Needed: Alternative scholarship in alternative universities to resuscitate public intellectualism in Uganda
The current politically-oriented leadership of Makerere University is not aware of the fact that interdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and extradisciplinarity are growing movements within academia globally. It seems to be satisfied leading a university buried in the past, superimposing disciplinarity and multidisciplinarity on a society that should be benefitting from integrative and integrating academic and intellectual processes.
