Uganda

As a fifth year graduate student soon finishing his assignments for the award of a PhD, and proud of the new regime of learning at Makerere Institute of Social Research (having joined Makerere University as an undergrad in 2004, and have never left), commentators claiming that MISR’s PhD project

Uganda is once again in the limelight. One of her very accomplished daughters, Dr. Specioza Kazibwe, has her eyes set on the AU Commission chair.  What are her prospects? What makes Dr.

For the newly independent countries in the early 1960s, especially in Africa, one of the main priorities was to develop the capacities of their own nationals.

But for The New York Times of 16 May 2016, I would never have heard of Dr. Anne Deborah Atai-Omorotu. Yet she was one of the greatest genuine heroines that Africa has ever produced.

It is tear gas season in Uganda again. The reported black-out of news coverage notwithstanding, some videos are in circulation. One shows a shopping arcade in central Kampala being evacuated by mainly young people with their arms raised in surrender.

For a largely conservative community, Kampala is reeling off in shock at Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s nude protest at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISRI). Protesting removal from one work facility to another, Stella chose nudity as a method of protest.

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION