The Management of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) led by the Principal, Dr Josephine Ahikire on 11th January 2021 received and oriented the fourth cohort of PhD students under the Gerda Henkel Stiftung sponsored Interdisciplinary PhD by Research Programme in Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
The 10 newly admitted students are; Ms. Laurene Manaa Abdallah from Ghana, Mr. Wasiu Olorunlambe from Nigeria, Mr. Okok Samuel, Ms. Juliet Ssematimba, Ms. Naomi Namanya, Ms. Moureen Nanteza and Ms. Fatuma Mirembe from Uganda, Mr. Samuel Nyasha Chikowera from Zimbabwe, Ms. Grace Njoki Maina from Kenya and Mr. Alene Kassaw Fentie from Ethiopia. The students were admitted following a rigorous selection exercise in which they emerged best out of 160 applicants.
Under their PhD study programme, the students will conduct research on a wide-range of issues in Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Their topics of study include; Colonial Influences on the Construction of West African Anglophone and Francophone Cinema (Ms. Laurene Manaa Abdallah from Ghana), Historicizing Traditional Technology in Bunyoro: The Case of Salt Mining at Kibiro 1894 – 1997 (Ms. Juliet Ssematimba from Uganda), Historicizing the Religious Ethical Values in the Ugandan Education System (Ms. Naomi Namanya from Uganda), Linguistic Imperialism in Uganda: The Historical Influence of the Language and Culture of the Baganda (Ms. Moureen Nanteza from Uganda), Patterns and Trends of Iron Working in Uganda since the 7th to the 20th Centuries (Ms. Fatuma Mirembe from Uganda), The Challenge of Political Integrity in Uganda: An Ethical Inquiry into the Socio-Political Drivers (Mr. Okok Samuel from Uganda), Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Children During United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in Sub-Saharan Africa (Central Africa Republic and South Sudan) –Mr. Wasiu Olorunlambe from Nigeria, Witchcraft and Belonging: The Reconstruction of Criminality and the Politics of Belonging in Zimbabwe, 1980 – 2020 (Mr. Samuel Nyasha Chikowero from Zimbabwe), Continuities in Agikuyu Women Indigenous Justice Systems, 1800 – 2010 (Ms. Grace Njoki Maina from Kenya), and Trans-Border Security Threats, Actors, Modi Operandi and Implications for State and Human Security in Ethiopia (Mr. Alene Kassaw Fentie from Ethiopia).
