Francis Adyanga Akena

Francis Akena Adyanga , PhD. is a Senior Lecturer at Kabale University in the Faculty of Education. He is also the Faculty Dean of the Faculty of Education. Francis obtained his PhD. from the University of Toronto in 2014. In 2015, he taught at the University of Toronto and was later a postdoctoral fellow at the College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria in 2016/2017. He is a passionate educator with keen teaching and research interest in Indigenous Knowledge, Social and Environmental Justice Education, Education in Emergencies and Post Emergencies Contexts and Global Citizenship Education.

Publications

Enhancing African Indigenous Knowledge Collection Management in Ugandan Public University Libraries: Lived Experiences of Senior Library Staff
Enhancing African Indigenous Knowledge Collection Management in Ugandan Public University Libraries: Lived Experiences of Senior Library Staff
Nina Olivia Rugambwa, Francis Adyanga Akena, Claire Clement Lutaaya Nabutto, Grace Kamulegeya Bugembe. © 2023. 18 pages.
Various studies in library and information science have emphasized that indigenous knowledge management is still a neglected area and a challenge in the discipline of information...
Decolonizing the African University Pedagogy Through Integrating African Indigenous Knowledge and Information Systems
Decolonizing the African University Pedagogy Through Integrating African Indigenous Knowledge and Information Systems
Denis Sekiwu, Francis Adyanga Akena, Nina Olivia Rugambwa. © 2022. 18 pages.
This chapter examines the prospects of reaffirming the importance of Africa's indigenous knowledge in global scholarship. Since colonialism, there has been a persistent...