Makerere’s Century of Service to East Africa and Beyond, 1922–2022
Having experienced part of the 100 years’ journey of Makerere University; and later on serving at the National Council for Higher Education, I realise how much this book provides relevant lessons for all higher education institutions. Every reader will appreciate that it is an illumination of the flagship role the University is playing and will continue to play for higher education institutions in Uganda and beyond. (Prof. Mary J. N. Okwakol, Executive Director, National Council for Higher Education). This monumental book traverses diverse time zones and disciplines. Prof A.B.K Kasozi and his team of editors have made Makerere University proud. Government, faculty staff, alumni, and students should find it as a useful reference book. It is so well written that any book club would be privileged to select it as book of the year! (Prof. Edward B. Rugumayo, Chancellor, Mountains of the Moon University)
This book documents all you ever wanted to know about Makerere’s nascent years since 1922. A sneak peek into contents of the volume reveals alluring commitments to growth and change in research and innovations: ‘growing a research-led university’; from analogue to digitalization; and from the let us all be men motto to we build for the future. A leap into the next century reveals witting and unwitting breakthroughs, daunting constraints and challenges for a regional model by Uganda’s flagship university. What makes Makerere tick? How does it survive and thrive? Who are the immortalized alumni forbearers of Makerere? The book is worthy reading to find all the answers to these and related queries. (Prof. Ruth Mukama, Formerly Professor of Linguistics at Makerere University; currently Head of Department, African Languages at Kabale University)
At one time, Makerere was called the Harvard of Africa; and there was, therefore, a real opportunity for Makerere to become our national sacred cow. Then came the neo-liberal ‘revolution’; with its mass production of graduates and the conversion of our technical colleges into universities, the establishment of numerous private universities, and the near abdication of government from the education sector. As Makerere embarks on the second century of service, we must maintain what made it great. This book tells many stories of that greatness. The content herein will definitely energise the debate amongst those who are interested in Makerere and university education in general. (Prof. Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo, Retired Professor of History, Makerere University)
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About the editors
Kasozi, A. B. K. was a Research Associate at Makerere Institute of Social Research, from 2013 to 2017, a Vice Rector at the Islamic University in Uganda, from 1995 to 2002; and the founding Executive Director of Uganda’s National Council for Higher Education (UNCHE), from 2002 to 2012. He has taught at Makerere University, the University of Khartoum, the Islamic University in Uganda and other universities in North America. In 2007/8, he got a Fulbright New Century award to serve as a visiting professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He was a DAAD distinguished visitor to German institutions of higher learning in 2007. He is the author of several books, articles in academic journals and newspapers. He is a recipient of many awards including the Nyakasura School Achievers’ Award, (2002); the Nyakasura School Lifetime Achiever’s Award,(2014) and the Uganda Golden Jubilee Medal, (2013). He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.
Josephine Ahikire is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science, Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University; a senior research fellow in the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala; and a visiting scholar at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. She is widely published on gendered constructions of public politics, labour and popular culture.
Dominica Dipio is an associate professor of literature and film based in
Makerere University, Kampala, where she obtained her Bachelor’s and
Master’s degrees in Literature. Her Licentiate in Social Communications
and PhD in Film Studies, specialising in African Cinema are from the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Dipio has won a number of
research grants, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship (2012-2013);
the Africa Humanities Program Fellowship that recognises excellent
research in Humanities (2009); and the Makerere-Bergen Foklore Project
(2007-2012) where she has been a lead researcher and coordinator. Among
the recognitions she has received is a nomination among high achieving
women in Uganda whose stories are profiled in a book, Footmarks Scaling
Heights: Conversations with Women of Purpose in Uganda (2014). She is
also a recipient of the Authorship and Legal Deposit Award of Makerere
University (2009), and the Art Press Association (Award for her first
feature film, ‘A Meal to Forget’ (2009). Dipio has several publications
in her research fields of film, literature, folklore and cultural
studies, with gender as a cross-cutting interest in her writings.
Byamugisha, Helen is an Associate Professor and teaches at Kabale University in the Department of Library and Information Science. She holds a PhD in Information Science, a Master of Science in Information Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Librarianship, a Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation and a Bachelor of Science in Botany and Zoology. Helen has published several papers in refereed journals. She has also presented papers at various local and international conferences. She worked with Makerere University as a University Librarian. Her research interest lies in information access and use by different categories of users.
Tibasiima, Isaac holds a PhD in Literature from Makerere University where he serves as a lecturer in the Department of Literature. His research interests include folklore studies, performance studies, postcolonial studies and African literatures. He is interested in the intersection between contemporary performance and the performance of the nation. He has been involved in research projects on psychosocial narratives of students at Makerere University, adaptation of folktales into film texts and is currently working on projects on social media activism in Ugandan spaces, and using web-based technologies to support academic writing. Isaac Tibasiima is an ACLS/AHP Fellow. He teaches courses on literary communication, oral literature research and Area Studies in Literature.