Life and death: Neither incidental nor coincidental, but cyclically interconnected
Do good when you can and avoid being and doing evil. Know our collective destiny, whether rich or poor, powerful or powerless, strong or week, literate or illiterate, educated or educated is to enter the death component.
In Museveni’s Uganda democracy buckled, now Busoga Kingdom is pushing for some autonomy
There aren’t many Basoga and Ugandans that can overstretch their imagination 100 years ahead to imagine what kind of World, Busoga or Uganda will be in the next century. So few are even aware to what extent the World Wide Web has changed knowledge and the way we generate and treat knowledge to make people have higher cognitive powers, engage in critical thinking, engage in critical analysis, become professionals of the future and engage in genuine teamwork for change.
Uganda can no longer afford disorder to reign in public transport, Iganga Municipality should lead redemption
When I asked Chairman Nalugoda what plans he had to improve the utility of the park and make it just a bus park, he told me, “My management team is almost helpless. Higher authorities must develop a proper plan for the park. The municipality is expanding and will need a properly constructed park. If they want they could move the park elsewhere and leave their current space for businesses.
Why Museveni should be wary of ‘floating’ population: Grabbing frenzy has created landless, unrepentant and angry Ugandans
If the poor realise what you are doing to them – depriving them of livelihood by grabbing their land by first making them so impoverished that they are hapless and hopeless – you have no peace and belonging in the long-term, however much you want to belong.
Regional and knowledge integration: Why integration of science is key to functional political, economic institutions
No integration scheme, such as East African Community or Nile Basin Initiative will succeed until we embrace, institutionalise and implement the new sciences as the cornerstones of education in the 21st century and beyond.
Zimbabwe syndrome: How Africa’s centres of learning became knowledge pockets that churn out hopeless academics
Unfortunately, in Africa in general and Uganda in particular, overpoliticisation of education and society in the 21st century is the rule rather than the exception. This is combining with the academic interests of control and influence of the slow professors in our greatly disciplined universities to resist the new and different knowledge production cultures/systems of interdisciplinary science, crossdisciplinary science, transdisciplinary science and extradisciplinary science, which are internet age loving.
Politics of pure science in Uganda: Case of how poisoned academic environment smothers critical thinking
The marketplace of ideas holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse and concludes that ideas and ideologies will be culled according to their superiority or inferiority and widespread acceptance among the population. The concept is often applied to discussions of patent law as well as freedom of the press and the responsibilities of the media in a liberal democracy.
15 years ago: The world is heavy with burden of pain and suffering but having Barack Obama as president mattered
In Obama, so many Black Americans didn’t just see a politician. We saw, in him, fragments of our collective selves – the hopes of Harlem Renaissance poets, the determination of Civil Rights marchers, the ambition of Black students trapped in deliberately underfunded schools. And we saw the deferred dreams of our elders.
While Uganda holds fast onto traditional knowledge silos, interdisciplinarity is taking root in higher education in the world
Structural knowledge is a concept introduced by one of the world’s interdisciplinary education experts, Dr Allen Repko in 2009. It refers to the level of knowledge students need to get to a point of forming their own ideas and solutions to a given problem.
Knowledge integration revolution: Why is crossdisciplinary teaching, learning necessary?
Uganda’s scientists are part of the global movement of science, which is determined to remove faith from human experience, and which is increasingly immoral and unethical as I emphasised in my article Billgating Science to Conquer God’s Project Nature. This has integrated Uganda in the abominable global corruption, which is like a movement against humanity…
