Newsletter

Volume 17 Issue 2 September-November 2010

Uganda Martyrs University

UMU &
the

community

making a dierence

CREDITS Chairman Alex Agaba Tel: +256781572338 Email: aagaba@umu.ac.ug Public Relations Amelia Zalwango Tel: +256701740705 Email: pro@umu.ac.ug Editorial Board Jude Ssempebwa Harriet Mutonyi Byaruhanga Aloysius Abisagi N. Kasoma Buti C. Ceaser Bukomeko Bernardine David N. Tshimba Jane Apila Esther Gensi Eleanor Naisikwe Susan Ninsiima Marketing Anita Atuhaire tel:+256782338851 atuhaireann@yahoo.com Lawrence Mulinda Tel: +256782384757 Columnists Jimmy S. Ssentongo design and layout Gabriel Mundaka the kid

Editorial

Editorial Uganda Martyrs University has a vision of being a University that is nationally and internationally recognised for excellency in teaching, learning and advancement of knowledge through research and community engagement and indeed UMU is moving steadily towards achieving this Vision. In this Issue of the newsletter, the editorial board agreed to bring you how diverse UMU engages with the community. In almost all faculties, Institutes and Departments, there is a strong component of community engagement. UMU does not only come in to solve the community needs but engages into in-depth assessment and holds every need in the perspective of the community; this creates an environment of ownership of the dierent projects by the beneciaries. We therefore bring you; the Faculty of Health Science reaching to the community through community health insurance projects; the Directorate of outreach with activities you can read about in their articles; how the rotaract club serves above self through regular cleaning of the Nkozi community and so much more. A lot has happened in UMU since our last Issue. We received a new Chancellor who will be installed on graduation day (19th Nov 2010); the Vice President of the Republic of Uganda ofcially opened Anna Montana Health Science building and we co-hosted the East African ICT and Higher Education Symposium 2010 at Speke Resort Munyonyo. In this issue we feature the cultural exchange our students made at Kenyatta University on its cultural festival, Dr. Margaret Angucia and Dr. Sr. Speranza who made us proud by achieving PhDs, the Alumni that came home and reached out to Nkozi hospital by cleaning and painting the general ward. On a sad note UMU lost a lecturer the late Mr Musana Micheal and an alumnus the late Mr Otema Denis. May their souls rest in eternal peace. Among the few pioneering people of UMU still working with UMU is Professor Peter Kanyandago, get an insight of who he is from his own words. This time around we have received many articles from Students, sta and alumni but unfortunately we could not publish all of them but we promise to publish them in the subsequent Issues The editorial team wishes to thank everyone that is actively involved with this newsletter and please keep on writing and sending your advice to our email address newsletter@umu.ac.ug In Virtue and wisdom We Lead the World. Amelia Zalwango Kaggwa Public Relations Ocer Uganda Martyrs University

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Most Rev. John Baptist Odama named new Chancellor

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into a global Information Society that is driven by knowledge, innovation, and creativity. And that the Internet and ICTs were at the center of that global transformation. Professor Charles Olwenyi, Vice Chancellor, UMU moderated the roundtable 4 that discussed Tapping the Bandwidth Value Propositions Path to Academic Transformation . Other members on that roundtable included Themba Khumalo, CEO MTN Uganda and Kathryn Brown, Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon Communications .

We received communication from the Vice Chancellor Professor Charles Olweny on 25th June 2010 on the new oce bearers for UMU 2010 2014/UEC (Uganda Episcopal Conference). We would like to thank Rt. Rev. Mathias Ssekamanya for his service to the university during his term of oce and welcome most Rev. John Baptist Odama. Other new oce bearers include the university Governing Council Chairman Rt. Rev. Charles Wamika, the university Governing Council Vice Chairman Msgr. Edward Baingana Muntu and Bishop members Rt. Rev. Robert Muhiirwa and Rt. Rev. Lambert Bainomugisha. Alex Agaba

Alex Agaba

ya Vice President Prof. Gilbert Buken building commissions the Anna Montana
The afternoon of 16 April 2010 was a moment not like any other ordinary afternoon at UMU Main Campus. The day was chilly but the enthusiasm of its afternoon made it hotter and more fascinating as well. His Excellence the Vice President of Uganda, Professor Gilbert Bukenya together with the Kampala Archbishop, His Grace Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga commissioned the newly constructed building on UMU campus, the Anna Montana Health Sciences Building. This is the fruit of a concerted eort from various commitments. Initially, this project was conceived by the Faculty of Health Sciences and was proposed to CUAMM, an Italian organization. The idea was about construction of an infrastructure that could serve as lecture rooms, faculty oces and hall of residents for her students. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Charles Olweny also identied another Italian organization, SPE SALVI Foundation to top-up. One of the principal founder and funder of this foundation, Senator Aleti volunteered to co-nance this project and suggested the name of his mother Anna Montana for this building. Nevertheless, along the way came the Italian Cooperation through her Italian Embassy in Uganda to nalise the execution of this building. In summary, CUAMM, SPE SALVI Foundation, and the Italian Cooperation remain the three funders of this project. It should also be noted that the construction of this building was executed by an UMU Architecture Firm, Design@UMU under the counsel of Architect Mark Olweny. This building is thus a grant to Uganda Martyrs University and under the stewardship of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Currently, the faculty has 14 academic sta and an administrator among whom are 6 Medical Doctors with 4 Expatriates with an overall sudent population of 54 people as of now.

UMU hosts the East African ICT m - 2010 and Higher Education Symposiu

Uganda Martyrs University (UMU)and Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) were joined by leading IT companies around the world like Verizon Communications, Internet Society, google, AT&T, INTELSAT, SEACOM, Motorola, Wireless Reach, Ericsson and many more to sponsor a non-commercial, two-day, multistakeholder Symposium at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala - Uganda from 28th to 29th June, 2010.

This event brought together senior representatives from governments, universities, industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other experts on ICT and education to address important and timely connectivity issues facing East Africa, particularly its institutions of higher education. It was a well organized event with several roundtables, break-out sessions and two special Keynote addresses. The rst keynote address was made by U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Aairs, Judith McHale and the other one was made by Professor Phillip Clay, Chancellor MIT. Lynn St. Amour, the President and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC) made the opening remarks, saying that the world was quickly transforming

David N. Tshimba

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UMU exports culture to KU

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CONGRATULATIONS
We take this opportunity to congratulate two members of our community who successfully completed their doctorates. Dr. Sr. Speranza Namusisi Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences Doctor of Philosophy in the eld of Education from the University of Innsbruck Austria. Her inspiration for this study was the challenge of seeing many girls especially in rural primary schools dropping out of school. Her study focused on two of the Millennium Development goals, to ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of Primary Schooling and to eliminate gender disparity in Primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 Her study paid attention to language as a socio-cultural school based determinant of girls education, specic reference put on universal primary education. Language is referred to in the broad sense to mean the verbal and nonverbal elements holding symbolic power. The study aimed at establishing the role language plays in the maintenance, continuity, or discontinuity of the education of the girl child in the UPE (Universal Primary Education) programme.

On the 1st to 7th November 2009, a delegation of 20

students from Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) was hosted by Kenyatta University (KU) at its annual university cultural week. As the cultural week s theme Our culture, our humanity , many cultural diversities were show cased by dierent students of other universities from Africa, Colombia, Iran, North Korea and China. With performances such as miming, dancing, modeling and poem citation, we as UMU were not left behind as we dazzled the audience with a rich cultural heritage combined together to bring out an exquisite show. Our diversities in culture turned out to be the root cause for our unity and respect for each other. We would like to thank the university administration, the Vice Chancellors oce in particular for the honour it gave to us to be its representatives and Kenyatta University and its community for having given us an adventurous series of events.

Susan Ninsiima, Bernadine Bukomeko

UMU comes second at 4th NCHE

exhibition

Uganda Martyrs University (UMU)

emerged 2nd in the 4th National Council for Higher Education Exhibition from 16th 18th April 2010 at Lugogo Showground. UMU joined 26 other universities, 2 University projects, 16 tertiary institutions and 11 companies duringThe theme for the exhibition was Universities and Outreach Services for Communities . It was an exhibition as well as a competition where UMU emerged 2nd after Makerere University. There was signicant contribution of sta and students from the following faculties: Business Administration and Management, in particular the Department of Micronance, Education, the Built Environment, Science, Health Sciences, Agriculture, Humanities and Social Sciences; Institute of Ethics and Development Studies; Research Directorate, Directorate of Outreach and Kisubi Brothers Uganda Martyrs University College. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Charles Olweny presented an annotated paper which was well received.

Amelia Zalwango

Dr. Margaret Angucia Lecturer, Institute of Ethics and Development Studies Doctor of Philosophy in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her thesis dealt with the social reintegration of formerly abducted children in northern Uganda. More especially it focused on the experiences of abducted children in Acholi land and the dierent types of reintegration processes for these war-aected children. It also dealt with a current and critical issue confronting many post-war nations in Africa, and elsewhere, and made an eort to move beyond simplistic analysis of social reintegration by looking at the interface of reintegration and the rebuilding of citizenship. Margaret Angucia holds a BA in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi, an MA in Public Administration and Management from Makerere University, Kampala. In 2005, she was awarded a Visiting Scholarship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and in 2008/2009 she was a visiting Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge and went on to become an aliate member of the Centre. Alex Agaba

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OBITUARY

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WHAT
MR. MUSANA MICHAEL
Mr. Musana was a great man. A hard worker who never entertained indiscipline. He loved his work and above all he took care of his students. I personally was very poor at accounting, but Mr. Musana would never leave any one behind. He was a man with a great sense of humor. One you could fear but then like at the same time. Accounting lectures by Mr. Musana were full of tension but at the end of each lecture, no one would get out of the lecture room without understanding. His teaching methods involved maximum participation, whether you wanted to participate or not. I remember students complaining about him but at the end of the semester, they could not help but appreciate his contribution to their success. And now that he is gone, we who knew him will always remember the good memories he left us with. Even though he is no longer among us, his outstanding personality will remain with us. Thank you Mr. Musana for teaching us to love accounts and may God rest your soul in eternal peace.

There was a time when I was so little , And the world was little. Or I would rather say small. It seemed like I was in a cave, With every one surrounding me to give me comfort. But as I grew bigger, life too changed. Then there came a time when I was bigger than little. Then I had grown out of the cave where everyone surrounded me. Then I noticed only a few where now close. Not so bad because I trusted and had fun with the few. But now is the time when I am biggest. And the earth I live in is no longer the small cave, But rather a big and wide hall,

LIFE C AN BE

Olga Namasembe BAM II

MR. OTEMA DENIS

On the fateful day of July 11 2010 when over seventy six people lost their lives in the cowardly bomb attacks , we lost a friend, a colleague and alumni. Mr. Otema Denis was a great man in our community as Uganda Martyrs University. He was a man with a great sense of humor, so social and committed to his God and very active in all active organize by the university, a great leader full of brilliant ideas and solutions. You left a hole that no one will ll. We will miss you. Our prayer is that the Almighty welcomes your soul to his kingdom. Grant him eternal rest oh God, and let perpetual light shine upon him. Amen

Where am drowning with no one to lean on. The more you grow old, the more independent you become.

Ayebazibwe Rebecca Kyaka, BAM II

Bukomeko Bernadine BSC ii

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Empowering communities to acc ess health care
Since 2007, the Faculty of Health Sciences has been involved in community health insurance projects. It started with a large scale feasibility study in Masaka and Kabale Diocese. Such are becoming routine activities for the Faculty as more and more community projects request assistance. However what is community health insurance, and what is a feasibility study about? As the public health sector is currently under-funded, it cannot always oer quality care and there are frequent stock-outs of medicines. Many people prefer to seek better-quality health care in the private sector. However, the nancial burden this implies may drive households into deep and often irreversible poverty, especially when people have to pay outof-pocket for expensive hospital bills. In response, communities and church organisations are trying out approaches to nancing health care, such as community health insurance. In community health insurance (CHI) people create their own association, and each member pays a regular contribution to cover the needs of those who fall sick. In Uganda this started in the 1990s. It was promoted by the Ministry of Health that initiated pilot projects in various areas of the country. Many collapsed in 2001, when the National Health Financing policy was changed and free health care reintroduced in the public sector. They remain operational where people seek care in hospitals and health centres run by church organizations. There are vibrant projects in the catholic dioceses of Kabale and Masaka, in south-western and central Uganda respectively. More and more dioceses, individual health facilities and communities ask assistance to introduce CHI. cilities.

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cover the health needs. Since then, we have developed a standardized way of doing a feasibility study and have repeated it in several other communities and health fa-

generic drugs instead of brand name drugs, but competence to design and negotiate a contract is lacking. We have been providing continuous follow-up and advice to the health insurance schemes where we did the feasibility studies, to help them overcome many challenges. Other CHI projects request us to evaluate their schemes and to give recommendations for improvement. Yet over time we came to realize that our regular, but punctuated technical support is not enough. Running a health insurance scheme needs competent managers with adequate training in a range of skills such as accountancy, costing of services, problem solving and management of change, monitoring and evaluation. That is why the Faculty of Health Sciences decided to develop a course for managers of health insurance schemes.However, let s not forget the nation as a whole. As we all know, the Ministry of Health is developing a National Health Insurance policy. Alas, few members of the public, including health professionals, understand the concept of health insurance well. Also within the Ministry of Health, few ocers have been exposed to health insurance and understand all aspects of its complexity. The country needs trained experts with in-depth understanding of health insurance to inform the public and to

When communities call upon us, we rst explain what needs to be done. They select a steering committee that takes responsibility of organizing the study. We provide the questionnaires, and train the members of the steering committee in doing interviews. Together we do the house-to-house and patient interviews. They do most of the interviews and always tell us how much this has taught them about their own community. We also spend some days with the health centre or hospital s registers and books to nd out how much exactly people pay for each service. We analyse the data for

them, and give our report to the steering committee, which enables them to take the decisions. Based on our calculations, for example, they decide which package of care the insurance will cover, and how much households have to pay to become members. The implementation of health insurance, even at

manage the government s plans safely. Our course is ready to provide that. It is still unclear which way health nancing in Uganda may go but one thing is sure: in the mean time, community health insurance slowly but surely forges ahead.

Maria Pia Waelkens, Faculty of Health Sciences

Before starting a health insurance project, there is a lot we need to know: How much does health care cost? How much can people pay? Will people trust the management of a health insurance scheme? To whom would they entrust their money? Which control system could work? How to avoid cheating by members or health workers? Which health centre or hospital do people prefer? Is the care they receive indeed of good quality? A feasibility study addresses all these questions and more, to ensure that communities can set up a viable scheme. The rst feasibility study carried out by the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2007 involved 800 household interviews in Kabale and Masaka Diocese, interviews with patients, discussions with health sta, observation of the quality of care, in-depth investigation of the costs of transport and treatment, and calculation of what each scheme member should contribute to

small-scale community level, is complex. Let s give one example. One of the most dicult management issues is to handle the relationship with the health care providers who tend to see in health insurance a source of money to exploit. They forget that it is people s contribution, often poor people s contribution, that should be handled with care. One of the roles of scheme managers is, therefore, to promote services of the best possible quality at the lowest possible price. That is not an easy task. Health workers have a tendency to overprescribe. Patients who could be cured with one drug often receive three, or four, or ve, which they doubtfully will take all, but which in the mean time, they pay. Few scheme managers have the knowledge needed to discuss prescriptions, and health workers do not recognize their authority to do so: are you the medical person or am I? A contract between the insurance scheme and the health care provider can stipulate rules to limit over-prescription and promote the use of

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UMU, a beacon for Community Ser vice

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Universities are traditionally known to play a three-fold role, namely: teaching, research and community service. While committed attention has been placed on teaching and research, community service has often been forgotten. As centers of intellectual excellence, where the society s cream is produced, universities have instead enjoyed the legendary Ivory Tower status which, unfortunately, has continued to detach them from the common person in the community. The unfortunate but inevitable eect of this depiction is that universities play the training role but remain irrelevant to the immediate needs of the community in which they exist. Education, especially quality higher education, is meant for social, economic and political transformation of our communities. This begs the question: how will this transformation be attained if universities maintain the Ivory Tower status? As part of her maiden commitment to train students to become professionals in their elds of study so that they can make a dierence in their career and social life, Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) long sought to make itself relevant to the community in which it subsists. And there was- and there still is- no better way to attain this goal than to oer community service to the neighboring community. Such a clear vision found its perfection in the creation of Uganda Martyrs University Community Outreach Programme (UMU-COP), now The Directorate of Outreach, which has over the years made impressive strides in improving the livelihoods of the surrounding Nkozi Sub-County community. Initially hinged on agricultural component for improving food security and household incomes, community outreach programme found its praised acceptance in the hearts and lives of the members of the community. The community is mobilized into productive farmer groups, where improved farming skills are imparted, productivity increased and livelihood improved. As a University for the community, and remaining true to its humble approach, UMU works with and for the community. The rationale behind this modus operandi is to make the programme owned by the people themselves. UMU s community outreach philosophy and approach has in fact empowered the community beyond being dependants but active engineers of the programme-thanks to the visionary outlook and rich experience of its leaders! To improve value for the produce, the outreach programme ventured into agro-processing and marketing; which has helped farmers to sell their produce, even at a higher price. As John Maxwell once wrote, People don t care how much you know until they know how much you care. The presence and contribution of UMU demonstrated to the community that UMU not only knows but also cares! The community continues to pride in UMU s contribution, as a provider and saviour: saviour from hunger, malnutrition and lack of a meaningful livelihood. The unsung Vision of the current Vice Chancellor, Prof. Charles Olweny of making UMU a university in and for the community, has witnessed a renewed zeal toward community outreach. With the focus going beyond agri-produce and marketing, the outreach program has now stretched to incorporate health service delivery, as well as water and sanitation. Intensive research and needs assessment sessions are conducted to generate genuine people s needs so as to engage in informed interventions.

People don t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
And as the community continues to reap the benets of UMU s community outreach programme, every eort must be summoned to make the programme more vibrant and sustainable. To this, the entire UMU community, the alumni and its various well-wishers must pledge unwavering support and loyalty.

Denis Musigunzi lectuer Institute of Ethics and Development Studies

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munity umu ongoing projects with its com

Promotion of Cooperative Commercial Agriculture and Improved Household Nutrition through Primary School Education and Community Skills Building This is a pilot project for one year - funded with a grant from the Sieben Foundation, based in Minnesota, USA. The grant was obtained jointly by UMU and the Ford Family Program at Notre Dame, as part of our partnership initiatives for community engagement. The project started this year (2010), and covers 15 schools. The project is establishing school gardens to foster agricultural and nutritional education along with practical skills in these areas. Parents and families are involved in the monitoring of the school gardens and are encouraged to provide their children with land for establishing group agricultural projects. Pupils are facilitated to form group farms to strengthen skills in commercial and cooperative agriculture, and they are trained on how to share the skills learned with their families at home. NNINDYE PROJECTS Nnindye is parish composed of 12 villages, and located within Nkozi Sub-county situated about 5 kilometres from UMU, on the Kayabwe Masaka highway. Projects in Nnindye are the joint work of three key stakeholders: The residents of Nnindye, Uganda Martyrs University, and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA.

The goal is to help the people of Nnindye achieve their holistic development goals. We work as partners, focused on helping to realize sustainable human development. Current projects include: 1) Community Mobilization (Skills Development, Leadership Development, Collective Consciousness Building, and Interventions Planning). This is an on-going project, which uses workshops to mobilize enthusiasm, and participation of residents in the development issues of their area as a natural obligation. The outcome is an energized Nnindye community, which is now beginning to drive the agenda for the development of the area. Leadership teams of volunteers have been elected from village to Parish levels, with the highest decision-making body being the Nnindye Parish Development Committee (PDC). 2) Improved Health Services; 3) Water and Sanitation improvement; and 4) Improved agricultural production. To arrive at the selection of the above projects, and the consequent planning for them, three representatives from each village were elected to form a planning team. The process of planning took one year before a full plan could be produced. The community representatives had to be trained rst before proper planning could commence. Afterwards during the planning process there were forward and backward consultation by the village representatives and their communities. Outreach sta also had to share milestones covered with other stakeholders before entering into new commitments. At UMU, faculty representatives selected through the Deans and Directors were involved in the planning process by participating in the planning works and village meetings, and assisting with training, as well as playing an advisory role. To aid in its implementation, the community has established management committees at village and parish levels. The parish committee oversees all the activities of lower village committees. They gave it a name Nnindye Parish Development Committee (PDC).

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Dr. Nyanzi David ;Outreach Directorate

Hole-in-the-Wall: Technology Can

Make Learning Fun!

It is pleasantly surprising how following a lm to its origin turned up a story that reached as far as Uganda. I was watching a short clip on BBC concerning a lm, Slumdog Millionaire that has been a recent hit. The story in the lm is about one young Indian boy from the slums of Mumbai who goes onto a television competition and wins 20 million rupees (UG Shs. 774,753,097). Now the whole point of this television show is that one is asked questions and with each question the amount of money you win rises. But the questions are so specic in detail that it is very dicult to know the answers to each and everyone of them. And so when this boy from the slum wins everybody is surprised at how he knew all these answers!.Having had an overview of what the lm was about, I looked through other bits of information concerning how the lm was made and people involved. Apparently, the lm was inspired by a book that follows the same theme. Tracing back even further, the book was inspired by an experiment known as the Hole-in-theWall computer. This was initially an experiment, conceived by Dr. Sugata Mitra, where an unsupervised computer booth was placed into a hole in a wall close to a primary school that was in a slum area. The computer had a number of educational games and access to the internet and

the booth was designed in such a way that it was attractive to children but also at a height that was too low for adults. From observations, it turned out that the children, without any help, taught themselves to use the computer. A number of other things were observed when more structured research was carried out in the schools near where these computers were placed; the children s grades in school improved, they independently organised themselves into groups and shared the computer access, and even students who had dropped out for various reasons including lack of school fees had access to these games and seem to have learnt some things from them. This got me thinking why such a thing should not be tried in Uganda. After some more digging around it turns out the idea was already exported to Uganda; as far back as November 2007. A sample Holein-the-wall, sponsored by Commonwealth Connects, was setup in Kiswa. There were no more details that I could come across concerning this project, however, I was still wondering to myself, If it is such an eective idea, it would be great to see such an experiment as one of UMU s community outreach initiatives, combining a number of things we are good at, and involving interdisciplinary teams and research themes. . The computer science depart-

ment obviously would be involved in terms of technology, the education faculty could use this as a research tool for primary and secondary education issues, IEDS could observe any development indicators or social impact issues, the Architecture department could analyse and possibly improve the designs of the hole; the list could go on. WIth our current situation where a lot is being said about the drop in quality of education oered to primary and secondary school going children, such an innovation is a breath of fresh air both because it has been tried and tested but more importantly it is a very implementable idea. It is the kind of tool that makes learning fun and we all know that young children grasp concepts best when their curiosity is engaged. That is how come the young Indian boy in the lm came across all this knowledge that nobody expected a child growing up in a slum to possess!

Emmanuel Mulo, Lecturer. Faculty of Science

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Are you A Terrorist?

Since the July 11th 2010 twin bombings at Kabalagala and Kyadondo in Kampala, it has become fashionable for the security agents to use weapon detectors in almost each and every public place. At the airport, one is almost undressed as the security agents go about their thing. Hotels, commuter parks, supermarkets as well as the houses of God--Churches, Temples or Mosques have not been spared. The search for terrorists has become synonymous to unwelcome body fondling and coerced semi-undressing. This is all done because everyone except the ones conducting the business is a suspected terrorist. You and I have become suspects of terrorism. Terrorism is becoming fashionable because modern political sensibility sees most political violence as necessary to historical progress. As Mahmood Mamdani (2004) observes, since the French Revolution, violence has come to be seen as the midwife of history. This is because the French Revolution gave us two things: terror and a citizen s army. This army kills and dies for a cause. Consequently, the modern sensibility is not horried by pervasive violence that is organized by governments. What horries our modern sensibility is violence that appears senseless; violence that cannot be justied by progress or by our view of development. Terrorism falls in this category of senseless violence. Just like genocide, terrorism targets civilians. Terrorism is a political phenomenon that tends to identify with culture and religious fundamentalism. Because of this tendency, according to Firooz Eftekhar Zadeh (2002), some people unfairly lump together Islam and terrorists. The lumping is unfair because Islam is a religion of peace and its teaching opposes terrorism. In addition, in Odera Oruka s (1976) view, terrorism is a concept often associated with the process of rebellion and lawless persons who carry out acts of sabotage against a legally constituted political or social order. As such, terrorism is a tool of a properly formed legal or illegal system. The term terrorism has been used, for example, by the minority colonialists to label the African liberation ghters in the 1960s and 70s. Following this trend, the colonialists and their successors consider a

terrorist as someone who is lawless, using threat and violence to force the legitimate or illegitimate government to complete submission and surrender. In this perspective, terrorism is not only an act of lawlessness, but also is an act of lawfulness; meaning terrorism can be legalized, for instance, Adolf Hitler used the law to terrorize people and the minority white regimes. But who is a terrorist? Are you a terrorist? Brian Jenkins (1985) argues that the definition of terrorism should be based on the nature of the act, rather than on the identity of the perpetrators or the nature of their cause.

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adds that terrorism is designed to have psychological repercussions beyond its immediate target. He arms that terrorism has a structure and is perpetrated by a subnational group or non-state entity. Oruka seems to have attempted to sum the above views when he denes terrorism as the intentional iniction of suering or loss on one party by another party which has no authority or legitimacy to do so, or which appears to have authority or legitimacy but has in fact deprived the suerer of the minimum ethical consent necessary to recognize such authority or legitimacy. Irrespective of the above dicult and complex attempts to dene terrorism, it seems that there is a lack of consensus on the denition of terrorism. Nevertheless, as the campaign against global terrorism intensied, Uganda joined the rest of the world in ghting against it hence the Ugandan government came up with the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002. For instance, Article 19(1) of the Act arms that Subject to this Act, an authorized ocer shall have the right to intercept the communications of a person and otherwise conduct surveillance of a person under this Act. The purposes of interception or surveillance include: safeguarding the public interest, prevention of the violation of the fundamental and other human rights and freedoms of any person from terrorism, preventing or detecting the commission of any oence under this Act, or safeguarding the national economy from terrorism. This seems to justify the unwelcome fondling that is going around in public places. On the basis of this Act, as the New Vision of September 15th 2004 reported, the two kidnappers that held the Ministry of Water and Lands Oce in Kampala under siege for eight hours were charged with terrorism and remanded in Luzira Prison. Currently, a number of terrorist suspects are being investigated for causing loss of life and property in the July 11th 2010 twin bombings in Kampala. These examples presuppose the presence of acts of terrorism amidst us. The above intellectual discourse seems to imply that you and I are potential terrorists, it may not be by design, but by suspicion. Next time when asked by the security agents to semi-undress in public places, you have a basis for doing it; and you better act accordingly, or else ...

By dening terrorism on the basis of the nature of the act, governments too can be accused of terrorism, a thing Bruce Homan (1998) thinks governments cannot be accused of. Homan argues that governments cannot be accused of terrorism because they can be punished by war-crimes trials (ICC). On the other hand, terrorists cannot be punished by war-crimes trials because they claim to be engaged in a long term war against oppression and injustice. Let us examine, though briey, the connectivity and dierences among these terrorism thinkers. In the rst instance, Jenkins and Homan agree with Mamdani that terrorists target civilians. Moreover, in support of Oruka, Homan admits that governments have caused many more civilian deaths over the years than sub-state groups labeled as terrorists. However, Homan argues that there is a qualitative dierence between a government attack and a terrorist attack. Because governments, according to Homan are bound by the law of war, while terrorists refuse to be bound by any law. Ultimately, Homan agrees with Mamdani that terrorism is political in its aims and is violent or threatens to be violent. Homan

Esibo S. Omaada Lecturer, Department of Good Governance and Peace Studies, East African School of Diplomacy, Governance and Internationval Studies

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Professor Peter Kanyandago the Pan-African Priest

Fr. Peter Kanyandago served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) between 1995 and 2005. Currently, he is the Director of the School of Postgraduate Studies at the University. He also serves as a Professor of Ethics and Development Studies at the University s Institute of Ethics and Development Studies. UMU Newsletter had the privilege of conversing with him about his life, scholarship, priesthood and UMU, and is proud to invite you to discover the Pan-African priest who has seen UMU from start to date. UMUN: Who is Fr. Peter Kanyandago?

FPK: I am a rural Ugandan born in 1951,

in a family of six children. I started school in 1958. At that time, writing on paper was a special privilege. I would write in dust. Banana bres were also good writing material. Dad used to sharpen a stick, burn its tip and that would be used to scratch the banana bre to make letters. I frequently changed from one school to another because, at that time, you would hardly nd a school with all the classes. Catholic pupils also had to look for Catholic founded schools. They were not allowed to go to Protestant

from 1973 to 1975, where I obtained a Diploma in Philosophy. In 1975, my bishop asked me to go to Belgium at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve where I obtained a BA in Theology. That was exceptional because they usually sent people who were already priests. A lot of sceptics thought that they were exposing a young man to the dangers of Europe, but for me that was a wonderful experience because my bishop trusted me. I went with a colleague called Fr. Emanuel Baburworuganda. When we reached Louvain, we found out that the French speaking part of the Faculty of Theology was paying for the scholarship and so we had to start studying French. That was in July 1975 and classes were starting in September. So by the time I went to class to study theology at university level I could hardly understand what the professors were saying! So what we did was get notes from our colleagues who understood French and we translated them from French to English using a dictionary. I came back to be ordained a priest in 1979 and went back to pursue a Master s Degree in Canon Law and, subsequently, a PhD in Canon Law. My research focused on evangelising African customary marriages because I was very interested in understanding culture. UMUNL: Talking of priesthood and scholarship, were these your childhood dream?

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met in Mbarara and in Belgium where he was a member of my academic supervisorial PhD board. When Professor Michel Lejeune joined UMU, he was also looking for a pioneer team which would kick-o the project and he approached my then Bishop, Rt. Rev. Paul Bakyenga, and I was appointed in 1993, right at the beginning of the University. I started as a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Ethics and Development Studies in 1994. In 1995, I was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Thereafter, I was made in-charge of students and academic aairs and in 2005 I helped to start the African Documentaion and Research Centre. In 2007, I was appointed Director of the School of Postgraduate Studies. UMUN: What have been the signicant

We are rst of all Africans and then, later on, Christians. If you throw out culture, you throw out God. If you kill the African, you kill the Christian. We can remain African without being Christian but you cannot remain Christian without being African!
changes in UMU through the years? When you have been in a place for a very long time, you tend to get so much used to it that it looks like there have not been signicant changes. When I came here we had one e-mail address, for all the sta and students. The connection was not good. So if we received heavy attachments we would send the PRO to Africaonline (the ISP) with a diskette to download our e-mail. We had one pickup truckfor the ViceChancellor, sta and students. The rst time I came for a sta meeting, I walked from Kayabwe and the second time I had to use a bicycle boda=boda. The storeyed sta apartments, the library, the upper hostels (Haet, Carabine and Onyango) and Faculty of Science buildings, among others, are new buildings. We started with two faculties (EDS and BAM) but now we have eight faculties. The rise in the number of students is certainly a signicant change. We have also added distance learning and

FPK: It might surprise you but when

I went to the seminary it was not like somebody who was dreaming about being a priest. I think it grows out of the experience of being in my family. My father was one of the rst catechists and I used to assist him in his catechism classes. I think I was inuenced by his generosity because, at that time, catechists were not getting salaries. But when I went to the seminary, I did not have a clear idea that I would become a priest. The academics part came in much later. I did not choose it but I have brought it on board and I see it as completing the priesthood part. Academic work is work of liberating and Christ came to liberate people. Academic work came into my life spontaneously. During my studies at Alokolum, I was a prominent debater and there was always something in me that liked writing and research.

I don t go with a tag saying, I am Kanyandago the Priest but along the way people nd out and then we engage in discussions on issues which might relate to Christianity or human values.
schools because of the partisan politics ofnthe time. In 1966, while in primary six, we did exams with those who were in Primary Seven and I obtained a Junior Leaving Certicate. In 1967, I joined Kitabi Seminary, where I completed my secondary studies and obtained an East African Certicate of Education. From 1971 to 1972, I went to do Higher School Certicate at Uganda Martyrs College, Alokolum Gulu, where I obtained an East African Advanced Certicate of Education. Thereafter, I went to St. Thomas Major Seminary, Katigondo,

FPK: In 1993, I was Rector of Kitabi Minor Seminary in the Archdiocese of Mbarara. They were looking for someone to be on the recruitment committee which was looking for people to start Uganda Martyrs University. Then I participated in recruiting the rst Vice-Chancellor of UMU, Professor Michel Lejeune whom I had known and

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part time programs. There is also a signicant increase in number of sta. Private developers have also come out to develop hostels around the University. UMUN: How do you balance priesthood with academics?

way people nd out and then we engage in discussions and issues which might relate to Christianity or human values. I do not balance priesthood and academics; on the contrary, I nd that they complemen each other. UMUN: How do you reconcile your views on culture and religion?

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how we can use this knowledge and technology to make a dierence in the lives of our people. The knowledge which we have should be repackaged so that people can understand and use it properly. UMUN: Looking at UMU, do you see any things that you think should be done differently?

FPK: I would not even use the word

balance . In life I do not act as an academician and then put on priesthood. The two are integrated and strengthen each other, which is very important for me. My Bishop knows that when I go out for research and to international conferences, I am not just going out just as an academician because the academic work in which I am interested complements my pastoral and priestly work. This means that the things that I stand for, the options that I have made, aect the way I approach academic work. I do not do academic work for the sake of it. I am very much concerned about the issues of justice. Even as a priest, I have written about that and it has shocked people when I said that sometimes the church underpays the people we work with. It s not to judge but to point out issues. I think that s the role of a priest, the role of any baptized person and the role of any academicianto bring out information so that people know and act accordingly. If I go to conferences, I don t go with a tag saying, I am Kanyandago the Priest but along the

FPK: We are rst of all Africans and then,

later on, Christians. If you throw out culture, you throw out God. If you kill the African, you kill the Christian. We can remain African without being Christian but you cannot remain Christian without being African! UMUNL: What are you yet to achieve?

FPK:
The Vice-Chancellor has realigned what we call the main functions of the university by emphasing research, and I totally agree with him, provided UMU makes the necessary adjustments to cater for this.

FPK: At 59, I am not going to launch into

something new but my wish is that what I am studying could be used to make a difference in the lives of our people. I am reading extensively about radiation from telecoms. I am also reading a lot about pesticides and synthetic drugs. My wish is that I could get a young person to train in Molecular Biology. I am very concerned about technology, especially in Biology, and I have been telling people that the next war might not be one with weapons but with genes. My wish is to get African scientists in these important areas and see

the Vice Chancellor has realigned what we call the main functions of the university and I totally agree with him. Research should be the main component.

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ITY AT UMU AN ARGUMENT FOR SUSTAINABIL

Students News

Over time, human societies have altered their ecosystems and thus modied regional climates. Since the local is intimately related to the global, it becomes evident that the human inuence on environment which began at local levels has now attained a global level. There is a new and strong evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past fty years is likely to be anthropogenic, most importantly the release of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. Virtually every human activity directly or indirectly involves combustion of fossil fuels, producing emissions of carbon dioxide, the most signicant green house gas into the atmosphere. The most recent report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows signicant risks of global temperature increments of above ve degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times, by the next century if we do not act to curb emissions. It is about redrawing at unprecedented speed the system of how and where people live because if temperatures were to rise by ve degrees or more in the next century, the level of Growth Domestic Product (GDP) would probably set back decades, not years, with billions of people suering from hunger, thirst, mass migration, and conict. Emissions of carbon dioxide represent social consequences not accounted for by the workings of the market. The New York Times Review of Books Magazine says that if economics provide a single bottom line for police, it is that we need to correct this market failure by ensuring that all people, everywhere, and for the indenite future is confronted with a market price for the use of carbon that reects the social costs of their activities. The most ecient strategy for slowing or preventing climate change is to impose a universal and international harmonized carbon tax levied on the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions that is emitted from fossil fuels. We need therefore to strike a balance between the competing objectives of preventing climate change damage, maintaining economic growth, avoiding catastrophic risks, and not imposing undue hardships on poor people and/or future generations. Economists and environmentalists will undoubtedly continue to debate the proper level of the carbon price. But if all can believe that this is a serious global issue, we too at our local level should also agree that not doing something about this remains the greatest incalculable risk one can undertake and thus this should be promptly corrected. Having said so, allow me to reiterate that in matters of sustainability we ought to think globally and act locally. That is why I am intended to draw this point back home in terms of homegrown solutions to the challenges of environmental sustainability on planet Earth. Uganda Martyrs University has established itself as a centre of excellence and dierence, exclusively for self-driven and ambitious students, who at the end of the curricula are ready to serve the world with wisdom and virtue. The Professor Wangari Maathai Sustainability Initiative@ UMU is the brainchild of a workshop themed; Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development: A Way Forward, which was held on Wednesday 23rd September 2009. It was organised by the Faculty of Education and the Institute of Ethics and Development Studies, and presented by Brother Byaruhanga Aloysius and Mr. Jimmy Spire Ssentongo. The students that attended this public lecture resolved to be the pioneers in sustainable education and sustainability at Uganda Martyrs University. They also resolved to act in all ways possible to ensure that sustainability is brought to UMU. This is the primary drive behind the initiative. The targeted objectives of The Prof. Wangari Maathai Sustainability Initiative@ UMU have been designed as follows: a) The right to know through Education for Sustainable Development Program. b) The right to act through activities enhancing sustainable lifestyles. c) The right to participate through holistic involvement When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude they didn t know : let us not go down in history as the generation who knew, but didn t care. - Mikhail Gorbachev (2002). The activities undergone by the Initiative are majorly: 1.The Green Campus Initiative (GCI). Don t be green, go green. GCI is a conceptual project that in a bigger picture attempts to embody the basic ideal of sustainability at UMU. As the mother project of the organisation, it features, among other things, an awareness campaign where students are introduced to sustainability practices. GCI duly is responsible for running an o-pollutions campaign, particularly against noise pollution and air pollution and hence tree-planting. It will cover the vice of smoking and playing loud music in hostels and hostel corridors. The GCI will also run a campaign on sanitation and lawns. 2.The e-nvironment Plan (ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT.) - sustainability in the high-tech. This project just as the name suggests aims to use strictly the internet and computer based programmes to pass on the sustainability message. It also aims to introduce students more to the technological side of sustainability. E-nvironment Plan is also proposing the reduction in paper use and paper wastage through double-sided printing and paper recycling, and use of softcopy format. 3. Waste Management Plan (WMP). - recycling campaign, starve your bin. The WMP is a rather wide project, covering everything to do with waste and waste management. The project proposes new and innovative methods of waste management and disposal which render waste important and thus lead to sustainable use of waste as a resource, rather than a pollution factor. WMP emphasises on separation of waste as this can be categorised as the waste management entity, WMP deals with recycling and reuse of waste, to prevent over consumption. In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace, - Prof. Wangari Maathai.
David N. Tshimba IEDS III

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ROTARACT

Students News

Like the famous saying goes, it is better to give than to receive , Rotaract and rotary as a whole also exists for the sole purpose of giving to the under privileged people living around us. Despite the constant stereotype that Rotaract and rotary as a whole is just a collection of arrogant snobs who have a lot of money to throw around, the Rotaract Club is an ever growing family that exists worldwide under the wing of rotary international. We help the under privileged people in communities world over and develop leadership skills of the youth who are members of Rotaract. The icing on the cake is that, as all this charitable work is being done, the volunteers actually have fun while doing this. To further emphasize one of the goals of rotary movement which is to develop leadership skills, I will share my own experience. I joined the Rotaract Club a few years back, as a shy, unsure and uncondent individual, but after attending the regular weekly fellowships(meetings),with my fellow club members ,I got out of my shell, became a more condent public speaker and eventually, much to my surprise become a leader in the Rotaract club of Uganda Martyrs University (UMU). As the saying goes, Work without play makes Jack a dull boy, why not join Rotaract where we work for the good of others and play as well. To sum this statement up , I will just refer to the activities of the Rotaract cub of UMU ,as well as other Rotaract clubs as balanced to perfection. It is not right to blow our own trumpets, so I will say no more as a committed Rotaractor, and just urge the readers of this article to give Rotaract a try by attending fellowship with the Rotaract club of Uganda Martyrs University every Wednesday at 8:30 pm at The Gardens and then see how you feel about Rotaract.

surveys are carried out. Uganda Martyrs University in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame in the United States is running the Ford Family Programme in the parish of Nnindye, Nkozi Sub county under the Kellogg Institute. In the Human Development Studies and Solidarity, the programme welcomes as many students as possible to learn from the community work by giving them a chance of sharing knowledge with the community members of Nnindye. This in turn facilitates students learning from the dierent angles and equips them with skills of working together with the people that are new to them coupled with some skills and some experience in co-ordinating, planning, and managing projects.

Jjuuko Dennis EDS II

GRAND OUTREACH

Uganda Martyrs University Burundian Student Association

(UMUBSA) also called Akiwacu is one of the cultural associations of the community of Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) . One of our objectives is to carry out charity work and to be helpful to the community around us. Therefore, this year we thought about reaching out to people in Nkozi village with an aim of bringing together the other dierent cultural associations such as; Nkobazambogo, Uganda Martyrs University Great North and East Student Association (UMUGNESA), Westerners Of Uganda Martyrs University Association (WUMUA) and the Banyoro Batoro. The activities that were carried out that day included providing for the needy with households in form of necessities like soap, clothes and money. We thank God that we were able to fundraise and get dierent contributions from students who really helped us a lot. We are so thankful because from their contribution we accomplished our intended goal to reach out the society. We are also thankful for the leaders of others associations who welcomed the idea and participated nancially and physically to that accomplishment .We hope to see in the future more of that and achieve more in this community.

Jane Apilla, BSC IT III

mmes Experience in the Outreach Progra of Uganda Martyrs University

For one to nish studies at undergraduate level, community work should be taken as a prerequisite as it is in many European universities or those from other parts of the World. This is due to the fact that it exposes students to the dierent kinds of life experiences coupled with the conditions under which people live and work. One shouldn t underestimate the fact that it orients students towards pioneering for development. Students at Uganda Martyrs University have several opportunities for community work. There are usually openings in the Directorate of Outreach Programmes where all the interrelated pillars of an academic institution such as Academics, Research, and Outreach are exhibited. The interrelationship among the three is seen in the aspect of Academics, which cannot exist without Research, which consequently requires the practical part which is Outreach. This involves doing practical things to help out the communities where dierent academic

Kazeneza Messina, BAM III

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FACE IN THE CROWD

Students News

Briey tell us who you are. Hillary Mugisha is my name. A third year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology. What inspired you to take on Information Technology? With the growing need of computers in society, i felt IT was the way to go but ofcourse other courses like BAM, BDT, EDS, i like.

The Journey to Uganda Martyrs University

Describe Hillary Mugisha. I believe I am a very humble, down to earth, outgoing, very social and I learn from every mistake that I make. I love listening to everyone in their capacities because I believe dierent people have dierent ideas that I may not know, I mean u never know, even dirty water can put out re. Basketball is my sport, I like reading and listening to music. Ooh I like politics too, a lot!

What do you think of UMU? UMU is a very nice place full of intelligent people only and a highly learned sta which has led to the recurrent talk both nationally and internationally about UMU s academic excellence. I belive it is the people in a place that make that place and not the other way round and UMU students have lived up to this. I feel blessed and privileged to be in such an institution. And the UMU students... Students at UMU are so loving, social, hardworking and value academics so much.UMU is one community despite the dierent races, cultures, nationalities etc and there is alot of togetherness, sharing,and ethical values are priotised. I feel honored to lead such people who always aim at making a difference

What inspired you to stand for presidency What inspired me to stand for presidency was the need to hear and get information from its real source. I had a problem before I became president and that was not fully believing every information that our leaders would then bring to us.

Have you faced any challenges sofar? I face a few challenges here and there but I always do the right thing at the right time and in the right place though i tend to add with the right people . This has helped me so much to balance my books, my oce and ofcourse the social life and like I said when I was campaigning, I will do my best for UMU by virtue and wisdom.

While standing at the entrance to Anthens Socrates was accosted by some chappie who addressed him thus: I am intending to move to Anthens but rst tell me how people are like here. Socrates responded by asking him where he came from how the people were. Ah, said the chap, dishonesty reigns supreme, people are hypocritical, backstabbers girl friend snatchers- in short louse of the worst kind! Well , Well , well , went Socrates, you will nd a lot of the kind in here. The chap felt that that was not the kind of place he wanted to be and went on his way. Another fellow came along and asked of the great Greek bozo the same query. Again Socrates asked him the same question to which he answered, .people are good natured, angels in human shape, Maria Teresa could take a corresponding lesson, kindness is everywhere and you are never treated with anything but utmost respect. Welcome to Athens, smiled Socrates, You will nd the same thing here. Uganda martyrs oers more or less the same delightful opportunity. This is why it was with pleasure that I organized for a return journey in the delightful company of the big man from Bank of Uganda. The journey to Uganda Martyrs University has always been one requiring much preparations and seeing how well planned previous attempts were sabotaged at the last minute I was not letting chance come into my home coming. And so it was delightful that so many years later Peter had more or less the same sentiments. After a brief stopover at some washing bay or another we found ourselves heading at a leisurely pace to the university. Nostalgia sets in as one makes such a trip and we quickly started reminiscing about the chaps and chaptesses who spent more time in the Green valley lodge- some rare location behind BAM Block and after the tennis court. The growth of new buildings have eaten into some of these pleasure spots and leaving romantics little room to recite poetry away from the inquisitive eyes and talking mouths that are won t to make any practicing poet, a romeo in the making , turn into a deaf adder. Talking about infrastructure it would perhaps be better not to discuss times when the pioneers told me of. Times when the only obstacle on the door was a hanging pair of sheets and when one wanted to visit another he had to knock on the bed sheets and call out koodi my brother (or sister) in order that you did not nd your brother or sister or the both of them, pants down. Ancestors (pioneers) who have spent some time without going there will denitely fail to make sense of the gargantuan steps of progress made starting from Kayabwe to the Trading centre- notwithstanding that Equator 2000 collapsed in fulllment of the 5 year life expectancy of business inspite of robust climate and
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Gensi Esther BAMII

positive trends of population. Politics in Uganda Martyrs always nds a way to keep one in state of amusement- it is like some form of good laughing gas. I remember one dramatic candidate whose campaign speech was so poignant it should be copyrighted. members, he said brandishing the UMU Alumni constitution in one hand, I have read the duties for this post(PAUSE). I can do it! (rapturous applause). Not very dierent from the one of long ago who was resisting the Lord instruction until at last he succumbed in the memorable vein Lord send me! Getting through the gates the music was still as mother makes and we entered into the shaking routines preparatory for a night of revelry and dance. The tents were full, various years were well represented applause though for the 2004 who out numbered all years and as such were a raucous bunch being soul of the party and all. Memory came ooding in and I remembered Okidi s dictum at UMU, Friday nights will never be the same. And it never was.

Students News
It involves achievement through building community capacity and inuence by enabling people to develop the condence, understanding and skills required to inuence decision making and service delivery. Nkozi community learning and development activities should be based on the following principles; Empowerment: increasing the ability of UMU students and society groups to inuence issues that aect them and their communities. Participation: supporting UMU students and the Nkozi community to take part in decision making.Partnership recognising that many agencies can contribute to community learning development to ensure resources are used eectively. A philosophical base for developing community education programs in Nkozi village is provided through these components. i) Self determination: UMU students are in the best position to identify community needs and wants. ii) Self help: UMU students are best served when their capacity to help themselves is encouraged and enhanced. When students assume ever- increasing responsibility for their own well being, they acquire independence rather than dependence. iii) Leadership development: The identication, development, and use of the leadership capacities of student leaders are prerequisites for on-going self- help and community improvement eorts. iv) Localization: Services, programs, events, and other community involvement opportunities are brought closest to the people. Whenever possible, these activities should be decentralised to location of easy public access.

Watmon Mike Kinyera Dialogue Consults,Almuus

..... COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT UMU Community based lifelong learning opportunities incorporating the core skills of literacy, numeracy, communications, working with others, problem solving and information communications technology (ICT). Community development involves teaching young people by engaging with them to facilitate their personal, social and educational development and enabling them to gain a voice, inuence and place in society.

JUST SAYING

Vivian Atunkunda BAM III

Book Review
BOOK: 20 Tough Questions Teenagers Ask About HIV/AIDS and 20 Tough Answers Authors: B. Otaala, L. L. Davitz, L. Otaala, J. R. Davitz Reviewer: Alex Agaba Review: Teenagers have always had tough questions that they would like to ask but often nd it dicult to talk to adults. With the ever-present threat of HIV/AIDS, teenagers now have even tougher questions to ask. This book is about the real fears and concerns of teenagers regarding HIV/AIDS and actual questions they have asked on the subject and related issues. This is not your ordinary teenager book because it is not all fun and joy while you ip through the fty pages. It covers facts on a disease we all love to hate. Find out facts like how long a person with HIV/AIDS usually lives, how HIV came from monkeys and Chimpazees, why AIDS was called the slimming disease and how long one should wait after being at risk of being infected before taking the HIV test. This book does a good job on debunking several myths on the subject of AIDS. Learn that you cannot get AIDS from sharing a toilet seat, cap, plate and basin with an infected person. Neither can one get AIDS through touching touching, an hugging or even sharing a swimming pool. Professor Barnabas Otaala and colleagues wrote this book when he was head of the Unit for improving Teaching and Learning at the University of Namibia. Both he and Laura Otaala are at Uganda Martyrs University now where he is the dean of Education, and she, the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. Both Lois and Joel Davitz are professors emeriti of Teachers College, Columbia, University in New York, USA. 20 Tough Questions Teenagers Ask About HIV/AIDS and 20 Tough Answers is published by Juta Gariep, 40 Heerengracht, Cape Town, 8001, P.O Box 5197, Cape Town, 800. Website: http://www.nasou-viaafrilea.com

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Locality in the Era of Misconceived

Modernity
Kabondera. I even hear that music aects the eardrum! Honestly it is so local. Thirsty or not, it is stylish to drink mineral water . You don t have to boil your own water even where you can, that is of no style! Buy 500mls at 700/=, don t be bothered that 20 litres of tap water that you can boil cost only 150/=. Carry a bottle comrade, it puts you in a class above the local. Who cares whether bottled water also comes from the tap and not from the mountain springs beautifully depicted on the bottles! Who is shouting about the environment? Have you heard the soils complaining about plastic bottles? Sip your water and throw away the bottle, it is its business if it doesn t want to decompose. If other generations nd the soils lled with plastics, it will be upon them to sort the mess of our generation. Some conservative fellow has been complaining about your new dress code! That you are wearing very tight pants! Ignore him, he grew up with his grandmother. Tie your buttocks more tightly to bring out those shapes prominently. Don t be mean with what God gave you free of charge, exhibit dear. Show them that you have mastered the art of self-advertisement. When you bend and it signals like tearing, it is not their business. Many people wear like that today. Don t two wrongs make a right? What are they hiding in their long skirts and big pants? Why are they so selsh? Landing back from the sarcasm, it is not in itself bad to embrace modernity. Neither am I writing as a radical traditionalist. The point is that there are many good things we are losing as we bundle and dismiss them as local . Unfortunately, some of the modern things we embrace as we shun the local are sometimes toxic, unhealthy, unreasonably more expensive, self-abusive and undignied! True, it is our duty and freedom to choose what we want to be. But let our choices be critically made. We certainly ought to re-contemplate what we call local and meditate on the implications of our labelling.

Columnist

When being local becomes as good as an insult, the last thing you would expect to hear is a person proudly local. That is how strong the winds of social convention can be, especially when blowing across an uncritical terrain. But can one be proudly local ? Of course, but untying the social chains may be demanding for more courage than we are willing to gather. In some cases it is simply to be blamed on ignorance about facts and implications.
For instance, I have come across a couple of people who shun their surnames. You call someone Kemigisha, Nakalema, Akello and they will be quick to caution you against using such funeral names . Only a local person would want to address or be addressed by such names. It is trendy/modern to be called Sasha, Fi, Salvado, Nash, and so forth! They sound nice and allow for smooth tongue-rolling with a stereo eect, it is argued. Thus, in a number of modern families today, such names would be the rst to be thought about at the birth of a child, usually in consultation of online name catalogues and TV soaps. The black colour has also fallen victim. The farther one s skin is from darkness, the more pretty/handsome they seem to be considered! A local lady carries natural hair, no cosmetics and may not have battled o the black pigment of her skin. She boringly speaks plain vernacular with no English or French input! You painfully listen to her say okulongoosa (to clean) instead of okucleaninga. She is mourner-like. She craves for akatogo instead of chaps, chips, sausages. She knows no pizza! As in, she is damn local! She carries cheap bags from downtown. Hasn t she heard about Sanchez, Agnona, Ferretti, Gucci, D&G... ? Someone advise her to style up . How do you prove you are not local? Easy! Don t associate with stu made in Uganda or perhaps Africa as a whole. Why should you use a TV made by Sembule? As if Sony TVs were out of stock! Don t bore people with African wear. Come on, there are modern garments from Europe and America. Besides, which designer tag is on your

kitenge? Where is its designer in international ranks? Don t tell me about promoting local products, functionality and convenience. That is local talk. Wear a suit, most probably made in any of those developed countries we most accurately seek to imitate (from economics, to language, colour and taste). You are a corporate man, so smart an ocer. African wear is casual and informal, not suitable for modern settings like oces. Reserve it for bar evenings and other informal functions. And I warn you, never take it to parliament. That is a place for serious business not to be associated with Africanness . Who cares whether the Ugandan climate is not suitable for suits. Remember the Englishman (underline the authority) says smartness knows no weather . And whose business is it that you are

mistreating your body by subjecting it to such heat? Don t they appreciate the value of smartness? Do they know the cost of your suit? Tie your neck as well to maximally generate heat inside. You are modern. Which music do you listen to? Last time I heard you sing along a Kadongo kamu song. Be open to me, do you like that local crap? Those people who sing in wrong languages and about local issues! Get serious. Why on earth when the likes of Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Alicia, Lil Wayne, Jay Z, 50 Cent and Kanye West are still releasing Grammy material! That is the music nigga. The guys can ow! You step it like it s hot . Forget about promotion of our own and relevance to local issues. Don t allow the embarrassment of being found listening to Fred Ssebatta, Mata Nasani, or

Jimmy Spire Ssentongo

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Champions aren t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside thema desire, a dream, a vision. Muhammed Ali A look at the day in sports from the past events within the writers time of stay in the university has been exceptionally incredulous, who is one not to believe the adventures in time events. Uganda Martyrs University has proven to be an ivory tower among the universities that Uganda uphold. Our reputation preceeds us? as one from the campus introduces himself in social events non the less educational standards but are ridiculed in our sports values and attempts: I beg to dier. I believe we are full of surprises and we have not let anyone down on that promise. On a scale graph, our status bar keeps climbimg and the cheap talk decelarates with shock due to our unexpected perfomance on the eld on the pitch, on the court, on the tables and coming soon, in the pool. The sports women and men are of high potent despite our inadequate facilities, they tend to ght for their beliefs and stick up for one another. The endevours are well granted with the assistance from and backup force form our administration; on that notice, on behalf of the student body, i hail my hands in the air to applaud the university administration with repect of their eorts to place our talents as a priority. Their positive attitude towards the potential of the talented sportsmen and women has left heads held up high. Our representation in sports activities including the EAST AFRICAN INTER-UNIVERSITY COMPETITIONS- Kyambogo 2009 and well, we didnot come out victors in our respective activities and on paper but we were victors at heart. The exposure against our opponents are quite an experience. Another applaud to our Netballers who came out as semi nalists and placed our university on the sports grid. However all sports women and men of Uganda Martyrs University should be honoured: Rugby, cricket, volleyball, basketball, netball, football, table tennis, chess, badminton, (if respective sport not mentioned please donot be oended). Without further due, the Horns and Trumpets blow as we have been abled to travel to Nairobi for the INTER-UNIVERSITY GAMES due in Nairobi, Kenya 16th-22nd December 2010 where the university will represent at our best and give our best. GOD BLESS I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can t accept not trying. - Michael Jordan

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