Why African universities should introduce environmental studies across all disciplines

Why African universities should introduce environmental studies across all disciplines

Failure to incorporate environmental studies into curricula could result in environmentally ineffective and insensitive education, which fails to address the urgent need for sustainable practices and environmental conservation.

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Despite spirited push to incentivise local sugarcane growing, farmers in western Kenya are ditching the ‘lazy man’s’ crop for coffee

Despite spirited push to incentivise local sugarcane growing, farmers in western Kenya are ditching the ‘lazy man’s’ crop for coffee

Despite the government in the past two years trying to assuage sugarcane farmers by paying them for raw material deliveries that been pending for years, continued interest and investment in “lazy man’s crop” – as sugar cane is derided by agricultural experts and economists – has waned significantly in the sugar-belt.

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Ghana MP proposes non-custodial sentence for LGBT offenders to prevent sodomy in prison

Ghana MP proposes non-custodial sentence for LGBT offenders to prevent sodomy in prison

LGBT community in Ghana already faces abuse and hostility and discussion of the proposed bill has heightened fears, activists say. While some MPs opposed the proposal to replace jail terms with non-custodial sentences, parliament voted for the bill to have another reading, where amendments can be made.

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As a ‘late bloomer’ in digital culture the smartphone is a bad intruder in our 44-year-old marriage

As a ‘late bloomer’ in digital culture the smartphone is a bad intruder in our 44-year-old marriage

The smartphone is a bad intruder in our home. We talk far less than ever before, yet talking and laughing together have in the past has glued us together, sharing our ups and downs. We hardly watch television together because of the smartphone. The smart phone consumes a lot of time that would go to keep the old people talking to one another. Worse still, when our children and their children visit us, each one has a smart phone.

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Wanted: Historic convent in Spain has run out of nuns, appeals for volunteers or it shuts down

Wanted: Historic convent in Spain has run out of nuns, appeals for volunteers or it shuts down

The building dates back to the 16th century and houses the hand of St Teresa of Avila, kept inside a silver gauntlet decorated with stones. Pilgrims come to the site, many of them believing the relic can help with fertility issues.

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With wheat-based diets blamed for rising lifestyle diseases in Africa, scientists are resorting to indigenous crops to solve food insecurity

With wheat-based diets blamed for rising lifestyle diseases in Africa, scientists are resorting to indigenous crops to solve food insecurity

The benefits of fonio are so marked that academics and policymakers are now calling for the grain – alongside other indigenous foods, such as Ethiopia’s teff, as well as cassava and various millets and legumes – to be embraced more widely across Africa to improve food security.

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More sinned against than sinning: How successive regimes in Uganda exploited, abused and impoverished once rich Busoga

More sinned against than sinning: How successive regimes in Uganda exploited, abused and impoverished once rich Busoga

Because the Basoga are easier to divide than unite, Busoga has been a perennial loser in terms of development, transformation and progress in Musevenite times. It has lost opportunities, resources, properties and land to foreigners since precolonial times. The precolonial rulers of Busoga – Buganda and Bunyoro – exploited Busoga to their advantage when the indigenous Basoga were not united and only depended on shifting agriculture and hunting only for food. The precolonial rulers stole ivory, leopard skins and gold and traded them with other peoples. The Baganda colonisers even abducted the beautiful Basoga women.

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US gun violence: Police rule out extremism in Kansas City shooting at NFL Super Bowl rally

US gun violence: Police rule out extremism in Kansas City shooting at NFL Super Bowl rally

Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, stated that he heard gunfire while inside the Union Station along with other people. He and his family members took off, fleeing. At the news conference on Wednesday, Mr Lucas stated, “We went out today like everyone in Kansas City looking to have a celebration.”

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Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out

Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out

The successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos to a new home will give them space to breed and could help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever.

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After genocide, Rwanda re-organised its education system to inject quality that Uganda can borrow a leaf from

After genocide, Rwanda re-organised its education system to inject quality that Uganda can borrow a leaf from

Rwanda was also affected by globalisation, with all its “vices” of privatisation, massification and marketisation of education. However, patriotism, which is not officially taught like we do in Uganda, pushed the Rwandese government to rethink what the education system was producing. It rethought the products from the private education institutions and the entire education system.

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