The Health Policy and Development Journal by the Department of Health Sciences
African Dual Career Couples: Problems and Challeneges of the Modern Business Environment by Kobusingye Prisca, 2001
“Sustainable Development” in the Dock: A Need for Sustainable Co-existence in Africa. by Munyonyo Remigius, 2002
The ‘Caging’ of African Women: Towards A Radical Understanding of Women’s Economic Position in African Societies Today. by Nduhukhire-Owa-Mataze, 2002
Grand Narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their Contribution to the Current Conflicts. by Ngabirano Maximiano, 2003
Where is Idi Amin? On Violence, Ethics and Social Memory in Africa. by Katongole Emmanuel, 2004
Celebrating 10 Years of academic Excellence. by Kanyandago, P & Mugumya, L (Eds), 2004
An Evaluation of Uganda’s Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) using the Right-to-Adequate – Food (RAF) and Sustainable Co-existence (SCE) Approaches. by Munyonyo Remigius, 2004
Interdisciplinarity in Uganda’s Education System. by Namusisi Speranza, 2005
Business Ethics in the African Context Today.
The Challenge of Eradicating Poverty in the World: An African Response.
Fraud and the African Renaissance.

The Health Policy and Development Journal

The Journal Health Policy and Development is published by the Department of Health Sciences of Uganda Martyrs University three times a year: in April, August and December. Its Mission is: “To widen access to relevant, scientifically rigorous and practically oriented information on public health policy, politics, planning and management, by publishing original articles and contributions from within and from outside Uganda that will stimulate debate, sharpen critical thinking and analysis and contribute to greater effectiveness of health policy making and management”.

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Other Publications

The volumes published under UMU Press Studies in Contemporary Africa are a collection and proceedings of papers at the previous conferences that have been held and hosted by the University, since its inception. The conferences have focused on different themes and issues that are of concern to modern Africa.

The theme of the first Conference held in September 1996 was "Business Ethics in African Context today". The Second Conference was held in September 1998. On this occasion the theme was "The Challenge of Eradicating Poverty in the World: An African Response". "Fraud and the African Renaissance" was theme of the third conference which was held in April 1999.

All these volumes put together, are a very useful resource for reseachers, academicians, students, and politicians who are interested in the various issues surrounding the present development of Africa.


Number 7
Kobusingye Prisca, 2001, African Dual Career Couples: Problems and Challenges of the Modern Business Environment.
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Abstract
The foundations of this study are firmly work-oriented and humanistic. The author argues that that although the family has been held in high esteem for quite long, many questions on what an African family should be remain unanswered. The author maintains that the problems faced by African dual-career couples are the concern of every member of society. The work focuses on the contradictions in the family when couples work outside the home and it suggests solutions pertinent to these contradictions.

Number 8
Munyonyo Remigius, 2002, “Sustainable Development” in the Dock: A Need for Sustainable Co-existence in Africa.
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Abstract
The paper argues that, in the case of environmental degradation, it is not environmental concerns that are paramount, but how the life of the human being is to be protected and prolonged. Such an understanding of ‘sustainable development‘, that is human centred rather than ecosystem-centred, must be put in the dock for questioning. The human being must be taken as one aspect of the many that constitute nature whose development should not only be the focus, but rather the totality of all (including non-life forms) in nature. The paper also introduces the concept and practice of ‘sustainable co-existence’, as an appeal to replace ‘sustainable development’. ‘Sustainable co-existence’ is proposed for Africa as a way out of the current development crisis. The proposal entails for Africa: the re-discovery of its past in which a majority of societies defined and practised their development as ecosystem-centred rather than human-centred.

Number 9
Nduhukhire-Owa-Mataze, 2002, The ‘Caging’ of African Women: Towards A Radical Understanding of Women’s Economic Position in African Societies Today.
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Abstract
The author argues that lack of a radical understanding of women’s economic position in African societies today, partly explains the tendency to apply approaches such as integration and insertion that are often dangerous and abusive to African women and indeed all women.

Number 10
Ngabirano Maximiano, 2003, Grand Narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their Contribution to the Current Conflicts
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Abstract
The author draws attention to the influence of narrative and group identities to the current conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. He argues that past memories, passed over to the present generation through community narratives, have contributed to the current crisis. Narratives have been a driving force in forming solidarity and at the same time in excluding and exterminating others. Narrative groups have further consolidated allies and distinguished enemies, in this way broadening the crisis in the region. The author concludes by asserting that particular narratives remain dangerous in the Great Lakes Region, unless they are reconstructed in recognition of others narratives.

Number 11
Katongole Emmanuel, 2004, Where is Idi Amin? On Violence, Ethics and Social Memory in Africa.
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Abstract
The former Uganda dictator, Amin Dada, recently died in a Saudi hospital, after spending the last twenty four years of his life in exile. Given Amin’s brutal dictatorship and the notoriety of his regime in Uganda one would have expected that there has been a lot of public discussion about Amin’s legacy and his continuing influence in Uganda. But this has not been the case. On the contrary there been an almost total silence around the topic of Idi Amin. It is against this background that the Professor Katongole explores the ethical and theological significance of memory in Africa. The silence around Amin, Katongole argues, is just an indication that African societies are yet to realize the need, in fact, necessity of confronting the memories with which they live. And yet, without facing the task of memory both individuals and societies can neither understand the challenges that face them in the present nor able to envision or imagine viable alternatives for the future. More specifically the author sets out to show that because memory is so much something we have in our ‘minds’ as a pattern of concrete habits and practices, envisioning a different or more hopeful future requires the existence of other practices, practices set within other memories. This is why, he argues, the ethical and theological task of memory is not just one of displaying the memories with which we live, it is to point to other geographies of memory through which our lives can be shaped in more promising directions.

Special Edition
Kanyandago, P & Mugumya, L (Eds), 2004, Celebrating 10 Years of academic Excellence.
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Abstract
In this publication various authors look at different aspects ranging from human rights challenges to indigenous knowledge; ICT challenges to challenges of globalisation and educational liberalization. Part one examines the right to adequate food using the case of armed conflict in Uganda to explore the extent to which the right to adequate food is enjoyed by the ordinary people in the Acholiland and some parts of western Uganda.
In part two, authors explore aspects of indigenous knowledge; how our culture(s) influence our morality, affect the endeavors towards sustainable development; and looking at the hidden treasures in African cultures and showing the significance of proverbs and African education in our contemporary society.
Part three discusses challenges of Information Communication Technology development in Uganda by examining the new approach for software development, the Open Source Software. It also sets out to respond to the question: “How can we exit the dominant development discourse for authentic alternatives to development?” by arguing that the ICT is part of the globalisation discourse, which is again part of the general development discourse.
Part four looks at globalisation and interdependence by locating the challenges of globalisation in the dialecticised interdependencies.
Part five identifies the challenges of Higher Education (HE) and the need for an education system, which is of high quality and relevant to societal needs… The central argument is that each institution should ensure high quality of its inputs, processes, and outputs as defined by the beneficiaries.

Number 12
Munyonyo Remigius, 2004, An Evaluation of Uganda’s Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) using the Right-to-Adequate – Food (RAF) and Sustainable Co-existence (SCE) Approaches.
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Abstract
The paper argues that the framework that defines the Plan for Modernization of Agriculture (PMA) makes it difficult for Ugandans to rapidly realize the right to adequate food (RAF). Using qualitative and quantitative research methods involving carrying out a survey to look at the farmers’ and stakeholders’ needs and views about the PMA, conducting key informant interviews and consensus panels to generate information on the perceptions and experiences of elders, government officials and politicians regarding strategies in the agricultural sector and the African understanding of the RAF, and developing the African understanding of sustainable co-existence (SCE) from some of the pillars of African scholars, the paper proposes a sustainable co-existence approach. This approach also suggests some issues that are raised by the African understanding of the RAF. In total, the paper suggests an agricultural sector that is managed and maintained by the smallholder farmers, follows conservation-oriented development strategy, utilizes knowledge from natural ecological systems and traditional farming methods, adopts Integrated Pest Management, offers friendly credit, puts in place a research system and marketing strategy in favor of smallholder farmers’ needs, and adopts a clear option for women farmers and traditional crops. This type of agricultural sector, which I have called ‘sustainable co-existence’ agriculture, is the one capable of guaranteeing the right to adequate food and its constitutive elements have been used to evaluate the PMA.

Number 13
Namusisi Speranza, 2005, Interdisciplinarity in Uganda’s Education System.
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Abstract
This study presents the relevance of interdisciplinary education, the crisis in which Uganda’s education system is, where specialisation is at its peak. It analyses the form of the present curriculum, which leaves the learner in a state of dilemma. The author again shows the need for interdisciplinarity, tries to find out whether there is a trace of it in our system, and how it can benefit the recipients.
In presentation, the study takes us through the education system right from Primary to University level, analysing how government, through the Ministry of Education has organised the studies. This study is based on a critical analysis of the school curriculum as followed by the Educational Institutions, and reviewing related documents regarding this curriculum and education regulations. Other information has been attained from literature.
The study suggests that Uganda’s education system needs transformation if it is to produce people who can sustain themselves and their jobs in this global world. It recommends that an integrative curriculum be put in place so that a learner is exposed to unity or connectedness of disciplines for a better future.


BUSINESS ETHICS IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT TODAY
Volume 1 (Editors Michel Lejeune and Philipp W. Rosemann)
Published in 1998 ISBN 9970-419-00-5
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This book brings together contributions from outstanding experts in business and ethics, combining theoretical with eminently practical perspectives. In the first part, it examines the possibility of founding business ethics theologically, in the priciples of Christianity. In the Second part, it analyses concrete problems of business ethics in contemporary Africa, and, especially Uganda. The views in this book, among others, look at the problems of corruption and bribery, the ethics of banking and international finance, and the role of women in the African business world.

The book will be of interest to students of business ethics and contemporary Africa alike.

Note: Presently the book is out of print.

THE CHALLENGE OF ERADICATING POVERTY IN THE WORLD: AN AFRICAN RESPONSE
Volume 2 (Editors Deirdre Carabine and Martin O'Reilly)
Published in 1998 ISBN 9970-419-01-4
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Contains contributions from scholars and others working in the field of development isues. The topic, "The Challenge of Eradicating Poverty in the World: An African Response", is examined from various perspectives in order to gain a deeper insight into this complex problem which continues to plague our societies today. The basic premise underlying this volume is that poverty prevents the development of society and denies individuals the rights and freedoms to attain authentic human development.

The first part of the book examines the phenomenon of poverty from the philosophical and theological perspectives.

Part Two contextualises the problem in relation to human rights and gender issues in Uganda today.

Part three proposes solutions for poverty eradication from the perspectives of culture, education, good governance, entrepreneurship, and liberation theology.

The final contribution is a practical example of how Equator Valley Farm is helping to eradicate poverty in Nkozi - a sign that there is hope for the future when all individuals in society work together for the common good.

This book will be of interest to politicians, theologians, philosophers, development workers, and all those who believe that human societies can effect the establishment of equality among people through the eradication of poverty. Note: Copies of the book are still available at the University. You can order by writing to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

FRAUD AND THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE
Volume 3 (Editors: Gideon J. Rossouw, Deirdre Carabine)
Published in 1999 ISBN 9970-419-02-3
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This volume brings together contributions from ten scholars on the theme: Fraud and the African Renaissance. The papers in the first part of the book examine the nature of fraud in the context of the African Renaissance, while Part Two proposes ways in which the African Renaissance can become a joyful reality through the elimination of fraud and other kinds of economic crime on the African continent.

This book will of interest to all those who hope for a new Africa at the dawn of a new millenium.

Note: Copies of the book are still available at the University. You can order by writing to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it