'The #Baganda ', argues Jonathan Mwesigwa S. are entitled to identify #ethnically , or to practise their culture, or to freely associate internally. It is also within their inalienable right, like ALL peoples, to self-determine. Thus by virtue of this right they are free to elect their
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📚 Join us for the #BookLaunch of 'Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex' by Dr. Andrea Cassatella at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Seminar Room 1 on April 17th, 2024, 2:00-5:00 pm.
Join virtually at bit.ly/3TQGE16

🎓 Calling all graduate students! Don't miss our MISR Open Day on April 13th, 2024, from 9am - 2pm at the MISR Pavilion. Join us for an immersive experience, meet our faculty, tour the campus, learn about the Mphil/Ph.D program and scholarship opportunities. #GraduateOpenDay 🌟

Among the 23 women Executive Directors of our network's 66 think tanks, 8 are in #Africa .

Today we shine the spotlight on them to celebrate their accomplishments and honour their commitment to an empowered #GlobalSouth .

Thank you for leading the way in your region and beyond!

📢 MISR presents a #seminar titled: 'Pitfalls of the Returnist Awakening: ‘African-Rooted’ Spirituality and Decolonizing Religion' by Dr. Jacob Katumusiime. Join us on March 27th, 2024, at 2:00PM at MISR Seminar Room 1 or virtually on Zoom-bit.ly/3Pqvdfi. #Decolonization

🌍 Join us for a riveting discussion on 'PALESTINE: Decolonization and Patriarchy' with Haneen Maikey, presented in collaboration with @32degreeseast.
🗓️ Thursday, March 14th, 2024, 5:00 pm at 32°East, Plot 212 Sonko Close, Kampala.
Zoom: bit.ly/32teach-in4 #TalkAndDiscussion

The Makerere University History Seminar will meet on Wednesday at 3:00. Sserunjoggi (Gaku P. Moriguchi) from 東洋大学 will present 'Urban Riots as the 'Reality of the Virtual': Politics and Historicity in Kampala, 2007-2011'. @Mwine_Kyarimpa from Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) will be the discussant. Makerere UniversityCHUSS Makerere UniversityNews

Makerere Institute of Social Research invites you to this Week's Wednesday Seminar titled 'A Political Economy of Custom: Rethinking African Political Economy' by Dr. Theresa Auma.
Date: Feb 28th, 2024
Time: 2 pm - 5pm
Venue: MISR Seminar Room1
Zoom: bit.ly/3UMyGZc

Tomorrow we are at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) to present the script-in-hand performance of the poem BUT SHE WANTED IT! Join us🙂

Happening this Wednesday Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)! A poem presentation titled 'BUT SHE WANTED IT!' by #ThisCountryIsNotOurs....
Date: Wednesday 7th February 2024.
Time: 2:00-5:00 PM
Location: MISR Pavilion.
The poem will be followed by a general discussion. See you there. #EmbracingArt #MISRWednesdaySeminar

📚 BOOK LAUNCH: 'Abu Mayanja, MP: The Intellectual Star of Uganda’s 'Struggle' for Independence and the Search for a Liberal Democratic State, 1929-2005' by Prof. A.B.K. Kasozi!
🗓️ Wed, Jan 31, 2024
🕒 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
📍 MISR Seminar Room 1
ZOOM: bit.ly/3SyX1jI

'The overall point, Apollo N. Makubuya stresses,' argues Fred Guweddeko 'is not only that there was a #colonial period external actor, interest and/or force in creating the problems of Uganda & Buganda. It is also for a foundational removal of this external colonial element in the
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Huge congratulations to Prof Lyn Ossome and Prof Brahim el Morchid, newly elected President & Vice-President of CODESRIA at the just concluded 16th General Assembly.

Prof. Lynn Ossome Director Misr Makererere is the new president of Codesria elected at the 16th General Assembly. Great congrats CODESRIA Makerere University Makerere UniversityCHUSS

Congratulations to Comrade Sister LYN OSSOME for her election to the Presidency of CODESRIA . With our best wishes and full support !

👏Huge congratulations to our #director Assoc. Prof. Lyn Ossome on her well-deserved election as President of CODESRIA! Your leadership will undoubtedly contribute to advancing research and knowledge across the continent. #CODESRIA2023GA

' #Hindu #nationalism as an ideology', according to Ham Hype 'sought to recover a sense of identity since the privileging of Western thought processes led to a situation whereby Hindu civilizational ethos lost its salience thus necessitating the reinvention of traditions by
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'[The] Portuguese', says Ham Hype 'used two methods of subjection: the first was a ruthless economic venture by the colonists who simply enslaved Indians (given that slavery was a dominant form of servitude in Brazil), while the second was attempted by religious orders from
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.The Journal of Religious History has published my review of Dr. Yahya Sseremba's new book, America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda (Routledge, 2023), accessible through the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Makerere University CHUSS The Sword

According to Ham Hype, '[T]he fundamental difference between #Afrikaans and #Kiswahili is the former has an intellectual tradition while the latter lacks a scholarly tradition. However, the implicit meaning is that the vast institutional network framing Afrikaans is the main
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