Books:
Michael Jennings (2008). Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania (Bloomfield: Kumarian). ISBN 978-1-56549-243-1.
Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings (eds) (2008). Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular. (London: Palgrave Macmillan). ISBN 978-0-230-02001-6.
Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings (eds) (2001), The Charitable Impulse: NGOs in North East and East Africa. (Oxford: James Currey). ISBN 1-56549-137-8
Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
Michael Jennings, Simon Feeny, Matthew Clarke, Gill Westhorp and Cara Donohue (2020), ‘A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming’. Journal for International Development early online publication: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3512, 1-16.
Michael Jennings (2015), ‘The Precariousness of the Franchise State: voluntary sector health services and international NGOs in Tanzania, 1969s-1980s’, Social Science and Medicine 141, pp.1-8.
Michael Jennings (2013), ‘Common Counsel, Common Policy: Healthcare, Missions and the Rise of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial Tanzania’, Development and Change 44 (4), pp.939-963.
Michael Jennings and Claire Mercer (2011), ‘Rehabilitating Nationalisms: Conviviality and National Consciousness in Post-Colonial Tanzania’, Politique Africaine, 121 (2011), pp.87-106
Michael Jennings (2009). ‘Building Better People: Modernity and Utopia in Late Colonial Tanganyika’, Journal of East African Studies 3: 1, pp.94-111.
Michael Jennings (2008). ‘Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls’: Missionary Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1870s-1939’, Journal of Religion in Africa 38, 1, pp.27-56.
Michael Jennings, (2007). ‘A Very Real War: Popular Participation in Tanzania during the 1950s and 1960s’, in themed special issue on continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa, joint editor with Andrew Burton, International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, 1, pp.71-95
Andrew Burton and Michael Jennings (2007). The Emperor’s New Clothes? Continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa’, jointly authored with Andrew Burton, in themed special issue on continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa, joint editor with Andrew Burton, International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, 1, pp. 1-25. See above
Michael Jennings (2005). ‘Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam: Globalisation or Glocalisation?’ International Relations 19, 4, pp.457-474
Michael Jennings (2003). ‘We Must Run While Others Walk: Popular Participation And Development Crisis In Tanzania, 1961-9’, Journal of Modern African Studies, 41, pp.163-187
Michael Jennings (2002). ‘Almost an Oxfam in Itself’: Oxfam and Development in Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s’, African Affairs 101, pp.509-530
Michael Jennings (2002).‘This Mysterious and Intangible Enemy: Health and Disease Amongst the Early UMCA Missionaries, 1860-1918’, Social History of Medicine, pp.65-87
Chapters in books:
Michael Jennings (2017), ‘Common witness, common cause: beyond boundaries in faith-based development action’, in Matthew Clarke and Anthony Ware (eds), Development Across Faith Boundaries (London and New York: Routledge), pp.16-32.
Michael Jennings (2016), ‘Doing Good While They Can: International volunteers, development and politics in early Independence Tanzania’, in Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown (eds), Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa (Woodbridge: James Curry), pp.119-139.
Michael Jennings (2016). ‘Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika’ in Anna Greenwood (ed), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp.153-173.
Michael Jennings (2014). ‘Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organisations and the Emergence of the Non-State Provider Sector in Tanzania’, in Lauren Maclean and Melani Cammett (eds), The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp.119-136.
Michael Jennings (2013), ‘NGOs in Africa: A Brief History’, in David Anderson, Nic Cheeseman and Adrea Schleiber (eds), Routledge Handbook of African Politics (Abingdon, Routledge), pp.322-333.
Michael Jennings (2012), ‘‘Do Not Turn Away a Poor Man: Faith-Based Organisations and Development’, in Matthew Clarke (ed), Handbook of Research on Religion and Development (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), pp.359-375.
Michael Jennings (2012), ‘FBOs in Tanzania’, in Matthew Clarke (ed), Handbook of Research on Religion and Development (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), pp.491-504.
Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular, joint editor with Gerard Clarke, jointly written introduction & conclusion, and sole author of one chapter, ‘Faith and Development in Tanzania in the Early Post-colonial Period’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Michael Jennings (2008). ‘Faith and Development in Tanzania in the Early Post-colonial Period’, In Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings (eds), Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.94-116.
Michael Jennings and Gerard Clarke (2008). ‘Conclusion’. In Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings (eds), Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.260-274.
Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings (2008). ‘Introduction’. In Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings (eds), Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.1-16.
Michael Jennings (2007). ‘Missions and maternal and child health care in colonial Tanganyika, 1919-1939’, in David Hardiman (ed), Medical Missionaries in India and Africa (Clio Medica Press), pp.227-250.
Michael Jennings (2007). ‘HIV and AIDS’, in Oxford Analytica, Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Issues to 2012 (Oxford: Oxford Analytica, 2007), pp.60-66.
Michael Jennings, ‘Tanzania, 2001-2002’ (2006). In Africa Contemporary Record (New York: Holmes & Meier)
Michael Jennings (2006). ‘Using Archives’. In Vandana Desai & Robert Potter (eds), Doing Development Research (Sage Publications), pp.241-250.
Michael Jennings (2005). ‘A Short History of Failure? Development Processes over the Course of the Twentieth Century’. In Ahmed Shafiqul Huque & Habib Zafarullah (eds), Handbook of International Development (Marcel Dekker, December), p.599-610.
Michael Jennings (2005). ‘Getting the Research Questions Right and Getting the Right Data’. In Jeremy Holland & John Campbell (eds), Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Development Research (ITDG Publications), pp.27-36.
Michael Jennings (2005). ‘A Century of Development: Policy and Process in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Africa South of the Sahara (London; Europa, 2005), p.30-35. (Revised and updated for the 2006-2011 editions)
Michael Jennings (2001), ‘Development is Very Political in Tanzania: Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme, 1972-6’. In Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings (eds) The Charitable Impulse: NGOs in North East and East Africa (Oxford: James Currey), pp.109-32
Michael Jennings and Ondine Barrow, ‘Introduction’ (2001). In Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings (eds) The Charitable Impulse: NGOs in North East and East Africa (Oxford: James Currey), pp.1-30
Other publications:
Michael Jennings (2015):- ‘Kenya: Recent History’; ‘Tanzania: Recent History’; ‘Uganda: Recent History’; revised and updated, Africa South of the Sahara 2016 (Europa). I have revised these updates since 2004
Michael Jennings (2014), ‘Beyond the Tangles of Civil Society’, OASIS Journal of the OASIS International Foundation, 19 (19), pp.34-38.
Michael Jennings (2011) ‘Buying cheap isn’t always best for development’, The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog, 18th November.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/18/public-procurement-boost-development-donors?INTCMP=SRCH
Michael Jennings (2012), ‘International NGOs must address their accountability deficit’, The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog, 9th February.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/feb/09/ngos-accountability-deficit-legal-framework?intcmp=122
Michael Jennings (2011) ‘Economic Impact of Local Manufacturing of Bednets: A Survey’. A report commissioned by Olyset / Sumitomo
Michael Jennings (2009), ‘Commentary on “Five reasons why Africa matters to the world” ’, Europe’s World 13: invited to write a commentary responding to an article in Europe’s World.
Published political briefing papers on a wide range of topics related to African politics, development and health issues, a small example:
- CCM in Tanzania internal politics
- Policy differences over AIDS policy
- Southern Africa: floods raise food security fears
- Small arms and violence
- Controversy over use of DDT in malaria control
- The continued threat of ‘neglected’ diseases
- Analysis of the political parties and government in Kenya
Africa Development and Politics 