Fellows

Yahya Sseremba is a post-doctoral research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISER), Makerere University in Uganda. He received his PhD from Makerere University in interdisciplinary social studies in 2019. He was awarded numerous awards from the Social Science Researdch Council’s Next Genderation Social Sciences in Africa Program: 2016 Proposal Development Award, 2017 Disserattion Research Fellowhsip, and the 2018 Complettion Fellowship. He also was a 2017 fellow of the Young African Scholars Program of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He did his bachelor’s degree in history education at Haramaya University, Ethiopia, in 2008. He received his MA in philosophy from Addis Ababa University in 2013 and his MPhil in Interdisciplinary Social Studies from Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda, in 2020. Jemberie taught history and philosophy for eight years at Samara University, Ethiopia, where he also served as the head of the Department of Civics and Ethics. The title of his MA thesis was “On the (Non-)Question of ‘What is Knowledge?’” in which he attempted to do

Joseph Kimaru Karanja is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Security and Correctional Sciences, Kenyatta University. He possess a bachelor’s degree in criminology and a Master of Criminology both from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. As a faculty member, Karanja facilitates various units ranging from crime studies, security management, private security, correctional sciences, justice systems, rule of law, peace, justice, and reconciliation both at the university level and disciplined forces training colleges. In terms of consultancy, Karanja has been involved in training needs assessment for disciplined services, module, and curriculum development for correctional institutions and university. He

Susan Kung’u is a communications lecturer with thirteen years’ experience. She was awarded a Master’s degree in communication studies at University of Nairobi in 2005 and a Bachelor’s degree from Kenyatta University in 1997. Since 2007, she has taught in various universities in Kenya including University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University and headed the communications department at Presbyterian University of E.A. She has specialized in journalism, media law and ethics, and psychology in communication. Previously, Kung’u taught language and literature in high schools in Kenya. While there, she revised and edited English text books for primary and secondary schools in

Oluwatosin Orimolade is a PhD student at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Orimolade’s research interest is at the intersection of Political Theory and History. His PhD research is concerned with debates within political society on the most fitting political arrangement conducive to the preservation of Nigeria as a united political entity. Methodologically, Orimolade’s interest in historical social sciences enables him to pay attention to enduring structures, historical processes, temporal sequences, and the spatial dimensions of social and political phenomena. He participated in the 7th Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology

Ridwan Abiola Kolawole is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and Language Arts at the  University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interest is in the area of applied communication with a particular interest in media studies, journalism, development communication as well as the interface between conflict and the media. He is interested in multi-disciplinary research and has applied his communication knowledge to the area of conflict which gave birth to his PhD topic, “Exploratory Analysis of Identity Construction in Nigerian Media Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflict in North Central Nigeria.” Before now, he earned a BA and a MA

Ridwan Abiola Kolawole is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and Language Arts at the  University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interest is in the area of applied communication with a particular interest in media studies, journalism, development communication as well as the interface between conflict and the media. He is interested in multi-disciplinary research and has applied his communication knowledge to the area of conflict which gave birth to his PhD topic, “Exploratory Analysis of Identity Construction in Nigerian Media Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflict in North Central Nigeria.” Before now, he earned a BA and a MA

Flora Hasunga is a sociologist, gender specialist, and social development expert specialized in social security, gender-based violence, and women’s economic empowerment. She is an assistant lecturer of the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy in the Department of Gender Studies since 2008. Her primary areas of teaching are gender and development, development studies, sociology, gender mainstreaming, women’s empowerment, gender analytical frameworks, and gender policy formulation. Currently, she is a PhD student in Sociology. Her PhD academic research assesses “The Contribution of Customary Land Titles on Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in Tanzania, A case of Mbozi District, Songwe Region.” Hasunga has a degree

Hafsa Ali Ibrahim is a Kenyan citizen who lives in Nakuru County. She is a wife and a mother of four children: a daughter and three sons. She is also a teacher by profession with more than six years of experience in secondary education and four years in tertiary. Ibrahim is currently a part time lecturer at Egerton University in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Religion. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in philosophy and religious studies in the same university. She holds a Master of Arts in philosophy and religious studies from the University of Nairobi and an