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: umu@umu.ac.ug
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: umu@umu.ac.ug
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