We are excited to invite graduate students to submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) for our upcoming conference on the theme "Rethinking Political Identity in Africa", scheduled for April 10 - 12 2025.
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Jacob Katumusiime, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), was awarded the prestigious Rahamon Bello Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in African Studies. The award was announced on November 28, 2024, by the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos.
We heartily congratulate nine of our continuing students whose projects have been awarded the 2024-2025 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship Award. The award will support their ongoing projects, titled as follows:<
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YOUR Grace, the Archbishop; My Lord Bishops; Venerables, Prophets, Priests & Clergy; All Distinguished Guests; Fellow workers in the Vineyard: I greet you fervently in the One Blessed Name, which is above all other names!
GENERALLY speaking, the Anglican Communion and its club in Africa—suffice to mention Uganda, in particular—are luckily, not short of instances where they can cause quite a stir in the world.
Source: Africa is a Country
How should we understand the vicious violence that the state of Israel is unleashing indiscriminately on Palestinian children, mothers, fathers, hospitals, schools, and places of worship in Gaza? Most importantly, how does this bloodshed relate to our own history of political violence in Uganda and Africa?
MOST short and long-stay visitors to Uganda, especially from Europe and Asia, are attracted to information about something else called ‘Buganda’. Noting the closeness of the two titles, ‘Uganda and Buganda’, many such visitors wish to touch base with the country and thus seek to find ‘Buganda’ which they assume is the real or at least the foundation of the country.
Assoc. Professor Lyn Ossome, the Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) has been elected President of CODESRIA at the 16th CODESRIA General Assembly held in Dakar, Senegal from 4th - 8th December 2023.
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There was something of an attempted response by Mmengo’s official spin doctor, Mr. Noah Kiyimba to my views touching on Buganda’s and Uganda’s current political plight. The pettiness with which he approached them can be laughed off because he was, in the long run, compelled to yield to the temptation of having ‘his’ reaction published twice; first, as “Mengo isn’t headquarters of any political party” and next, as “Mengo is Buganda Kingdom seat, not political party headquarters” in the Monitor of 7 and 14 March 2021, respectively.