Issa G. Shivji was professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam until his retirement in 2006 after 36 years of service. He is currently holding the newly-established Mwalimu Nyerere Research Chair in Pan-African Studies at the same university. Shivji has published over a dozen books and numerous articles including Class Struggles in Tanzania (1976), The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (1989), Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism (2006) and Accumulation in an African Periphery: A Theoretical Framework (2009).