Joseph Kasule

Joseph Kasule received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Studies from Makerere University. He is currently a Research Fellow at MISR, where he researches and convenes courses in cultural anthropology. He works on aspects of Islam, Secularism, Violence, and Coloniality/Decoloniality. His recent book Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power (James Currey, 2022) provides a genealogy of the historical Muslim Question in Uganda and its relationship with non-Muslim political power. He has also published the Historical Dictionary of Uganda (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). His ongoing book projects include: Kasangwawo ne Sselwajj’okwoota, being a Luganda translation of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen & Subject (MISR, 2024); Public Intellectualism & Decolonial Epistemologies in Contestable Political Imaginations of Bergen & Buganda, (MISR, 2024) and Genealogies of Monotheism: Muslim Practices in Pre-Arabic Africa (MISR, forthcoming).

Contact: joseph.kasule@mak.ac.ug