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Uganda’s schooling system doesn’t politically empower young people

Uganda’s schooling system doesn’t politically empower young people

MORE than 20 years ago, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that: The lack of education stops a great majority of Africans from being citizens in their own right. However, in the two following decades, there have been very mixed results on how education enhances political empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa. SIMONE DATZBERGER, Assistant Professor in Education and International Development, UCL Some researchers found that in Kenya civic education programmes had positive effects on political participation and engagement. By contrast, other scholars argued that higher levels of education did not increase people’s propensity to pursue “easy” forms of political…
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