Women Academics From Uganda

"Let's institutionalize KIBALO in our life journeys, 10 medical students could come together to establish a clinic, 10 Agriculturalist could start a farm on one acre, 10 lawyers could start a law firm."

"This project investigates how civil society leaders and movements can develop a critical collective voice on the governance of digitalization of agriculture within the context of food sovereignty. The impact of digitalization on the food system is a growing issue of concern across Africa."

"Respiratory cryptosporidiosis is considered an occasional, late-stage complication of HIV/AIDS. This study aimed to assess the clinical importance of respiratory cryptosporidiosis in children with diarrhea and respiratory symptoms at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda."

"Malaria has a stable perennial transmission across Uganda. Placental malaria is associated with adverse maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes. The factors associated with placental malaria are poorly understood in the study setting."

"Alcohol use among children in low-resource settings has received limited attention. This study investigated the prevalence of and biopsychosocial factors associated with alcohol use among children aged 6 to 13 years enrolled in primary education in Uganda."

"Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of death for neonates worldwide. Lack of an objective cost effective test to predict poor newborn outcomes at birth affects the ability to respond appropriately. This study determined predictive values of umbilical cord arterial lactate in relation to adverse neonatal outcomes."

"Luwedde believes that we belong to a banana republic, where if you need something done, you become part of the solution to fight a problem."

"We underestimate the barriers that many women face on the basis of their gender that might push them off work."

"When you think of the number of women who die giving birth per day and year, not because of any serious sickness but just giving birth, it makes you angry."

"first child ending one’s life or putting a long hold on their career. Because even those who become mothers still have a lot to deal with."

"giving birth appears to be the one thing that still stands in the way of many young women’s career growth and development. That is something to fear"

"issue includes an up-to-date resources section, listing publications, electronic resources, and organizations."

"Since 1993, Gender and Development has aimed to promote, inspire, and support development policy and practice, which furthers the goal of equality between women and men."

"Insights from development initiatives across the world are shared and analyzed, and lessons identified. Innovative theoretical concepts are investigated by key academic writers, and the uses of these concepts for policy and practice are explored."

"Each issue of Gender and Development focuses on a topic of key interest to all involved in promoting gender equality through development."

"In my humanities work, the technology of film is crucial to my success. It allows for a popular version of my research, a form that everyone can access."

"In a country where demand for higher education is booming, with a demand 50 percent higher than the global average, our universities can offer only a limited number of seats for STEM training, and as a result we find an unfortunately high unemployment rate for university graduates"

"For us, Africans who are predominantly described as very oral people, the film medium is a very powerful continuation, in a way, of our orality."

"Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge."

"Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market."

"Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want."

"Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people."

"Our feminism is not qualified by the "Buts ,Ifs Or However" ..You are either a feminist or you are not."

"I believe in a just a fair world, where I am not subservient to another because we differ in color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age."

"Despite the debilitating legacies of slavery and colonialism that continue to hold our continent and perpetuate global geopolitical and economic imbalances, I think Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra whereby you strike one and another one that is twice as strong emerges."

"Young women who wish to pursue a career in architecture and urban planning should know that the course is intense and that they need to manage their time well so that they do not lag behind and thus lose interest in the course. It is okay to mix work and play but it is important to stay on course."

"As an architect/urban planner, my areas of interest include researching human settlement, especially studying informal settlements and low-income housing in a bid to establish how the housing conditions can be improved for the wellbeing of low-income households."

"It is therefore very important for fellows and grantees to read and stay informed about the knowledge produced within the Continent and other parts of the world, while also continuously exploring ways of contributing to global knowledge production."

"fellows and grantees should also realize there is also area-focused knowledge production, which involves locating their works in locally published texts/literature in order to strengthen and locate their field of inquiry in the area and context from which it comes"

"have to familiarize themselves and be well immersed in the theories addressing a particular field of study or subject-matter."

"Fellows and grantees need to understand how other scholars or their peers in a particular field have researched about a subject, or another related subject that they want to work on"

"They must read widely as it is a must for their work so that they can determine what the key developments in their field are, and decide on what issues to focus on, or the potential contribution they hope their research will have on their field."

"This is important because it helps in consolidating the next generation of Africa’s knowledge producers and professoriate, enabling them know each other better and form life-long, career-enhancing relationships."

"This is more-so as the grantees and fellows of both programs focus on the broad theme of conflict and peacebuilding in Africa."

"We have just concluded a fruitful period. Interestingly, this is not the first time we are having a joint workshop. We have had them in Nairobi before but then, they were back to back and we never really met."

"The fact that they have their own income has strengthened their position. In the short term, this gives women a stronger position in their own families. In the long term, it helps to break down archaic social structures."

"Digitalization of agriculture has been portrayed by governments and agribusiness as a driving force accelerating agricultural transformation."

"We also advocate for farmers to ensure that they have control over the technologies being deployed onto them. In the end, the technologies must be farmer-centric, and developed for farmers to meet their needs"

"We are in the early stages of developing a platform where we can continuously share, update, and inform farmers about their rights and about the implications of sharing their data with platforms."

"from one that is being dominated by western models of glass-clad buildings to one where we see diversity in styles. Perhaps in the next ten years, we shall see instruments of our national identity emerging in the form of different traditional motifs appearing often in the architecture around us."

"Lecturing being a timetabled activity allows for ample flexibility. I carry out other activities like involvement in private practice and grants application in between lecture time. It is lots of fun interacting with young people (students), there is a lot to learn from them, and it makes one feel like a child again."

"Several young people in Uganda both within the architecture course and outside have told me that they wish to be like me, which I think is a good thing because it sustainably intensifies aspirations for the architecture course, especially for the female gender"

"To assess the effect of an integrated intervention package compared with routine government health services on the frequency of health facility births. Setting Three subcounties of Lira district in Northern Uganda. Design A cluster randomised controlled trial where a total of 30 clusters were randomised in a ratio of 1:1 to intervention..."

"Matooke is a very starchy food, more so even than maize or potatoes. We realised we could do more with matooke flour than with maize, if you add matooke flour to wheat or maize flour, you get a better product. With its nutrients it can be used as an alternative to wheat."

"By adding value, farmers can sustainably produce bananas as a food and to increase income."

"I grew up in a family that so much cherished matooke as a food crop and as a child, I started developing a special attachment to the same. However, I later realized that there was not much literature or research done on matooke."

"Children and teenagers are encouraged to eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly and sleep for at least 8 hours a day."

"Include iron-rich foods in your child’s diet, such as meat, poultry, fish, beans, and iron-fortified foods. Continue serving iron-fortified cereal until your child is eating a variety of iron-rich foods."

"After a long day, I went to present my day’s report to the professor. Because we were meeting at the paediatric ward, I found they had lined up nine dead babies. All had died of measles. I broke down and started crying and on this day I vowed to be part of the team that helps children survive. And I had to work hard. Paediatrics is tough and you need to excel. Undertaking my internship at Nsambya Hospital made me think more and more of doing paediatrics because I had a very good consultant doctor who loved her job and she was so inspirational. She would always be at the ward at 7:30 in the morning, taking care of children."

"My mother is a retired nurse while my father was a mining engineer. Growing up, I was influenced by many people including my aunt’s friend who was an air hostess. At one point I wanted to be an air hostess. I also aspired to be a news anchor and a high court judge. But along the way, I leaned more towards medicine following in my mother and sister’s footsteps."