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Item Decolonisation pathways: coloniality and Afican responses to COVID-19, Vol. II(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2024) Ngendo-Tshimba, David; Foreword by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniThe 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.Item 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 ArchidoceseThe 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 ...Item Uganda citizens’ land tenure type preference and underpinning factors(BP International, 2024-02-01) Nyadoi, Priscilla; Namirimu T.; Ogola L. S.; Tugume D.; Kusiima C. B.; Emanzi C.; Kyalisiime K.; Tayebwa G.This publication presents in detail, existing land tenure systems, their levels of adoption, popularity and impacts on peoples’ livelihoods country wide in Uganda. A countrywide study was conducted to generate information on peoples’ perspectives of a range of land tenure system issues in Uganda, including their impacts on livelihoods, that was scanty and insufficient to guide land policy reforms. The study was aimed at elucidating the land tenure system most people would want adopted in Uganda and the reasons for their choice. The study was guided by hypotheses that countrywide, (a) development demands and land use dynamics lead to homogenous distribution of land tenure systems (b) communities know about existing land tenure types(c)communities attribute livelihood limitations to specific land tenure types and (d)there exist one most preferred tenure type. Specific objectives were (1) to examine distribution of existing land tenure types (2) evaluate people’s knowledge of the tenure types (3) assess perceived impacts on livelihoods and (4) document the tenure type most preferred and (5) use generated knowledge to elicit support and influence Uganda’s policy on land use and ownership. From each of Uganda’s four regions, random sample of five districts was selected and within each 40 households sampled at systematic intervals of 1km and adult member found in the house holds interviewed using a questionnaire. Overall 1224 respondents from 21 districts (11%) of Uganda’s current 111 were interviewed. The data were managed and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in Statically Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Ver 16 Inc. (Bryman and Cramer, 2009). The results show that existing land tenure types were not equally distributed in Uganda, customary tenure is the most common, followed by freehold. Leasehold tenure is distributed countrywide but among few households while, mailo tenure is found in some districts in central and western regions of Uganda. Communal tenure is in a few areas in western and northeastern regions. The four land tenure types were not homogenously known country wide, most households in Gulu, Bududa, Kanungu and Mbarara districts with the following profile were more knowledgeable about different land tenure types in Uganda: age group 40-51, family size 4-6, secondary school level educated, those who had stayed for 16-20 or more years in the present area they are in , those who originated from within Uganda, those who had land near water bodies, those who owned land, those who had landholding size of 4-7 hectares and among those who were unhappy with the type of land tenure they held. Communal and leasehold land tenure types were responsible for the following limitations to achievement of improved livelihoods as reported by respondents: access to food, medicine, income, access to land for tree planting, homestead establishment, inheritance, burial and land for offer as collateral for securing loans. Customary land tenure type limited land owners’ access to medicine, income, tree planting and homestead establishment. The mailo land tenureship limited owners’ access to medicine, tree planting and burial of deceased relatives. Morethan3/4 of the households involved in this study preferred freehold land tenure system while, communal and mailo land tenure systems were the least preferred (by more than 1/2 of the households. These results provide evidence of the need for the government of Uganda to promote freehold land tenure system countrywide in practice and in the nations land policies and laws. This will however also require the government to carry out further consultations with different stakeholders and with communities countrywide, for proper policy and legal developments.Item Advances in Wildlife and Environment Management in Uganda(Book Publisher International, India- United Kingdom., 2024-01-11) Nyadoi, Priscilla; Biira, S.; Mbabazi, F. K.; Turyamwesimira J.; Baluku, R.; Nuwagaba, P.; Mugabi, M.; Kijjambu, C.; Barirega A.This publication is a summary of the submissions, proceedings and presentations that were captured during the conservation conference held in February 2023, that featured advances in environment and wildlife conservation in Uganda, particularly elucidating Knowledge Contributions of the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and non-STEM actors, around three sub themes namely, 1) Data Deficiencies limiting Interventions and Partnerships for Wildlife and Environment Conservation in Uganda, to guide research interventions 2) Building Knowledge and 3)Synergies for Wildlife and Environment Management, pegged on research, management experiences, contemporary policy and political challenges in perspectives, respectively. Held at Makerere University Central Teaching Facility (CTF) 2 Auditorium on the 9th of February 2023, from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm, as part of Uganda’s National events to mark the United Nations (UN) World Wildlife Day (WWD) celebrated annually every 3rd day of March. The conference proceedings were accessible to both physical and virtual participants that totalled to 283 individuals of which 13 were technical presenters, the rest being an audience made of participants from the academia, private sector, civil society, government agencies, ministries and the general public. While given in details in this publication, summarily, proceedings and technical presentations realised during the conservation conference 2023 reveal among others, the critical data gaps limiting, management of wildlife and environment in Uganda, the lacking but required stakeholder synergies that would improve wildlife and environment management in the country, areas of research in wildlife and environment that are important but currently given littlie or no attention in Uganda, and the need for full cost allocation in environment and social impacts of projects assessment. Also revealed by the conference submissions are a number of hypotheses on the relevance of targeted beneficiaries’ involvement in identification of interventions, for the success of wildlife and environment conservation projects and programmes. Knowledge shared in this publication will in particular be valuable for policy makers, practitioners, researchers, the academic, civil society and private sector whose business, work and or interest are in Uganda’s wildlife and environment.Item Higher education for African challenges of the 21st century :(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2018-11) Ssentongo, Jimmy Spire; Byaruhanga, AloysiusItem Inquiry into a Withering Heritage: The Relevance of Traditional Baganda Approaches to Sustainable Environmental Conservation Today(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012-01) Ssentongo, Jimmy SpireHumanity is currently faced with several environmental problems. From North Pole to South Pole it is vividly clear that there is much still wanting in environmental conservation on this volatile planet, our only home. It is therefore a daunting task to scholars and all other stakeholders to think out possible strategies and mechanisms of conserving our environment. But before we stretch too far for viable answers, it would be very important to critically search out into our traditional knowledge which has been relied on for generations to pick out knowledge and practices that could still be relevant. Unfortunately, most of this 'wealth' of knowledge is disappearing so fast due to the homogenising effects of globalisation! The aim of the research whose findings are reported in this book was to specifically explore and analyse Baganda (a Ugandan ethnic group) traditional approaches in light of their relevance to sustainable environmental conservation in the current era. An attempt is accordingly made not to nostalgically romanticise the heritage but to look out for what can still be useful.Item Decolonisation Pathways: Postcoloniality, Globalisation, and African Development(Centre for African Studies, Uganda Martyrs Univrsity Book Serries (UMU BS), 2017) Ssentongo, Jimmy SpireOne of the perennial questions in all former colonies is that of how to break the chains in which they are still entangled in various ways long after official ‘independence’. Subsequent developments, such as globalisation, continue to make the situation even more complex. Marks of colonial chains are boldly imprinted in many Africans’ psyches and relayed in practice in ways quite often contradictory to the continent’s development demands. This book is an effort by Ugandan scholars at making sense of the intricate challenges of the African postcolonial situation. It tackles a wide range of areas, including: education, research, gender, migration, cultural identity, and environment. The overarching theme that binds together the different chapters is how to theoretically understand the dynamics behind Africa’s colonial history and postcolonial performance/identities in the wake of globalisation. The theoretical analysis is then used to draw out ideas on how Africa can move forward on a self-decolonisation path to meaningful development.