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# Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina D. Alidou is Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters, School of Arts and Sciences-Rutgers University. She teaches in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature at Rutgers University. She received a Master of Arts degree in linguistics at the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger, and a MA degree in applied linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington where she also obtained a theoretical linguistics PhD. She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the 2022 president of the African Studies Association.

## Quotes

* Africans now see Africa in ways far from African binoculars
* the colonialists and the global hegemonies have created some sort of hypnosis (to use my own word!) or understanding that has affected even the ways Africans see themselves, the continent, and its studies. Drawing from this, the problem is not only about the domination of foreign methods of science and studies in Africa but also the root of the understanding of African studies that form the basis of the conceptualization of the studies themselves
* The implication of this is that African ideologies would have to be beaten into foreign methodologies, thereby killing the uniqueness of African Studies, which should have been the paramount effort.
* This is not to go into the etymological definitions but structural conception in this context. Science should not be seen from the angle of a conception of foreign endeavors.
* This is because those ideologies must be made to conform to these methodologies. This is simple: foreign perspectives or sentiments in foreign studies of Africa will always remain constant, and the African materials and essentials must conform to their parameters.
* It is that the important subject of spiritualties, witchcraft, and rituals could inhale the breath of science in its entirety and independent of already concluded global biases. It is that Africans should build science out of African elements.
# Dominica Dipio

Dominica Dipio (professionally referred to as Professor Sister Dominic Dipio) is a Ugandan religious sister, a filmmaker, author and a professor of Literature and Film at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. As a sister, she belongs to the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church, MSMMC, a Ugandan-founded religious congregation in Roman Catholic Diocese of Lira in Northern Uganda.In November 2019 she was appointed Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope Francis.

## Quotes

* 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.
* 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
* 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.
# Deborah Kasente

Deborah Hope Kasente is a Ugandan writer and academic who focusses on women's rights. She is the co-founder of the School of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University.

## Quotes

* Each issue of Gender and Development focuses on a topic of key interest to all involved in promoting gender equality through development.
* 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.
* 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.
* issue includes an up-to-date resources section, listing publications, electronic resources, and organizations.
# Emily Maractho

Emily Maractho also known as Maractho Emily Comfort is the Lecturer of Journalism and Media Studies at Uganda Christian University. She was awarded the "Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship" in 2015. The goal was to study Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal on media, women and public life in Uganda: Interrogating representation, interaction and engagement.She leads faculty of journalism, media and communication.In 2018, she replaced Prof. Monica B. Chibita, who became the first Dean of the faculty.

## Quotes

* 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
* 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.
* 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.
* We underestimate the barriers that many women face on the basis of their gender that might push them off work.
* 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.
# Grace Ndeezi

Grace Ndeezi is a Ugandan female pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics and child health at Makerere University of Health Sciences with over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals on nutrition, HIV, pneumonia, malaria, sickle cell anemia, diarrheal diseases, neonatal health and child heath interventions, such as immunization, breast feeding and other common childhood diseases. She has collaborated with other faculty and health professionals on three continents, including facilitation in Zimbabwe, Eritrea, and Kenya.

## Quotes

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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...
# Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana

Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana (née Assumpta Nnaggenda), also Assumpta Nnaggenda Musana, is a Ugandan architect, urban planner and academic, who serves as a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Physical Planning, in the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology, at Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. She was the first woman in Uganda to obtain a doctorate degree in architecture, and as of February 2019, the only one.

## Quotes

* 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
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
# Jack Eller

Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologis and distinguished professor at the Woxsen University.

## Quotes

* Although Americans often tout religion as a personal matter, it is actually immanently and irrepressibly social and collective. (2020)
* Ignorance, like a virus, can spread from one institution or claim to another: if people distrust politicians or scientists or whatever in one regard, they may and will distrust them in another. (2020)
* The experience of many disaffected Americans who voted for and persist in supporting Trump is loss—losing money, losing status, losing power, and, in sum, losing America.
# Barbara Ntambirweki

Barbara Ntambirweki is a lawyer, academic, and activist in Uganda. She is a lecturer in the faculty of law at Uganda Pentecostal University, a private university.

## Quotes

* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* Digitalization of agriculture has been portrayed by governments and agribusiness as a driving force accelerating agricultural transformation.
* 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.
# Sarah Ssali

Sarah Ssali (born 1971) is a Ugandan social scientist, researcher, academic and academic administrator, who is an associate professor and dean of the School of Gender Studies at Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university.

## Quotes

* 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.
* This is more-so as the grantees and fellows of both programs focus on the broad theme of conflict and peacebuilding in Africa.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* have to familiarize themselves and be well immersed in the theories addressing a particular field of study or subject-matter.
* 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
* 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.
# Henry Melville

Henry Saxelby Melville Wintle (1799 – 22 December 1873), commonly referred to as Henry Melville, was an Australian journalist, author, occultist, and Freemason best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers, his historical work The History of Van Diemen's Land from the Year 1824 to 1835, and his occult philosophical work Veritas: Revelation of Mysteries, Biblical, Historical, and Social by Means of the Median and Persian Laws. His life was dramatized in the 1882 Princess Theatre (Bendigo) production Found, or Found Drowned.

## Quotes

* In this year [1824] the aborigines of the Island began to annoy the settlers to a degree that required some active measures of the Government to allay the outraged feelings of this ill-fated race of human beings. These poor bewildered creatures had been treated worse than were any of the American tribes by the Spaniards. Easy, quiet, good-natured, and well-disposed towards the white population, they could no longer brook the treatment they received from the invaders of their country. Their hunting grounds were taken from them, and they themselves were driven like trespassers from the favorite spots for which their ancestors had bled, and had claimed by conquest. The various tribes which formerly were at war with each other, about this time seemed to forget their private differences, and their great aim was to protect themselves from slaughter, and to be revenged! The stock-keepers may be considered as the destroyers of nearly the whole of the aborigines—the proper, the legitimate owners of the soil: these miscreants so imposed upon their docility, that at length they thought little or nothing of destroying the men for the sake of carrying to their huts the females of the tribes; and, if it were possible in a work like this to record but a tithe of the murders committed on these poor harmless creatures, it would make the reader's blood run cold at the bare recital. In self-defence were these poor harmless creatures driven to desperate means, their fine kangaroo grounds were taken from them, and thus were they in want of their customary food; and when every other means of obtaining a livelihood was debarred to them, necessity compelled them to seek food of their despoilers.
** The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land (London and Hobart, 1835), p. 23
* They proceeded, not with the sword, but with the olive branch.
** The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land, p. 121, of John Batman's roving party against the aborigines; cf. Garry Linnell, Buckley's Chance (2019), p. 174

## See also

* Kikatapula
* Musquito

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Henry Melville on Wikipedia
# Musquito

Musquito (c. 1780 – 25 February 1825), also rendered Mosquito, Musquetta, Bush Muschetta or Muskito, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader, convict hunter and outlaw based firstly in the Sydney region of the British colony of New South Wales and, after a period in exile on Norfolk Island, in Van Diemen's Land.

## Quotes

* Musquito, in conversation with Mr. Bisdee, the jailor, and some other persons, after his sentence, said, "Hanging no good for black fellow." Mr. Bisdee.—"Why not as good for black fellow as for white fellow, if he kills a man?" Musquito.—"Very good for white fellow, for he used to it." He evidently meant that his execution was useless as an example to the savages: although executions were useful amongst the white people, who from custom understood the reason of men being thus punished as examples for others.
** Reported in Henry Melville, The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land (London and Hobart, 1835), p. 35, note

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Musquito on Wikipedia
# Kikatapula

Kikatapula (c. 1800 – 13 May 1832) was a leading Indigenous figure during the British colonisation of Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania. Also called Kickerterpoller or Black Tom Birch, he spent part of his youth living with the colonists, learning English and being baptised as a Christian. During the 1820s, he withdrew from British ways, and became a feared and formidable leader of Indigenous resistance during the early stages of the Black War.

## Quotes

* Put him in a gaol, Mata Guberna!! You take it him own country, take it him black woman, kill't right out, all him litta child — den you put him in your gaol. Ah, Mata Guberna, dat a very good way. 'Pose you like dat way — 'pose all same dat black un! I nebber like dat way. You better kill it right out.
** After being told by Governor Arthur that his comrades would be imprisoned, as quoted in Henry Melville, The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land (London and Hobart, 1835), p. 81

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Kikatapula on Wikipedia
# Zahara Nampewo

Dr. Zahara Nampewo, is a female Ugandan lawyer, human rights activist, and academic. She is the executive director of the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) at Makerere University School of Law, in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

## Quotes

* Does the absence of war and violence because of heavy deployment of militarization mean sustainable peace?
** Nampewo paused a question
* Using Minister Mao's words we need to set our suppressed National soul free. This can only happen if we reflect on what went wrong and target redress or restoration.
* There have been lost cultural, spiritual and economic properties that have been taken away from communities without free prior and informed consent.
* International and regional laws on children’s rights are fairly well developed and cover aspects of social rights such as the protection of children from sexual abuse. A dilemma remains however on the issue of child-to-child sex leaving many grey areas on how to deal with this predicament at the domestic level.
* High levels of unemployment especially among the youth remains one of Uganda’s challenges.
# Iroro Tanshi

Iroro Tanshi (born 1984 or 1985) is a Nigerian tropical ecologist and conservationist.

## Quotes

* The recognition is also a significant motivation boost and reminder that excellence pays. I hope it motivates other young Nigerians to pursue evidence-based research and conservation work with local communities to save our biodiversity and ecosystems.
** Nigerian Biologist wins prestigious international prize for nature conservation. 2 December 2020, Guardian Newspaper.
* Receiving a Whitley Award has given me, and my team, hopes of saving this precious creature from extinction and we are very grateful for the support.
** Nigerian conservationist wins £40,000 award. 14 May 2021, Punch Newspaper.
# George Best

George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skilful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the best players in the history of the sport. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.

## Quotes

* If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.
** In the book The Afterlife by Paul Morley "", Footy Factor (April 23, 2009).
* I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
** Reported in "Best: Decline of the golden boy", BBC News (June 14 2005).
* I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
** Reported in "The things they say: George Best", FIFA.com (July 31, 2009).
* I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
** C. 1974; reported in Patrick West, Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer (2006), p. 188.
* In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
** Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.
* He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
** On David Beckham; reported in "The things they say: George Best", FIFA.com (July 31, 2009).
* There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
** On Cristiano Ronaldo; reported in "Funniest ever footie quotes", TheSun.co.uk (March 8, 2008).

## About George Best

* ...the Englishman [sic], George Best, who was an amazing footballer in his day but at the same time he was a bum and a drunk – a bohemian. Because of his soccer art though, he had a royal funeral.
** Dragoslav Šekularac,
*** quoted in interview with Prvoslav Vujcic (2006-06-06). "'Get Out of Here, I am Sekularac'". Urban Book Circle. Retrieved on 2016-05-15.
# Romesh Chunder Dutt

Romesh Chunder Dutt (13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

## Quotes

* Europe will have rendered back to modern India that kindly help and brotherly service which India rendered to Europe in ancient days - in religion , science and civilization.
** quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.221