Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-374) and index.

Chronology of major events -- Encounters of the titan: political ideology and personality -- Introduction / Lindah L. Mhando -- Post-tribal Nyerere to post-racial Obama?: comparative vision in political leadership / Ali A. Mazrui -- Nyerere, African politics and I / Ali A. Mazrui -- The Mwalimu: method and mission / Ali A. Mazrui -- Political theory and institutions -- Tanzaphilia: a political diagnosis / Ali A. Mazrui -- Ujamaa vijijini: geo-political rural development / Lindah L. Mhando -- Religion, modernity and politics / Lindah L. Mhando -- Post-Ujamaa: women, patriarchy and economic liberalization / Lindah L. Mhando -- Tanzania as a case of heroic failure: socialist effort and moral decline / Lindah L. Mhando -- Polities and political economy in east Africa -- Five loaves and two fishes: Tanzania, immigration and the refugee crises / Lindah L. Mhando -- Tanzania versus East Africa: a case of unwitting federal sabotage / Ali A. Mazrui -- On poets and politicians: Obote's Milton and Nyerere's Shakespeare / Ali A. Mazrui -- Racial self-reliance and cultural dependency: Nyerere and Amin in comparative perspective / Ali A. Mazrui -- Between Pan Africanism and prelude to globalization -- From slave ship to space ship: Africa between marginalization and globalization / Ali A. Mazrui -- Comparative black leadership: Walter Rodney, Julius K. Nyerere and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Ali A. Mazrui -- Nationalists and statesmen: from Nkrumah and De Gaulle to Nyerere and Kissinger / Ali A. Mazrui -- The left and the super-left in Tanzania / Ali A. Mazrui with William Tordoff -- Socialism as a mode of international protest: the case of Tanzania / Ali A. Mazrui -- Tanzania today and the road to global world / Lindah L. Mhando -- Conclusion and postscript / Ali A. Mazrui and Lindah L. Mhando -- Appendix: the African symbolism of Julius Caesar / Ali A. Mazrui.