Beware! Ugandans now fear Museveni and Kagame are preparing the Great Lakes Region for Tutsi-Hima dynasty
FRONASA was, therefore, a deceptive coinage. The absolute majority of Ugandans never imagined that it referred to salvation of the Tutsi nation. They did not think about it critically. They were hoodwinked into thinking and believing that FRONASA was about salvation of Uganda. Like the nation of Israel that had become a refugee nation in Egypt, and needed God to organise its salvation through the hand of Moses, the Tutsi nation became a refugee nation in Uganda where many were in in dehumanising slavery. They needed Tibuhaburwa Museveni to salvage them. He performed, and has been performing, the task very effectively using his high military and political acumen, combined with capacity to use his tongue skilfully to convince the masses and the elite that he means well for Uganda.
How Tutsi cultic hegemony crept into Uganda power echelons and built a crime empire via militarisation
Both in 1926 and 1959 the Hutus revolted against the harsh, repressive Tutsi rule, forcing the Tutsis to flee to Uganda. In 1926, the British colonial rulers welcomed them in their evolving British Protectorate of Uganda, finding them useful in the emerging sugar industry. Even in 1959, the colonial rulers welcomed more Tutsi refugees following renewed social and political conflicts between Hutus and Tutsis. Many mixed freely with the population but a good number were put in refugee camps in Western Uganda.
How ‘business confidentiality’ in Uganda provides avenues for ravenous ruling elite to unleash terror on environment
Towards the beginning of the 1980s the University of Nairobi, Kenya, was the only University in the whole world that was training student in the Biology of Conservation at masters level. I was one of the first three Ugandans to benefit from the programme, but the last of them. The...
Time warp: Under Museveni life seems to stop in Uganda as he pursues modernisation mirage
It should, however, be echoed and re-echoed that long ago modernisation theory failed in Africa because it was promoted on the flawed assumption that that it was a Eurocentric or Western idea. The post-colonial leaders, under their pan-African political philosophy detested it. They particularly detested modernisation’s assumption that Western civilisation was technically and morally superior to the civilisation of traditional societies, and implied that traditional values were of little value, and should, therefore, be erased in favour of Eurocentric values.
African universities: Case of the still point of a turning wheel in a world keen on future-ready professionals
Designers of education programmes must open up to the new cultures of knowledge so that instead of continuing to glorify individual achievers, we have education curricula that can produce people who value teamwork and can work think and reason in integrated teams and communities of knowledge, benefit from realms of meaning and understanding and develop new wisdoms and insights through crossing knowledge boundaries and linking of knowledge by means of the team sciences – also called learning sciences – of interdisciplinary science, cross-disciplinary science, transdisciplinary science and non-disciplinary science.
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.
New El Dorado? With Guyana joining Africa as ‘hottest frontier oil play’ there’s more to learn
With less than one per cent of known global gas reserves, Trinidad and Tobago became the world’s leading exporter of two gas-based products, ammonia and methanol, and went on to become one of the world’s top five liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters. Today, Trinidad and Tobago has one of the highest gross national incomes (GNI) per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean ($17,640 in 2015). Guyana is well on its way to following Trinidad and Tobago’s example, and I hope African nations like Namibia will do the same.
Sociology of Uganda’s elites: Why pursue intellectual excellence when you can do barter trade with politics?
Any Ugandan elites who are not connected to the president and State House politically, economically, socially and financially are inconsequential. Such elites include the political elites in the Opposition to the ruling political party, the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRNO).
Decluttering the mind: Why there is need for emancipation in Uganda’s higher education
Structural enslavement of minds is, and has been, pronounced in our universities since the colonialists brought them to us. I am saying universities, but really it was one university the colonialists left for us – The University of East Africa, of which Makerere University College was a constituent College.
