He later worked as a Swahili language at the University of Dar es Salaam (1972–1979) and collaborated editing a Swahili dictionary.
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Abdul Sheriff is a Tanzanian emeritus history professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, and former director of the Peace Memorial Museum, the national museum of Zanzibar.
He has also worked as an academic at various universities in East Africa including the University of Dar es Salaam, University of Nairobi, and Makerere University.
Born in Kilosa, Tanzania in 1946, Shivji was for 36 years a distinguished professor in constitutional law in the University of Dar es Salaam's Faculty of Law.
He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, alongside activist-academics such as Giovanni Arrighi (with whom he wrote Essays on the Political Economy of Africa) and Walter Rodney; at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, alongside activist-academics such as Ruth First; and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.
He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University for the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Dar es Salaam.
He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania during the period 1966-67 and later in Jamaica at his alma mater UWI Mona.