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    Agro-ecology Systems Approach to Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa: Contributions of Uganda Martyrs University
    (Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2018) Mwine, Tedson Julius; Muwanga-Zake, John Wycliffe Frank
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    Decolonisation pathways: coloniality and Afican responses to COVID-19, Vol. II
    (Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2024) Ngendo-Tshimba, David; Foreword by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
    The prolonged COVID-19 lockdown across many countries in Africa, and the world at large, did take a huge toll on the resilience of societies, markets and governments. This second volume of Decolonisation Pathways makes it clear and bold that pandemics are too serious a matter to be left to epidemiologists and pathologists alone. Contributors to this volume start with an acknowledgement that although a pandemic is global, the COVID-19 pandemic was differentially experienced and responded to in various countries and locales in Africa. Many governments across the African continent kept claiming, and perhaps rightly so, that they were responding to the science of the day. The scientific voice echoed in those pandemic years, however, was not democratic enough in its scope, let alone stabilising. Without doubt, not all African states turned to the West (Europe and North America) or to the East (China and Russia) for reference and rescue in ‘flattening the COVID-19 transmission curve’. But even counterhegemonic efforts observed in some African polities in the wake of the pandemic were still wrapped in anti-colonial, but not necessarily decolonial idioms and praxes. In the main, African responses to COVID-19 further exposed the enduring effects of European colonial rule insofar as crisis management in formerly colonised spaces is concerned. The force with which the dictates of COVID-19 science—whether from the West, East or homegrown—were implemented was indeed reminiscent of the European colonial experiment for many citizens and residents in Africa. The authors here refreshingly return the debate to traces of coloniality—and attempts at decoloniality, if any—in African responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read together, the chapters of this volume point to where it hurts most: they remind their readers that a great many responses to COVID-19 in Africa exacerbated the vulnerability of formerly colonised people, who already had historical layers of underlying conditions.
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    Positive Deviation and the Rejuvenation of Higher Education in Africa
    (Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2018) Draru, Mary Cecilia; Busobozi, David
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    The life and times of the Uganda Martyrs: the pioneer African Martyrs from South of the Sahara
    (Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2025) Ssemitego, John Baptist; Foreword By The Most Rev. Paul Ssemogerere, Archibishop of Kampala Archidocese
    The Catholic Faith was brought to Buganda when the people in the region were still glued on tribal beliefs and any shift from the traditional worship was an abomination, the king (Kabaka) was an absolute ruler and a law unto himself and all his subjects had to give unquestionable royalty irrespective of what would be his demand. When the Catholic missionaries arrived, they found the Moslems and Anglicans already in the field and the local community had already been introduced to the worship of a Christian God and at this point several of the king's servants had been enrolled in all the two faiths, one after another. Those who had enrolled in Islam, which came first with the Arabs merchants, considered it superior to their ancestral pagan beliefs. When the Anglican missionaries arrived, they quickly embraced their teaching given the fact that the Arabs had soiled their mission with trading the locals as slaves. Pere Lourdel quoted Paul Nalubandwa, the first Catholic to be baptized in 1880, as having told him that in the Islamic faith they had taught them that when you sin you wash and get clean, and later the Anglicans taught them that Jesus died for our sins, our task is to believe in him as our saviour and we are saved. Pere Lourdel later collaborated this narrative with that of Mathias Mulumba ...