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Nelson Lwanga is a PhD student in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. Titled Sports Culture: Football and Nationalist Imaginaries in Uganda, Lwanga’s doctoral research draws on interdisciplinary approaches to examine sports’ politics and poetics, particularly the role of sports culture in development of nationalist consciousness in colonial and postcolonial Uganda. 

Samuel Nyende is a PhD Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. 

He has contributed to scholarly debates through his recently published review of Gift Wasambo Kayira’s book, The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting Poverty, 1939–1983. His forthcoming journal article, “Federici’s and Robinson’s Critiques of Capitalism: Thinking Decolonising Higher Education in Uganda,” is scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education.

Birungi Robert is a PhD Fellow pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), an institute managed by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Ethics and Human Rights and a Master of Philosophy in Social Studies from Makerere University. He has previously taught in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Gender and Women’s Studies at Makerere University.