"DR" Shayo the plagiarist

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Mi kuona hiyo picha aliyopiga na mitabu tu mbavu sina. It is almost like he is self-caricaturing in a light-touch manner to a few fam and friends and somehow the photo is blown out of proportions like that, that is the only way the photo would make sense. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually trying to project intellectuallism (a concept real intellectuals are wary of and quick to dismiss) by posing. Posing. Posing ? While I am, as Mos Def said (not risking anything about plagiarism now) "Too busy surviving to argue about Darwin, darling". Again, again.

That is it, he is such a poser. If you look at the photo closely and relate the photo to the plagiarism, you will not be surprised. Both are about posing. In the photo he is attempting to sell an image of an intellectual through the sheer number of books, in the plagiarism case he is trying to validate the image with some piece he did not write.

The sad thing is, Libya is no rocket science. Any intelligent person - or even half birdbrained PhD with the brute force and accident of history to have lugged it out - can write a beautiful piece about Libya. Gaddafi makes it so easy.

But I guess some of our "Doctori" needs it to be as easy as "copy and paste".

To revisit fangfangit, there is hardly anything new under the sun. I mean If you read Plato, Aristotle to the medieval writers all the way to Edgar Allan Poe you will see that they covered it all, from the Big Bang to the recent decadence, all the way to the Fukushima meltdown. There is hardly anything you can't find in the Vedas, the Bible, the Quran, Sun-Tzu,The Dhammapada, Confucius, The Zoroastrians, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Tibetan Book of The Dead all the way to Steven Hawkings and Brian Greene. My point ? Quote a little, or even a lot (Barzun - to cite an example of something I am reading right now- quotes like every page in his 800 odd pages of "From Dawn To Decadence:1500 To The Present, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life", but he is still Barzun, his Barzunness is not diminished by extensive quoting. To the contrary it is rather enhanced by it, making him an established learned man), but acknowledge the quotes, dot the lines, and use your quotes (presumably coming from your original worldview shaped by these quotes) and propel them to a higher height, one that is informed by the past.

I am reading about Francis Bacon and how he dissed the wisdom of antiquity, due to the fact that the wisdom of antiquity was limited. As much as I revere all the text mentioned above (with the exception of Hawkins and Geene, who are living legends ) I refuse to take cues (OK, I take cues) but still refuse to take authority wholesale. The problem with our intellectuals (some of them anyway) is that they are either too lazy or too set that they take authority wholesale.

To think that in this age of Googlemania, where you can most certainly know (if you are not a birdbrained PhD anyway) that there is at least one application to compare texts for lazy Professors who want to automate plagiarism detection, even before you Google to verify if there is actually such an application (don't Google, the application is there, thanks to my association with Professors), so to think that you have Tanzanian PhDs, who in all their abovementioned exposures, learning and all, would still come up with a plagiaruzed article, word for word, in the interest of cajoling the public into elevating them further in the false halo of academia, is simply repulsing, discouraging, and at best of low integrity.

I have a friend faced with the dilemma of pursuing a PhD versus a more practical degree, and the friend is leaning towards pursuing a more practical degree (not PhD, not this paper lol ). As different as my friend's cultural backgroung is from "Dr" Shayo (I must now declare my doubt about Mr. Shayo's doctorate, if at all this is the stuff he could pull out of his hole and associate his name with - as author, on the internet no less - ) so as different as my friend's cultural backgroung is from "Dr" Shayo is, this brouhaha is doing anything to dispel my friend's skepticism from PhD's embracing something more practical.

Hivi Dr. Shayo, katika elimu yake yote, kusafiri kwake kote kilikojaza na kumaliza passport, masomo tofauti aliyooona katika maisha ambayo hayako katika academia, kashawahi kuchangia kitu gani kilichofanya tofauti kwa mtanzania wa kawaida?
 
Guys: kuna ndugu yangu anafanya kazi open university of dar es salaam ameniambia kwamba huyu jamaa anachakachua sana kazi za watu mpaka wameshamchoka. Amenitumia makala zifuatazo ambazo anadai ni zeke kumbe amekopi kutoka kwenye mtandao. Naomba kuwasilisha kama nilivyozipokea:

Makala ya kwanza aliyotuma kwa wafanyakazi wenzake chuoni:
Book review: "How The West Was Lost" Author: Damisa Moyo, published 13th
January 2011
By Hildebrand Shayo PhD
"How The West Was Lost: Given this book is 240 pages
and only come out on (13th January 2011) this is a tough
book to review. Not simply because of the title-I am of
course not the first person to note this fifty years of
economic folly and the strake choices ahead-or because of
USA might in this globe and its implication. I read the
book before beholding online for any other opinions on
the book, and I am glad I did, because I found only different perspectives which might
have influenced my review more than it did. My original opinion and the one that
stuck with me? There is a lot of value in this book in its present intellectual. Certain
Damisa Moyo's stands, although termed as controversial economist springing in
African continent this is a hard-hitting book to review. Not simply because of the title
though, but unfolding new dynamic in development!
I am convinced that Damisa Moyo is that rare type of person-an economist who
makes waves. Her first book, Dead Aid, angered many in the charity sector by
arguing that foreign aid has harmed Africa and should be phased out. This second
book published on 13th January 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1846142352 with 240 pages
accuses American and other Western powers of squandering their world economic
dominance through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed policies.
How the west was lost: fifty years of economic Folly-and stark Choices ahead goes
so far as to predict that USA will be a Bona fide socialist welfare state" by the later
part of this century. Indeed, if nothing else changes it from its current path write
Moyo, it is almost certain that America will move from a fully-fledge capitalist
society of entrepreneurs to a socialist nation in just a few decades. Moyo continue to
state that "the trouble is it nont be just any socialist welfare state….. the US is on a
path to creating the worst and most venal form of welfare state (poorly developed and
designed)-one born of desperation from many years of flawed economic policies and
a society that rapaciously feed on itself."
There are plenty more. If current trend continue unabated, Moyo goes much further
than the usual surveys predicting when China will surpass the US in GDP-she suggest
new China hegemony could include the redback renminbi replacing the greenback
"dollar as the world‘s favourite currency. Think about it, she argues Americans on her
book! Foreign exchange share prices, the price of copper, the price of oil, all in china
renminbi" The US and other Western powers will be reduced to second division
players and the new global powerhouses will not just china. Forget East versus West.
It is now the Rest versus the old West.
If Dead Aid was labelled "provocative and incendiary" I think in my view, How the
west was lost will likely see reviewers lexicons raided for even more emotive
language. However, ambian born Moyo 41 is not afraid of being a pioneer. In my
view, I think the London based former Goldman Sachs economist is arguably one of
the most powerful women in British business, sitting on the board of FTSE 100
constituents Barclays and brewing giant SAB Miller.
Last years she features in Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential
people and also appeared in Oprah Winfrey's power list of 20 remarkable visionaries.
Her Cv doesn't end here, she is also one of the world economic Forum's young
global leaders and last year took part in the power broking Bilderberg conference,
frequently by the world's movers and shakers.
So what has led her to aim fire at the West's leaders struggling as they are with
budget deficits and waning economies? The answer that crop up from her book is that
she believe the global economy is at an inflexion point in terms of where it goes from
here. From the book one can easily reads her mind that she is as if wanted to write a
book that is one-stop shopping for where we are in the world today. The books state
that there is so much focus on dealing with tactical issues to do with the emergency
solution, which are all necessary of course. But people are missing the bigger picture
and issues because the way the political structure is set up encourages you to focus on
immediate, rather than what she would say are the important issues, the structural
things which have been going on for 50 odd years.
Moyo's book discourages those who want to hear noises and instead, call for those
who want a clean perspective on what the heck is going on around the world and how
is it that we have got to this point. Moyo's book apparently present the idea of
unintended consequences in running in both Dead Aid and How the West Lost, with
policies that Western population have rallied around as great ideas out to produce
detrimental results. In this way, the book clearly show that Western government have
implemented laudable notions like the idea that everyone should, have a roof over
their head, receive access to food and be supported in old age by pensions. These
issues have led to unfortunate outcomes in terms of capital, labour and productivity,
the key ingredient in economic growth.
The book states, is not just the USA, there are tons of examples of UK and European
mistakes. A class one is pension. That is obvious not an American specific thing. The
British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come.
Moyo argues that the next great Ponzi scheme after Madolff is probably pensions.
Also is not just the USA where performance is declining in a very detrimental and
rapid way in maths and science and reading. It is also a very much of problem in the
UK. And if you compare, she write…. 1950-1980 with 1980-2000, in terms of GDP
growth in the USA and many European countries, it is been exactly the same. Yet, she
writes.. between 1950 and 1980, people were living in pretty protectionist regime and
between 1980 and 2000there was more much capital and trade flows. In addition, real
wages have been relatively flat in the US and Europe, so taken together you has a
question about whether globalisation which is another great idea on paper, has
actually worked in practice. Has it helped Americans? Has it helped British People? Is
there still time to fix these problems? She argues yes, however, she continue to
argue…..the choice are going to be very difficult and may need to be facilitated
through political changes, for example she suggest, in the term of the government so
they have more incentive to think longer-term.
In the book it is clearly shown that we all know what are the problems are. And she
put forward her thinking about the new paradigm on the aspect of coalition
government in UK as a brilliant because so far in the UK, coalition government have
been able to implement some of the hardest choices of austerity measures in an
environment where it's much less politicised than if it was just a left-wing or right
wing government in power. Moyo's position is that sometime you need to strip out
politics to make things happen. She continue ….. Sometime government may require
a change of mind set, arguing that government need people who are absolutely
focused on long term structural issues such as education, deficit, management, energy,
food commodities, long term productivity and infrastructure. In the book it is argued
that these problems have been highlighted but where is the plan for those issues?
There isn't one. It is these sorts of awkward questions that Moyo seems to most like
posing. In the Dead Aid, she argued that more than $1trilling of development aid
from west government to Africa over the 50 years has not helped Africa but it has
ruined it, with millions of people poorer because of aid. She is strongly convinced that
destroying the myth that aid works, means making charity history.
In the book you will clearly recognise former United Nation Secretary Kofi Annan
position, when he said that Moyo made a compelling case for a new approach to
Africa, while Rwanda president Paul Kagame bought copies of Dead Aid for entire
cabinet. Of course, some others were not so complementary, because some critics
such as research fellow at the centre for global development calling Dead Aid book
"sporadically footnoted, selective in its use of facts, sloppy, simplistic illogical and
stunningly naive. Others also had their views, such as one pro-aid organisation ONE
that claimed that Dead Aid was "reckless" Moyo is unmoved. You get to know her
stand on the book. Regarding issues that matters for African continent, Moyo's book
portrays that picture that out there many have a bigger agenda than trying to help
resolve the African problem. Moyo clearly states that she has no doubt in any body's
mind, whether you love or hate aid, there is clearly something wrong. She argues that
there is clearly a problem with the system that has not delivered economic growth and
reduced poverty for 50 years. Nobody can tell her that things are working
swimmingly in Africa. She think and convinced isn't.
For sake of those who might not recall who is Damisa Moyo, she was born and raised
in Lusaka and achieved a chemistry degree and MBA at Washington DCs American
University, a doctorate in economics from Oxford university and a Masters from
Harvard University's Kennedy school of government before working as a consultant
at the world bank and then for nearly a decade at Goldman. Moyo's doesn't think that
her back ground in Zambia has really affected her lens on because she believes that
her classical training has been western style although she is fantastically fortuitous to
have been born in Africa because she doesn't feel to have vested interest to the US,
or China or elsewhere. Reading Dead Aid and this new book one get her stand that
she has impartial perspective on the way the world works. She argues that markets
can work in managed way and if they are left to run rampant it is obviously
problematic. She thinks there are better ways to deliver economic benefits to benefit
highest number of people. In a great picture, Moyo argues that there are more serious
things to be addressed in this world. They might have negative externality of system
but they are not illegal. In a nut shell, as it is just one day since this book get to
shelves, Moyo will be bombarded with a backlash from Westerners who might not
agree that the West has been lost.
Hildebrand Shayo is Senior Lecturer (Economics), The Open University of Tanzania

Source:Why the US can become a socialist nation
Dambisa Moyo: without change US will almost certainly become a socialist nation - Telegraph
 
Dear colleagues,

Good morning.

As we break off for this weekend, i would like to share what i consider to
be "food for thought" as things keep on unfolding in Africa....

Please Read and comment

Africa need "win -win" and not "win-lose" partnership
Africa's success in avoiding the worst of the economic crisis that has
swept the industrialized world has been due in large part to the
remarkable growth of trade and investment with China, India, Brazil and
other "emerging" developing countries. In the last three years Africa's
trade with China has doubled, reaching $106.7 billion in 2008. While China
dominates in terms of sheer numbers, trade and investment with other
emerging markets, such as Brazil, India and Malaysia, has also been rising
sharply, reducing Africa's dependence on traditional partners in Europe
and the United States and fuelling the continent's impressive growth in
recent years.

About one-third of Africa's total trade is already with markets in
emerging or other developing countries. China alone is now Africa's
second-largest single trading partner. Although the European Union (EU) as
a whole continues to dominate Africa's trade, that dominance is receding,
especially in imports: the EU now accounts for only a little over a third
of the continent's inward trade.

Analysts hope these new ties will help Africa rebound from the current
global slump but a new UN study argues that African governments and
companies must play smart if they are to reap the full benefits of
South-South trade: "Whilst some emerging economies have a strategy for
Africa, Africa does not have a strategy towards the emerging economies,"
notes the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) in the new
report. Having a strategic approach is vital, the paper says, because
Africa is much less important to its new trading partners than they are to
Africa, and ending dependence on commodity exports is vital to the
region's development goals.

The rapid growth in trade with emerging economies in recent years has not
led to a significant change in the makeup of Africa's exports. Raw
materials, particularly oil and minerals, still dominate, as they did 10
years ago. A few major producers dominate the continent's trade with the
new markets. Algeria, Angola, Nigeria and South Africa provided 82 per
cent of Brazil's imports from Africa in 2007 and 53 per cent of China's,
according to the OSAA report. Last year, just 10 countries accounted for
79 per cent of the continent's entire trade with China, the South African
Centre for Chinese Studies reports.

China's trade with Africa is driven by the need to secure long-term
supplies of raw materials, particularly oil and minerals, to fuel its
economic development. The Chinese authorities aim to get 40 per cent of
their imported oil from Africa, from the current 30 per cent and they are
seeking to do this mainly through "natural-resources- for-infrastructure"
arrangements. In these, African governments agree to long-term supply
contracts in exchange for loans to finance the construction (usually by
Chinese companies) of power stations, railroads, water and sewerage
systems and other projects.

In Angola, China will get oil in exchange for some $5 billion in loans and
other investments to develop everything from houses and farms to ports and
railways. China now takes 30 per cent of Angola's oil exports. Guinea and
Gabon have struck similar deals to supply iron ore. China now takes 60 per
cent of Sudan's output. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has
negotiated a $9 billion swap of copper and cobalt for the development of a
new mine, plus a wide range of infrastructural development.

Recently a number of these arrangements have run into obstacles. The DRC
deal has been criticized by the IMF, for example, on the grounds that it
may deepen the country's debt burden. The problems come against a
background of criticism of the trade and investment practices of some
emerging market countries. An agreement to allow China's Non-Ferrous Metal
Mining Company (NFC) to reopen the Luanshya mine in Zambia brought
protests by the main opposition party which pointed to a history of labour
problems at another mine run by the NFC, where a number of miners were
killed in an explosion in 2006. A 2005 study of the Tanzania construction
industry by the International Labour Organization pointed to concerns over
employment conditions in Chinese companies. In addition, a number of non-
governmental organizations have called on China and other emerging-market
investors to stop doing deals in countries with authoritarian governments
or widespread human rights abuses.

Some observers, often from the West, have argued that the agreements offer
poor long-term returns, since they do little to generate local jobs or
bring in new technologies. China in turn has accused its Western critics
of hypocrisy. But at the same time, it is taking steps to change some of
its most criticized practices. Chinese businesses in Angola, for example,
are making extensive efforts to hire and train local labour. The DRC deal
also includes commitments for local employment and training, as well as
using local suppliers. The Chinese government has recently issued "good
corporate citizen" guidelines to govern the operations of its companies
overseas.
According to Kwesi Kwaa Prah, an academic from Ghana, China's approach to
Africa has been mainly positive. But to help overcome the differences that
are bound to emerge in such complex relationships, both China and Africa
need to pay more attention to "people-to-people relations."

The OSAA report urges emerging country governments to recognize that their
long-term access to Africa's natural resources depends on developing non-
exploitative, "win-win" outcomes rather than "win-lose" agreements that
undermine Africa's development agenda. "Every effort," OSAA cautions,
"must be made to avoid Africa entering a new era of debt dependency."

Nawasilisha!



Hildebrand E Shayo (BA hons econ & MA D/Studies UDSM;PhD Resource Econ UK)
Senior Lecturer-Economics and
Faculty Postgraduate Coordinator
Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS)
Center for Economics and Community Economic Development
The open University of Tanzania
P.O.BOX 23409,Dar es salaam,Tanzania
Tel/Fax:+22 266 8789
Mob:+225 774 764 553
Skype: Shayohill

Source:Africa needs to
 
VUVUZELA said:
Sasa kama DR anadesa ama ana-copy and paste, hao students kwenye universities zetu wanakoelekea sio kuzuri. Kutakuwa hakuna creativity wala critical thinking.
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Unajua nini mkuu....ukija kwenye ground tanzania ni vichekesho sana.....yaani hili ri nchi kila mtu anataka sifa.....ile blog ya michuzi wengi wa wachangiaji ni low minded hawawezi kuchambua kitu wanabeba kama kilivyo na kutoa sifa kibao.....unaona jamaa wa misri wamemcharukia michuzi na yeye kaibandua hakujua watu walisevu kila kitu original post
AUTHENTICITY OF THE ARTICLE; DR. SHAYO CAUTIONS WE STERN POWERS :
DEMOCRACY AT THE BARREL OF A GUN DOESN'T WORK
Hello Blog owner This is an open letter and we would like to request you to publish
it in your blog for all your readers and writers to read. We have read in dismay, a
paper that was recently published in your blog by Doctor Shayo; "Dr. Shayo
Cautions Western Powers: Democracy at the Barrel of a Gun Doesn't work" which is
a copy-paste of an article in one of our oldest and reputable newspaper here in
Egypt, Al-ahram. Please refer to the article by Azmi Ashour (Managing Editor),
"The End of Change from Abroad" in
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1036/op174.htm
We would like you as the owner of this blog to authenticate the legality of using
this article in your blog without prior consent of the original author, Mr. Azmi or
the management of Al-ahram. I would like to edify you and your readers/writers
that to use someone's intellectual work for your own interest without prior
consent of the owner of such article or work is a serious offense against
intellectual property laws and it may result into serious legal action. Please
understand this is a serious matter and that you should take serious measures to
repudiate the thievery by your writer in your blog. This is the initial contact with
you. You will be contacted soon by the author himself and/ or the management of
the company Al-ahram or our lawyers for further clarification and follow-up. We
advice you to take immediate action presage your writers about plagiarism and
your action to post this open letter in your blog will show us your commitment to
resolve this. Thank you for your understanding ALAIHISSALATU WASSALAM
Sanjeeve (Contributor, Al-ahram, Egypt)
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Freema Agyeman said:
JF ikiandikiwa barua na mwenye haki nakili, utakuwa responsible. Umequaote article kama ilivyo, hata mwenye original post akifuta, nadhani itabaki ina display kwenye post yako.
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Siku zote anaekuwa responsible ni mwenye blog, Jamiiforums in this case, na sio author, huoni hata hao Wa Egypt wamem target Michuzi, na sio Shayo? Author (plagiarist) anaweza kukuruka kwamba si yeye aliyeweka jina lake kwenye article, ila publisher ambae ndio aliyekamatwa na nyama ya wizi ndio unajibu shutuma, sio aliyeiba nyama.

Duu, naona JF wamesikia na wameshabadilisha kichwa cha habari na sasa kinasomeka "DR" Shayo the plagiarist." Good job there.
 
Taso said:
Siku zote anaekuwa responsible ni mwenye blog, Jamiiforums in this case, na sio author, huoni hata hao Wa Egypt wamem target Michuzi, na sio Shayo? Author (plagiarist) anaweza kukuruka kwamba si yeye aliyeweka jina lake kwenye article, ila publisher ambae ndio aliyekamatwa na nyama ya wizi ndio unajibu shutuma, sio aliyeiba nyama.

Duu, naona JF wameshabadilisha kichwa cha habari na sasa kinasomeka "DR. Shayo, the plagiarist." Good job there.
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Sawa, anayekamatwa na mali ya wizi naye mwizi. JF haiwezi kuwa katika hilo kundi kwa sababu mleta mada kasema kaitoa kwa michuzi.

Usingeiquote at the first place ili kuonyesha kwamba si mpango mzima kuweka mada zenye matatizo ya haki nakili. Hapo ungekubalika kuwa na mzimamo dhabiti na unaonya kwa manufaa. Sio unaonya huku umeshikilia mali ya wizi, alama za vidole zitaonyesha hata wewe ni mwizi.
 
Can we give him a chance to respond to this issue? Mod mtafute aseme wazi kwa nini amefanya hayo yanayosemwa. Isije ikawa huckers wamefanya kazi yao (sheer apology) kumcook aonekane si kitu. Let give him a room if possible.
 
Freema Agyeman said:
Usingeiquote at the first place...
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Ku quote sio tatizo hata siku moja, so long as umeonyesha, jamani nam quote mtu.

Nime quote article iliyoibiwa na kuwa published JF. Ilikuwa imebandikwa JF bila kuonyesha kwamba imeibiwa. JF the publisher ndio wangeingia matatizoni kama Wa Egypt waki google, na sio Taso ambae ame quote na kusema tuiwekee alama kwamba "imeibiwa."

Anyhow, JF has paid attention and done the necessary, I guess it's a dead horse now.
 
Hayo ndio maisha ya Watanzania, wasomi na hata wasio wasomi, wengi ndio maisha yao.
 
JF ni kiboko, ila madokta wa aina hii wako wengi sana! Nenda pale UDSM department of economics kuna DR mmoja anaitwa KASOGA, doctorate yake kaipatia marekani....lakini mmmmh nilimsikia kwenye mdahalo mmoja ITV niliamua kuzima TV. Maana uchambuzi aliokuwa anautoa haukuwa unalingana na kiwango cha elimu aliyonayo
 
natoa hoja hii irejeshwe siasa

haiwezekani wenzake wakaangwe halafu huyu apewe free pass
 
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