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The two brief essays that comprise this booklet are exemplary, both originally presented to gatherings of NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) representatives in the author's native Tanzania. Together, they offer a coolly principled and empirically well-grounded 'wake-up call' to both countries of the global South and, especially, to activists in the NGO sector, both transnational (those coming principally from 'Northern' countries in the global capitalist center) and domestic (the focus of Shivji's greatest interest). Whether, given the nature of their present funding sources and the barren 'common-sense' of the contemporary 'development discourse' of global capital that too many of them have swallowed, the NGOs will permit themselves to so act is the question that Shivji eloquently forces them to ask themselves here. --John S. Saul, professor emeritus of politics, York University, Toronto

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Issa Shivji is one of Africa's most radical and original thinkers and has written frequently for Pambazuka News, as well as Silences in NGO Discourse: The role and future of NGOs in Africa (Fahamu, 2007). Shivji's other books include the seminal Concept of Human Rights in Africa (CODESRIA Book Series, 1989) and the more recent Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the road to neoliberalism (CODESRIA, 2006).

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