david n. tshimba Day 2 opening keynote "An Afrocentric University?" #ACUSAfrica2024

"Authority and authorship are intextricably linked... When we seperate the two we are contributing to epistemic apartheid" - David Tshimba at #ACUSAfrica conference in Uganda today Speaking to some of my work, for sure!

Vatican News today marked the 60th anniversary of the Uganda Martyrs--the first black saints of modern times. Here's a film that david n. tshimba & I made to tell the martyrs' story. It is part of 'God and Caesar', an exhibition Uganda Martyrs University. 1/2 youtu.be/lGNla7jX-2E

Vatican News david n. tshimba Uganda Martyrs University 2/2 The exhibition is open until the end of this month at UMU's Lubaga campus, just downhill from the cathedral. Do visit if you are in Kampala!

2024 has truly been a long ride (and counting): as life in the US gets trumped up* over the next 4 years (and perhaps more), much of the West starts to politically resemble the colonial past of most of the rest of the globe - zero-sum game of identity politics!

What meanings do people with lived experience of conflict & displacement ascribe to peace? Nadine Segadlo, Hannah Edler & I explore this in "Making sense of peace in exile" with an intersectional approach in Peacebuilding Journal. Research was funded by @dsfrieden doi.org/10.1080/216472…

📚✨ You're Invited! ✨📚 Join us for the Book Launch of  Decolonisation Pathways: Colonialism and African Responses to COVID-19 📖🌍 📍 enue: UMU Lubaga Campus 📅 Date: 20th March 2025 #BookLaunch #DecolonisationPathways #UMU

We're warming up for this long-awaited book. Join us, physically if you can, and virtually if you please! Derek R Peterson Edgar Jack Taylor Dr Sara Rich Dorman Georgia Cole Ulrike Krause (@ulrikekrause.bsky.social) Franzisca Zanker - @[email protected] Jochen Lingelbach @[email protected] Jeff Crisp Dr Sara Rich Dorman Jim Spire Ssentongo Charles Onyango-Obbo Uganda Martyrs University Siobhán Mullally (UN SR Trafficking in Persons)

An important book to be launched on Thursday, 20th at Uganda Martyrs University, Lubaga Campus

A worthwhile, critical 5th anniversary of the COVID-19 total lockdown in Africa it was Uganda Martyrs University graced by the chief discussion of Pontiano Kaleebu alongside a host of cutting-edge chapter contributors, astute students and colleagues from the UMU Press

It was a beautiful, refreshing and educative moment to join the team at Uganda Martyrs University for the launch of the Decolonisation Pathways. Great words by david n. tshimba

It's gonna be a very stimulating end of year when this goosebump-giving book finds the Ugandan readership in the run-up to the decisive 2026 elections! So help us God and so deliver us from Slow Poison... hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Tonight, 9pm Incredible Stories with Simon Kasyate presents the Incredible life story of the #UgandaMartyrs as told by david n. tshimba Ass. Prof. Uganda Martyrs University . The story will leave you in awe as to who the martyrs actually were and the real circumstances behind their execution! Our Lady of Africa Mbuya Church UBC UGANDA

We shall eagerly tune in: a story whose convincing power keeps afloat!

Just in case you missed the premier of Tonight’s episode of #IncredibleLifeStories Incredible Stories with Simon Kasyate ; here we go! Let’s find out why the Uganda Martyrs shall always matter👉🏾. youtu.be/6gE4wohjO3g?si…

How did Idi Amin’s regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson’s new book reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who