Education

Introduction

The risk here is that universities are inherently conservative, and they tend to lean towards the liberal right in their organisational approaches and socio-political practices. 

Formal education, which has a colonial face, and misconstrued as civilisation, is increasingly becoming more autocratic and directive, failing to meet the daily needs of the majority of the people with no respect for the learner. 

Arguably, the core problem for a country like Uganda, is the absence of a culture of having rules that govern everybody and to which every actor is subject. Rule-based behaviour is the hallmark of modern society.

Having traversed both Angola, my native land and Namibia where I have lived for 17years, the hardships in suitable job placement were and are so remarkable that I too was left flabbergasted at the current dismal employment situation of our Southern African Development Community nations and how th

HBCUs are public institutions that belong to us all. They are the commons of the Black community going back to Reconstruction (1865-1877) times. We don’t want HBCUs to be defunded.

Anti-blackness is not just about hating black people; it is informed by one’s social behaviour towards black people, distancing oneself from blackness and utter denial of black people’s right to exist as black people and not as products of a Eurocentric society.

On 9 August 2018, the Economic History Department of the University of Zimbabwe organised a workshop theme titled, “Pedagogies in Historical Studies: Theory and Practice.”

In 1970, Tanzania had one public university with less than three thousand students. Now it has some fifty public and private universities and university colleges with a total student population of around two hundred thousand. Much of this growth has occurred in the past twenty years.

GLJSAS will try to address the plethora of strategic issues affecting the African continent with special focus on the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa, through a careful analysis of underlying causes of the main recurring problems, and suggesting policy recommendations.  Among such