The Sciences and the Arts: Are we seriously still debating this in 2023?

PICTURE this: Many years ago, the dream of securing a scholarship to undertake a humanities degree was crushed for many people because the pursuit of passions like linguistics and literature was unjustly labelled insignificant, a casualty of local funders’ scepticism about their “critical” relevance. Consequently, most of these aspiring scholars were compelled to seek alternative sources of funding. More tragically, some were even driven to relinquish their dreams to work in the fields of the arts and humanities entirely.

Meanwhile, governmental funding and allocation of resources were and continue to be reserved for science streams, thus creating a rift that haunts us today in more ways than we can ever imagine.