Across the bridge: From academic writing to public writing, then public action publishing
Public writing is definitely necessary for retired academics and intellectuals to keep their minds productive beyond the Ivory Tower. Many academics are never heard of again once they leave the ivory tower because they only know academic writing, which is unnecessary beyond the Ivory Tower. To remain productive outside the Ivory Tower, they should engage in public writing.
Publish or perish: Why internet publishing is new storehouse of knowledge for deprived African scholars
In Africa South of the Sahara, South Africa and Nigeria have progressed fastest in the adoption and use social media in academic libraries. However, it is true to say that in most African universities there is still a lot of hesitation to use academic production in social media such as Researchgate.net and Academia.edu to measure academic success and reward those who publish in these media, however qualitative their work is. This is probably true in most universities of the world.
Why Uganda is Pearl of Africa: It’s the only country on Earth where serving soldiers are reserved seats in parliament, martial courts try civilians
Army representation in parliament continues to this day. Uganda is the only country on the globe with a parliamentary system where serving soldiers are in parliament. Army representation in Uganda’s parliament began in 1994. As things stand now, 10 seats are set aside for ‘serving officers’ of the Uganda People’s Defence Force. The 10 are chosen by the Army Council, chaired by President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, and they tend to vote with the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM),
While Uganda is generating and exporting violence to Congo, its adherence to universal human rights needs serious questioning
The list below is all Universal Declaration of Human Rights given to humanity by the United Nations General Assembly. All universal human rights below are commonly known as 30 basic human rights that must be respected and protected by the law. When the UN said thse human rights must be...
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.
