Nelson Lwanga

Nelson
Fellow Status
Current Status
PhD Fellow
Thesis Title
Sports Culture: Football and Nationalist Imaginaries in Uganda
About me

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. 

Research Focus
My scholarly interests include debates in: sports politics, nationalism, everyday performances and resistance, and labour migration.