Research can be disputed decolonize minds

My relationship with academia has to be by far the relationship that has taught me the most.

My love of academia has nurtured in me a significant appreciation of the profound influence that academia wields over society, over culture and over the economy.

Used correctly, academia has the huge potential to cause positive change for the greater good.

The capacity for education, research and scholarship to impact is huge.

Well researched and well written policy briefs, such as “Research can be disputed decolonize minds,” used correctly are authoritative and have the potential to cause sustainable positive change.

Those engaged in academia – professors, teachers, researchers, deserve more recognition and celebration than it is done now in Uganda, in particular.

We, engaged in academia, are the foundation for human development.

Without solid and strong human development, all other kinds of development are necessarily difficult to attain, if at all.

It is nations without sufficient human development that are vulnerable to manipulation to accept to operate within vicious cycles of fake and false information packaged as fact.

Branded as findings from empirical research, plenty false information is used as the premise for intervention design; and which interventions often end dead on arrival.

Oh yes, I share this to inspire us all to fact-check each and everything that we are told by duty bearers. And whenever we can, push back to discredit false-facts packaged as empirical research.

Even though, we do so simply by writing about it, including authoring user-friendly policy briefs.

Yap, let us all live by the logic of the proverb: “the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Profiled photo, holding the daughter of one of the participants in the CPAR Participatory Action Research Writing Masterclass so she could stay at pace with the class.