Browsing by Author "Muwanga-Zake Wycliffe Frank"

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    Towards validating research discourses among Bantu in Africa: obuntu bulamu as a possible transforming agent.
    (Uganda Martyrs University, 2017) Muwanga-Zake Wycliffe Frank
    A review of literature about the effects of Western research discourse in Africa is outlined in this chapter. The paper shows that the issues identified have engendered campaigns for a need to transform research in Africa. The premise of this paper is that African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) could provide valid alternative discourses and paradigms for research in African environments. This paper proposes "obuntubulamu" as an alternative discourse among African Bantu. It also illuminates upon "obuntubulamu"-Western paradigms that have worked. This paper concludes with challenges that call for further research in using "obuntubulamu" as a research paradigm.
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    Whose education is it? the exclusion of African values from Higher Education
    (Uganda Martyrs University, 2017) Muwanga-Zake Wycliffe Frank
    The contents of this chapter are derived from a literature review about Quality Assurance (QA) and about values in higher education (HE), being led by the question of whose values are assured in HE. An attempt has was made to apply the questionnaires to home and business owners as well as selected professionals close by the universities of New England Armidale (Australia), University of Greenwich, London (UK) and Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi (Uganda) who were residing close by communities. Additionally the question of the relevance of HE was applied during the author's research towards a Master's degree at Rhodes University Grahamstown (South Africa), for which the dissertation questioned the relevance of apartheid education to black communities. Findings were backed up by the experiences of the author as a lecturer in Uganda, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom, as well. The chapter questions the learning process and the relevance of the knowledge to the local communities and host HE institutions.