Dr. Pamela Khanakwa is a distinguished academic and administrator at Makerere University, currently serving as the Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts (SLPA). She assumed this role on June 13, 2023, succeeding Associate Professor Patrick Mangeni, who had completed two consecutive terms over eight years.
Before her deanship, Dr. Khanakwa was the Head of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Heritage Studies at Makerere University. She took over this position from Dr. Charlotte Karungi Mafumbo, demonstrating her leadership capabilities within the academic community.
In her capacity as Dean, Dr. Khanakwa has actively promoted philosophical discourse and social inclusivity. Notably, she officiated the World Philosophy Day celebrations at Makerere University, emphasizing the importance of demystifying philosophy and integrating it into the broader societal context.
Dr. Khanakwa's contributions extend to international collaborations as well. She was part of the Makerere University delegation that engaged with the University of South Africa (UNISA) to discuss potential partnerships and joint academic initiatives.
As an academic mentor, Dr. Khanakwa has supervised doctoral candidates, including overseeing a PhD defense on the topic of "Women and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1952-2018".
Dr. Khanakwa's leadership and scholarly endeavors continue to influence the academic landscape at Makerere University and beyond.
PEER REVIEWED
- Khanakwa, P., 2023 “Environmental Risk Management from Below: Living with Landslides in Bududa, Eastern Uganda” Journal of Eastern African Studies, 17:3, 384-403, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2268361
- Khanakwa, P., 2022. ‘Historical Studies at Makerere: Crisis and Optimism’ in J. Ahikire et al (eds.) Historicising the Humanities at Makerere: Trends, Patterns and Prospects (Kampala: Fountain Publishers), 201-232.
- Khanakwa, P., 2022. ‘Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda’ African Studies Review, 66:2 (June 2022), 455-478.
- Khanakwa, P., 2020. ‘“The Cut was not Proper”: Hybridity in Male Circumcision among Bagisu of Eastern Uganda’ in Dominica Dipio (ed.), Moving Back into the Future: Critical Recovering of Africa’s Cultural Heritage (Kampala: Makerere University Press), 107-125.
- Khanakwa P., 2020. ‘Ugandan Transformation Efforts’ in O. Tella and S. Motala (eds.), From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African- American Studies, Johannesburg: Jacana Media, pp. 301-313.
- Khanakwa, P. 2018. ‘Reinventing Imbalu and Forcible Circumcision: Gisu Political Identity and the Fight for Mbale in Late Colonial Uganda,’ The Journal of African History, 59 (3), 357-379.
- Khanakwa, P. 2016. ‘Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations’ in A. Fleisch and R. Stephens (eds.), Doing Conceptual History in Africa, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 115-137.
- Khanakwa, P., “Inter-Communal Violence and Land Rights: Bugisu – Bugwere Territorial Boundary Conflict,” Makerere Institute of Social Research Working Paper no. 6, July 2012.
CO-AUTHORED
- Asiimire Priscilla, Alice Nankya Ndidde & Pamela Khanakwa, .2023. “Adult Education at Makerere University College (1953-1962): Motivation and Provisions”, MAWAZO: The Journal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Makerere University, 15(1), 20-42.
- Namukasa, Jacqueline, Pamela Khanakwa & Rutanga Murindwa, Dec. 2022. ‘Colonial Cartography: A Hidden Crucible of the Migingo Conflict’, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 39 (3), 1-19, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2151035
- Abudul Mahajubu, Pamela Khanakwa and F. Musisi, “Facing social-political challenges: A historical examination on the survival methods of the Nubi ethnic minority in Uganda” African Journal of History and Culture. Vol. 11(4), 35-42, March 2019, DOI: 10.5897/AJHC2019.0428, Article Number: 118886F60625.
OTHERS
- Khanakwa, Pamela (2022) "Lifted Me Up, Taken Me To Places and Expanded My Networks," APN@10 Essay Series of Kujenga Amani.
- You may view it here: https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2022/05/24/lifted-me-up-taken-me-to-places-and-expanded-my-networks/
- Khanakwa, P., “''If I Die, Let Me Be the Last'': Reflecting on Dr. Lukwiya and Uganda’s Efforts against Ebola Disease Virus” Kujenga Amani, May 2016. http://forums.ssrc.org/kujenga-amani/2016/05/02/if-i-die-let-me-be-the-last-reflecting-on-dr-lukwiya-and-ugandas-efforts-against-ebola/.
- Khanakwa, P., “Cultural Implications on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Need to Preserve our Oral Traditions” in Harrington J. (ed), Heritage At Risk: ICOMOS World Report 2002/2003 on Monuments and Sites in Danger, Paris: K.G. Saur, 2003.
BOOK REVIEWS
- Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination. By Jonathon L. Earle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xx, 271; 25 b/w illustrations; 2 maps. $99.00 cloth. Review in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 50, 3 (2018), 501-3.
- Rwandan Women Rising by Swanee Hunt, Duke University Press, 2017, xlii + 392 pages, ISBN 978-0822362579 HC, $34.95. Review in Africa Review of Books, (2019)
- I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming my Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army by Evelyn Amony (with an edited introduction by Erin Baines) Madison, University of Wisconsin, 2016. African Review of Books, (March 2017), 11-12.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
- Khanakwa, P., (forthcoming) ‘History, Nationalism and Power: Uganda’s Experience’ in The Routledge Companion to African Historiography: 1960 to the present edited by Thula Simpson.
- Khanakwa, P., “We came as Colonizers”: Baganda Settlers’ Claims Over Mbale County, 1939-1941”, Book chapter.
- Khanakwa, P., “History Graduate Training at Makerere University: Realities and Experiences” submitted to History in Africa
