Development as Rebellion Quotes

“In history, great individuals do count; but they act in the circumstances given by history. They cannot choose them”
― Issa Shivji, Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere

“Power was not a zero-sum game; rather it was a terrain of contestation between contradictory interests; a field of political warriors, not armchair philosophers. One has to constantly fight to keep it”
― Issa Shivji, Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere