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We heartily congratulate four of our continuing students whose projects have been awarded the 2023-2024 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. The award will support their ongoing projects, titled as follows:

Jacob Katumusiime - “Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-Contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God”

Listen to the recording of Robert Kabushenga, the former CEO of Vision Group, and Prof. Mahmood Mamdani discussing contemporary Uganda on Twitter spaces.

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

I have hopefully made it clear that the modern state is the most violent, most divisive and most dictatorial form of political organization that humanity has ever invented.

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

The modern state is known as the nation state.

This means that the state exists in the name of the nation. When modern international law recognizes the right to self-determination, “the self ” in the said self-determination is considered to be the nation.

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

Anti-colonial thinkers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have long grappled with the question: what is decolonization?

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

Last week, we saw that the diffused character of pre-modern power allowed society to govern itself through society-based mechanisms like custom and religion.

Author : Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

The modern state is largely—if not entirely—a legal phenomenon. The law, at least in theory, governs everything and everyone within the jurisdiction of the liberal state.

Author: Jacob Katumusiime

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Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

To contextualize the violence that is blindly blamed on religion, this and the next few articles will address two questions.

First, what is the relationship between politics and violence? Second, how does modern politics, especially the nature of the modern state, produce “religious violence”?