Era of academic specialisation is gone, African universities should brace for bright, creative, high-tech nomads
knowledge cultures of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity and non-disciplinarity remain alien to the academia of Makerere University in this 21st century of knowledge integration and reintegration. When the university recently celebrated its first 100 years of existence, it was more or less celebrating how far it had gone with disciplinarity.
Recalcitrance: How academic arrogance and insecurity undermines collective knowledge growth in Ugandan universities
We talk of tribes in human society, especially in Africa, but there are also academic tribes in universities. We talk of ethnocentrisms in human society, but there are also ethnocentrisms in the academic world. Academic tribes are the disciplines. Academic ethnocentrisms and academic tribalism are responsible for the predominancy of academic hegemony in our universities. Academic hegemony is the reason why it is not easy to penetrate a certain academic tribe and rise in it if you were not nurtured in it from the beginning.
