Africa Review of Books

"Once again, Professor Shivji has come out with a compelling book that will force us to scratch our heads and think, a work so powerful and so insightful that it will be well nigh impossible for anyone who will have read it to engage in any discource about political and constitutional developments in Zanzibar, or nature, history and problems of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, without making reference to it...This book is a masterpiece, a must read."