This book offers a philosophical critique of the gender ramifications of the modernisation paradigms in Ugandas Plan for the Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA).The book is premised on the contention that due to the need to increase food productivity to feed Ugandas ever increasing population, in addition to the poverty production tendency in subsistence production, the modernisation of Ugandas agriculture for sustainable poverty eradication cannot be overemphasised. The book argues that although Uganda must modernise if it is to compete favourably in a modernising global market economy, the...

The saying "we eat to live" is a clear testimony on how food is at the core of humanity and development. Realizing the right to food of the worlds population is thus an urgent obligation that may be unique from other human rights and freedoms given the importance of adequate food for organisation and prosperity of communities. Though rooted in international law and instruments, in Africa, the right to food and freedom from hunger has historically been transformed by external forces of slavery, colonialism, imperialism, neo-liberalism , apartheid, and conditioned economic policies, whose...

The problematic that has gripped the Sub-Saharan African milieu and has perturbed philosophers, political scientists, economists, sociologists, and development partners, intellectually and Splanchnically, is the combined phenomenon of corruption, nepotism, embezzlement graft, abuse of office and cronyism. While Sub-Saharan Africa has for a number of decades received substantial chunks of aid, ostensibly to improve living standards of the masses, in the majority of countries, living standards seem to be falling and the numbers of those who are destitute increasing. In addition even Ombudsmen...

Since the latter part of the 20th century, the development discourse has been characterized by a paradigm shift from categorical frame works such as the basic needs theory and trickle down theory to a capability and functionings approach to development envisaged in the Rights Based Approach to Development. This paradigmatic shift has been occasioned by the lack of equipoise between the earlier development discourses and the gender praxis. This book critiques the rhetoric explicit in the Rights Based Approach to development (RBAD) in light of the subsisting patriarchal social dichotomy in ...

Christianity is in a very serious crisis. Most of the doctrines being preached in today's pulpits are more occultic than cultic. As the world continues to be bombarded with the unscriptural American prosperity gospel, the major causality of this unscrupulous gospel are the sick, desperate and poor born again Christians of the world who have been totally disarmed to fight the disempowerment and exploitation of this gospel. Many Born again Christians have been conditioned to think that being born again is synonymous with being illogical, uncritical, unquestioning and uncontroversial. There is a...

The patriarchal/andro-centricity spectre which is the foundation of gender based discrimination variously manifests it self in all spheres of social life in Africa including; the politics, economics, law, the church, the family and the state . The basic philosophy of an androcentric social system is male control and domination vis-a-vis women subordination or oppression . Under this status quo the power to control and tame is 'vested' in the men . The fallacies behind this kind of philosophy explicate the apparent misogynistic practices that violate the inherent dignity and person of women in...

Philosophy of Law or jurisprudence or legal philosophy rationally, critically and systematically studies the assumptions and problems of Law as a discipline. Philosophy of law asks fundamental questions concerning law and legal systems. Such questions include: Why is law important? What would a society without laws be like? (Hobbes), Does anyone have an obligation to obey the law? If so, what is the source of this obligation? (Socrates/Plato), Is it ever morally permissible to disobey the law, i.e., to engage in civil disobedience? (Rawls), What is the purpose of Punishment? Should we...

This book is a simplified introduction to the philosophical tradition called pragmatism, the only major philosophical tradition to have developed entirely in the United States. While the philosophers we will look at in this book are all lumped together as "pragmatists," there is no doctrine that they all have in common. In fact, "pragmatism" means something slightly different for each one of them. The book examines various classical and contemporary American pragmatists. Are you confused about pragmatism? This book is a must read for you.

When Museveni captured power in 1986 and promised Ugandans a fundamental change, many Uganda were optimistic that the tyrannical days of dictators like Amin were over. After decades in power, Musevenis government is evidence of the fact that Uganda simply made a transition from AMIN to AMINISM. President Musevenis past no party democracy and now present pseudo multiparty democratic system has been implicated in innumerable human rights abuses, election rigging and corruption scandals amidst the aloofness of America and Britain. Despite the numerous human rights abuses and corruption...