Lawrence Ocen, 4th year PhD student at MISR has been admitted to the 2015-2016 cohort of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program (UMAPS). He joins a prestigious group of over 100 African faculty who have taken part in the program since its inception in February 2009.
The price of oil is falling fast and may continue doing so. What is Uganda's way forward?
By A.B.K. Kasozi
On November 24, on a cold day in New York, I watched a reporter on BBC America ask the Uganda minister of Energy whether Uganda had not lost out on earning good money by refusing to export crude early when the prices were good.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled "African Families and
Sexualities from a Human Rights Perspective" at a conference entitled
"When Theology Produces Violence: With Ecumenical International Relations
and LGBT as Case". The gathering is jointly organised by LLH - the
Norwegian LGBT Organisation and the Christian Council of Norway and held
at the Theological College of Norway between 20th-22nd January 2015.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi participated in a 'Colloquium on the Rights of
Sexual Minorities in Africa: Charting a Way Forward' that was organised by
the University of Pretoria's Center for Human Rights on 8th and 9th
December 2014. She presented a paper entitled "Fundamentalisms and
LGBTI Rights in Africa" that is based on one of her on-going ethnographic
research studies.
Tribute to Ali Mazrui by Mahmood Mamdani
We should think of Ali as a long distance runner from a continent that specializes in giving the world some of its best long distance runners. Ali ran to his last breath: the ink kept flowing and the corpus kept growing, and the voice was as booming as ever.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been awarded a post-doctoral grant of the Carnegie Next Generation of African Academics (NGAA) II 2013-2016 through the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training at Makerere University. With support from this grant, she will be conducting research entitled "Asserting Sovereignty amidst International Pressure to Protect Human Rights: Ethnographic Research about Re-criminalizing Homosexuality in
Uganda".
For details of the NGAA (II) funding program please see
Dr. Stella Nyanzi has published an article entitled "Queer Pride and Protest: A Reading of the Bodies at Uganda's First Gay Beach Pride" based on her on-going ethnographic research. The reference of the article is below:
Nyanzi S. (2014) Queer Pride and Protest: A Reading of the Bodies at Uganda's First Gay Beach Pride. SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY, Volume 40, Number 1, pages 36-40.
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