There is every good reason why Makerere is a university, not a primary or secondary school. The former comes with a wholly different ethos and standards, principles and practices.

At Makerere University, stakeholders spent the better part of 2022 conducting commemorative lectures and celebrations to mark the university’s first centenary despite persistence of these questions.

In 1990, the year in which I enrolled in university, Makerere introduced an affirmative-action policy that gave women applying to the university an extra 1.5 points on their entrance exams.