Local authors not represented on Uganda’s syllabus

The Ministry of Education in Uganda has been criticized for not including local literature books on its syllabus. According to the National Literacy Awards Committee chairman, Joseph Mugasa, the syllabus is dominated by foreign authors. “Currently, we have only three local authors on the literature syllabus,” Mugasa said at the opening of the Book Forum in Kampala last week. Samuel Andema, chairman of the International Reading Association, observed that Ugandans have a poor reading culture. “The poor reading culture has made us live in ignorance by choice—since we have denied ourselves the opportunity to grow intellectually,” he said. Read the article at allAfrica.com.