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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.

By Yahya Sseremba

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.

It is over three years since President Museveni launched Vision 2040 for Uganda. We need to revisit this ‘vision’ in light of recent plans (or hopes?) to ‘transform’ Uganda into a middle-income country by 2020 which is also part of the larger ‘Vision 2040’.

On the cover of this ‘vision’ document, Uganda’s territorial map appears partitioned into eleven segments, representing artistic impressions of transformations expected in key sectors by 2040. In the upper section, we have super-fast trains, space missions and mega-power installations.