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The Cotton and Textiles Sector in Tanzania: Issues and Opportunities
THE COTTON AND TEXTILES SECTOR IN TANZANIA: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES Report to the Government of Tanzania supported by the Tanzania Gatsby Trust and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation Tanzania Gatsby Trust Samora/Morogoro Rd 3rd Floor PPF House P. O. Box 8695 Dar es Salaam Tanzania September 2007 i Preface and Acknowledgements This study originates from discussions between the Honourable Juma Ngasongwa, Minister of Planning, Economy and Empowerment and the Honourable Basil Mramba, Minister for Trade and Industry, and Lord David Sainsbury, settlor of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation (GCF), in January 2007. In discussions held in Dar es Salaam, it was agreed that GCF and its associated trust, the Tanzania Gatsby Trust (TGT), would fund an exploratory study of the cotton and textile sectors with a view to identifying issues, constraints and investment opportunities. The focus of the study would be on the long-term potential for a major increase in the output of Tanzania’s cotton and textile sector with a view to maximising its potential contribution to the generation of increased GDP, exports, farmer incomes and manufacturing employment. Terms of Reference were finalised in February and the report was completed by the end of June 2007. It was reviewed at a Stakeholders’ Forum held in Dar es Salaam on September 19th chaired by the Honourable S Wassira, Minister of Agriculture and Lord David Sainsbury. This edition of the report reflects comments and changes agreed at that Forum, in relation to both statistics and institutional arrangements. This report represents the findings of a team comprising of consultants from Golder Associates of South Africa, the University of Manchester in the UK and Oxford Policy Management. -
Patterns in the Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Volume 12 Issue 1 Article 8 6-2018 Democidal Thinking: Patterns in the Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing Gerard Saucier University of Oregon Laura Akers Oregon Research Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp Recommended Citation Saucier, Gerard and Akers, Laura (2018) "Democidal Thinking: Patterns in the Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 12: Iss. 1: 80-97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.1.1546 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Democidal Thinking: Patterns in the Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Seraphine Shen-Miller, Ashleigh Landau, and Nina Greene for assistance with various aspects of this research. This article is available in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss1/8 Democidal Thinking: Patterns in the Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing Gerard Saucier University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, USA Laura Akers Oregon Research Institute Eugene, Oregon, USA In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. –Howard Zinn1 Introduction and Background Sociopolitical violence is a tremendous social problem, given its capacity to spiral into outcomes of moral evil (i.e., intentional severe harm to others). -
Imaging the Woman Through Tanzanian Women's Maxims
Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 19 Issue 3 Selected Papers of the Third World Conference Article 10 on Women’s Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2017 Apr-2018 Imaging the Woman through Tanzanian Women’s Maxims Shani Omari Fikeni E. M. K. Senkoro Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws Part of the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Omari, Shani and Senkoro, Fikeni E. M. K. (2018). Imaging the Woman through Tanzanian Women’s Maxims. Journal of International Women's Studies, 19(3), 119-134. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol19/iss3/10 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2018 Journal of International Women’s Studies. Imaging the Woman through Tanzanian Women’s Maxims By Shani Omari1 and Fikeni E. M. K. Senkoro2 Abstract Women’s maxims, as well as other forms of oral literature in Tanzania, are a popular genre. They are verbal arts that can be self-addressed or addressed to a fellow woman among womenfolk. This paper intends to examine the role of these maxims in imaging women in Tanzania. This study was prompted by the findings of previous studies regarding the portrayal of women in Kiswahili3 literature where, generally, women are depicted as inferior beings compared to men, partly due to the fact that most authors are men. -
A Matter of Comparison: the Holocaust, Genocides and Crimes Against Humanity an Analysis and Overview of Comparative Literature and Programs
O C A U H O L S T L E A C N O N I T A A I N R L E T L N I A R E E M C E M B R A N A Matter Of Comparison: The Holocaust, Genocides and Crimes Against Humanity An Analysis And Overview Of Comparative Literature and Programs Koen Kluessien & Carse Ramos December 2018 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance A Matter of Comparison About the IHRA The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to place political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. The IHRA (formerly the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, or ITF) was initiated in 1998 by former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson. Persson decided to establish an international organisation that would expand Holocaust education worldwide, and asked former president Bill Clinton and former British prime minister Tony Blair to join him in this effort. Persson also developed the idea of an international forum of governments interested in discussing Holocaust education, which took place in Stockholm between 27–29 January 2000. The Forum was attended by the representatives of 46 governments including; 23 Heads of State or Prime Ministers and 14 Deputy Prime Ministers or Ministers. The Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust was the outcome of the Forum’s deliberations and is the foundation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The IHRA currently has 31 Member Countries, 10 Observer Countries and seven Permanent International Partners. -
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;) 1 W~ MATHIAS MARCUSS~ INTERNATIOI\AL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RvVANDA ;.'- CASE NC J.:TR 19"; THE PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIB UNAL l~.·~'--'~l~C:-T ~~ AGAINST RECEIVED HASSAN NGEZE ,'; ;-, ~", 1" ~ 7 _, .....',~! V v ACTION :e..e",=,~~ COpy ~ ~ Il\DICTMENT I. The do;;eCcor ufthe International Criminal Tribun,j for Rwanda, pursuant to the authority stipulated in Article 17 of the Statute of the TribllfJaI 01' the L'lternational Crim: al Tribunal for Rwanda (the Statute oEthe Tribunal) charges Hi SSAN {GEZE with GENOCIDE, DIRECT ANi) PUBLIC INCITEMENT TO COMMIT CENOCll ~, and CRIM.!!:S AGAINST HUMANITY, all offenses stip:llated in Articles 2.ud 3 0 the Statut.: of the fribunal as set forth belo N: 2, THE ACCUSED HASSAN NGEZE was born in 1961 in the Commune of Rubavu, Prefecture of Gisenyi, ,he Republic of 'Zwand At the tim.: of the eV~:lts referred to in this indictment, HASSAN NGEZE was Editor-in-Chief of the .i' 'lirna: knewn :.IS, and published under tbe name ot~ KANGURA. PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/085c26/ 3. CONCISE STATENIENT OF THE ACTS 3.1. The crimes inthislnd';tmentr)l\! plse in Rwsnda, between January 1 and December :3 1 of 1994. 3.2. During the events n:rerred to III this indictment, Tutsis and Hutus were identified as ethnic or racial group<;. 3.3. DLL inlS the events referre, in thi' indi . (ment, there were in Rwanda \\idespre.d or sy ~ematic ,ttacL '1gain-t a civilian population, including Tutsis and certa:n 1{utus, Oil poliucal, etl lie or l'acial grounds. -
South Africa's Official Selection for the Foreign Film Oscars 2006
Production Notes The UK Film & TV Production Company plc The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa The National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa in association with Moviworld present A UK/South African Co-production TSOTSI Starring Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe and ZOLA Written and Directed by Gavin Hood Based on the novel by Athol Fugard Co-produced by Paul Raleigh Produced by Peter Fudakowski WINNER – EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL 2005 THE STANDARD LIFE AUDIENCE AWARD THE MICHAEL POWELL AWARD FOR BEST BRITISH FILM South Africa’s official selection for the Foreign Film Oscars 2006 For all press inquiries please contact: Donna Daniels Public Relations 1375 Broadway, Suite 403, New York, NY 10018 Ph: 212-869-7233 Email: [email protected] and [email protected] IN TORONTO: contact Melissa or Donna c/o The Sutton Place Hotel, Hospitality Suite 606, 955 Bay Street, Toronto, on M5S 2A2 main #: 416.924.9221 fax: 416.324.5617 FOR ALL PRESS MATERIALS/INFO : www.tsotsi.com A message from the playwright and author of the novel TSOTSI ATHOL FUGARD 2 CONTENTS: LETTER FROM AUTHOR OF 'TSOTSI' THE NOVEL 2 UK AND TRADE PRESS QUOTE BANK 4 SHORT SYNOPSIS 6 LONGER SYNOPSIS 6 MAKING “TSOTSI” - BACKGROUND NOTES and QUOTES 8 THE TERM “TSOTSI” - ORIGINS AND MEANINGS 13 KWAITO MUSIC - ORIGINS 15 BIOGRAPHIES: ATHOL FUGARD - AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL “TSOTSI” 17 GAVIN HOOD - SCREENWRITER / DIRECTOR 18 PETER FUDAKOWSKI - PRODUCER 19 PAUL RALEIGH - CO-PRODUCER 20 PRESLEY CHWENEYAGAE - TSOTSI 21 ZOLA – FELA 21 TERRY PHETO - MIRIAM 21 KENNETH NKOSI - AAP 21 MOTHUSI MAGANO - BOSTON 22 ZENZO NGQOBE - BUTCHER 22 CAST, CREW AND MUSIC CREDITS 23-31 CONTACT INFO 32 3 TSOTSI “Tsotsi” literally means “thug” or “gangster” in the street language of South Africa’s townships and ghettos. -
Comprehensive Anti-Racism Resources
COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES Compiled by UNY Conference Commission on Religion and Race Members and the General Commission on Religion & Race Online Resources Study Links – GCORR Lenten Study Series: Roll Down Justice: Six-session study guides and videos www.gcorr.org/series/lenten-series-roll-down-justice/ Racial Justice Conversation Guide www.gcorr.org/racial-justice-conversation-guide/ Is Reverse Racism Really a Thing? Study guide & video www.gcorr.org/is-reverse-racism-really-a-thing/ Wait…That’s Privilege? Article with Privilege Quiz www.gcorr.org/wait-thats-privilege/ Study Links – Other Sources United Methodist Women’s Lenten Study on Racial Justice www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/lent www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITxqC0Sze4 Eye on the Prize – a PSB documentary series (14 episodes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpY2NVcO17U UMW Tools for Leaders: Resources for Racial Justice https://s3.amazonaws.com/umw/pdfs/racialjustice2012.pdf 2 Websites National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): https://www.naacp.org Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR): http://www.gcorr.org/ Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com Local groups involved in anti-racism action in your area Podcasts www.insocialwork.org/list_categories.asp Videos Getting Called Out – How to Apologize: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xJXLYL.8pU&feature=youtube).UnderstandingMy Privilege The Danger of a Single Story www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcr ipt?languafe=en PBS, "Race: The Power of an Illusion." Three one-hour videos with discussion questions, 2003. https://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm Crossing the Color Line | Brennon Thompson | TEDxSUNYGeneseo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQUT4LMhAw "Free Indeed," a video drama about racism and white privilege, available at UNY Resource Center. -
Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus Is Beautiful, Or Shakesploi Meets the Camp
Colby Quarterly Volume 37 Issue 1 March Article 7 March 2001 Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus Is Beautiful, or Shakesploi Meets the Camp Richard Burt Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cq Recommended Citation Colby Quarterly, Volume 37, no.1, March 2001, p.78-106 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Quarterly by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. Burt: Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus Is Beautiful, Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus Is Beautiful, or Shakesploi Meets (the) Camp by RICHARD BURT II cinema eI'anna piu forte (Cinema is the strongest weapon) -Mussolini's motto Every day I'll read something that is right out of Titus Andronicus, so when people think this is "over the top," they're absolutely wrong. What could be more "over the top" than the Holocaust? -Julie Taymor "Belsen Was a Gas." -Johnny Rotten SHAKESPEARE NACH AUSCHWITZ? NE MORNING in the summer of 2000, I was channel surfing the trash talk O. shows to get my daily fix of mass media junk via the hype-o of my tele vision set. After "Transsexual Love Secrets" on Springer got a bit boring, I lighted on the Maury Povich Show.! The day's topic was "My seven-year-old child drinks, smokes, swears, and hits me!" Father figure Pavich's final solu tion, like Sally Jessie Raphael's with much older kids on similar episodes of her show, was to send the young offenders to boot camp. -
The Rwandan Genocide: Combating Stereotypes And
The Rwandan Genocide: Combating Stereotypes and Understanding the Origins Nicola Skakel Senior Honors Thesis Department of History April 9th 2018 Defense Committee: Dr. Susan K. Kent, Department of History, Primary Advisor Dr. Matthew Gerber, Department of History, Honors Council Representative Dr. Paul Shankman, Department of Anthropology, Advisor 1 Introduction On the 7th of April 1994, the small east African country of Rwanda erupted into one of the most deadly and intimate genocides the modern world had ever witnessed. Whilst the western world stood by and watched in just 100 days over 800,000 Rwandans out of a total population of 7 million, were systematically murdered in the most brutal and violent of ways. Those who were targeted made up the country’s minority ethnic group the Tutsis, and moderates from the majority group, the Hutus. For many, the legacy of Rwanda is a monstrous example of extreme pent up ethnic tensions that has its roots in European colonialism. In contrast, I will argue that the events not just of 1994 but also the unrest that proceeded it, arose from a highly complex culmination of long-standing historical tensions between ethnic groups that long pre-dated colonialism. In conjunction, a set of short-term triggers including foreign intervention, civil war, famine, state terrorism and ultimately the assassination of President Habyarimana also contributed to the outburst of genocide in 1994. Whilst it would be easy to place sole responsibility on European colonists for implementing a policy of divide and rule and therefore exacerbating ethnic tensions, it seems to me that genocide is never that cut and dried: it can never be explained by one factor. -
Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities and Socialities in Rwandan Associations for People Living with Hiv Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil Wayne State University
Wayne State University Wayne State University Dissertations 1-1-2015 Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil Wayne State University, Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations Part of the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Van Nuil, Jennifer Ilo, "Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv" (2015). Wayne State University Dissertations. 1383. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1383 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@WayneState. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wayne State University Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WayneState. ABANYASIDA: EMERGENT SUBJECTIVITIES AND SOCIALITIES IN RWANDAN ASSOCIATIONS FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV by JENNIFER ILO VAN NUIL DISSERTATION Submitted to the Graduate School of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2015 MAJOR: ANTHROPOLOGY Approved By: _________________________________________ Advisor Date _________________________________________ _________________________________________ __________________________________________ © COPYRIGHT BY JENNIFER ILO VAN NUIL 2015 All Rights Reserved DEDICATION For my grandmother, Wave Bearl Heyboer and the members of all the Rwandan HIV support associations ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are so many people who have assisted in the completion of this work both academically and emotionally. This process was isolating and challenging and I was fortunate to have a solid support network. Without the academic and personal support of so many mentors and friends I never would have succeeded in writing this dissertation and completing my doctorate degree. First I would like to extend my extreme gratitude to Dr. -
Interpretation in Recent Literary, Film and Cultural Criticism
t- \r- 9 Anxieties of Commentary: Interpretation in Recent Literary, Film and Cultural Criticism Noel Kitg A Dissertàtion Presented to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide In Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy March 7994 Nwo.rà"o\ \qq5 l1 @ 7994 Noel Ki^g Atl rights reserved lr1 Abstract This thesis claims that a distinctive anxiety of commentary has entered literary, film and cultural criticism over the last thirty years/ gathering particular force in relation to debates around postmodernism and fictocriticism and those debates which are concerned to determine the most appropriate ways of discussing popular cultural texts. I argue that one now regularly encounters the figure of the hesitant, self-diiioubting cultural critic, a person who wonders whether the critical discourse about to be produced will prove either redundant (since the work will already include its own commentary) or else prove a misdescription of some kind (since the criticism will be unable to convey the essence of , say, the popular cultural object). In order to understand the emergence of this figure of the self-doubting cultural critic as one who is no longer confident that available forms of critical description are adequate and/or as one who is worried that the critical writing produced will not connect with a readership that might also have formed a constituency, the thesis proposes notions of "critical occasions," "critical assemblages," "critical postures," and "critical alibis." These are presented as a way of indicating that "interpretative occasions" are simultaneously rhetorical and ethical. They are site-specific occasions in the sense that the critic activates a rhetorical-discursive apparatus and are also site-specific in the sense that the critic is using the cultural object (book, film) as an occasion to call him or herself into question as one who requires a further work of self-stylisation (which might take the form of a practice of self-problematisation). -
UC Santa Barbara Dissertation Template
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Iron Mothers and Warrior Lovers: Intimacy, Power, and the State in the Nyiginya Kingdom, 1796-1913 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in History by Sarah Elizabeth Watkins Committee in charge: Professor Stephan F. Miescher, Chair Professor Mhoze Chikowero Professor Erika Rappaport Professor Leila Rupp June 2014 The dissertation of Sarah E. Watkins is approved. _____________________________________________ Mhoze Chikowero _____________________________________________ Erika Rappaport ____________________________________________ Leila Rupp ____________________________________________ Stephan F. Miescher, Committee Chair May 2014 Iron Mothers and Warrior Lovers: Intimacy, Power, and the State in the Nyiginya Kingdom, 1796-1913 Copyright © 2014 by Sarah Elizabeth Watkins iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS While responsibility for the end result of this work rests with me, its creation would not have been possible without the support and dedication of many others. For their intellectual and moral support through the preparation and writing of this dissertation, I want to thank Stephan Miescher, my advisor, and Mhoze Chikowero, Erika Rappaport, and Leila Rupp, for agreeing to shepherd me through this process. Writing a dissertation can be excruciating, but having such a supportive and engaged committee makes all the difference. For their mentorship during my research and writing in Rwanda, I want to thank David Newbury, Catharine Newbury, Rose-Marie Mukarutabana, Bernard Rutikanga, and Jennie Burnet, as well as the Faculty of History at the National University of Rwanda. Their insights have sharpened my analysis, and consistently challenged me to engage more deeply with the sources, as well as to consider the broader context of the stories with which I am so fascinated.