Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980

A research project on the ways Ugandans imagined the past and future of their country after the fall of Idi Amin in 1979

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

Welcome everyone ! A little thread to introduce our research project "Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980" !

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

The book will be launched on December 10th at Makerere University and online (details below) and discussed by the amazing @Opiaiya and @DavidTshimba Come, meet us and engage on this major although under-researched event in the past of Uganda

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

Our book is out ! After months of research, writing, exciting feed back from reviewers, here it is at last: Reinventing Uganda. Political Imagination and Social Change after the fall of Idi Amin, Nairobi, Africae, Kampala, Makerere University Press, 2025.

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

You can purchase a hard copy from Makerere UP’s website by clicking below, and it shall be online open access in December 2026. https://t.co/gV8vbj5Ieo

[Angelo Izama @Opiaiya]

Worth Watching this Sunday. Thank you ⁦@florencebrisset⁩ ⁦@SpireJim⁩. A wonderful credit to Ugandan artists and cartoonists ( and entertainers/creators) before and today ⁦@newvisionwire⁩ ⁦@DailyMonitor⁩ ⁦@RedPepperUG⁩ https://t.co/eUkBA7mnul

[Florence Brisset-Foucault @florencebrisset]

And here it is ! "The Tongue goes to the Aching Tooth" is now available for free online ! @SpireJim @moosttwo https://t.co/RAPUiQXngB 1/4

[Florence Brisset-Foucault @florencebrisset]

Our film on the history of Ugandan cartoonists under Idi Amin (1971-79) is about to be released ! You can have a look at the trailer in the meantime... 1/6 https://t.co/OJ8SXLTROa

[Edgar Jack Taylor @edgarjacktaylor]

Join the @Makerere History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm. Dr Charlotte Mafumbo @MakerereCHUSS will present 'Women in the Peace and Security landscape of the East African Region: Operationalization of the UNSCR 1325' @ailitripp @uwpolisci will be the discussant. See poster for details

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

5 years of team work later, we're ready to press send for V2 of our book... Looking forward to share this and have it in the world... Thanks to everyone who made it possible, looking forward to your thoughts !

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

@Jacob_K2musiime @IFRANairobi Thanks Jacob!

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

An update ! Thanks to the support of our publisher Africae @IFRANairobi and the dedication and hard work of two anonymous readers 🥸🥸, we have received the reviews for our manuscript ! They're positive and super interesting... Now back to work ! V2 is due in October... ✍️✍️✍️

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

We've been silent for a while, very busy writing our collective book which we have just sent to the publisher... right on the day of the 45th anniversary of Idi Amin's fall... quite a coincidence ! Now the wait for reviews begins🤞But quite a milestone for our team...

[Muhoozi @muhoozi]

Add this to your calendar. It's this week on Wednesday at 3pm Uganda time. It's online, see the original post below.

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

We've been silent for a while, very busy writing our collective book which we have just sent to the publisher... right on the day of the 45th anniversary of Idi Amin's fall... quite a coincidence ! Now the wait for reviews begins🤞But quite a milestone for our team...

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

@IsmayMilford @ysabdullahi @PKhanakwa Oooh !

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

What a wonderful and intense few days it's been at #ECAS2023... Now that the team got great feedback on their research, they can resume working on their chapters !

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

@ysabdullahi Thanks Yusra for those kind words ! Great research, great paper, we're very happy you could join us !

[Yusra Abdullahi @ysabdullahi]

My first in-person presentation was on the last day of #ECAS2023. The past few days were full of fantastic discussions, interactions, and people. It was also an absolute joy to be on the same panel as @s_pasts!! Till next time! ✌🏾

[Anatoly Lwassa @AnatolyLwassa]

@ysabdullahi Florence Brisset @florencebrisset Takes us through the plurality of ways catholics imagined Uganda's future in 1979-1980.
#ECAS2023

[Yusra Abdullahi @ysabdullahi]

Day 4 of #ECAS2023 is off to a great start with @AnatolyLwassa’s paper on women's representation at Moshi and the patterns of gender exclusion in political processes in the post-Amin period.

[Pamela Khanakwa @PKhanakwa]

#restitution@ECAS2023 presentations on “Reinventing Uganda”. Great papers ⁦@AnatolyLwassa⁩ ⁦⁦@florencebrisset⁩ . Justin Willis, Evarist Ngabirano and Jackie Namukasa. ⁦@s_pasts⁩ ⁦@MakerereCHUSS⁩

[Uganda's Pasts and Futures 1979-1980 @s_pasts]

Anatoli Lwassampijja @AnatolyLwassa @MakerereCHUSS presenting on women marginalisation in the reconstruction of Uganda after the fall of Amin #ECAS2023