Hi Caleb, Thank you for sharing your experience with Makerere Vura students function. You are right it is easy to suspect that having county associations at Makerere would weaken Makerere Arua Students Union. Initially many people would think so but when they start participating in these students' functions they soon realise that these county based associations are very important vehicles for grassroot activities even of MASU itself. You see, as human beings we have multiple identities. These identities are fluid and and not permanent. Their fluidity enable humans a degree of flexibility in managing their existence and guarantee their security at different levels. In every day of our life we keep negotiating and changing our identitiies in different social group. At home you are a parent or a husband, in court you are a lawyer, on sunday you are a christian, in this forum you are a Wedstniler yet this does not make less a Uganda. These identiies are socially constructed and must be contextualised in situated practices. What is important is genuinness and principled. Otherwise thank you very much for sharing with us your experience and i support you in helping the grassroot organisations to become agents of change in the region. Thank you. Sam Andema
--- On Sun, 29/3/09, Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> Subject: [WestNileNet] Makerere Vura Students Association To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Sunday, 29 March, 2009, 3:40 PM Hi, over the weekend, I and Ejiku Robert were invited to officiate as Guest of Honours by the above named students association who were bidding farewell to their finalists and also swearing in their incoming office bearers. Ever since counties began forming themselves into associations, I felt jittery to associate my self with them. I thought it would undermine MASU. But this time I thought I could learn a lesson or two. Indeed I discovered that these county based associations could be used as effective tools of implementing programs of MASU and our programs of social transformation of the region. You know folks, we should start attending more of such functions. Some of us worked hard in A- level because we were inspired by MASU students like Eng. Okuni, Bugason, e.t.c. We could also use these students to assist in holiday teachings, seminars, e.t.c. I and Ejiku challenged them to come up with good pamphlets for A- level subjects which we may give to knowledgeable educationist to approve and we could fund the publications. MASU is organizing its party on 4th of April. I will update you with the program so that those who can should turn up in large numbers. _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way.. _______________________________________________
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