UTAFITI
Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social
Science, University of Dar es Salaam
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Associate Editors:          G. Mmari, G. Kamenju
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      The Editorial   Board wishes to apologize to the readers    for the delay
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                                             UTAFITI
Vol.   3                                                    No.1                                                             1978
                                                        CONTENTS
                                                                                                                                  Pa.ge
Introduction                                                                                                                          1
Marxist Theories     of Class and Class Struggle
       F. M.bengo •..•.•..•.......•.•..•.........                          0 ••••••••••••••                                          9
The Supermarxist      and Pan-Africanism
       Opoku Agyeman .....•.•.•..........•.....................                                                                     45
Pan-African Marxism or the reduction of Marxism to a reactionary
Ideology: A reply to Agyeman's "Pan Africanism and the Super-
marxists" •
       Jacques Depelchin ......•...•.............................                                                                   65
Class Struggle and Bourgeois Ideology in Africa: A Review of
Kwame Nkrumah's Class Stru~~le in Africa
       Omafume F. Onoge ......•......................                                               0     •••••••••                 91
Who is to lead "the popular anti. imperialist revolution in Africa?: In
Refutation of lssa G. Shivji's Petty:-Bourgeois Neo-Marxist Line
       Omwony Ojwok .•..•......................................                                                                    105
Imperialism the National question and the Politics of "Class
Formation" in Uganda. A critical review ofM. Mamdani's Politics
and Class Formation in U~anda.
       D. Wadada Nabudere .............•..•....................                                                                    141
Colonialism and Class Formation in Zanzibar
       Harkishan   Bhagat and Haroub Othman                                                                     0   ••••••••       193
Politics  and Ideology in Tanzania
       Harry Goulbourne •...•......................•.............                                                                  215
A Critical Appraisal of the Non-Capitalist                       Path and the National
Democratic State in Africa
       Joe Slovo •••••..•.•..•..•.....•.................                                               ;                     :.    245
Utafiti Notes ...•.  0 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••                                    0 ••••••••••••                          277