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Introduction
Enginel B. Johnson (also known as Bwambale Johnson) is the founder of Hillside Nursery and Orphanage School, located in the mountainous region of Mount Rwenzori, Kasese, Uganda. The school was established to support orphans and children from impoverished families affected by numerous regional hardships. With over 300 children u...
In the images many of us grow up with, certain figures are meant to stand for safety and moral order: the priest, the judge, the officer, the guardian of faith and law. They appear as protectors, guides, listeners, or saviours. But what happens when these same figures begin to embody control, silence, and coercion instead?
This question sits at the centre of my six-...
A day late and a dollar short, as the old saying goes. Yes, it is the fifth, rather than the Fourth, of July. But before setting down some reflections on the 250th birthday of the United States of America, I wanted to hear what the current president, simultaneously the most American American and the least American American of all time, had to say.[1]
Also in my defe...
It might seem strange to some, but in the earliest days of the Royal Society, everyone was at least somewhat religious. Convinced that the world was rational and ordered, the first official scientific society on Earth was driven to use this new thing called ‘science’ for the good of one’s fellow humans. Medicine, research, and investigation changed forever and took on a traje...