Sam Moyo

Sam Moyo (1954–2015) was a Zimbabwean scholar and land reform activist, the co-founder and executive director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) (renamed the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies following his death in 2015), and President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESIRA). He was a research professor at the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, and taught at the University of Zimbabwe. Quotes "The agrarian question is a permanent question at the heart of capitalism." Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha & Paris Yeros, The Agrarian Question and Trajectories of Economic Transformation: A Perspective from the South, in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (2016). "The agrarian question remains real to people's politics in the twenty-first century." Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha & Paris Yeros, The Agrarian Question in the 21st Century, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 37 (2015). "National sovereignty remains the cornerstone of all other dimensions of the agrarian question." Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha & Paris Yeros, The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today, Agrarian South (2013). "The historic importance of the national question and its land and peasant components... is irreducible to industrialization." Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha & Paris Yeros, The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today (2013). "The land question in Africa cannot be understood outside the agrarian question." Sam Moyo, African Land Questions, the State and Agrarian Transition (2004). External links The_Classical_Agrarian_Question_Myth_Reality_and_Relevance_Today Category:1954 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Philosophers Category:Socialists from Africa Category:Revolutionaries Category:Pan-Africanists Category:Social scientists