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:
- Robert Birungi - “The Nexus Between Ethnicity and Land Conflicts: A Critical Analysis of The Banyoro-Bafuruki Violence in Uganda,”
- Freweini Tekle Kidane - “Social Reproduction: The Political-Economy of State and Nation-Building in Post-independence Eritrea,”
- Kenechukwu Nwachukwu - “State Power and the Production of History: Reading Post-Independence Nigeria's Political History through the IPOB Separatist Agitation,”
- Olivia Komuhangi - “Political Discourse in Stand-Up Comedy and Editorial Cartooning in Uganda, 1996-2021,”
- Muhuruzi Mary Kajumba - “An analysis of history writing: political imagination of Bunyoro Kitara kingdom and its cumulative impact on the formation of the national project,”
- Nicholas Odoyo - “Rural Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Kenya: Contradictions of Post-Colonial Land Reforms,”
- Olive Lomokol - “Shifting perspectives on "pastoral" violence: the persistence of the "Karamoja Problem" in Uganda,”
- Ssenoga Hamudan - “Last Becomes First: The Politics of Mwe Abali Mu Kintu and the Nationality Question in Uganda.,”
- Stanley Kiswaga - “Theatre for Development and the Nation: Rethinking nation-building in ‘post-socialist Tanzania’,”