Mr. Hamudan Ssenoga is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. His major specialty is Political Studies, and minors in Cultural Studies engaging themes of: Political Identity, Political violence, State governance, and Nationalism in Uganda and Africa at large. His doctoral dissertation is entitled Last Becomes First: The Politics of Mwe Abali Mu Kintu and statecraft in Uganda. It historicizes the relationship between politicized identity, state governance, and the cyclic reproduction of political violence against beneficiaries of state power across different political regimes in Uganda. He is a recipient of the 2024 – 2025 Next-Gen Doctoral Research Fellowship Award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Fellow Status
Thesis Title
The Politics of Mwe Abali Mu Kintu and statecraft in Uganda
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Research Focus
His major specialty is Political Studies, and minors in Cultural Studies engaging themes of: Political Identity, Political violence, State governance, and Nationalism in Uganda and Africa at large.