Engabu Za Tooro has been accredited by UNESCO which to provide advisory services to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Executive Director of Engabu Za Tooro, Stephen Rwagweri says the accreditation will help his organisation receive support to identify characteristics of cultural heritage of Rwenzori region for international recognition and […]
Part 4 of Rwagweri Stephen talks about preserving African culture, writing books The institution I head called Engabu Za Tooro, has a number of programs which range from promoting traditional music to promoting cultural economic activities and reconstructing traditional indigenous knowledge into today’s development practice and our greatest strength has been using new models of culture […]
PART 3 of Rwagweri Stephen talks about preserving African culture, writing books Our approach to development is the use of indigenous knowledge and reconstructing it into today’s development practices and theories. We have been recognized for this, we challenged the existing development paradigm which insists on transplanting the western knowledge into our communities as the […]
PART 2 of Rwagweri Stephen talks about preserving African culture, writing books After university, I moved to Tooro region and started engaging in community development work. In the field we faced challenges on certain issues in the development programs we were implementing and we started researching on a number of development issues as they affect […]