A DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ORDER AFTER VIOLENCE: LESSONS FROM ELECTIONEERING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
David-Ngendo Tshimba
ABSTRACT
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
December 14th, 2015
Job Title: Coordinator, Communications and Publications Unit
Reports to: Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research
Location: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Job Summary:
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) deeply regrets and mourns the passing away of its former president, Professor Sam Moyo. Professor Moyo was in New Delhi, India, where he was attending a conference on “Labour Questions in the Global South”. The vehicle in which he was travelling was involved in a serious accident in the evening of Friday, 20 November, and Professor Moyo died in the early hours of Sunday, 22 November 2015.
Written by DAVID-NGENDO TSHIMBA
New York, New Yo
rk—Yusuf Serunkuma, a 2014-2015 Dissertation Proposal and 2015-2016 Dissertation Research Fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program, presented his recent work on Somaliland identity and nationalism through poetics at the Africa Workshop held at C
Ugandan state is divorced from its society
Written by DAVID-NGENDO TSHIMBA
Together with Emuron Olupot and Pius Achanga, Prof. Abdu Kasozi has written a chapter on governance and leadership in Uganda in a newly published book edited by Johann Mouton and Lauren Wildschut. The book is titled: Leadership and Management: Case Studies in Training in Higher Education in Africa, published by African Minds in Cape Town, South Africa (2015). The chapter on Uganda runs from page 53 - 66.
A copy of the book can be purchased here
Lately, there is a lot of good scholarship in form of action research and public engagement going on at MISR. Today's Public Policy Forum on Higher Education attracted participants from research institutions, Development agencies and Embassies in Kampala.