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.

The African Roots of Beliefs and Science - Yosef ben Jochannan, PhD

Mulatu Astatke | Album: Mulatu of Ethiopia | Ethio-Jazz | Ethiopia | 1972

1. Mulatu (0:00)
2. Mascaram Setaba (5:02)
3. Dewel (7:53)
4. Kulunmanquelesh (12:07)
5. Kasalefkut-Hulu (14:19)
6. Munaye (16:44)
7. Chifara (20:13) *

* Favorite Song

Physics of waves: Covers Quantum Waves, sound waves, and light waves. Easy to understand explanation of refraction, reflection, and many other topics.
Important correction: In the section of refraction, the colors are reversed. Violet light slows down in water more than red light, and violet light therefore bends more than red light when it transitions from air to water.