By Oweyegha-Afunaduula
It is true. Uganda education is not emancipating education. It is crushing, silencing and domesticating and enslaving education, which must individually break out of. Such education will nurture a docile people that, more often than not, will not question anything, and who will suffer in silence the choices of other people, in silence, without taking action to liberate themselves from such choices – collectively.
It is easy for people whose roots are somewhere else to impose themselves on such a people, and even take away everything they had: independence, freedom, self-concepts, dignity, humanity, hope, minerals, land, sovereignty, citizenship, nationhood, ownership, crops, and even futures.
Uganda needs an empowering, emancipating education that does not crush the self-concepts of learner’s who after graduation can resist being used to oppress, repress, suppress, depress and exploit fellow country people, and can stand up and be counted in defense of their country, its people, it’s independence, its sovereignty, its citizenship, its ownership, its indigenous crops and its unity.
So far so bad. Education for education’s sake, for certificates, is harming Uganda, current generations and future generations.
For God and My Country
The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist
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