, UN-HABITAT, Advisory Group of Experts on
Decentralization 2003 - 2005
Member, Executive Committee of CODESRIA. 2003 – 2005
Member, Scientific Committee, Pax-Academica: Papers on Academic
Freedom in Africa (CODESRIA) 2014
Visiting Professor, Institute of Poverty and Land Reform (PLAAS)
University of Western Cape, South Africa Sept.-Oct. 2017
Member of a number of other International Advisory Boards of international and African journals
VIIB. CONSULTANCY & RESEARCH
Consultant Oxfam, Uganda, Karamoja Project, May 1996
Team Leader & } Zimbabwe National Land Policy Drafting
International } Team (under FAO; Sponsored by UNDP) 1998- 1999
Consultant }
Consultant & } UNDP Project on Village Democracy
Team Leader } Initiative, 1999 - 2000
Local Consultant, Inter-Party Committee of Zanzibar on
Constitutional Reform
[sponsored by UNDP] 1999
Trainer, Designed & Co-ordinated a short course for
Parliamentary Draftspersons for the National
Assembly, Tanzania 2000
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Evaluation of Grassroots Leaders
Training Programme, 2001
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Preparing Supplementary Training Material
for Grassroots Leaders Training Programme, 2002
Country Researcher, 'Common Pool Resources' under the Department
of Geography, University of Cambridge 2001-2002
Consultant/Researcher, ILO/SLAREA Study, 'Machinery for Settling
Labour Disputes in Tanzania (Mainland)' 2002
Consultant/Researcher, Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA)
Study, ‘Review of Labour Laws in Tanzania' 2002
Consultant Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP)
Review of Public Service Law 2002 & 2003 Consultant/Main Author ‘Kiongozi cha Utawala Bora Kijijini’ Ministry
of Regional Administration & Local Government
(sponsored by UNDP) 92pp. 2002- 2003
Consultant/Team Leader Local Government Reform Programme,
Harmonisation of Laws to effect ‘Decentralisation by Devolution’ 2003 - 2008
Member, Joint Government-Donor Review Team,
Review Local Government Reform 2004 & 2007
VIIC WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project (with two other colleagues) to do a definitive biography of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere supported by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) – forthcoming.
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Teacher,
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Olympio Primary School, Dar es Salaam |
1967 |
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Teacher, |
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Kinondoni Secondary School, Dar es Salaam |
1969 |
Part-time Lecturer Political Economy, Institute of Finance Management
Dar es Salaam 1973
Advocacy, For and on behalf of the Legal Aid Committees,
Tanganyika Law Society and Faculty of Law,
University of Dar es Salaam 1977- 2006
A. BOOKS
Kigoda cha Mwalimu)
140pp.
Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili (TUKI) [Edited by Bashiru Ally]
xii + 318
[Co-editor with Hamudi Majamba]
257pp
(London: fahamu & Pambazuka) (Edited by Godwin Murunga)
vi + 246pp
(Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota for African Institute of Agrarian
Studies, Harare) vii + 100pp
Edition](Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press) xxii + 126pp
xx + 313pp
Africa (London: fahamu & Pambazuka) xiii + 68pp
Liberalism (Dakar: CODESRIA) x + 303pp
Tanzania, A Civics Sourcebook (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota, viii + 312pp
(Dar es Salaam: E & D) vi + 154pp
editor’s 1-10pp
Tanzania (London: IIED; HAKIARDHI) x + 114pp
1999 [Also translated into Kiswahili]