Sam Moyo Quotes

1954–2015

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.

Socialists

Random Sam Moyo quote

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"The agrarian question is a permanent question at the heart of capitalism."

"The agrarian question remains real to people's politics in the twenty-first century."

"The land question in Africa cannot be understood outside the agrarian question."

African Land Questions, the State and Agrarian Transition (2004)

"National sovereignty remains the cornerstone of all other dimensions of the agrarian question."

"The historic importance of the national question and its land and peasant components... is irreducible to industrialization."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sam Moyo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.