Invitation to Public Lecture - "The Movement Legacy and its Impact on Uganda's Political Parties: A Preliminary Analysis"

The Office of the Vice Chancellor in Charge of Academic Affairs in conjunction with the Management of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University is organizing a public lecture scheduled for Thursday, 16th, April, 2015. The lecture will be delivered by US-based Professor of Political Science, Joshua B. Rubongoya in the University Main Hall. The topic of the lecture shall be; “The Movement Legacy and its Impact on Uganda’s Political Parties: A Preliminary Analysis”. The main discussant will be Prof. Ogenga Latigo, former Leader of Opposition and the moderator will be the Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Prof. Edward K. Kirumira.

Prof. Rubongoya’s brief bio data

Dr. Joshua B. Rubongoya, is a professor and former Chair of the Public Affairs Department at Roanoke College in Virginia, USA.  He is the author of "Regime Hegemony in Museveni's Uganda: Pax Musevenica" published in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan. Currently he is doing field research for a book on opposition politics in Uganda. In the 1980s he was a news caster on Uganda Television and reported for the now defunct Uganda Times. 

Professor Rubongoya holds the M.A. and Ph. D. in international politics from University of Denver, Denver Colorado USA and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) from Makerere University.  He is the Founder of Books4Uganda, Inc., a non-profit devoted to equipping libraries in Uganda with books from the United States.

You are all invited.

Date: 
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 02:00
Event Venue: 
Makerere University Main Hall
College/School: 
Contact Information: 
Prof. Joshua Rubongoya/Email: rubongoy@roanoke.edu or Hasifa Kabejja, Communication Officer, CHUSS/Email: pr@chuss.mak.ac.ug