The powder keg in Museveni’s hands: There is reason to fear Uganda’s nuclear plant in Busoga is a tinderbox
One academic who retired from Makerere University service recently asked me, “Can Uganda with its incompetence manage a nuclear plant without the risk of nuclear leakage? Can Uganda that is not yet a fully stable nation state sustains a nuclear plant without the risk of some rebel group throwing a bomb in the plant and next time we here all Basoga are poisoned with nuclear pollution?
How clustering knowledge systems into monoliths called faculties fosters intellectual imperialism in Uganda, jargonises academia
In the context of Uganda, universities remain, as in the past, the main knowledge centres where knowledge is organised, authorised and governed. Here, our universities have continued to organise, authorise and govern knowledge within units or pockets of knowledge called disciplines within which the knowledge workers specialise in small bits of knowledge within each discipline.
Immoral consistency: Why calls by West to sideline Afghan cricket team reek of sports colonialism
What began as a boycott based on the International Cricket Council’s requirement that any nation with Test status must have an active women’s team has morphed into a catch-all protest against the numerous limitations placed on women and girls in the Islamic Emirate.
Kenya’s youth protests is a groundswell to rid the country of the whims of a despot and hollow benevolence of the West
The ability of the Kenyan state to maintain this level of violence against its populace has always been contingent on the acquiescence and support of the Western world, which in the years between independence and the US-USSR détente that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, propped up Kenya as a bulwark against communism and valorised “stability” over justice.
Uganda: After ecocide and ethnocide, now President Museveni is churning out zombies and presiding over intellectual genocide
In Uganda ethnocide and ecocide are taking place simultaneously as the cultural heads sustained by the centre, are wallowing in goodies and monies provided to them by the very government presiding over ecocides and ethnocides in their cultural areas. Virtually all cultural heads, politically deprived, are swimming in their diminishing cultural base and ecologies.
Decolonising intellectualism: Why Uganda’s knowledge systems need to be weaned of intellectual imperialism
In the context of Uganda, universities remain, as in the past, the main knowledge centres where knowledge is organised, authorised and governed. Here, our universities have continued to organise, authorise and govern knowledge within units or packets of knowledge called disciplines within which the knowledge workers specialise in small bits of knowledge within each discipline.
How social media connects political class and electorate in democratically restricted spaces like Uganda’s
In Uganda, so many micro-platforms have been formed on WhatsApp, X (formerly Twitter), etc, mainly by young people, to engage in political dialogue and debates, away from the tightly controlled physical political space. Even then, President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, more than any other Ugandan, has used social media to influence political discourse and public opinion towards perpetually dominating the political space.
Why Ugandans can’t ‘Think Big’ and regard presidential tokenism as manna that ameliorates economic pain
The theory that money will trickle down from, say, 100 (out of 10,000 people in a parish) targeted with money bonanzas to enrich the rest of the impoverished community is defective in a century where artificial intelligence is competing with humans in many areas of thinking power.
Linking interdisciplinarity to utilitarianism: How different knowledge production cultures can embellish peace and constitutionalism in Africa
The late Prof Akiiki Mujaju was the scholar chosen to write an alternative disciplinary policy, to underscore the superiority of disciplinary scholarship. The two policies clashed at policy level in the university council. When the council made its policy on interdisciplinarity, it made interdisciplinary scholarship optional and useless to career development of staff. The Akiiki Mujaju report sparked sharp criticism from the Makerere University Academic Staff Association who described it as a violation of their human rights.
When bullets begin to flower: Militarised justice is Uganda’s bane daredevils like lawyer Aeron Kizza pay the price for
All of us must – leaders and the led – must resolve to keep Uganda among the civilised nations of the world. It is the gift we can leave behind for our children and children’s children. If we don’t we shall have wasted time and energy leading and governing Uganda because ultimately we shall have led it to nowhere. Future generations will condemn us perpetually.