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in Education and Academia, Identity & Culture, Minorities and People with Disabilities, Politics and GovernmentNOBODY LIKES TO BE LIED TO.
Any nation, world etc that ignores the potential of its youth is doomed, shem. And doomed we shall NOT be. Hence our agitation when we see that our (mis)leadership is […] More
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Pancake or American Kabalagala
If kabalagala is a Ugandan pancake why isn’t a pancake an American kabalagala? It’s a serious question. No emojis and double exclamation marks or any of the other dikuula punctuation […] More
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The Weaponisation of Education Against the Indigenous Peoples of Uganda
Introduction Education is universally championed as a tool for liberation, a pathway out of poverty, and a cornerstone of modern state-building. For the indigenous peoples of Uganda—including the Batwa (Twa), […] More
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Decolonizing Christianity Part 1: Africa & Christianity
Over the past several months, a few friends and I have been discussing Africanness. Specifically, we have been thinking about, reading up on and discussing the place of Black Africa […] More
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Let Decolonization Go Beyond Street Names
The decolonization question on dismantling colonial symbols in Uganda is dangerously producing two intellectual camps – the nativist pundits whose history is of only a glorifiable past despite the well-intentioned […] More
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Should we care about the decolonisation of our geography?
The subject of decolonisation pre-occupied Africa in most of the 1950s to the 1980s. Much attention went into shaping the postcolonial state, whose umbilical cords had not really been properly […] More
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SCHOOL-GOING MUST NEVER BE DANGEROUS!
Updates about the state of the BOTSWANA CLASSROOM coming in from Parliament this morning are disturbing/infuriating. We in Botswana have made a national sport of endangering children’s lives/futures, particularly when […] More
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Beyond dependency and the state: The case for knowledge decolonization Part III
In the last article, we identified three types of colonialities which we called upon the reader to be alert of in case of the current historical crisis is to be […] More
