While Uganda holds fast onto traditional knowledge silos, interdisciplinarity is taking root in higher education in the world

While Uganda holds fast onto traditional knowledge silos, interdisciplinarity is taking root in higher education in the world

Structural knowledge is a concept introduced by one of the world’s interdisciplinary education experts, Dr Allen Repko in 2009. It refers to the level of knowledge students need to get to a point of forming their own ideas and solutions to a given problem.

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Kenya’s grim economic outlook forces Uganda to give exclusive petroleum supply deal to Vitol

Kenya’s grim economic outlook forces Uganda to give exclusive petroleum supply deal to Vitol

Using Kenyan importers had “exposed Uganda to occasional supply vulnerabilities where the Ugandan retail companies were considered secondary whenever there were supply disruptions,” which affected retail prices, Nankabirwa said.

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Bloody loyal: King Charles won’t say ‘sorry’ for British colonial human rights abuses in Kenya

Bloody loyal: King Charles won’t say ‘sorry’ for British colonial human rights abuses in Kenya

British colonialists also committed gross human rights violations, including land expropriation, killings, torture and sexual violence, against hundreds of thousands of people in western Kenya over decades, UN investigators have said.

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Knowledge integration revolution: Why is crossdisciplinary teaching, learning necessary?

Knowledge integration revolution: Why is crossdisciplinary teaching, learning necessary?

Uganda’s scientists are part of the global movement of science, which is determined to remove faith from human experience, and which is increasingly immoral and unethical as I emphasised in my article Billgating Science to Conquer God’s Project Nature. This has integrated Uganda in the abominable global corruption, which is like a movement against humanity…

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Kenya tops Africa on organised crime index, having overtaken Nigeria and rest of West Africa

Kenya tops Africa on organised crime index, having overtaken Nigeria and rest of West Africa

Resilience is measured according to the mechanisms countries have in place to combat organised crime, and their effectiveness. Resilience capacity and effectiveness are evaluated to assess the level at which states have established appropriate legal, political and strategic frameworks to address organised crime.

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Police block airing grievances against British army abuses in Kenya hours before King Charles landed

Police block airing grievances against British army abuses in Kenya hours before King Charles landed

A British soldier seemed to claim credit in 2021 on social media for starting the wildfire, which destroyed thousands of acres of a nature conservancy. The British High Commissioner at the time said she was “appalled” by the post and promised the royal military police would investigate.

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Digital IDs: Human rights groups in Kenya want stronger legislative basis to eliminate bias and erosion of privacy

Digital IDs: Human rights groups in Kenya want stronger legislative basis to eliminate bias and erosion of privacy

Dr Ngare said that Gates’ involvement with Maisha Namba is just one of his many interests in Africa, having previously been involved with “The clandestine administration of fertility regulating Tetatus vaccines to Kenyan women in 2014-2015, facilitated by Gavi and the WHO,” which he says “is still fresh in our minds.”

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Surveillance fears emerge over why Bill Gates is pushing President Ruto to endorse digital IDs for newborns in Kenya

Surveillance fears emerge over why Bill Gates is pushing President Ruto to endorse digital IDs for newborns in Kenya

Some experts said they believe the Maisha Namba programme has other, unannounced, aims. Dr Wahome Ngare, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, told The Defender that Maisha Namba will operate as a vaccination tracking programme.

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Take-it-leave-it: Somalia’s ‘IDP economy’ thrives by ruthless clan networks imposing tax on aid

Take-it-leave-it: Somalia’s ‘IDP economy’ thrives by ruthless clan networks imposing tax on aid

People displaced to Mogadishu, the capital, predominantly come from within the Digil and Mirifle clan family, the Somali Bantu community, and other smaller minority communities – all of whom are structurally marginalised in Somalia.

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Kenya: Stellantis invest $1.58 billion to acquire 20 per cent shares in Leapmotor to bolster latter’s EV business

Kenya: Stellantis invest $1.58 billion to acquire 20 per cent shares in Leapmotor to bolster latter’s EV business

Leapmotor was the world’s first pure-play EV company to implement Cell-to-Chassis technology on a largescale, and its ‘Four-Leaf Clover’ Leap 3.0 central-controlled new electric and electronic architecture achieves seamless and efficient collaboration within the core components of smart EVs. Its unique vertical integration model maximizes scalability, enabling Leapmotor to quickly respond to customer needs.

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