Open Access – Makerere University Press

Gender, Social Norms And Agency: Perspectives from East Africa

Mak Press — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:25:55 +0000

This Publication was made possible with the support from California San Diego, Center on Gender Equity and Health.

We also appreciate the coordinating team for the Eastern Africa Agency, Social and Gender Norms Learning Collaborative (EALC)-comprising the Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at Makerere University; Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC); Care International-Uganda; and the Agency for All Project for their leadership in fostering a platform for shared learing and action.

Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights

Mak Press — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:22:56 +0000

Archiving is a central process of identity formation, community-building, justice-seeking, and both the consolidation of and resistance to centralized power. To think about archives means to think critically about knowledge, power, and their entanglement with practices of remembering and preserving – as well as culling and suppressing. This volume collects fifteen chapters by scholars across the humanities and social sciences from Makerere University in order to reflect on the unique conceptual, political and practical dynamics of archival practice and power from the Global South. The chapters’ analyses of archival work in Uganda range in focus from government paper archives to community museums, oral knowledge and performance. Emerging from a three-year programme on “Archiving, Memory and Method from the Global South”, this volume engages with questions about the status of knowledge, its relationship to histories of colonial reordering, infrastructural histories, and the institutional positions of archives’ custodians and constituencies.

Diversity Management In Various University Contexts

Mak Press — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:42:43 +0000

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(Mis)Management of Sub-Nationalism and Diversity in “NATIONS” : The Case of Buganda in Uganda, 1897-1980

Mak Press — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 09:03:33 +0000

The book revisits the complexity of the “modern nation” building project of African countries like Uganda, over pre-existing entities like Buganda. Through discourse analysis, the work historically unravels the intricate interlaces of self-preservation agency from the dawn of the new order through the supra “nationhood” architecture. It engages dominant narratives and streamlines critical analysis of the rationale and strategies of sub-nationalisms against the enduring challenge of nation-building. The work underlines the pivotal question of how a new ‘nation’ or kingdom could coexist with multiple, alternative claims to the loyalty of putative citizens. It interrogates the use of power, players and statecraft machinations through the complex matrix of nation-building projects. From a political economy approach, the work shows the stifling strategies of power holders, albeit with impactful re-battle. For this book, the story of Buganda in Uganda is compellingly illuminative