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.
Terrorism in Uganda is real and expanding but indifferent President Museveni thinks heavily armed police will address the evil
People don’t just become violent – either as terrorists or trouble shooters in all spheres of life. They only explode in out to pour their anger and frustrations out. Frequently the anger and frustrations result in mental collapse.
Uganda’s dependency syndrome: How President Museveni vacuum-cleaned 48m Ugandans, then twisted them into marionettes
Let’s encourage people to become independent minded rather than depend on others to think for them. If all thinking emanates from one person there is danger of such phenomenon sinking everyone in the abys of disaster and tragedy, which may last for ages.
Fracture within Ecowas and animosity with US provides ideal ground for terrorism in West Africa
Despite the military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger forming an alliance of Sahel states to fight terrorism and to promote economic development, recent attacks with mass fatalities indicate that terrorist groups might already be taking advantage of the lack of a coordinated counter-terrorism strategy in the region.
Ugandans are so psychologically beaten that they believe China assembles plastic rice and eggs
One thing is true. If there can be fake rice and fake eggs, there can also be fake water melon, fake Avocado, fake banana, fake mango and fake everything which could find their way into supermarkets and markets as unscrupulous people try to maximise dishonest income from unaware customers. And there are unscrupulous people everywhere on the globe; not only in China.
Why critical thinking and alternative analysis pursued by Ugandan academics are key to questioning existing orthodoxies in East Africa
At the end 2017 the staff of the CSGMC delivered a critical paper on Transboundary Water Governance for Inclusive Development and Environmental Sustainability in the Nile Basin at the first Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) Summit. The summit, organised by the NBD, was held Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda on November 29-30, 2017.
Religion in Uganda: When indigenous African God died, Ugandans hurriedly installed White and Arab Gods who they can’t access
Indigenous African spiritual beliefs are not bound by a written text, like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Indigenous African religion is primarily an oral tradition and has never been fully codified; thus, it allows itself to more easily be amended and influenced by other religious ideas, religious wisdom, and by modern development.
