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Educating Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners in Inclusive Classrooms in Tanzania: In Harry Knoors, Maria Brons, and Marc Marschark (eds.): Deaf Education Beyond the Western World: Context, Challenges, and Prospects
(Oxford University Press Online, 2019)Educating deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) learners poses a challenge to teachers working in inclusive education settings such as the ones in Tanzania. Having DHH learners in the classroom is viewed as a burden by all ... -
Historical Study of Jinja, Uganda: A City Influenced by Industrial Developments During the Early 20th Century
(WIT Press, 2019)This paper evaluates how industrial developments during the first three decades of the 20th century contributed to the founding and growth of Jinja. During this period Jinja grew to become an important inland port on ... -
Heritage Significance of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Buildings in the Buganda Kingdom, Uganda
(WIT Press, 2019)The paper sets out to investigate the heritage significance of four late 19th and early 20th century buildings in Buganda capital of Mengo. The buildings, Keweerimidde House (1890s), Basiima House (1902), Chwa Building ... -
Testosterone
(IntechOpen, 2020)Testosterone is a hormone produced majorly by the testicles in adult human _ men. The hormone affects a man’s appearance and sexual development, stimulates sperm production and regulates a man’s sex drive. It also helps ... -
Current State of Palliative Care in Uganda
(Springer Nature, 2020-10-30)The need for palliative care in Uganda has exponentially increased due to the ageing population, the increased number of non-communicable diseases and the high prevalence of HIV/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). ... -
Vaginal Delivery
(Intech Open, 2021)Vaginal delivery refers to the birth of offspring in mammals or babies in humans, through the vagina, also known as the “birth canal”. It is the natural method of birth for most mammals excluding those which lay eggs. For ... -
A Study of Housing, Good Health and Well-Being in Kampala, Uganda
(Springer, 2021)This chapter presents adequate housing as a necessity for health and well-being. To the literature it adds a theoretical argument aimed at convincing African governments and peoples that adequate housing is a human right ... -
Liberated Followership and Philosophical Reflective Thought for Meaningful Feminist Engagement
(Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2021)Philosophy and feminism in Uganda are subjects to be discussed with reservation. Arguments about feminism mostly collapse into one category – radical feminism. Even with this common speech that refers to feminism as ... -
Capacity Building in Adaptive Reuse Through Collaborative Workshops for Students: On-Site and Remote Experiences in Rwanda and Zanzibar
(European Union, 2021)The idea of ‘adaptive reuse’ is relatively new in the African built environment. The value of working with existing under-utilised buildings as a resource for the future lies in the inherent potential for addressing sensitive ... -
Deliberations on Conservation of Built Heritage: Paying Homage to a Historical Past Through Architectural Education, Learning and Research.
(WIT Press, 2021)Memorialization of Africa’s architectural past continues to fade in time by way of exposure to the cruelty of natural or man-made forces, iconic buildings from as recent as the 1960s are torn down with little consideration ... -
Tech-Based Enterprise Control and Audit for Financial Crimes: The Case of State-Owned Global Financial Predators (SOGFP)
(IGI Global, 2021-03)Due to the global financial and societal crisis, a societal or business transformation project is important. A well-designed financial services automation process is the need of the hour. This automation process depends ... -
Frauds in Business Organizations: A Comprehensive Overview
(IGI Global, 2021-03-01)Fraud has been evolving and increasing with the change in the work environment, organizational structures, industrialization, and legislation. Money, greed, manipulation, job pressures, family needs, opportunity, politics, ... -
Legislation for Public Procurements and Disposal of Public Assets: The Case of Uganda
(IGI Global, 2021-03-01)This chapter is about corrupt practices in the public procurement cycle. Taking the example of Uganda, it identifies what takes place at each of the stages of public procurement and examines the perspectives of stakeholders ... -
The impact of COVID-19 on mental health of frontline health workers in Ghana and Uganda
(Science Direct-Elsevier, 2021-06-18)The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on health systems at global, national, and subnational levels. During disease outbreaks, the human resources for health are among the most affected building blocks of the ... -
Virtual Employee Management: Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 at the Workplace
(Springer, Cham, 2021-07-13)Toward the end of 2019, a global catastrophe befell the world, ostensibly originating from Wuhan, China. This was the novel coronavirus which causes a disease called COVID-19. This would eventually become one of the most ... -
Dialectics of Followership and Leadership in Relation to Globalization: A Case of Uganda
(The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2022)We cannot deny the complex, multidimensional and uneven nature of the globalization process1 which is considered in different perspectives according to the benefits and risks it imposes on humanity. Some perceive it as ... -
African ethics as a conduit to development
(The PhilPapers Foundation, 2023)The objective of this work is to contribute to the existing literature, a theoretical argument that, African ethics can help in effecting a holistic development. African ethics with its emphasis on the common good and ... -
Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward
(Science Direct-Elsevier, 2023-03-24)Scholars and related institutions widely emphasize integrating indigenous knowledge with science to produce hybrid knowledge to suitably tackle disasters from climate and environmental hazards. Based on the case of ... -
Leadership, context, and populist foreign policy in East Africa: an analysis of Uganda and Rwanda
(Springer Link, 2023-05-10)Populism can be understood as the reliance on strong leaders, whom, for political gain mobilize the masses aiming at enacting radical reforms in the name of the “people.” Through their action and speech, populist leaders ...