10th Capstone Conference celebrates a decade of partnership with Rotary International and 168 social change initiatives across 52 countries Makerere University’s Rotary Peace Centre has graduated 16 fellows from Cohort 10 and welcomed 17 incoming fellows under Cohort 12, marking a decade of partnership with Rotary International in training peacebuilders and advancing community-led social change....Read More

Prof. Tamara Shefer has called for a fundamental rethink of knowledge production and research practices between the Global North and Global South, arguing that international research partnerships must confront colonial power relations, extractive scholarship and the marginalisation of Indigenous knowledge. Prof. Tamara Shefer is a Senior Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty...Read More

The Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Assoc. Prof. Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala, together with the newly appointed Deputy Principal, Prof. Eddy Joshua Walakira, on Monday 19th Oct paid an official working visit to the School of Languages, Literature and Communication (SLLC). The engagement served to formally introduce the new Deputy Principal...Read More

Makerere gender scholar challenges Western-dominated research frameworks, calls for scholarship grounded in African experiences and indigenous knowledge systems. Professor Josephine Ahikire has urged African scholars to reclaim their role in producing and shaping knowledge by grounding research in local experiences, indigenous knowledge systems and the realities of the communities they study. She argued that global...Read More