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[Makerere University CHUSS @MakerereCHUSS]

Ph.D. Scholarship Opportunity: "Land Acquisitions and Rising Land Inequality in Uganda" | Deadline: 10th July 2024 | More Info: https://t.co/Cv6TScDYOC | Email: [email protected]

[Edgar Jack Taylor @edgarjacktaylor]

The deadline for abstracts for the 'Archiving, Memory & Method from the Global South' conference @MakerereCHUSS has been extended to 15 July. There are many great panels and roundtables. Send your abstracts before 15 July to [email protected] !

[RememberingTheFuture @RTFBookUganda]

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Remembering The Future received a very beautiful and strong Book Review in today’s @newvisionwire. 👏🏾☺️

[African Studies Association @ASANewsOnline]

It's the last weekend before submissions are due! Grad students, submit your presented 2022 paper by Wednesday (March 15) next week to be considered for the Graduation Student Paper Prize!

Read the guidelines here: https://t.co/0jdfXYDFye

[African Arguments @africaarguments]

#JobAlert!

We are on the hunt for a talented, thoughtful, and experienced #editor to take charge of our #politics, #society and #culture coverage 🌍

Salary: $35-40k
Deadline: 13 Nov
Location: Africa or London

Please share widely!

https://t.co/OVK4rl4YZD

[Makerere University News @MakerereNews]

Several jobs available @Makerere

[Wulira @wulira_uganda]

and Rebecca Tapscott’s Arbitrary states: Social control and modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda, (Oxford University Press, 2021).

[I think I found JK’s Christmas present 🤪]

[Wulira @wulira_uganda]

Three books on this finalist list make important contributions to Uganda’s stor(ies) 🥳🥳

Marissa Mika, Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda, (Ohio University Press, 2021).

You know the Kampala cancer register is the oldest one on the continent, yeah?

[African Studies Association @ASANewsOnline]

There's a lot to celebrate at this year's ASA Awards Ceremony. See the full list of 2022 award winners and book prize finalists online and don't forget to add these titles to your reading list. https://t.co/lo0nT6GwVV

[Wulira @wulira_uganda]

Then there is David L. Schoenbrun’s The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).

[as an elder in Hoima told me once, you have to read Schoenbrun more than once and each time you learn more]

[Dr. Marissa Mika @dr_mmika]

Honored to announce that Africanizing Oncology has been nominated for the African Studies Association Best Book Award for 2021 and the Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for the best book in East African Studies for 2021. The finalists are amazing and I'm flabbergasted to be on the lists.

[Fountain Publishers Ltd @FountainPublish]

#BookOfTheWeek Order for your copy by simply sending us a dm or by ordering through our website at https://t.co/pLLBvbVVIA. #reading #readabooktoday

[Makerere University CHUSS @MakerereCHUSS]

"The first three Kyabazingas of Busoga between 1893 and 1930 were not Basoga , 2 were white men and the other a Muganda". William Musamba in his presentation "The search for Busoga Kingdom
#CHUSSConf2022 #MakerereAt100
@DICTSMakerere @Makerere

[ACLS @ACLS1919]

This year, the ACLS Fellowship program will support early-career, untenured scholars who earned PhDs on or after Sept. 29, 2014. Awards of up to $60k for research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Apply by Sept. 28, 9pm EDT. https://t.co/hb9NzzHG19

[Madina Thiam @thiamm]

@randa_tawil Ellen Ndeshi Namhila's "Little Research Value" https://t.co/vzTHZrK20A

[Directorate For ICT Support - Makerere University @DICTSMakerere]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 will also have in attendance Prof. Nakanyike B. Musisi as one of the key note speakers.
Register via https://t.co/dAFQ68rjhS

[Edgar Jack Taylor @edgarjacktaylor]

Register for the @MakerereCHUSS International Humanities Conference 23-26 August!

[Bennett Nagtegaal @BenNagtegaal]

“A Very British Way of Torture” - an excellent documentary on the institutionalised use of torture by British forces during the Mau Mau uprising, showcasing new research on colonial violence from my dear friend @NielsBoender | Thoroughly recommend!

https://t.co/bWUQPVzG8S

[James Shinfah Wan @jamesjwan]

Recently finished @OlufemiOTaiwo's "Against Decolonisation" (@HurstPublishers/ @AfricaIai/ @AfricaArguments) and I can't recommend it enough.

Its sharp, detailed analysis is worth reading in full, but 4 of my takeaways were:

THREAD (1/5)

https://t.co/Z6Wp2GFjr1

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

At MISR today, Prof. Lwanga Lunyiigo talked about his new book: ‘Uganda: An Indian Colony …’ Prof Mamdani was one of the discussants, and was piercingly critical about some aspects of the book. As he took his seat, Lunyiigo told him: Kulikayo, and Mamdani responded: Nvuddeyo 😂

[Anne Soy @annesoy]

The #Talai clan of the Kalenjin (Nandi, Kipsigis, Tugen and poss. Marakwet) have long been feared by the rest of the community. People don’t often talk about them. Members of the clan also don’t often reveal that detail. I recently discovered that this started with #colonialism.