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Papers by Vick L Ssali
Pambazuka News, 2019
In this Newspaper article we argue that Africa could benefit more from increased engagement with ... more In this Newspaper article we argue that Africa could benefit more from increased engagement with Japan. We note, however, that in order to achieve this, Africa needs to emulate the fiscal and social discipline of the Japanese. We argue that honesty is the fabric that has held Japan together since the devastation of World War II, and Africa too needs to create an environment that ensures transparency and stability. This is the only environment that will attract more Japanese investment and help Africa benefit from the recently ratified African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Pambazuka News, 2018
The author argues that the People Power movement in Uganda has reached a point of no return in th... more The author argues that the People Power movement in Uganda has reached a point of no return in their efforts to bring about change in the country, but that they would require more coordination and a united front to achieve their objective.
At colleges and universities around the world, interest in area studies remains strong. African s... more At colleges and universities around the world, interest in area studies remains strong. African studies are also gaining momentum lately, but mainly in such areas as politico-economic development and social change. A scientific study of the continent, its people, institutions, cultures, history, and philosophy of life still lags behind other area studies. African philosophy is particularly, noticeably excluded in Asian, American and European universities. One of the reasons is the popular Western European conception of Africa, and the other is the lack of a systematic literary deposit on African philosophy. These two reasons have been responsible for the portrayal, over the centuries, of African philosophy as inferior, vague, distorted, or even non-existent. In this paper, I take a peep into the rich, albeit unwritten philosophy of man and his destiny among the Baganda of Uganda. I argue that even those traditional African societies like Buganda, which may boast of no wealth of philosophical literature, had, and have their own concept of life in which everything around them becomes meaningful.
In a recent interview with the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV [2], Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni li... more In a recent interview with the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV [2], Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni lied to the “young man” interviewing him, to Ugandans and to the Al-Jazeera audience worldwide. He also looked calm as he lied all through the interview, and that was scary! He dodged the numerous questions about the rationale (or irrationality) of clinging to power beyond his legitimate mandate. He insincerely justified his 31-year stay in power as a constitutional right while aware of the way the law of the land was desecrated two decades ago to remove term limits.
While the partition of Africa is widely believed to have sowed seeds of disparity, the colonial p... more While the partition of Africa is widely believed to have sowed seeds of disparity, the colonial policy of divide and rule sharpened ethnic loyalties and made the task of postindependence national integration more difficult. Since independence, many African countries have been torn apart by a vicious circle of repression and sharp cleavages arising from the centrifugal tendencies typical of plural societies. There have been coups and counter-coups as the so called 'liberators' soon resort to a cruel and severe control of real and imagined 'enemy' groups. This has been the trend in Uganda since 1966 when the first Prime Minister, Milton Obote, abrogated the first post-colonial constitution hardly 4 years after independence from Great Britain. This paper looks at the possible role a federal system of government can play in combatting ethnic conflict, political repression and insecurity in Uganda. The paper draws from the research notes of my inquiry into the grassroots perceptions of ethnicity and federalism in Uganda. Can federalism as an organizing principle be a viable solution to political antagonism and the gross socioeconomic and political horizontal inequalities Uganda is experiencing now? Can it also guarantee the peace and security of the ordinary people in their respective tribal areas? Views from conversations with selected samples of ordinary people in at least ten different tribal areas of the country reveal that ethnic federalism, a recognition of Uganda's indigenous peoples and their indigenous systems of governance, is seen as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing accountability in national politics.
Abstract Ethnic Federalism in a Comparative Perspective: Implications for Uganda ... more Abstract
Ethnic Federalism in a Comparative Perspective: Implications for Uganda
V.L. Ssali
On gaining independence, most African states inherited a strongly centralized apparatus at the national level. Pro-independence nationalists rejected both the imperial masters’ proposals to aggregate nations into regional federations and the temptation to devolve them for the efficient management of ethnic diversity. The first half century of the post-colonial era has however seen a succession of crises. Many leaders at the helm of overly strong, centrist governments have over this period become authoritarian and have contributed a lot to the mire of corruption, economic collapse, ethnic resentment, violence and civil war. They have exploited Africa’s ethnic differences to consolidate patronage-driven democracies and economies. The result has been the personalization of states, their collapse into mini-bureaucracies, the neglect of the people at the grassroots of society, and massive social inequalities.
Given such a systematic fading of the hopes and ambitions of independence, many African countries have recently found it indispensable to re-think the structure of the state. Federalism has often been considered as one effective way of reconciling the diversity of the constituent parts of nations with their unity, and of restoring stability and equality in African countries. My research at the Doshisha Graduate School of Global Studies (Kyoto - Japan) over the past four years has been an inquiry into the grassroots perceptions of ethnicity and federalism in Uganda. What are the attitudes of the people at the grassroots of Ugandan society, about their self-identity vis a vis the center? The study was premised on the hypothesis that a federal arrangement is a better system of governance for Uganda, culturally, economically and politically, and there was a significant correlation between the results and this hypothesis. The majority of respondents see Ethnic federalism as a way of accommodating the differences in the beliefs and desires of Uganda's diverse ethnic groups.
But Uganda and Africa as a whole need good models to emulate from within and from outside the continent. This research note looks at case studies from Switzerland, Nigeria, South Africa and Ethiopia, and how they create and maintain a nation on one hand, while preserving the integrity of the units, their identity, culture, and tradition, on the other. The Swiss model is particularly being presented as a solid argument for the theory that a consociation or power-sharing model of democracy is the most suitable model for multicultural African states.
Keywords: ethnic diversity, ethnic federalism, consociation democracy, power-sharing
For too long in the past, and even now to some extent, Japanese stereotypical images and percepti... more For too long in the past, and even now to some extent, Japanese stereotypical images and perceptions of Africa have been taken for real knowledge. Many people still see Africa as one big country, and don’t really pay much attention to particular nationalities. They hear you're from Africa and they've got this sense that back at home you all wear kaleidoscopic Masai wraps, if you are a woman, or put on a red checked blanket and carry a ball edged club, if you are a man. This much I can testify to as an African living in Japan. This paper is a follow-up of my remarks and discussion at the Association of International Behavioral Studies symposium held in Tokyo on October 24th 2015. The presentation and discussion themselves were partly based on my experiences of 18 years living and working in Japan, and partly on a field research among Japanese and Asian students at Japanese universities in the greater Nagoya and Kansai areas. They were asked how much they learn from school and from the media about Africa. Both the field findings and my personal experiences showed that the average level of information an ordinary Japanese person has about the wider world and its peoples, particularly Africa, is a disadvantage to his/her enhancement of the much touted ‘Global Citizenship’. It is also being argued in this paper that that education, or lack of it, as well as the media and government policy, play a big role in shaping Japanese people’s perceptions of Africa.
ILAC Selections - Autonomy in a Networked World Published by Independent Learning Association Cop... more ILAC Selections - Autonomy in a Networked World
Published by Independent Learning Association
Copyright © Independent Learning Association 2013
www.independentlearning.org
Edited by Moira Hobbs and Kerstin Dofs
PO Box 540, Christchurch 8140
Format published: PDF
This paper explores the benefits of combining narrow reading and listening in instructional conte... more This paper explores the benefits of combining narrow reading and listening in instructional contexts. Topic familiarity has been found to be helpful for vocabulary learning as well as reading and listening comprehension. Reading and listening on a familiar topic make it possible to use specific background knowledge and recycle language learned in context. To demonstrate how purposely enriched contextual knowledge can be advantageous for learners learning to read and listen, we report on a course coordination project based on the idea of narrow input. From this project emerged two recommended pedagogical approaches: presenting information from specific to general and with both spoken and written input together on a single topic. A s an advocate of input-based language learning, Krashen (1981) proposed narrow reading. Instead of hopping from topic to topic, narrow reading in any single topic area provides rich exposure to related vocabulary and contexts. Topic familiarity and contextual knowledge is developed, decreasing learners' cognitive load and facilitating reading comprehension. Second language readers thus learn to read more quickly and fluently. The conceptual and pedagogical leap between the argument for narrow reading (Krashen, 1981, 2004) and the argument for narrow listening (Krashen, 1996) is not large because familiar contexts are also beneficial in comprehending naturally used language. Since a case for explicitly integrating these two pedagogical practices has not been made, we explore the instructional potential of combining them. In addition, we report on a case study of a successful course coordination project that was conceptually based on the pedagogical significance of narrow input, one that proved helpful in creating a rich environment for language development.
With opposition candidates roughed up, arrested and held in house detention for fear they might ‘... more With opposition candidates roughed up, arrested and held in house detention for fear they might ‘disrupt’ the electoral process, the man who once preached that staying too long in power would lead to corruption has been “re-elected” for an incredible fifht term to stretch his 30-year reign - and now himself lives under a cloud of corruption and abuse of power. What can Ugandans do?
Jalt Journal, Nov 1, 2013
Every English teacher hopes to persuade students to use English outside the classroom, but many l... more Every English teacher hopes to persuade students to use English outside the classroom, but many learners find it impossible to do this in an environment where they feel they will draw attention to themselves. The World Plaza at Nanzan University's Seto Campus, funded through a Gendai GP (Good Practice) Grant sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science, attempts to provide a focal point for the development of an English-speaking community. With its motto of 'Bringing Language to Life' , it is a place where students can take the step from being English learners to being English users. The main aims of the World Plaza are to create a foreign language communication space and to facilitate development of an L2 community in an L1 environment. This paper will explain the aim of the project and outline an attempt to establish an English speaking community in a Japanese university. 英語教員なら誰でも,生徒達に教室外でも英語を利用してほしいと思っている.しかし,生徒達の多くは回りの視線が気になる環境の中では,それを ためらってしまう.南山大学瀬戸キャンパスにある文部科学賞の現代GPの助成金によって設置されたワールドプラザは英語での交流に焦点をあて Bringing Language to Life"をモットーに,生徒達が英語を学ぶ者から英語を利用する者へのステップを踏む事のできる場所である.またワールドプ ラザの狙いはLanguage Interaction Spaceの構築すること、 そしてL１環境の中でのL2コミュニティの発達を進行させることである。 従って、 本稿で はこのワールドプラザのプロジェクトの狙いと日本の大学で英語を話すコミュニティを立ち上げる試みの概要を説明することを目的とする。
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
ABSTRACT In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South Americ... more ABSTRACT In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.
It can be argued that given the demands and challenges of the current language educational climat... more It can be argued that given the demands and challenges of the current language
educational climate in Japanese tertiary institutions, teachers need, more than ever before,
to engage in an on-going dialogue for the good of the programs for which they teach, and
for their own professional development. Coordinating curricula and teachers can be seen
as a way of implementing positive reform. This paper looks at a universi句r program that
has succeeded in creating an environment where both full timers and part timers effectively
take part in the dialogue. The author worked as a part-time ins住uctor at the university, and
he discusses the benefits of what at first he thought was merely an e狂ört to ‘compel' him
to adapt his teaching to conform to the curriculum.
Keywords: dialogue, curriculum coordination, teacher coordination, part-time teachers,
professional development
cc AP Conversations with Ugandans reveal that people at the grassroots see ethnic federalism as... more cc AP Conversations with Ugandans reveal that people at the grassroots see ethnic federalism as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing both socio-political accountability and economic security in a system that relies too much on increasingly narrow ethnic and political clientelistic networks.
Drafts by Vick L Ssali
academia, 2021
Ugandans are going to the polls on Thursday January 14th 2021 with heightened anxiety and fear. B... more Ugandans are going to the polls on Thursday January 14th 2021 with heightened anxiety and fear. Beside the over 360 directly elected members of Parliament, there are 12 candidates registered to contest for the presidency. The two leading candidates are the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), and the charismatic musician-turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine. The incumbent has been in power since 1986, when his main opponent Bobi Wine was only four years old. This election has so much at stake because, Museveni, who is running for the sixth time – the first two five-year terms were a period of good will and honeymoon – is in Bobi Wine, and for the first time, pitted against the force that is the youth in Uganda today. This is an election like no other that Uganda has had given the huge stakes both for the country and for the region.
Pambazuka News, 2019
In this Newspaper article we argue that Africa could benefit more from increased engagement with ... more In this Newspaper article we argue that Africa could benefit more from increased engagement with Japan. We note, however, that in order to achieve this, Africa needs to emulate the fiscal and social discipline of the Japanese. We argue that honesty is the fabric that has held Japan together since the devastation of World War II, and Africa too needs to create an environment that ensures transparency and stability. This is the only environment that will attract more Japanese investment and help Africa benefit from the recently ratified African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Pambazuka News, 2018
The author argues that the People Power movement in Uganda has reached a point of no return in th... more The author argues that the People Power movement in Uganda has reached a point of no return in their efforts to bring about change in the country, but that they would require more coordination and a united front to achieve their objective.
At colleges and universities around the world, interest in area studies remains strong. African s... more At colleges and universities around the world, interest in area studies remains strong. African studies are also gaining momentum lately, but mainly in such areas as politico-economic development and social change. A scientific study of the continent, its people, institutions, cultures, history, and philosophy of life still lags behind other area studies. African philosophy is particularly, noticeably excluded in Asian, American and European universities. One of the reasons is the popular Western European conception of Africa, and the other is the lack of a systematic literary deposit on African philosophy. These two reasons have been responsible for the portrayal, over the centuries, of African philosophy as inferior, vague, distorted, or even non-existent. In this paper, I take a peep into the rich, albeit unwritten philosophy of man and his destiny among the Baganda of Uganda. I argue that even those traditional African societies like Buganda, which may boast of no wealth of philosophical literature, had, and have their own concept of life in which everything around them becomes meaningful.
In a recent interview with the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV [2], Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni li... more In a recent interview with the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV [2], Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni lied to the “young man” interviewing him, to Ugandans and to the Al-Jazeera audience worldwide. He also looked calm as he lied all through the interview, and that was scary! He dodged the numerous questions about the rationale (or irrationality) of clinging to power beyond his legitimate mandate. He insincerely justified his 31-year stay in power as a constitutional right while aware of the way the law of the land was desecrated two decades ago to remove term limits.
While the partition of Africa is widely believed to have sowed seeds of disparity, the colonial p... more While the partition of Africa is widely believed to have sowed seeds of disparity, the colonial policy of divide and rule sharpened ethnic loyalties and made the task of postindependence national integration more difficult. Since independence, many African countries have been torn apart by a vicious circle of repression and sharp cleavages arising from the centrifugal tendencies typical of plural societies. There have been coups and counter-coups as the so called 'liberators' soon resort to a cruel and severe control of real and imagined 'enemy' groups. This has been the trend in Uganda since 1966 when the first Prime Minister, Milton Obote, abrogated the first post-colonial constitution hardly 4 years after independence from Great Britain. This paper looks at the possible role a federal system of government can play in combatting ethnic conflict, political repression and insecurity in Uganda. The paper draws from the research notes of my inquiry into the grassroots perceptions of ethnicity and federalism in Uganda. Can federalism as an organizing principle be a viable solution to political antagonism and the gross socioeconomic and political horizontal inequalities Uganda is experiencing now? Can it also guarantee the peace and security of the ordinary people in their respective tribal areas? Views from conversations with selected samples of ordinary people in at least ten different tribal areas of the country reveal that ethnic federalism, a recognition of Uganda's indigenous peoples and their indigenous systems of governance, is seen as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing accountability in national politics.
Abstract Ethnic Federalism in a Comparative Perspective: Implications for Uganda ... more Abstract
Ethnic Federalism in a Comparative Perspective: Implications for Uganda
V.L. Ssali
On gaining independence, most African states inherited a strongly centralized apparatus at the national level. Pro-independence nationalists rejected both the imperial masters’ proposals to aggregate nations into regional federations and the temptation to devolve them for the efficient management of ethnic diversity. The first half century of the post-colonial era has however seen a succession of crises. Many leaders at the helm of overly strong, centrist governments have over this period become authoritarian and have contributed a lot to the mire of corruption, economic collapse, ethnic resentment, violence and civil war. They have exploited Africa’s ethnic differences to consolidate patronage-driven democracies and economies. The result has been the personalization of states, their collapse into mini-bureaucracies, the neglect of the people at the grassroots of society, and massive social inequalities.
Given such a systematic fading of the hopes and ambitions of independence, many African countries have recently found it indispensable to re-think the structure of the state. Federalism has often been considered as one effective way of reconciling the diversity of the constituent parts of nations with their unity, and of restoring stability and equality in African countries. My research at the Doshisha Graduate School of Global Studies (Kyoto - Japan) over the past four years has been an inquiry into the grassroots perceptions of ethnicity and federalism in Uganda. What are the attitudes of the people at the grassroots of Ugandan society, about their self-identity vis a vis the center? The study was premised on the hypothesis that a federal arrangement is a better system of governance for Uganda, culturally, economically and politically, and there was a significant correlation between the results and this hypothesis. The majority of respondents see Ethnic federalism as a way of accommodating the differences in the beliefs and desires of Uganda's diverse ethnic groups.
But Uganda and Africa as a whole need good models to emulate from within and from outside the continent. This research note looks at case studies from Switzerland, Nigeria, South Africa and Ethiopia, and how they create and maintain a nation on one hand, while preserving the integrity of the units, their identity, culture, and tradition, on the other. The Swiss model is particularly being presented as a solid argument for the theory that a consociation or power-sharing model of democracy is the most suitable model for multicultural African states.
Keywords: ethnic diversity, ethnic federalism, consociation democracy, power-sharing
For too long in the past, and even now to some extent, Japanese stereotypical images and percepti... more For too long in the past, and even now to some extent, Japanese stereotypical images and perceptions of Africa have been taken for real knowledge. Many people still see Africa as one big country, and don’t really pay much attention to particular nationalities. They hear you're from Africa and they've got this sense that back at home you all wear kaleidoscopic Masai wraps, if you are a woman, or put on a red checked blanket and carry a ball edged club, if you are a man. This much I can testify to as an African living in Japan. This paper is a follow-up of my remarks and discussion at the Association of International Behavioral Studies symposium held in Tokyo on October 24th 2015. The presentation and discussion themselves were partly based on my experiences of 18 years living and working in Japan, and partly on a field research among Japanese and Asian students at Japanese universities in the greater Nagoya and Kansai areas. They were asked how much they learn from school and from the media about Africa. Both the field findings and my personal experiences showed that the average level of information an ordinary Japanese person has about the wider world and its peoples, particularly Africa, is a disadvantage to his/her enhancement of the much touted ‘Global Citizenship’. It is also being argued in this paper that that education, or lack of it, as well as the media and government policy, play a big role in shaping Japanese people’s perceptions of Africa.
ILAC Selections - Autonomy in a Networked World Published by Independent Learning Association Cop... more ILAC Selections - Autonomy in a Networked World
Published by Independent Learning Association
Copyright © Independent Learning Association 2013
www.independentlearning.org
Edited by Moira Hobbs and Kerstin Dofs
PO Box 540, Christchurch 8140
Format published: PDF
This paper explores the benefits of combining narrow reading and listening in instructional conte... more This paper explores the benefits of combining narrow reading and listening in instructional contexts. Topic familiarity has been found to be helpful for vocabulary learning as well as reading and listening comprehension. Reading and listening on a familiar topic make it possible to use specific background knowledge and recycle language learned in context. To demonstrate how purposely enriched contextual knowledge can be advantageous for learners learning to read and listen, we report on a course coordination project based on the idea of narrow input. From this project emerged two recommended pedagogical approaches: presenting information from specific to general and with both spoken and written input together on a single topic. A s an advocate of input-based language learning, Krashen (1981) proposed narrow reading. Instead of hopping from topic to topic, narrow reading in any single topic area provides rich exposure to related vocabulary and contexts. Topic familiarity and contextual knowledge is developed, decreasing learners' cognitive load and facilitating reading comprehension. Second language readers thus learn to read more quickly and fluently. The conceptual and pedagogical leap between the argument for narrow reading (Krashen, 1981, 2004) and the argument for narrow listening (Krashen, 1996) is not large because familiar contexts are also beneficial in comprehending naturally used language. Since a case for explicitly integrating these two pedagogical practices has not been made, we explore the instructional potential of combining them. In addition, we report on a case study of a successful course coordination project that was conceptually based on the pedagogical significance of narrow input, one that proved helpful in creating a rich environment for language development.
With opposition candidates roughed up, arrested and held in house detention for fear they might ‘... more With opposition candidates roughed up, arrested and held in house detention for fear they might ‘disrupt’ the electoral process, the man who once preached that staying too long in power would lead to corruption has been “re-elected” for an incredible fifht term to stretch his 30-year reign - and now himself lives under a cloud of corruption and abuse of power. What can Ugandans do?
Jalt Journal, Nov 1, 2013
Every English teacher hopes to persuade students to use English outside the classroom, but many l... more Every English teacher hopes to persuade students to use English outside the classroom, but many learners find it impossible to do this in an environment where they feel they will draw attention to themselves. The World Plaza at Nanzan University's Seto Campus, funded through a Gendai GP (Good Practice) Grant sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science, attempts to provide a focal point for the development of an English-speaking community. With its motto of 'Bringing Language to Life' , it is a place where students can take the step from being English learners to being English users. The main aims of the World Plaza are to create a foreign language communication space and to facilitate development of an L2 community in an L1 environment. This paper will explain the aim of the project and outline an attempt to establish an English speaking community in a Japanese university. 英語教員なら誰でも,生徒達に教室外でも英語を利用してほしいと思っている.しかし,生徒達の多くは回りの視線が気になる環境の中では,それを ためらってしまう.南山大学瀬戸キャンパスにある文部科学賞の現代GPの助成金によって設置されたワールドプラザは英語での交流に焦点をあて Bringing Language to Life"をモットーに,生徒達が英語を学ぶ者から英語を利用する者へのステップを踏む事のできる場所である.またワールドプ ラザの狙いはLanguage Interaction Spaceの構築すること、 そしてL１環境の中でのL2コミュニティの発達を進行させることである。 従って、 本稿で はこのワールドプラザのプロジェクトの狙いと日本の大学で英語を話すコミュニティを立ち上げる試みの概要を説明することを目的とする。
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
ABSTRACT In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South Americ... more ABSTRACT In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.
It can be argued that given the demands and challenges of the current language educational climat... more It can be argued that given the demands and challenges of the current language
educational climate in Japanese tertiary institutions, teachers need, more than ever before,
to engage in an on-going dialogue for the good of the programs for which they teach, and
for their own professional development. Coordinating curricula and teachers can be seen
as a way of implementing positive reform. This paper looks at a universi句r program that
has succeeded in creating an environment where both full timers and part timers effectively
take part in the dialogue. The author worked as a part-time ins住uctor at the university, and
he discusses the benefits of what at first he thought was merely an e狂ört to ‘compel' him
to adapt his teaching to conform to the curriculum.
Keywords: dialogue, curriculum coordination, teacher coordination, part-time teachers,
professional development
cc AP Conversations with Ugandans reveal that people at the grassroots see ethnic federalism as... more cc AP Conversations with Ugandans reveal that people at the grassroots see ethnic federalism as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing both socio-political accountability and economic security in a system that relies too much on increasingly narrow ethnic and political clientelistic networks.
academia, 2021
Ugandans are going to the polls on Thursday January 14th 2021 with heightened anxiety and fear. B... more Ugandans are going to the polls on Thursday January 14th 2021 with heightened anxiety and fear. Beside the over 360 directly elected members of Parliament, there are 12 candidates registered to contest for the presidency. The two leading candidates are the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), and the charismatic musician-turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine. The incumbent has been in power since 1986, when his main opponent Bobi Wine was only four years old. This election has so much at stake because, Museveni, who is running for the sixth time – the first two five-year terms were a period of good will and honeymoon – is in Bobi Wine, and for the first time, pitted against the force that is the youth in Uganda today. This is an election like no other that Uganda has had given the huge stakes both for the country and for the region.