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Ugandan-based blogger and academic Norbert Ochieng? No — the essay, shared by CPAR Uganda, describes a personal relationship with academia as the most instructive of the author's life, one that nurtured a deep appreciation of learning while raising questions about decolonising minds and disputable research practices. The piece revisits a 2016 debate on whether academic research traditions serve or constrain African thought, and readers continue to weigh academia's liberating and limiting sides.