Yusuf Serunkuma

From its founding, the MISR MPhil/PhD programme arcades itself as a method to decolonisation in three significant ways: seeing the world from African vantage points; ending the pervasive consultancy culture; And asking context-specific home-grown questions.

Discussions about Robert Mugabe’s excesses as a classic “African dictator” are incomplete without comparisons with Uganda’s Idi Amin.

One of the many charges that were leveled against US President-elect Donald Trump was his penchant for lies.  Fact-checkers during the 2016 US election concluded that he lied 85 percent of times.

A white European friend tells a story of a panel on ‘African sexuality’ he attended in London sometime in 2005.  Among other things, the panel discussed intimacy, sexual pleasure, anal sex, marital rape and genital beautification or mutilation—all from what was considered the vantage point o

As a fifth year graduate student soon finishing his assignments for the award of a PhD, and proud of the new regime of learning at Makerere Institute of Social Research (having joined Makerere University as an undergrad in 2004, and have never left), commentators claiming that MISR’s PhD project

For a largely conservative community, Kampala is reeling off in shock at Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s nude protest at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISRI). Protesting removal from one work facility to another, Stella chose nudity as a method of protest.