From Kenya to Uganda: Outraged African youth to turn social media to put corrupt regimes to the sword
One beneficial aspect of social media is its ability to spark outrage and incite change within the people, affecting the democratic state of a country as is currently happening in the East African nation of Kenya right now. When this happens, traditional politics does not come in. Nor does one need to evoke foreigners as the cause. However, the spread of misinformation is a digital crisis as the misinformation spreads quickly and widely. The powers that be must be well equipped to confront this not by guns but by brains to correct the impression created by misinformation.
Ties that bind: Why science is the thread that unites environmental, social, ecological, ecosystem dimensions of business and entrepreneurship
Academic knowledge is a specific form of knowledge that has characteristics that differentiate it from other kinds of knowledge, and particularly from knowledge or beliefs based solely on direct personal experience in the total environment. Therefore, academic knowledge is not all the knowledge that is available to humanity to fit in the total environment or bring about societal change.
While lies pave path to power Uganda’s President Museveni has turned it into the art and science that delivers Hell
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni is highly gifted in the art and science of deception. Although this is a requirement if one wants to be a successful politician, the president excels in its deliberate use to subdue detection that he deliberately uses untruth to rule. Nobody or institution has not tasted his deceptions or untruths. Individuals and institutions have been promised Heaven on Earth, and some have waited for decades for the President to honour his promises.
While pensioners are a nation’s revered skills reservoir, unresponsive Ugandan agencies are spiriting them to early graves
In the past retired members of the NSSF and other SSFs have suffered immensely because of the neglect mooted at them by the socially-insensible, socially insensitive, socially unresponsive and socially-irresponsible SSFs, which tend to be mechanistic in their interaction with their members. But what does it mean for an SSF to be to be socially-insensible, socially-insensitive, socially-unresponsive and socially-irresponsible?
Why I don’t like Genetically Modified Organisms: They are inspired by same immoral concept as homosexuality
People, corporations and institutions that promote GMOs spend time, energy, intellectual capital and money trying to convince all and sundry, that GMO foods are healthful and safe to eat just as their non-GMO counterparts are. They particularly emphasise that some GMO plants and animals have actually been modified to improve their nutritional value. The creation of GMOs has changed the food chains and food webs to which Man, Homo sapiens, is integral, and made them more and more unnatural.
Democratisation: Why Uganda imports everything, including fear from tin-god Adolf Hitler
Many Ugandans are increasingly wondering if their descendants will in future belong to Uganda and enjoy their lives in their biocultural landscapes, eating the food that is socio-culturally suitable and produced in their time-tested agroecological systems. They see people with historical, biological, cultural and ecological roots in extraneous environments grabbing their land, destroying their sacred places and establishing themselves in the ancient agroecological systems and forests, thereby disrupting their traditional human-energy systems.
My beef with Uganda’s ‘educated fools’: University professors steal and thievery thrives in highest institutions of learning
If we are to be effective in dealing with the educated looters and/or educated thieves, we must embrace Bet Kamya’s (IGG’s) or Singapore’s successful method of fighting corruption: the Life Style Approach, which matches legitimate income to the riches of the educated looter or educated thief. Later will be too late. Anything else may relapse into pettifoggery in the courtrooms, with most educated looters and educated thieves cleared of any wrong doing even if there is overwhelming evidence that what they have is not commensurate with their legitimate income, and must have been accumulated only by taking what is not theirs by virtue of their offices.
Success and failure are never strange bedfellows, they coexist and are often mutually exclusive
In 1983-1985, while waiting to defend my MSc thesis in zoology (the Biology of Conservation) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, I taught at Jinja Senior Secondary School at both O-and A-level. Some of the students I taught were Katumba-Wamala, Paul Kagame, Sudhir Ruperalia and Hirji. Since Jinja Senior Secondary School was the largest school in Uganda then, many young people interacted with me in school and are performing different functions in different station of life. I cannot remember all of them. If some of them read this article, let them contact me. They are all a measure of my success at that school.
How politics of ethnic identity and politics of economic interest tear Uganda apart, traumatise minorities
In the political and leadership history of Uganda, politics of identity has been central to leadership and governance of the country, which evolved from the colonial weaving 15 traditional national identities to form the British Protectorate of Uganda, the Commonwealth Realm of Uganda and then Uganda. These were: Acholi, Ankole, Buganda, Bugisu, Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Moyo, Sebei, Teso, Toro and West Nile.
Dreams of my father: The Kenya African Rifles paramedic gave me life, hope and eight mothers
When both my parents were alive and living together, it was in a polygamous family, in which my mother was the eldest of the mothers that my father had assembled. At one time there were eight mothers under one roof of a house with 12 rooms. The house still stands on the biocultural landscape of Bulawa, Nawaka, but it has been greatly improved by Charles Afunaduula Ovuma’s children.
