As nations go, Tanzania is in its infancy. It was born in April 1964 of a union of Tanganyika, a former British colony, and Zanzibar, tiny islands off the East Coast of Africa which were formerly Arab dominated. This program explores many of the problems facing this struggling nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower. Beyond this, the program focuses on Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.

Israel's Ethiopian community has for decades denounced institutionalized racism that was manifested on June 30, when a police officer killed a 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli man Solomon Tekah. Five months later, the case is still dragging on due to a recent police investigation that belies the agent's desire to assassinate the young man.

"Bahr Belá Má", "Waterless Sea", as the Sahara is called by the Bedouins. But deep beneath the dune fields and stone deserts expands an immeasurable reservoir of water resources. Using enormous technical resources, the Libyans have begun to extract fossil reserves of groundwater. Following oil, water is now arousing a new wave of euphoria. In the present desert climate, reserves are only being partally replaced and what has collected over a period of millions of years may be used up in only a few decades.

Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi
Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
TUICO
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, EAST AFRIKA

AREAS OF RESEARCH & TEACHING: ECONOMIC/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AFRIKANA STUDIES, NATION-BUILDING, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & STATE MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, EVALUATION, APPLIED SYSTEMS THEORY, AFROCENTRIC EDUCATION, AFRIKAN DIASPORA STUDIES, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, APPLIED TRADITIONAL AFRIKAN RELIGION, CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS, MICROECONOMICS, MACROECONOMICS, ENTREPRENUERSHIP


MARCH 29, 2012: A SYSTEMS VIEW OF MACROECONOMICS P1

I. Tools of the Trade: What is Critical Analysis?

READINGS:

1. Handout on Critical Thinking [Download from ECO 121 Class Library on Edmodo]

2. Elements of Thinking [Download from ECO 121 Class Library on Edmodo]

II. Beyond Cartesian Thinking: What is the Systems View?

READINGS:

3. The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture, Fritjof Capra. (New York: Bantam, 1984) ISBN-10: 0553345729 ISBN-13: 978-0553345728 [Download from ECO 121 Class Library on Edmodo] Chapter 1, Pages 6 -- 22

LECTURE:

I. Analysis in the Context of Higher Order Thinking.
II. Applying Higher Order Thinking Techniques in Textual Reading.

[NOTE: BAD CAMERA ANGLE! WILL IMPROVE!]


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.