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July 14, 2023
To relax, to sit still, to breathe in the scent of freshly chopped olives, to recognize the sweetness of tender and quiet moments, and to let it be is often far more difficult, and more rare, than colluding in the conspiracies of one’s mind. The mind is an open battlefield; a vast space of restlessness
November 24, 2022
An estimated 15 million pupils in the East African nation did not attend school for 83 weeks – that’s almost two years.
December 20, 2020
The lack of education stops a great majority of Africans from being citizens in their own right. However, in the two following decades, there have been very mixed results on how education enhances political empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa. Some researchers found that in Kenya civic education programmes had positive effects on political participation and engagement. By contrast, other scholars argued that higher levels of education did not increase people’s propensity to pursue “easy” fo...
December 18, 2020
18 December 2020 A limited understanding of how Uganda’s political system works is hampering young people in the country, but the education sector alone is not the magic bullet for democratisation, economic growth or poverty alleviation, says Dr Simone Datzberger (UCL Institute of Education). More than 20 years ago, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that: “The lack of education stops a great majority of African...