Why organisations are opting for catalytic mechanisms to tamp down negative energy
For years I’ve been fascinated by something that Jim Collins labelled “catalytic mechanisms” in a 1999 Harvard Business Review article. The article, titled Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms, described how to powerfully influence people in organisations to change their behaviour – easily, permanently and nearly effortlessly....
President Museveni: A Tutsi creeper who wiggled to power in Uganda, now using it to mutilate the Pearl of Africa
In Africa, Uganda is one of the countries that have experienced the highest turnovers of government since the end of orthodox colonialism. Most of the changes have come through the barrel of the gun. In countries such as Ghana and Nigeria, where the barrel of the gun used to mediate...
Thrilla in Manila: Women’s financial inclusion is a fight for Sustainable Development Goals
Unlocking women’s economic power and closing the gender gap will not only help us achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 – which is focused on gender equality – it will also help accelerate progress towards many of the 16 other goals.
How Vandals of Uganda captured state, created a slave society where investors trample on workers
It is not surprising that recent scientifically-backed assertions have put the number of mentally deranged Ugandans at 14 million out of a population of 45 million. If one was not reserved in use of words, one would say that this deplorable situation reflects poor governance of the country. A country is its people and resources. Governance that separates people from resources and concentrates on exploiting the resources without any strategy to renew, conserve or distribute them fairly among the people, is failed governance, a result of misgovernance. In this case the people and their communities are taken as roadblocks to progress.
How President Museveni’s Rwandan Tutsi origins power apartheid-style governance in Uganda
Segregation in education began to take root as soon as President Tibuhaburwa Museveni enforced Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997, followed by Universal Secondary Education (USE), without corresponding efficient equipping of the schools with necessary materials, or just salaries for teachers. Teachers have to engage in multiple types of work to make ends meet. Both UPE and USE are very poorly funded.
Public diplomacy in Nile Basin: Role of non-state actors in transboundary water cooperation
To-date collaboration or cooperation in the management of the Nile waters has not been as inclusive as it should. Indeed, when the inter-State manager of the Nile waters – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) – was formed at the end of the 1980s to promote socio-economic development in the Nile Basin, it was a basically political-technical undertaking.
Trading Musevenism for Kyagulanyism: Uganda’s enduring identity politics and man-eat-man interests
One unswerving Kyagulanyism states that Kyagulanyism is Ugandanism, which is self-rediscovery and self-empowerment of everyone in order to reinstitute the sovereignty of the traditional nation states of Uganda. However, I have not yet come across a clear integration, articulation and clarification of these ideals, although I have several times heard Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the political head of the new political party National Unity Party (NUP), currently the majority political party in the parliament of Uganda.
Off we go
It’s time Uganda’s higher education looks to knowledge integration for sustainability
Interdisciplinarity is a knowledge production strategy, system, culture or discourse that involves integrating knowledge and methods from different disciplines using a real synthesis of approaches. Crossdisciplinarity is a knowledge production strategy, system, culture or discourse that involves viewing one discipline from the perspective of another.
Uganda: When the madness of an entire nation feeds discontent, insecurity, rebellion and suicide
When you hear of young children committing suicide – something that used to be done by adults – then discontent and insecurity in the heads of people of all ages is a real challenge that cannot be tackled militarily.
Ash to ash, dust to dust: Why Life-Death should be flawless environmental conservation cycle
In Uganda, the indigenous Basoga of long ago, say 350 years never buried the dead as such. They would put the dead, not far from their domiciles, at the base of the Ficus tree. Water streaming down the stem of the tree would wash the nutrients of the decomposing body down into the soul and the tree would suck them up through its roots and make use them to make food. The birds of prey like cultures and kites, would eat up the flesh. Wild dogs, jackals and foxes would eat up the bones, leaving only the skull, which was difficult to crash because of its shape.
