PRESIDENT YOWERI AT GRADUATION CEREMONY IN MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, UGANDA.

Kampala’s largest and third oldest institution of higher learning awards President with award for achievement.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda presided over the 69th graduation ceremony at Makerere University yesterday (15 January). The weeklong graduation ceremony will see many Ugandans enter the job market in search for graduate roles. While giving a speech, the president commits to ensuring that university staff receive a good remuneration. He is hoping to match global pay standards as the country’s economy grows.

See a full extract of his speech:

“I urge the academics to engage in relevant research. For example, you must investigate why Africa, with the exception of Ethiopia, was easy to colonise and how this should be avoided. Academics should not only understand the history of Africa, but also the laws of nature; how to tame and manipulate them for the benefit of man. Social science disciplines should aim at art music, entertainment and meaningful intellectuality. If this teaching is done correctly and purposefully, then the products (graduates) will be useful to society.

For graduands in the arts, where job uptake is low, the government will offer support through the various youth programmes, using low interest loans and grants to start ventures like maize milling, carpentry, leather tanning, etc. Eventually these should become owners of capital units and job creators. It will also help reduce Uganda’s import bill when we stop buying items like furniture, construction materials etc, from abroad.”

The President receiving recognition for his authorship of Katondoozi. This is the first ever thesaurus in an indigenous African language. There is non existing in the sub-Saharan region. 

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