...The Ubuntu Philosophy\ The term “Ubuntu” is a traditional African concept ther originated the Bantu languages of souther African. It can be described as a way of connecting with others-living in a good community where your actions affect all of humanity. Ubuntu is more than just an operating system:it is a community if of people that come together voluntary to collaborate on an international software project that aims to deliver thee best possible user experience. The Ubuntu Promise Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world. Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features the free software community has to offer Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and popen sources software,improve it, and pass it on. A brief history of Ubuntu Ubuntu was conceived in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth, a successful African enterpriser, and his company canonical. Shuttleworth recognized the power of Linux open sources, but also aware of weaknesses that prevented mainstream use. Shuttleworth set out with clear intentions to address these weaknesses and create a system that saw easy to us, completely free, and could compare with other mainstream operating system. With the Debian system as a base, Shuttleworth began to build Ubuntu. Using his own funds at first, installation CD were pressed...
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...referred to the inner Ubuntu of every man when he talked about those three judges, “they rose above their prejudices, their education, and their background. . . . I commend these three men as individuals, not as representations of the court or of the state or even of their race, but as exemplars of human decency under adversity” (Mandela, 1994, p. 261). In 1963 Mandela had been re-arrested among other eighteen key leaders in an underground ANC (African National Congress) meeting. Unfortunately, the arrest...
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...has its own pros and cons. Three operating systems I will take a look at in this report are: MacOS Sierra, Ubuntu, and Windows 8. MacOS Sierra was initially released on September 20, 2016. It is the thirteenth release of MacOS, which is Apple’s operating system for Mac computers. Sierra is preceded by OS X El Capitan and succeeded by MacOS High Sierra. It is named after the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, the home of Apple. Sierra has some pros to it. One pro is that it is a smooth, easy, and free upgrade from its predecessor OS X El Capitan. Sierra also performs better than El Capitan. Another pro to Sierra is that it integrated Siri, an assistant which uses user voice input to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions. A third pro to Sierra is that it added support for Apple Pay, a payment and digital service that lets users make secure purchases and send and receive money from others. The final pro I will mention is Sierra’s enhanced security features. One example of this is that a user can now unlock a Mac using an Apple Watch. In addition to its pros, Sierra also has...
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...Some choices in life are more powerful than others. They may determine whether or not you get accepted into college, or whether or not you receive a life sentence. The novel The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore, depicts two men with the same name who made different life-alternating decisions. The author purposely wrote the book as a message to readers. He wanted to convey that as life gives off choices, people need to take the peaceful and humane choice. Otherwise, it leads to an endless loop of hatred. In The Other Wes Moore, the author summarizes a meaning life by dissecting other people's lives to understand the importance of a choice, and uses imagery to demonstrate the weight of revenge vs. peace. By writing the novel, the author...
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...Education The classroom harbors individuals with comprehensive distinct challenges. It is the teacher’s responsibility to be observant of each learner’s needs in context with the community in which they live. The African philosophy of kindness, community and compassion forms the basis for this. In the following essay, the broad, dynamic framework of African philosophy will be explored as well as the ways in which this philosophy can be used to assist a withdrawn, unconfident learner. What is the African philosophy? African philosophy can be traced as far back as the days of the Ancient Egyptians. It was a reaction to the difficulties in Africa caused by the rule of the Western thought. It was a fight for an African identity. In Western philosophy, the individual is the greater focus, however in African philosophy the focus is on the community. Tradition and culture also form an important part of this framework of education. There are 4 types of African philosophy. Ethnic philosophy This is a “holistic” approach and considers the “whole” involvement of human beings. This is an important approach to implement in the classroom. To take a “holistic” approach with each learner would be to consider the child’s age, background, culture, emotional and physical needs. It is also essential to consider the learner’s past experiences. Only once all this information is in place can a teacher do further investigations as to why a child is withdrawn. While ethnic...
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...International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 8 [Special Issue – April 2013] Implications of Retrenchment on Human Resource Personnel and its Functions: A Case of Mines in Masvingo Province Maunganidze F Faculty of Social Sciences Great Zimbabwe University Zimbabwe Mupezeni L Pfebeni G Faculty of Applied Social Sciences Zimbabwe Open Univesity Zimbabwe Abstract The study focused on the implications on human resource personnel of conducting and driving the retrenchment exercise. The research study was prompted by the economic and social decline which Zimbabwe was subjected to for the past couple of years. This scenario necessitated the need for many organisations, including mines to engage in some retrenchment exercises. Previous studies have largely focused on how the retrenched would be affected before, during and after the retrenchment exercise. It has been a norm for organisations to try to cushion their departing organisational members from possible financial, social and psychological effects of the retrenchment exercise through some workshops such as stress management and entrepreneurship. The retrenched were viewed as the only victims of the retrenchment exercise. This study however took a different approach by considering the effects of the retrenchment exercise on the drivers of the program, the human resource personnel, taking into consideration the fact that some bonds would have been existing among employees, especially having in mind the collective...
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...the crisis in Syria. I wrote about the hospitals in Aleppo being bombed every single day and my belief that the United States should do more to help the innocent families and the multitudes of children dying across the Middle East. I wrote about humanity’s duty to help other humans that are suffering across the world and that we shouldn’t degrade the meaning of humanity. I hope to one day further research and develop this paragraph into an article. Furthermore, I also learned that “thinking is writing and writing is healing” and that all humanity shares human experience and we need to share our experiences through writing. An interesting approach of doing this is distancing oneself from the emotional aspects of an experience and focus on the concrete details instead. I wrote about coming to the United States at the age of eight, only using numbers. I felt like this excercise added a lot to my piece. Dr. Bryan also spoke about community and we wrote about five communities that we belong to. Through the Connecticut Writing Project, Dr. Bryan is able to become a part of the writing community and give opportunities to many students, like me to share our stories through writing. Dr. Crandall emulated the idea of “Ubuntu”, which means, “I am because we are”. This is the purpose of writing. Martina Goda 2 December 2016 Knives & Ink: Isaac Fitzgerald I chose to attend the talk by Isaac Fitzgerald about his book, “Knives & Ink” because I was interested in finding...
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...discontentment by the social forces indicate the State`s inability to perform the policies outlined on the Government`s diplomacy of Ubuntu. South Africa`s role in the COP17 indicates the State`s incoherence on their foreign policy. President Zuma`s Administration did not live to the expectations of the International community and of the locals. The conference expected South Africa to take the lead on the promotion of green technology and encourage renewable sources like wind as outlined on the website of (South African Government White Paper on Foreign Policy 2011). To great disappointment, scholar (Watson n.d.) observed that little support is given to these sources. In 2011, the public campaign of “One million Climate Jobs” demanded for the State to use electricity from wind and solar power (Austin-Evelyn 2011). However the negligence highlight the Foreign Policy`s failure to lure in investors on the climate change program and promote community empowerment. This presents the Government’s failure to meet the demands of civil society. The President Zuma`s Administration is blamed for giving a blind eye on the potentials of renewable sources. As most of the country`s coal powered stations are heading towards the end of their useful life (Bonellie 2015) And Del Weston acknowledges South Africa to have, “the Influence over the development agendas of other African Countries” (Watson n.d.). One notes that, South...
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...their similarities were more dominant than their differences. We take up these similarities and encompass them as one African Traditional Religion. In this report, we explore the important aspects of Africa’s Traditional Religions and cultures that cut across the entire continent. This essay is based on various researches done by prominent scholars, historical background of Africa, news and books relevant to African studies. This report attempts to define religion, culture, and explores the major religions, African Traditional Religion (ATR), Christianity and Islam and their influence and impact on African culture. Africa is one of the World’s six continents. It is the second largest and second most populous continent after Asia. Other continents include; Asia, America-North, America-South, Australia, Europe. Geologically, Present-day Africa, occupying one-fifth of Earth's land surface, is the central remnant of the ancient southern supercontinent called Gondwanaland, a landmass once made up of South America, Australia, Antarctica, India, and Africa. This massive supercontinent broke apart...
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...In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. It is a social function. It is, therefore, both socially accountable and culturally embedded." Some thirteen years later, Tom Peters remarked in the article Managing As Symbolic Action: "It requires us, as managers, to get people to share our sense of urgency in new priorities; to develop personal, soul-deep animus toward things as they are; to get up the nerve and energy to take on the forces of inertia that bog down any significant change program." Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. People are disengaged, distrusting and perhaps even disenfranchised. According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer, fewer than 20% of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations. Furthermore, a study conducted by the Human Capital Institute and Interaction Associates in 2013 found only 34% of organizations had high levels of trust in the places they work. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show. To cap off a small sliver of dismal data points, research firm Gallup found that over a twelve-year period between 2000 and 2012, the percentage of engaged employees...
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...operating system operates on many platforms then it uses page sizes that can range between 4KB to 64KB. So this means that windows virtual memory can control how memory can allocate paging performance” (Stallings, 2013). Committed, Available, and Reserved are three types of regions of space or memory that the operating system can manage. Committed region is space it’s pages that have been stored either in physical or virtual memory. It also allows the process to access the virtual memory pages. Available region is where the address of the process is not being used. Reserved region is space that is not available for any other use and waits for a processing. UNIX is different form Linux when it comes to managing its memory. The process that UNIX uses is swapping, it done by moving chucks of the virtual memory. In order for this to work pages is the main memory and moves others in. the pages are needed to be accessible in the main memory from the demand...
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...The indisputable and comparatively recent historical and violent disruption effected by the slave trade, colonial domination, cold war and ideological rivalries and the continued misunderstanding of our situation perpetuated by neocolonialism have left profound effects on our societies. Unlike colonized people elsewhere, we in Africa could not counter these disparaging scourges with the mitigating effect of our own glorious past. Ours being the land of those who invented neither gunpowder nor compass, nor gave birth to universalist religion, still less to expanding empires, these predicaments are bound to be poignantly devastating. No other people in the world are unjustifiably reminded of their purported “inferiority”, and no other people are so disarmed to combat the false allegation. This fact alone invests African leadership with a rather unique challenge to redefine Africa’s story and position in a world dominated by foreign centric models. Invariably, the task to re-examine history, legacy and culture is more significant to African leadership than to leadership in the rest of the...
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...AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: THE IMPERATIVES OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND VALUES by MARTIN ODEI AJEI submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the subject PHILOSOPHY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR M. B. RAMOSE AUGUST 2007 Contents Declaration Acknowledgement List of Acronyms Key terms Summary vi vii viii x xi INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY i. Statement of the Problem ii. Against Economism iii. Critique of Competition iv. Poverty is Unnatural v. Thesis Statement vi. Methodology vii. Structure of Dissertation 1 1 1 5 6 9 10 15 CHAPTER ONE: DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AFRICA 1.1. What is Development 1.2. Development and Economic Growth 1.3. Schools of Development Thought and their Influence in Africa 1.3.1. The Modernization School and its Essential Claims 1.3.1.1. Growth Theory under Economic Liberalism 1.3.1.2. Evolutionary Theory 1.3.1.3. Functionalist Theory 1.3.1.4. Common Assumptions and Methodology 1.3.1.5 The Influence of Modernization on Development Practice in Africa 1.3.1.6. Critique of Modernization 1.3.2 Dependency Theory and its Essential Claims 21 21 25 27 27 28 29 30 32 34 36 39 i 1.3.3. The Theoretical Heritage of Dependency Theory 1.3.3.1. Structuralist Economics and the ‘Prebisch Thesis’ 1.3.3.2. Marxism 1.3.4. Common Assumptions of Dependency Theory 1.3.5. Criticisms of Dependency Theory 1.3.6. The Influence of Dependency Theory on African Development Practice...
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...African Culture And Personality: Bad Social Science, Effective Social Activism, Or A Call To Reinvent Ethnology? James E. Lassiter Abstract BACKGROUND This paper surveys and assesses the writings of selected African scholars on what they regard to be pan-African culture and personality traits, and patterns and processes of African cultural adaptation (1). Suggestions are also made for reinventing the study of African social, cultural and psychological characteristics, and using such knowledge to help solve socioeconomic problems in Africa. Finally, comments are made regarding the impact of sociocultural particularism and Western individualism on the study of culture and cultural evolution. During the late 1950s and 1960s, national character and typical personality studies were broadly condemned, breathed their last gasp, and were ultimately relegated to the dustbin of bad social science. Since that time, various African scholars outside the social sciences have nevertheless been sustaining and redirecting group personality inquiry. They are not, however, approaching their subject as did Western social scientists in the first half of this century who used questionnaire instruments to determine if Africans were "traditional" or "modern" (2). This was a particularly popular approach among Western occupational psychologists working in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s who sought to scientifically assign statistical coefficients of modernization to African populations. They did this...
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...International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 11; June 2012 Cross-Cultural Values Comparison between Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans Jean Pierre MIAHOUAKANA MATONDO PhD Student in Business Administration Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University 1882, Yan’an Road, Shanghai China Abstract With a Sino-African trade growing at 40% a year and a steadily growing economy above 5% in Africa are challenging Chinese companies and individual Chinese businessmen to reassess broad stereotypes and globalization strategies in this continent. This paper reviews a comparative analysis of fundamental values and interpersonal relations between Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans, and also their impact on the intercultural activities. It outlines differences and synergies amongst African and Chinese cultures. The study aims to introduce some important recommendations and factors, which may have an essential impact on Chinese companies operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides in addition empirical insights of a set of values that may influence Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans’ behaviours. New suggestions related to cross-cultural activities are reported to implement adequate human resource management policies within these companies. The paper includes implications for the development of new cross-cultural strategies and restructuration of the human resource policies. Keywords: Cross-cultural Values; Identity; Cross-Cultural Management;...
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