I believe this is the oldest image I have seen of a Bunyoro homestead, taken in 1881, from the collection of Richard Buchta, British Library.

What topic in Ugandan history should have been covered more thoroughly during your secondary school courses?

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📢New digitised collection!

Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library is complete!

7000+ images have been added to the collection page, selected from 23 archive collections & more than 40 print items

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🚨Three-year African History job🚨Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellowship in Global (African) History (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP204/isa…

Reminder: we meet tomorrow, Wednesday at 3pm Uganda time, 8am Eastern in the US, 1pm in the UK. Please join us to discuss a very important work of scholarship by Dr. Patrick Otim. Please tell a friend, a colleague, neighbor...

Exciting news—my brilliant supervisor Lydia Walker’s book, States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization, is now available in open access. I can’t wait to read it! 🥳 cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

Tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

Who/What is the most misunderstood person/moment in Ugandan history?

THIS WEEK. We hope to see you at the launch of Patrick Otim's excellent book Ohio University Press / Swallow Press on Acholi intellectual history! Details below. Uganda Studies Group African Studies Association

If you could go back in time and spend the day with one person in Uganda’s past, who would it be? And why?

Dear colleagues and friends in Uganda. An exciting opportunity African Studies!

We are hiring! Cadbury Research Fellowship in African Studies, 18 months from Jan '25. Any discipline (arts/ humanities/social sciences) research focus on any region of sub-Saharan Africa Africa Research Inst @Africa_IAI Journal of Southern African Studies African Studies Association AfricanStudiesUK jobs.ac.uk/job/DHL472/cad…

Rubaga Road nga bwe lwaali mu 1936. 👴🏿

We are pleased to announce this discount from Ohio University Press / Swallow Press for the launch. If you are based in Uganda—and wish to read the book before the launch—OUP has also kindly agreed to grant temporary open access. If you are interested, please complete this form: ugandastudiesgroup.org/email

On 15 May, 3pm EAT, Uganda Studies Group will host Patrick Otim Bates College on the occasion of his remarkable new book, which rethinks Uganda's intellectual history. Details are below. We hope to see you there! Ohio University Press / Swallow Press African Studies Association

TODAY—Moses Khisa and others on Autocratization in Uganda! We look forward to seeing you soon (details below): 3 pm EAT; 1 pm BST; 8 am EST.

Monday. Please plan to join us.

Kudos to the authors and huge thank you for making the book available on open access and free to download! Thank you Jonathon L. Earle for the post