Afrikan Development Studies 2013 1 02 LECTURE 9 [PART 2]

TOPIC:

PROBLEM-SOLVING AS DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS


I. National Ethics, Governance and Development
• Nation-building and its challenges:
Integration of National and Ethnic Identity-
Afrikan Cultural Commonalities
• Violent Conflicts within States and their implication to Development
• Western Domination: Machinations, Interference
• Cultural Basis of Leadership Ethics, Corruption and Counteractive measures--
Solution: Traditional Afrikan Ethos



Readings:

The Wretched of the Earth [Frantz Fanon]
Chapter 1 -- Concerning Violence
Chapter 2 -- Spontaneity: Its Strengths and Weaknesses
Chapter 3 -- The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
Chapter 4 -- On National Culture


How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Maldevelopment [Samir Amin]

Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]

Why are they so poor? [Rudolf Staham]

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature [Ngugi Wa Thiongo]

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community. [Malidoma Patrice Somé]


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 12 19 LECTURE 9 [PART 1]

TOPIC:

PROBLEM-SOLVING AS DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS


I. National Ethics, Governance and Development
• Nation-building and its challenges:
Integration of National and Ethnic Identity-
Afrikan Cultural Commonalities
• Violent Conflicts within States and their implication to Development
• Western Domination: Machinations, Interference
• Cultural Basis of Leadership Ethics, Corruption and Counteractive measures--
Solution: Traditional Afrikan Ethos



Readings:

The Wretched of the Earth [Frantz Fanon]
Chapter 1 -- Concerning Violence
Chapter 2 -- Spontaneity: Its Strengths and Weaknesses
Chapter 3 -- The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
Chapter 4 -- On National Culture


How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Maldevelopment [Samir Amin]

Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]

Why are they so poor? [Rudolf Staham]

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature [Ngugi Wa Thiongo]

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community. [Malidoma Patrice Somé]


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 12 12 LECTURE 8

Topic:

I. Gender and Development


• Gender Concepts
• WE ALL BEGIN AS FEMALES: The Inductor Theory of Primary Sexual Differentiation
• Pre-Colonial & Post-Colonial Position of Women in Afrikan Society
• Women in Politics and Development: As the Woman Goes So Goes the Nation.


Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Maldevelopment [Samir Amin]
Chapter 8 - A polycentric world favourable to development: a possibility?
Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]

Why are they so poor? [Rudolf Staham]

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature [Ngugi Wa Thiongo]

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community. [Malidoma Patrice Somé]


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 12 11 LECTURE 7

Topic:

I. Environmental Issues and Development

Nature/NTR AFRIKAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

• Types of environmental degradation and contributing factors
• Environment and sustainable development
• Environmental conservation/sustainability and impact assessment

Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Maldevelopment [Samir Amin]

Chapter 6 - Political and social conditions for alternative development in the third world
Chapter 7 - Inter-African and south-south co-operation

Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]

Why they are poor [Rudolf Staham]

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature [Ngugi Wa Thiongo]

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community. [Malidoma Patrice Somé]


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.