Hi Daniel

I just cloned this thread in IIzaadz as I thought it might be of interest there as well.  Coincidentally, Moses Ntenga just joined our pod/forum, so I'm hoping he might have something to say on the subject.  Evidently those Africans interested in Ken's work may have a hard time getting ahold of it; here's some of what Moses wrote in a thread where he introduced himself to the pod:

I am a social scientist, an entreprenuer and a founder and CEO of a child rights rights orgnaisation- Joy for Children-Uganda. I also have a pod Children of Africa here on Zaadz. I must confess , I like children.

I can to learn about integral from a great friend of mine Donata
I was asking, at one of the pods on zaadz, why Africa remain poor despite of the efforts being made even by the developed countries. She told me learn about integral and promised me support which she has done up to now. Thanks to her kind and big heart. She reffered me to the I-I which visited and got the basics of the approach. I knew that would not help me and had to go out to look for ken Wilbers book.

I first moved to the our biggest and oldest university - Makerere ( at times refered to as the fountain of knowledge) but I was shocked that they did not have any of his books. I did stop there, i went to Aristoc Book store (the Amazon of Uganda) they also didnt have any but searched the internet and said they could order for me. One of the books i had asked for Sex, ecology and spirituality………if that is the right one,  they told me its  about $100 when it brought to uganda which turned to be very expensive for me.

I continued being close to those with integral vision  on zaads and networking  withthem and they have all been good and so helpful to me. Until recently when I landed on Integral pod on Zaadz and right away wrote to Adastra who gave me an invitation to the this pod, I am so grateful to you I have found the right community with in the right community.

To the rest of the people with Integral vision you are doing amazing job. And if everyone learnt about integral and definately he/she would apply it and the world would a better place for every one. I have already share integral approach with my friends and have  liked it so much. We want to carry it on and  make it know to people in Uganda and beyond. And we will very soon suprise you, what we will come out with. Watch this space!


Please if any one can send us a book on intergal we will be very  grateful. We  believe  awareness is a great agent of change and this can be best attained through education and sharing information.

So far on his intro thread people have indicated they are sending:

- A Brief History of Everything
- Kosmic Consciousness CD set
- The Essential Ken Wilber

spiral out,
arthur

bulungi69:

This is great news Arthur!

Thankyou for this.

And quite fortuitous as I have worked mostly in Uganda. I'm actaully returning there early next year.

It has been quite the challenge to find 2nd Tier individuals over there. A great inroad.

Kind regards,

Daniel

You're welcome, Daniel.  I love to link people together like that.    Also this issue is an important one and it's one of the cases where "the rubber meets the road" - how does integral/AQAL work in practice to help make a better world?

 Moses responded on the IIzaadz thread:

Aurthor- thank you for the link. I would like to make some comments on this. yes, the African people are hungry, at times they may look confused. But there is need to understand them and you will be suprised how great they are.

Many NGO and other development partners handouts but dont facilite the personel transformation. They give them fish instead of teaching them how to catch fish and probably give them a hook or  a net. We all know that awareness is a great  agent for change and this has not been given much attention in developments approaches in africa. In some instances capacity building has been imphasised  and alot of money injected in it has only ended up in the seminars, workshops in big hotels but what  goes down to the common man is non existent.

The biggest population of African people are illiterate or semi- illiterate but very bright, hard working and eager to learn. Those who have been reached and given desired information  have performed very well in different fields. We need to push the information for personal transformation and development at any cost. Eventually, diseases, hunger, poverty, illiteracy will take care of themselves.

Danniel has to “spread the word”  that will open people's eyes and they will meet their own needs. I am thinking of how we will influence the academic circles to embrace integral approach and through that it will eventually trickle down to the common man through already existing social systems and institutions.

I the mean time we can use foras at national and international levels with particular focus on African continent. Through that we will create the desired change people of Africa.

When I learnt of integral i shared it with friends. Last tuesday we had our first meeting on this subject and we will be meeting every week to learn and share our expriences. Once we have mastered the Integral appoach we will share it with others.

cheers
arthur

Author,   Thank You for catching this.  So Important.    Brought such warm feelings also and that is very nice.   Whoo hoo.  Pattye

Author,   Thank You for catching this.  So Important.    Brought such warm feelings also and that is very nice.   Whoo hoo.  Pattye

I just heard about an interesting alternative copyright scheme that allows one to retain full copyright protection in developed nations, but allow royalty-free use of the material in developing nations.  This could obviously have great applicability in dissemination of integral and other useful material in developing nations.  See my post on Developing Nations copyright here.

Also of interest: A thread I started on Mark Shuttleworth, the South African entrepeneur behind the Ubuntu operating system.

'If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world'

- Mark Shuttleworth

This thread on The Africa Institute is also worth checking out.

spiral out,
arthur