Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | From a small school in Nansana, Uganda, to the gates of Harvard University, engineering student Garvin Alimu says his journey under the Equity Leaders Program (ELP) has been marked by “risks, sacrifices, and challenges that at times felt insurmountable.” Alimu, 20, is among 128 young …
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SPECIAL REPORT | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers have published a book detailing political tactics that it says President Yoweri Museveni has utilized to rule Uganda for close to four decades. The “Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda Clientelism, Coercion, and Social Control” was launched on Monday. It says Uganda has since the return …
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Ms. Victoria Serunkuuma Kisarale, the a celebrated English-teacher and current headmistress of the oldest girl’s school and one of best schools in Uganda – Gayaza Girls’ High School, gave a much-ballyhooed keynote speech to 478 students initiated into the bulging number of The MasterCard Foundation Scholars alumni. The speech that …
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By Dani Rodrik We need less attachment to a particular ideology and more contextually-driven thinking We live in a complicated world, so we are forced to simplify it. We categorise people around us as friends or foes, classify their motives as good or bad, and ascribe events with complex roots …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
