New Book! I am excited to announce that Decolonising State & Society in UG is forthcoming this year w/ @Boydell_Africa. The volume pulls together exciting contributions by Nakanyike Musisi, @edgarjacktaylor @kbrucelockhart, Tushabe wa Tushabe, @dave_the_prof @LethaEVictor, 1/7 
Lydia Boyd, Ashley L. Greene, @moseskhisa, Genevieve Meyers, @florencebrisset @rileysline, Margaret Nagawa, Fiona Siegenthaler, Holly Hanson, Asiimwe B. Godfrey, @AdrianJBrowne @Kalinaki @rwakabukoza, & Danson S. Kahyana. The cover is beautifully designed by Canon Rumanzi. 2/7
BLURB: "Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies, brought to the fore by social movements from #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter. 3/7
This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of resistance and refusal. 4/7
Bringing together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how Ugandans have built, disputed, 5/7
and reimagined institutions of authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, 6/7
the hampering of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, & debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in UG public life." 7/7
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