{UAH} Kampala Has resurrected

Thank you Lord for KCCA and Ms. Jennifer Musisi - I walked in the city yesterday and the 70's clean neat streets, no traffic jams are back.

I have received txt messages from prospective students from Ghana and telephone calls from Zambia. All students are welcome to study urban planning in Uganda.

 

Certainly it is not a bed of roses to teach African bureaucrats and policy makers about issues of planning. There are multiple layers of what I will term as hurdles.  I started in 1994 and to date managed a few things including setting up my private school. Of course there is need for books, course programme affordability is another, student need financial support for they can’t pay fees for expensive courses like engineering. Without engineering nothing can come out of urban planning. Hence getting research professors become a problem.

 My twenty year experience in education, consultancy work and social activism about planning issues, has given me vital lessons to see how physical planning can be brought to Africa

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Africa still believes social developed and transformation are accrued from mere economic theorem, development studies or political voluntarism through agriculture rather than physically planning, transforming the conditions on ground through policy/ law formulation..

 

Given the enormous resources in Africa, including sunshine (tropical environment) offering a 24/7 suitable atmosphere to survive, less can come out of the poorest e.g. people living in slum asking for betterment.  

However population pressure has set in with increased literacy among young people.

 

Daniel

Principal school for Urban planning

www.siup.ac.ug

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero