Professor Amandina LIHAMBA
amandina@udsm.ac.tz
Dean
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Amandina Lihamba is a professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the University of Dar-es-Salaam where she teaches, amongst other things, theatre practice and art for social mobilisation. She is a performer, director of stage and screen as well as a cultural activist. She has published plays and many articles on theatre, culture and politics, gender and communication.. She is co-founder of the national children theatre project and festival as well as the Tuseme programme that advocates for education for girls through the use of cultural communication. She has chaired national and regional organisations including The Tanzania Cultural Trust Fund, The East African Theatre Institute, The Tanzania Theatre Centre and the National Museums of Tanzania. She is also a member of numerous organisations and NGOs such as HakiElimu. Envirocare, and FAWE. She has been head of department, associate dean, dean and member of the University of Dar-es-Salaam Council.
GLOBALISATION, CREATIVITY AND POVERTY
Globalisation, the phenomenon that has not been described as one that has not only made nonsense of national, regional and international borders but has also compressed time and space while creating complex interactions between societies, cultures, institutions and individuals as it provides them distanciated global relations. The general view has been that globalization is not only new but cannot be escaped. It might be true that increasingly processes of globalisation provide no other options except within itself just as it is true that globalisation has made us much more aware of cultural diversity. However, globalization is threatening the very cultural diversity, engendered by human creativity in different socio-political and environmental contexts. We would like to argue that globalisation is undermining creativity and is a great threat to it and thus a great threat to the arts.
Throughout history human beings have depended upon their creativity to survive and develop, to create knowledge and use it. The result of human creativity can be observed in not only its economic and social political systems and structures but also in the products of its culture such as the arts. The solving of problems and the engendering of new ideas has depended upon the power of human creativity. As such one believes that the eradication of poverty, as the greatest contemporary evil of our times will be dependent upon human creativity which is unfortunately being threatened by globalization. So we argue also that globalisation does not only create dependency on dominant cultures but also that at the same time undermines creativity within other cultures which are encouraged to consume what dominant cultures produce or sanction.
Lastly, because it undermines creativity, globalization is a threat to not only the arts but also to knowledge creation and utilization. As such globalization is a major block to process and poverty eradication as it is a threat to the engendering of viable indigenous thinking and ideas.
Amandina Lihamba教授
Amandina Lihamba教授是坦桑尼亞達累斯薩拉姆大學藝術及社科系系主任及教授。她本身是演員，更有30年編導舞台劇的經驗。她也為聯合國兒童基金會及多個坦桑尼亞政府機構擔任顧問。
「全球化、創意與貧窮」
全球化是無可避免的大勢，它雖然一方面凸顯多元文化的存在，另一方面卻製造一種以大國為首的一體文化，蠶食文化多元性及人類創意。由於這種全球化威脅本土思維的產生，因而窒礙窮則變變則通的脫貧方式。
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