Godfrey Mwakikagile
Godfrey Mwakikagile | |
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Born | 4 October 1949 Kigoma, Tanganyika Territory |
Occupation | scholar, author and news reporter |
Nationality | Tanzanian |
Alma mater | Wayne State University (1975) |
Genre | African studies |
Notable works | Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era (2002) |
Godfrey Mwakikagile (born 4 October 1949 in
Growing up in the 1950s, Mwakikagile experienced a form of
Early life and family
Mwakikagile was born on 4 October 1949 into a
The eldest of his siblings, Mwakikagile was named Godfrey by his aunt Isabella, one of his father's younger sisters, and was baptised at an early age.[1]
His father played a critical role in his early life and education. He was a strict disciplinarian and taught him at home when he was attending primary school from Standard One to Standard Four and during the first two years of middle school, Standard Five and Standard Six, before he left home to go to boarding school in 1963, three miles away, when he was 13 years old. He also taught him when he was out of school and went home during holidays in his last two years of middle school in Standard Seven and Standard Eight. His mother, who taught Sunday school and was a volunteer adult education teacher for some time teaching adults how to read and write, also taught him at home when he was in primary school.[5]
His father was active in the Tanganyika African National Union – TANU – which led the struggle for independence and was friends with some of the leading figures in the African independence movement. They included John Mwakangale, his classmate from Standard One at Tukuyu Primary School to Malangali Secondary School, where Elijah was appointed head prefect, in the Southern Highlands Province. They came from the same area, five miles apart, in Rungwe District and knew each other since childhood. Mwakangale became one of the prominent leaders of the Tanganyika African National Union and of the Pan-African Freedom Movement for East and Central Africa (PAFMECA), later renamed the Pan-African Freedom Movement for East, Central and Southern Africa (PAFMECSA), formed in Mwanza, Tanganyika, in September 1958 under the leadership of Julius Nyerere to campaign for the independence of the countries of East and Central Africa and later Southern Africa. He also became a Member of Parliament (MP) and a cabinet member in the early part of independence under Nyerere serving as Minister of Labour.
John Mwakangale was also the first leader Nelson Mandela met in newly independent Tanganyika in January 1962 – just one month after Tanganyika emerged from colonial rule – when Mandela secretly left South Africa on 11 January to seek assistance from other African countries in the struggle against apartheid and wrote about him in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. Tanganyika was the first independent African country Mandela visited and the first one where he sought such assistance. It was also the first country in the region to win independence and the first one he visited, as Tanzania, when he was released from prison on 11 February 1990. He travelled to other African countries using a document given to him by the government of Tanganyika which stated: “This is Nelson Mandela, a citizen of the Republic of South Africa. He has permission to leave Tanganyika and return here.”
Tanganyika was chosen by African leaders to be the headquarters of all the liberation movements when they met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in May 1963 to form the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
Professor John Iliffe in his book, A Modern History of Tanganyika, described John Mwakangale as a "vehement nationalist." He did not even want American Peace Corps in Tanzania. In his book Reflections on Race Relations: A Personal Odyssey, Godfrey Mwakikagile wrote that John Mwakangale accused American Peace Corps of causing trouble, including attempting to overthrow the government, and bluntly stated: “These people are not here for peace, they are here for trouble. We do not want any more Peace Corps”, according to a report, "M.P. Attacks American Peace Corps," which was the main story on the front page of the Tanganyika Standard, 12 June 1964.
Other colleagues of Elijah Mwakikagile were
One of their teachers at Malangali Secondary School was Erasto Andrew Mbwana Mang'enya who later became a cabinet member under President Nyerere, Speaker of Parliament, and Tanzania's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Brown Ngwilulupi later co-founded Tanzania's largest opposition party,
Ngwilulupi and Elijah Mwakikagile came from the same village four miles south of the town of Tukuyu, knew each other since childhood, were classmates from Standard One at Tukuyu Primary School to Malangali Secondary School and later became relatives-in-law when they married cousins. Their wives, who came from the same area they did, were first cousins to each other.
Elijah Mwakikagile was also a first cousin of one of Tanzania's first commercial airline pilots, Oscar Mwamwaja, who was shot but survived when he was a co-pilot of an
Education and early employment
Godfrey Mwakikagile attended Kyimbila Primary School - founded by British feminist educator Mary Hancock and transformed into a co-educational institution - near the town of Tukuyu, and Mpuguso Middle School in Rungwe District, Mbeya Region, in the Southern Highlands. The headmaster of Mpuguso Middle School, Moses Mwakibete, was his math teacher in 1961 who later became a judge at the High Court of Tanzania appointed by President Nyerere. And one of his American Peace Corps teachers at Mpuguso Middle School in 1964 was Leonard Levitt who became a prominent journalist and renowned author. He wrote, among other works, An African Season, the first book ever written by a member of the Peace Corps, and Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder, about a homicide which received extensive media coverage because it involved a member of the Kennedy family.
Mwakikagile also attended
A native of Iringa District in the Southern Highlands Province, Mwasanyagi was one of the most vocal nationalists of his time who also, in the 1950s, wrote and sent petitions to the United Nations opposing the government's land policy which involved land grabs and other colonial injustices during British rule which affected the well-being of the indigenous people. He stated in one of his petitions to the United Nations that one day the people, subjected to land dispossession, will find out that their fertile land was declared White Highlands for white settlers as happened in neighbouring Kenya where the Kikuyu lost their land in the Central Highlands to the British settlers, triggering the Mau Mau rebellion - war of independence. A graduate of Makerere University, Mwasanyagi was also one of the most influential teachers in the history of Songea Secondary School - so was Erasto Andrew Mbwana Mang'enya who also once taught there - and of the country as a whole in the post-colonial era, whose reputation as a scholar and as a Pan-African nationalist left an indelible mark on his students. He had a deep booming voice and was one of the most articulate and remains one of the most-forgotten early nationalists in Tanganyika's colonial and post-colonial history.
He articulated positions which thrust him into prominence as one of the national leaders and not just of the Hehe people in Iringa District in the Southern Highlands Province during the struggle for independence. As a Pan-Africanist, he greatly admired Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere as leaders of continental stature despite his sharp differences with Nyerere on what route Tanzania should take in pursuit and consolidation of democracy. It is a subject one of his students, Godfrey Mwakikagile, has briefly addressed in his book Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era (2002, 2010). Mwasanyagi has drawn the interest of some scholars in and outside Tanzania because of his important role in the struggle for independence and in the quest for democracy, among them, Professor James L. Giblin of the University of Iowa, whose primary research focuses on Tanzania and East Africa. Godfrey Mwakikagile has also addressed the subject in his book Julius Mwasanyagi: A forgotten African nationalist (2023).
Mwakikagile's headmaster at Songea Secondary School, Paul Mhaiki, also played a national role when he was later appointed by President Nyerere as Director of Adult Education at the Ministry of National Education and after that worked for the United Nations (UN) as Director of UNESCO's Division of Literacy, Adult Education, and Rural Development. He later served as Tanzania's ambassador to France. After finishing his studies at Songea Secondary School in Form IV (Standard 12) in 1968, Mwakikagile went to Tambaza High School in 1969 in Dar es Salaam, formerly H.H. The Aga Khan High School mostly for Asian students (Indian and Pakistani), where he completed Form VI (Standard 14) in 1970. One of his classmates at Tambaza High School was Mohamed Chande Othman, simply known as Chande, who became Chief Justice of Tanzania appointed to the nation's highest court by President Jakaya Kikwete after serving as a high court judge and as a UN prosecutor for international criminal tribunals.[6]
While still in high school at Tambaza, Mwakikagile joined the editorial staff of The Standard (later renamed the Daily News) in 1969 as a reporter. He was hired by the news editor, David Martin, a British journalist who later became Africa correspondent of a London newspaper, The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday paper, covered the Angolan Civil War for BBC and for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and was a close friend of President Nyerere. Mwakikagile credits David Martin for opening the door for him into the world of journalism and helping him launch his career as a news reporter when he was still a high school student. In addition to his position as news editor, David Martin also served as deputy managing editor of the Tanganyika Standard under Brendon Grimshaw.[2] Founded in 1930, The Standard was the oldest and largest English newspaper in the country and one of the three largest in East Africa, a region comprising Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
After finishing high school in November 1970, Mwakikagile joined the
After leaving National Service, Mwakikagile returned to the Daily News. His editor then was Sammy Mdee who later served as President Nyerere's press secretary and as Tanzania's deputy ambassador to the
Mwakikagile also worked as an
One of Mwakikagile's main books in post-colonial studies is The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Huntington, New York, 2001). Professor Guy Martin, in his book African Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) in which he examines the political thought of leading African political thinkers throughout history dating back to ancient times (Kush/Nubia, sixth century BCE), has described Mwakikagile as one of Africa's leading populist scholars and political thinkers and theorists and has used his book The Modern African State to examine his ideas. Professor Edmond J. Keller, Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), in his review of Professor Martin's African Political Thought in Africa Today, Volume 60, Number 2, Winter 2013, Indiana University Press, has described Mwakikagile as a
Professor Ryan Ronnenberg in his article about Godfrey Mwakikagile in the Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6 (Oxford University Press, 2011) covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women since ancient times, edited by Harvard University professors, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr., has stated that Mwakikagile has written major works of scholarship which have had a great impact in the area of African studies.
Some of Mwakikagile's most influential books in post-colonial studies include Africa and the West, reviewed by West Africa magazine and other publications including Sierra Leone's ExpoTimes, and Africa After Independence: Realities of Nationhood. Professor Ronnenberg has used both books and others including Economic Development in Africa and Africa is in a Mess: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done by Mwakikagile in his article about him in the Dictionary of African Biography to explain his ideas and influence.
Professor George Ayittey described Godfrey Mwakikagile as one of Africa's leading “Cheetahs,” a term he used in his lectures and writings to describe Africans, especially of the younger generation and sometimes older ones, who offer from a different perspective innovative solutions for fundamental change to transform Africa into a prosperous continent contrasted with what has been proposed and pursued by African leaders since independence, as Mwakikagile has shown in Africa is in a Mess and in his other books on post-colonial Africa. Anna Mahjar Barducci, like Ayittey, has described Mwakikagile in similar terms in her work, “Aiutiamoli A Casa Loro? Lo Stiamo Già Facendo, Ma Male” (“Let's Help Them at Home? We Are Already Doing It, But Badly”).
Mwakikagile's books are mostly found in college and university libraries throughout the world. They are also found in public libraries. They are mostly academic books primarily for scholars.
Mwakikagile's works in post-colonial studies have been cited in other contexts besides academic fields. The premier of
In the United States, Mwakikagile served as president of the African Students Union whilst attending Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from that university in 1975.[9]
After completing his studies at Wayne State, Mwakikagile went to Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1976. One of his professors of economics and head of the economics department at Aquinas was Kenneth Marin who once worked as an economic advisor to the government of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam on capital mobilisation and utilisation from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Before he went to Tanzania, Professor Marin was a member of the White House Consumer Advisory Council where he served on Wage and Price Control in the mid-1960s, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Mwakikagile also composed some instrumental music in 1993 but did not release it until thirty years later, as he has briefly explained in one of his books, Julius Mwasanyagi: A forgotten African nationalist, in which he also states that he pursued it only as a hobby during that time and has, instead, focused on writing books through the years.
Books
Mwakikagile's first book, Economic Development in Africa, was published in June 1999. He has written more than 70 books, mostly about Africa during the post-colonial era. He has written about history, politics, economics, as well as contemporary and international affairs from an African and a Third World perspective.
He takes an interdisciplinary approach in his works combining history, political science, economics, philosophy, cultural and international studies and other academic disciplines in his analysis of a wide range of issues focusing on Africa, especially during the post-colonial era. His books are used in various academic disciplines up to the post-graduate level including doctoral studies. He has also written some books about the African diaspora, mainly Black America and the Afro-Caribbean region including Afro-Caribbean communities in Britain and the United States.
His books on race relations include Shattered Dream: Race and Justice, Patrick Lyoya killed by the police: What did I do wrong?, Across The Colour Line in an American City, On the Banks of a River, In the Crucible of Identity and Reflections on Race Relations: A Personal Odyssey which is a comparative analysis between colonial Tanganyika and the United States in terms of race relations that also focuses on problems in race relations in the American context in contemporary times.
Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era
His book Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era,
Others who reviewed the book include Professor A.B. Assensoh, a
Controversy
Mwakikagile has been criticised, along with some African and European scholars including Professor Ali Mazrui, Christoph Blocher, Mahmood Mamdani, Peter Niggli, and R. W. Johnson, as someone who advocates the recolonisation of Africa through supervision of failed states by the African Union and the United Nations.[15][16]
Academic reviews
Mwakikagile's books have been reviewed in a number of academic publications, including the academic journal African Studies Review, by scholars in their fields. They include Military Coups in West Africa Since The Sixties, which was reviewed in that journal by Professor Claude E. Welch of the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York, Buffalo; and Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, reviewed by Nigerian Professor Khadijat K. Rashid of Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.[17]
Other books by Mwakikagile have also been reviewed in the African Studies Review and in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, including Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era and The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation which were reviewed in the African Studies Review. Nyerere and Africa was also reviewed in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
His book, Western Involvement in Nkrumah's Downfall, was reviewed by Professor E. Ofori Bekoe, in Africa Today, Vol. 64, Number 4, Summer 2016, Indiana University Press.
Mwakikagile has also written about race relations in the United States and relations between continental Africans and people of African descent in the diaspora in his titles such as Black Conservatives in The United States; Relations Between Africans and African Americans; and Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Professor Kwame Essien of Gettysburg College, later Lehigh University, a Ghanaian, reviewed Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities, in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2011, an academic journal of Columbia University, New York, and described it as an "insightful and voluminous" work covering a wide range of subjects from a historical and contemporary perspective, addressing some of the most controversial issues in relations between the two.
References
- ^ ISBN 9781981731503[1]
- ^ a b My Life as an African, pp. 89–90; "Newsman Leaves for America," Daily News, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 7 November 1972, p. 3; Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties, p. 56.
- ISBN 9789987160051.
- ISBN 9781981731503 [2](last retrieved 10 November 2018)
- ^ Kyoso, p. 123, 169, 176
- ISBN 9780980253498
- ^ "Newsman Leaves for America," Daily News, 7 November 1972, p. 3; Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties, p. 123; My Life as an African, p. 90.
- ^ "Newsman Leaves for America," Daily News, 7 November 1972, p. 3; Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties, pp. 122–123; My Life as an African, p. 176.
- ^ Wayne State University Alumni, 1975; My Life as an African, pp. 76, 86, 120, 140, 164, 188, 190, 192, 246, 250, 266, 281; Godfrey Mwakikagile, Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, 5th Edition, 2010, pp. 86, 491, 509–511, 658, 664–665.
- ISBN 0980253411, Pretoria, South Africa: New Africa Press, 2010.
- ^ A. B. Assensoh, review of Nyerere and Africa, in African Studies Review, Journal of African Studies Association, 2003.
- ISBN 9780415337908, London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
- ^ Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, "Nyerere's Vision," in West Africa, 25 November–1 December 2002, p. 41; K. Akosah-Sarpong, "Back to The Roots," in West Africa, 21–27 January 2002, p. 43.
- ^ F. Ng'wanakilala, "Nyerere: True pan-Africanist, advocate of unity," in "Three Years After Mwalimu Nyerere", Daily News, 14 October 2002, p. 19.
- ^ Dr. Kenday Samuel Kamara of Walden University in his abstract "Considering the Enormity of Africa's Problems, is Re-Colonization an Option?" cites Africa is in A Mess: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done and related works by other African academic authors, including Professor Ali Mazrui, and Professor George Ayittey's Africa in Chaos. See also Tunde Obadina, "The Myth of Neo-Colonialism," in Africa Economic Analysis, 2000; and Timothy Murithi, The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development.
- ^ Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, a Zimbambwean teaching international studies at Monash University, South Africa campus, in his abstract "Gods of Development, Demons of Underdevelopment and Western Salvation: A Critique of Development Discourse as a Sequel to the CODESRIA and OSSREA International Conferences on Development in Africa" (June 2006), advances the same argument as Mwakikagile and cites Africa is in A Mess to support his thesis. See also Floyd Shivambu, "Floyd's Perspectives: Societal Tribalism in South Africa," 1 September 2005, who cites Mwakikagile's Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, in his condemnation of tribalism in post-apartheid South Africa; Mary Elizabeth Flournoy of Agnes Scott College, in her paper "Nigeria: Bounded by Ropes of Oil," citing Mwakikagile's writings, including Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria; Professor Eric Edi of Temple University, in his paper, "Pan West Africanism and Political Instability: Perspectives and Reflections," citing Mwakikagile's books Military Coups in West Africa Since The Sixties and The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation.
- ^ Professor Claude E. Welch, Jr., in African Studies Review, Vol. 45, No. 3, December 2002, pp. 124–125; and Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, reviewed by Nigerian Professor Khadijat K. Rashid of Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. in African Studies Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, September 2003, pp. 92 – 98.
Selected bibliography
- Economic Development in Africa, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.June 1999
- Africa and The West, ISBN 978-1560728405, Huntington, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2000
- The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation, ISBN 9781560729365, Huntington, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2001
- Military Coups in West Africa Since The Sixties, ISBN 9781560729457, Huntington, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2001
- Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, ISBN 978-1560729679, Huntington, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2001
- Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, ISBN 9781931768740, Protea Publishing Co., Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2002
- Africa is in A Mess: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done (2004), ISBN 0980253470, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: New Africa Press, 2006
- Tanzania under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman, ISBN 978-0980253498, 2006
- Black Conservatives: Are They Right or Wrong?, ISBN 978-1596820036, 2004
- Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era: Expanded Edition with Photos, ISBN 9781593440954, 2005
- Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities, ISBN 9780980253450, 2007
- Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties: My Reflections and Narratives from The White Settler Community and Others, ISBN 9780620359818, 2006
- Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties, ISBN 978-9987160129, 2009
- African Countries: An Introduction, ISBN 0-620-34815-1, Continental Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006
- African Countries: An Introduction, ISBN 978-0620348157, 2009
- Africa After Independence: Realities of Nationhood, ISBN 9789987160143, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: New Africa Press, 2006
- Life under Nyerere, ISBN 978-0980258721, 2006
- Black Conservatives in The United States, ISBN 978-0980258707, 2006
- Africa and America in The Sixties: A Decade That Changed The Nation and The Destiny of A Continent, ISBN 978-0980253429, 2006
- Relations Between Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Tensions, Indifference and Harmony, ISBN 978-0980258745, 2007
- Investment Opportunities and Private Sector Growth in Africa, ISBN 978-0980258776, 2007
- Kenya: Identity of A Nation, ISBN 978-0980258790, 2007
- South Africa in Contemporary Times, ISBN 978-0980258738, 2008
- South Africa and Its People, ISBN 978-0981425832, 2008
- African Immigrants in South Africa, ISBN 978-0981425825, 2008
- The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar: Product of The Cold War?, ISBN 978-0981425856, 2008
- Ethnicity and National Identity in Uganda: The Land and Its People, ISBN 978-9987930876, 2009
- My Life as an African: Autobiographical Writings, ISBN 978-9987160051, 2009
- Uganda: The Land and Its People,ISBN 978-9987930890, 2009
- Botswana Since Independence, ISBN 978-0980258783, 2009
- Congo in The Sixties, ISBN 978-1448665709, 2009
- A Profile of African Countries, ISBN 978-9987160167, 2009
- Africans and African Americans: Complex Relations – Prospects and Challenges,ISBN 978-9987930852, 2009
- Africa 1960 – 1970: Chronicle and Analysis, ISBN 9789987160075, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: New Africa Press, 2009
- Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, 5th Edition, ISBN 0980253411, Pretoria, South Africa: New Africa Press, 2010
- Zambia: Life in an African Country, ISBN 978-9987160112, 2010
- Belize and Its Identity: A Multicultural Perspective, ISBN 978-9987160204, 2010
- Ethnic Diversity and Integration in The Gambia: The Land, The People and The Culture, ISBN 978-9987932221, 2010
- Zambia: The Land and Its People, ISBN 978-9987932252, 2010
- Belize and Its People: Life in A Multicultural Society, ISBN 978-9987932214, 2010
- The Gambia and Its People: Ethnic Identities and Cultural Integration in Africa, ISBN 978-9987160235, 2010
- South Africa as a Multi-Ethnic Society, ISBN 978-9987932238, 2010
- Life in Kenya: The Land and The People, Modern and Traditional Ways, ISBN 978-9987932276, 2010
- Botswana: Profile of A Nation, ISBN 978-9987932290, 2010
- Uganda: Cultures and Customs and National Identity,ISBN 978-9987160273, 2011
- Burundi: The Hutu and The Tutsi: Cauldron of Conflict and Quest for Dynamic Compromise, ISBN 978-9987160310, 2012
- Identity Politics and Ethnic Conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi: A Comparative Study, ISBN 978-9987160297, 2012
- The People of Uganda: A Social Perspective, ISBN 978-9987160334, 2012
- Uganda: A Nation in Transition: Post-colonial Analysis, ISBN 978-9987160358, 2012
- Obote to Museveni: Political Transformation in Uganda Since Independence, ISBN 978-9987160372, 2012
- Uganda Since The Seventies, ISBN 978-9987160228, 2012
- Civil Wars in Rwanda and Burundi: Conflict Resolution in Africa, ISBN 978-0981425849, 2013
- Peace and Stability in Rwanda and Burundi: The Road Not Taken, ISBN 978-9987160327, 2013
- Africa at the End of the Twentieth Century: What Lies Ahead, ISBN 978-9987160303, 2013
- Statecraft and Nation Building in Africa: A Post-colonial Study, ISBN 978-9987160396, 2014
- Africa in The Sixties, ISBN 978-9987160341, 2014
- Remembering The Sixties: A Look at Africa, ISBN 978-9987160365, 2014
- Restructuring The African State and Quest for Regional Integration: New Approaches, ISBN 978-9987160433, 2014
- Africa 1960 – 1970: Chronicle and Analysis, ISBN 978-9987160075, Revised Edition, 2014
- Post-colonial Africa: A General Study, ISBN 978-9987160419, 2014
- British Honduras to Belize: Transformation of a Nation, ISBN 978-9987160471, 2014
- Why Tanganyika united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania, ISBN 978-9987160457, 2014
- Congo in The Sixties, Revised Edition, ISBN 9789987160495, 2014
- The People of Kenya and Uganda, ISBN 978-9987160402, 2014
- Namibia: Conquest to Independence: Formation of a Nation, ISBN 978-9987160440, 2015
- Western Involvement in Nkrumah's Downfall, ISBN 978-9987160044, 2015
- Africa: Dawn of a New Era, ISBN 978-9987160488, 2015
- The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar: Formation of Tanzania and its Challenges, ISBN 978-9987160464, 2016
- The People of Ghana: Ethnic Diversity and National Unity, ISBN 978-9987160501, 2017
- Africa in Transition: Witness to Change, ISBN 978-9987160082, 2018
- The African Liberation Struggle: Reflections, ISBN 978-9987160105, 2018
- Life under British Colonial Rule: Recollections of an African and a British Administrator in Tanganyika and Southern Rhodesia, ISBN 978-9987160426, 2018
- Conquest of the Mind: Imperial subjugation of Africa, ISBN 978-9987997817, 2019
- Colonial Mentality and the Destiny of Africa, ISBN 978-9987997824, 2020
- Across The Colour Line in an American City, ISBN 979-8654395894, 2020
- On the Banks of a River, ISBN 979-8666516584, 2020
- In the Crucible o Identity, ISBN 979-8675721689, 2020
- Reflections on Race Relations: A Personal Odyssey, ISBN 978-9987997831, 2021
- Growing up in a Border District and Resolving the Tanzania-Malawi Lake Dispute: Compromise and concessions, ISBN 978-9987997848, 2022
- Patrick Lyoya killed by the police: What did I do wrong?, ISBN 978-9987997800, 2022
- Shattered Dream: Race and Justice, ISBN 9789912992627, 2023
- Julius Mwasanyagi: A forgotten African nationalist, ISBN 979-8852200389, 2023