Event Details

This Thursday at 7:30pm in the Lecture Center, STAR will be hosting our first visiting lecturer of the semester. Godfrey Asiimwe will be giving a talk entitled "Elusive Corruption and Slippery Panacea: Towards Understanding Corruption Under the NRM in Uganda."

For those of you who do not know of the National Resistance Movement, here is their website: http://www.nrm.ug/.

Godfrey Asiimwe is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History (Development & Organisational Studies) at Makerere University, Kampala - Uganda. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, (Erasmus University), The Hague. His area of specialization is Rural Development (Commodity Marketing). He has done research and consultancies in the areas of Socio-political relations, Economic History, Governance, Political Accountability and Corruption, Civil Society, Rights and Gender relations. He has won local and international awards and fellowships. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of East African Studies, The Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and an advisor to the Uganda Development Studies Association. He is the Uganda Chapter Liaison officer of the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern & Southern Africa. He is currently a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Mt. Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

We hope that you will join us to kick off this semester's lecture series, with what promises to be an engaging and intriguing talk.