Islam in Uganda

Joseph Kasule is a Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), at Makerere University, where he teaches and researches on cultural anthropology. He received his Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies from Makerere University. He also has a M.Phil. in Social Studies from the same institution; a Master of Laws from Coventry University (UK), and a B.A. in Social Sciences from Makerere University. His research rotates around alternative political imaginations under the hegemony of the modern secular political design. His recent book (poster attached) interrogated Muslim minorities as political subjects of non-Muslim secular power. He also researches on aspects of decolonization and decoloniality and is currently working on a project that compares the decolonization possibilities of diasporic communities in Bergen and Buganda. Dr. Kasule also works on questions of translation and conceptual interpretability, realized in his on-going translation of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen & Subject.

Convener:   Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Group, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion.