Welcome to artificial intelligence that’s likely to turn East African universities into ‘knowledge dinosaurs’
Some critics are worried about machine learning. One writer has recorded that 50 per cent of all AI researchers are worried about the impact of AI on thinking and reasoning of those using AI. Indeed, one has written about quest to reclaim what makes us human: thinking, reasoning, values, virtues, consciousness, emotional responses, love, ethics, morality and feelings.
While Uganda is generating and exporting violence to Congo, its adherence to universal human rights needs serious questioning
Regarding the Right to Asylum Uganda today is reputed to be the most open country to refuges in Africa and the third in the whole world as a ready destination for refugees. Most of Uganda’s refugees come from the violence-ridden countries of the Great Lakes Region and Nile Basin Region. Some critical thinkers have reasoned that this may be explained by the fact that the dominant rulers of Uganda were themselves refugees and, therefore, show a lot of empathy towards refugees.
Why foot-dragging African universities need to shed knowledge silos for transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary learning
We badly need graduates comfortable in transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary science not only in Africa but globally too. The transdisciplinary ambition and extradisciplinary ambition should not be postponed further in higher education.
Reintegrating knowledge and truth: Science, religion and politics are not strange bedfellows
Domains such as ethics, aesthetics, and religion fundamentally influence human societies and how those societies interact with science. Topics like aesthetics, morality and theology are actively studied by philosophers, historians and other scholars. However, questions that arise within these domains generally cannot be resolved by science, although they can be informed by science.
Missing link: While Uganda places premium on mass production in education, it’s surrendered critical thinking, critical analysis and critique
Virtually all our problems do not require just political interventions, which dominate public discourse in Uganda, or chains of critical analysis of and critiques on them, which we are preoccupied with. They require critical thinking.
Behind every problem in Uganda there’s Museveni, which is how education system was designed to reject children in lower school
If the leadership in place lacks knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight but continually pretends to have them and gives the impression that no other alternative system can address those problems, then it cannot extricate itself from the problems. You cannot be part of the problems and then cast yourself as the one with the solutions. It is deception.
Why false and empty promises are likely remain the currency that drives Uganda’s politics and governance
False promises in governance are an aspect of bad governance since we cannot build meaningful and effective leadership, governance, equity, equality and justice, nor sustain patriotism in the country in the long term. Patriotic people are not made through a chain of false or empty promises, especially when some sections of the population actually get promises fulfilled discriminatively at the expense of others.
One day we’ll wake up at the end of looting spree in Kenya to find its potential is all behind us and it is a land of lost opportunity
When President William Ruto is not roaming the countryside in the name of “bring development,” he is globe-trotting under the guise of shopping for employment the jobless youth. It is a shameless admission that his bottom-up policies cannot power the economy to generate jobs for more than three million graduates who are desperate to deploy their skills to nation-building. How can a government train manpower, then give it away for other countries to use?
Insurgency in eastern Congo echoes dangers of constitutionally manufacturing ‘indigenous’ Banyarwanda tribe in Uganda in wider Museveni-Kagame plot to create Chwezi superstrate
Whether they are in Uganda, Rwanda, DRC or Burundi, they take themselves as one and the same with the same interest: survival as a small group in a sea of indigenous Bantu and Nilotic groups. To survive in modern times they must capture every civic space, conquer the natives, exclude them from resources, divide them, make laws that create fear in them and prevent them from organising themselves politically and effectively. They control the electoral process in their favour, subordinate the civil to the military and rule them with an iron hand.
Why the revolutionary germ in Kenya’s Gen-Z tax protests is growing but political tribe has buried head in sand
You either die or accept to acquiesce in suffering to your grave. Gen-Zs elected the former and many of them were felled by what they perceived as the butchers gunshots. The stress were full of blood. The spirit, though, was not felled, just as was the case in the germinal revolutions in the far-away lands.