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This chapter is a newspaper article written by Kikonyogo Ngatya that was originally published in the Uganda Sunday Monitor on June 28, 2009. Ngatya reports on the controversy surrounding a small drinking vessel being sold in Uganda for approximately US$250 to US$500 that merchants claim offers health benefits from nanotechnology. The point of republishing this article is not to demonstrate that Ugandans don’t understand nanotechnology. After all the claims made for the glass aren’t entirely dissimilar from the promises of nanotechnology products being developed in the North. Rather it emphasizes the difficulties inherent in ensuring that nanotechnologies will be safe and provide tangible benefits.
Originally published in the Uganda Sunday Monitor on June 28, 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Uganda Sunday Monitor.
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Ngatya, K. (2010). Nanotechnology: How Prepared Is Uganda?. In: Cozzens, S., Wetmore, J. (eds) Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development. Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9615-9_16
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