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Uganda's Health Pyramid | People & Power | 2 Feb 2017
Uganda's Health Pyramid | People & Power | 2 Feb 2017 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 13 Views • 5 years ago

Living in a poor country with one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in the world - about one for every 24,000 people - it's perhaps no surprise that many Ugandans are tempted by alternative remedies, even though there's often little evidence to support the claims made about their efficacy in treating or preventing disease. But the phenomenon does beg many questions, not least of which are who is really benefiting from the sale of these products and how exactly are they marketed?

We'd heard reports about one particularly controversial business, a complex multi-level marketing scheme run in Uganda under the aegis of a Chinese company called Tiens, which produces food supplements.

Its products, we'd been told, were being inappropriately sold as medications - in some cases for very serious diseases. We had also heard disturbing claims that its sales representatives, or "distributors" as they are known, were being invited to invest large sums of money in Tiens products, when in reality there was little chance of most of them ever making the kind of dazzling returns that the company promised.

So we sent a filmmaking team and Ugandan reporter Halima Athumani to investigate further.

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Kenya's Enemy Within - Featured Documentary [2015]
Kenya's Enemy Within - Featured Documentary [2015] Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 13 Views • 5 years ago

In an attempt to shield itself from the armed group al-Shabab, Kenya has started construction on a 700km-long wall along its porous border with Somalia.

The ambitious project, which consists of brick walls, fences and observation posts, will stretch from the town of Mandera in the north to Kiunga in the south. The goal is to lock out al-Qaeda-aligned fighters who have repeatedly crossed into Kenya to wage attacks.

Kenya, an al-Shabab target due to its military involvement in Somalia, has seen an upsurge in large scale attacks recently.

Earlier this year, 148 people, including 142 students, were killed after gunmen stormed the Garissa University College, some 200km from the Somalia border .

The massacre piled new pressure on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to deal with the group which has killed more than 400 people in the country over the past two years.

In Kenya's Enemy Within we look at the government's proposed border wall and whether it will help stop attacks on Kenyan soil.

Investigative journalist John Allan Namu speaks to people with direct access to the project, who say the plan is unfeasible and won't enhance the country's security.

We hear how corruption among immigration officials, poor coordination with intelligence agencies and slow responses from the security forces have left Kenya unable to stem the attacks.

With exclusive access to al-Shabab fighters in Kenya, we are told how the wall represents a futile effort to shut out the group and the biggest threat the country is facing is from within.

We also speak to the Muslim community who say that constant harassment and intimidation at the hands of security forces, and scare-mongering by the government, are helping drive al-Shabab's recruitment and creating the perfect breeding ground for the group.

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Afrikan Development Studies 2012 - 11 - 27 LECTURE 4
Afrikan Development Studies 2012 - 11 - 27 LECTURE 4 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 13 Views • 5 years ago

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 11 27 LECTURE 4

Topic:

Pre-Colonialism, Colonialism, Neo --Colonialism & the Roots of Afrikan Underdevelopment

• Slave Trade: Technological stagnation and distortion of the Afrikan Economy
• Emergence of the international division of labour [Imperialism/Globalization]
• Capitalist Integration and Exploitation of Afrika into Global Western controlled economy
• Imperialism and colonialism and its implications for Afrika
• Decolonization process, Neo-Colonialism in different regions: Role of the founding of UN in Neo-colonialism
• Regional Cooperation in Afrika: OAU/AU, ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, COMESA and their role in African Underdevelopment
• New structures of Neo-Colonialism/Imperialism: Development Aid, indebtedness, IMF, WTO ICC

Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Chapter 3 -- Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development-The Pre-colonial Period

Chapter 4 -- Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment -- to 1885

Chapter 5 -- Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe-The Colonial Period

Chapter 6 -- Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa


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



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.

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