Prof. Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba

[Elly B]

I am not sure if it is only because you don't know him, or you happen to forget him or if your intentions are to just hear how people responds. Whatever...lets talk.

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (born 1942) is a senator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the vice president of the Senate Permanent Commission on Legal and Administrative Matters in the transitional government. Previously, he was commander of the Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy during the Second Congo War. He is also a prominent academic and political theorist.

Wamba dia Wamba was born in Sundi-Lutete, Bas-Congo Province. He was raised in Swedish mission schools and grew into adulthood in the period when the prophetism ofSimon Kimbangu and the political agitation for independence by the Association of the Bakongo People (ABAKO) was reaching its peak. When ABAKO split, he favored the faction of Daniel Kanza.

Upon graduation from secondary school, he was one of three students awarded scholarships by the African-American Institute to study in the United States. He went to Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where Wamba wrote his honors dissertation on the philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. He later went on to graduate studies at Claremont before teaching at Brandeis University, where he was associated with Peter F. Drucker. He went on to teach at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
During his period in the U.S., Wamba dia Wamba married an African-American woman and was involved in the Civil Rights Movement through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Once the period of decolonization began in Africa, he joined the supporting committees of various US-based pan-Africanist liberation movements.

In 1980, he accepted a position as Professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. While visiting his parents' village in 1981, he was arrested by the government of Mobutu Sese-Seko for possessing a paper he had authored that was deemed 'subversive', and was detained for one year. He continued his role as a prominent figure in both academia and political circles in Africa. He is the former President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) as well as the founder and president of the Philosophy Club at the University of Dar es Salaam. He is an expert in the Palaver and other indigenous forms of African democracy. He participated in the Sovereign National Conference, held from 1990 through 1992 in Zaire. In 1997 he co-authored with Jacques Depelchin, the African Declaration Against Genocide.

In December 1997, Prof. Wamba was named a recipient of the Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development. The announcement of the award cited his "scholarly contribution to the development of African philosophy and for sparking off the philosophical debate on social and political themes in Africa." At this time he also worked closely with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere to end the Burundi Civil War.

Summarily I hope that short history of him helps.

 

[Mgodo Mgodoki]

Prof. Wamba Dia Wamba kama sikosei ni miongoni mwa Maprofesor wachache ambao hawasoma Degree.

 

[Chum Kane]

Ni mtuhumiwa wa mabomu kule Arusha.Alikuwa anaishi matejoo.

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

Unakumbuka alikwenda MSITUNI kuwa MPINZANI wa MUBUTU Zaire... na alikuwa na CHAMA CHAKE tofauti na CHA MZEE KABILA... lakini MIZENGWE ilimshinda akawafuata wanae USA

Huyu ni sawa na MTikila kw ahapa Bongo , kwani ndiye Mkongwe wa Upinzani congo na alishawahi kuwa waziuri nadhani kama sio chini ya Kabila basi ni Mobutu.

 

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Prof. Wamba Dia Wamba kama sikosei ni miongoni mwa Maprofesor wachache ambao hawasoma Degree.

Ni professor ambaye hakufanya Phd!

 

[Kigogo]

Ni kama majimarefu kachukua u prof bila kusoma degree

 

[Consigliere]

Ni professor ambaye hakufanya Phd!

Kwani kuwa Professor ni hadi usome PHD?

 

[Bongolander]

Jamaa kwa sasa ni raia wa Marekani kwa kuwa mke wake Elaine ni Mmarekani, watoto wake nadhani ni wabelgiji si wamarekani, japo kwa kuwa mama yao ni Mmarekani nao wanaweza kuwa wamarekani, nakumbuka mmoja tulimzika pale Kinondoni alupata ajali Brussels....sidhani kama ni mtu anaweza kuwa gavana DRC, he is way above that....i do believe he is still doing his shuttle professoring...

 

[Ozzie]

Prof. Wamba Dia Wamba kama sikosei ni miongoni mwa Maprofesor wachache ambao hawasoma Degree.

Wenzako wanaandika vyuo alivyoenda; wewe wasimulia story za mtaani.

 

[Ozzie]

Ni professor ambaye hakufanya Phd!

Si lazima kuwa na PhD ili kuwa professor. ..

 

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Si lazima kuwa na PhD ili kuwa professor. ..

Ni kweli si lazima ufanye Phd. Wamba ni mfano mmojawapo wa case kama hiyo.

 

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Kwani kuwa Professor ni hadi usome PHD?

Si lazima japo wengi wanapitia njia hiyo.

 

[UGORO87]

Huyu prof miaka ya 98 nakumbuka alikuwa msituni kuingusha serikali ya lora kabila.alipata shutuma yakuzika watu hai.

 

[Katufu]

Jamaa kwa sasa ni raia wa Marekani kwa kuwa mke wake Elaine ni Mmarekani, watoto wake nadhani ni wabelgiji si wamarekani, japo kwa kuwa mama yao ni Mmarekani nao wanaweza kuwa wamarekani, nakumbuka mmoja tulimzika pale Kinondoni alupata ajali Brussels....sidhani kama ni mtu anaweza kuwa gavana DRC, he is way above that....i do believe he is still doing his shuttle professoring...

Sio gavana, yeye ni senator kwa sasa kule kwao Congo. Pia mtoto wake Fillipe aliyefariki 2002 hakufia Brussels bali alifariki kwa ajali ya gari nchini Kenya karibu na mji wa Mombasa.

 

[Katufu]

Jamaa kwa sasa ni raia wa Marekani kwa kuwa mke wake Elaine ni Mmarekani, watoto wake nadhani ni wabelgiji si wamarekani, japo kwa kuwa mama yao ni Mmarekani nao wanaweza kuwa wamarekani, nakumbuka mmoja tulimzika pale Kinondoni alupata ajali Brussels....sidhani kama ni mtu anaweza kuwa gavana DRC, he is way above that....i do believe he is still doing his shuttle professoring...

Ndiyo hivyo, huyu prof. kwa sasa ni seneta kule kwa Congo DRC ameamua kutulia kwenye siasa. Kumbuka na umri ndo unamtupa hivyo. Na pia mtoto wake Fillipe alifariki 2002 na kuzikwa Kinondoni hakufia Brussels bali Kenya karibu na mji wa Mombasa.

 

[mkafrend]

Ameamua kutulia baada ya kuona nguvu zimepungua kutokana na umri mkubwa, hivi anaelekea 87yrs na ameamua kuestablish makazi nchini afrika ya kusini sehemu ya pritoria. Vijana wake sasa Tonny Wamba ndo wanaanza harakati za kisiasa.

 

[Ng'wanapagi]

Mara ya Mwisho tuliongea nae Hapa Tanzania kwenye tamasha la vitabu mwaka 2010 pale Blue Pearl Hotel.Huwezi kuchoka kumsikiliza

CHADEMA mnavyopenda waasi!!

 

[Morinyo]

Ameamua kutulia baada ya kuona nguvu zimepungua kutokana na umri mkubwa, hivi anaelekea 87yrs na ameamua kuestablish makazi nchini afrika ya kusini sehemu ya pritoria. Vijana wake sasa Tonny Wamba ndo wanaanza harakati za kisiasa.

Nadhan yuko kwenye early 70's kama sikosei maana kumbukumbu zinaonyesha alizaliwa 1942.

 

[figganigga]

Mimi napishana naye kila asubuhi akifanya mazoezi, Yupo hapa Dar. Ni mzee lakini anaonekana yupo fit sana kimazoezi.

 

[1954]

Huyu mtu ninavyojua alikuwa mmoja wa watu walioleta na wanaoendelea kuleta fujo kongo DRC.lkn nashindwa kukuelewa unamhitaji wa nini ?

Duh, jibu lako ni kali mno...Mwenzio anataka kufahamu tu huyu Professa yuko wapi na anafanya nini...Ni swali la kawaida kabisa...kama sasa anafanya fujo (kwa mtazamo wako pengine) basi ielezwe ni fujo gani hizo na wapi alipo kwa sasa...