Clinging on guns: How children in a Chicago Black neighbourhood help swap guns for global citizenship
The Black blood drawn in these Northern non-Jim Crow states gave a region pretending not to be complicit in Southern white supremacy a bad look. So instead of continuing to use the Southern style of physical violence to put blacks in their place, government, and private real estate stakeholders used policy and private practices to sully black mobility. The North Lawndale community served as a case study for these actions.
Here’s why Uganda and Africa need leadership that gives environmental development priority
There are aeroplanes too that can go thousands of feet out of the Earthly environment into outer space with people and goods, but like the high-flying birds that come back to feed and reproduce themselves, they must come down to deliver people and goods to their destinations, fuel and take others. According to Smithsonian Magazine dated July 17, 1962, American test pilot Robert White took the X-15 to an altitude of 314,688 feet (95.916902 metres). But it is Russian pilot Alexandr Fedotov who holds the world altitude record set on August 31, 1977, when his MiG E-266M reached 37,650 metres. He went and came back to our environment.
Environment: Why it’s critical to align African politics and economic growth with cultural, moral, spiritual, ecological probity
Development is wholesome when the various dimensions of environmental development are given equal weight and integrated to achieve integrated environmental development. It is an abuse of environmental development if one aspect – in this case economic development – is pursued at the expense of the other types of development.
Why Uganda has consistently failed to overcome ethnic nepotism and become a thriving democracy
The organisations in perspective are Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the Democratic Party (DP) both of which are the oldest parties in the country, and which were formed during the colonial times to agitate for Black rule and end to colonialism. Their top leaders have been conscripted to serve power and no longer provide meaningful leadership of their parties. There is no effective political development in these Parties anymore.
Honest tellings of history: ‘Black Was the Ink’ was banned because it unearths what’s often left out of American textbooks
“Black Was the Ink” is told through the eyes of a modern African American teen named Malcolm who embarks on a miraculous journey to Reconstruction-era America with the help of a ghostly ancestor. While in the past, Malcolm witnesses the historic contributions of Black legislators, who worked alongside white allies to bring justice, education, and land ownership to America’s newest citizens, the 4.4 million African Americans emancipated from slavery at the end of the Civil War.
Sudan and South Sudan Siamese twins conjoined at the hip, the bloodbath in Khartoum is bleeding both
In 2012, President Salva Kiir claimed that his own government officials had “stolen” $4 billion of the public’s money and that they needed to return it so that it could be used to lift the people out of poverty.
Why Uganda needs stronger environmental security and integrity, not military security
Economic Development is more meaningful if it is inclusive of the poor. That is why in the past I advocated the “inclusion principle” and for the use of the Inclusive Development Index (IDI) instead of GDP.
Retooling indigenous justice system: Why Uganda should respect environmental, cultural and spiritual setting of Basoga
In the ecological-biological dimension of the environment, we in Uganda are witnessing more and more land grabbing where we used to see our people engage in highly productive bioecological farming, which was socioculturally sensitive to the survival of our indigenous people. Forests, swamps and freshwater lakes are being destroyed by greedy and selfish people whose minds are focused only on money making and primitively accumulating wealth as much as they can. This is being exacerbated by government’s choice of building money economy at the expense of more environmentally-sensitive human energy systems typical of our indigenous groups of people.
South Africa’s alleged shipment of weapons to Russia is consistent with its strong ties with Moscow
Similarly, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s minister of social development and chairperson of the ANC’s subcommittee on international relations, said “Russia is our friend through and through … We are not about to denounce that relationship that we have always had.”
Weary of cannibalistic government, Ugandans reserve doubts about President Museveni’s vague modernity ‘evangelism’
Social exclusion will be seen in education, health, agriculture and even justice and human rights observance. The majority will be ignored and a few will have it all. The law will tend to apply to the excluded, not the included, as exemplified in the iron sheets scandal.
