Pamela Khanakwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 184493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Khanakwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Khanakwa |
| SIGNATURE | KHANAKWA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1275-6828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Africanisation of Adult Education at Makerere University College in the 1960s
Africanisation was a major concern of post-independence in East Africa, and particularly in Uganda, its pursuit at Makerere University College was deliberate in the 1960s. While it was a major preoccupation of nationalist leaders, it has hardly received the attention of researchers on the history of education at the university. How was university adult education Africanised at Makerere? This article answers this question using archival sources an…
Lending meaning to Catholic presence in Uganda: The story of Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga 1966-1969
This article examines the legacy of Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga in shaping Uganda’s Catholic religious heritage through the creation, preservation, and revitalisation of sacred spaces. While scholarship has largely emphasized Nsubuga’s political leadership during Uganda’s turbulent decades, this study foregrounds his role in Catholic memory-making and spatial politics in the 1960s. Drawing on archival records, oral interviews, and secondary literat…
Adult Education at Makerere University College (1953-1962): Motivations and Provisions
Makerere University College opened in 1953, established the Department of Extra-Mural Studies following the recommendations of the 1945 Asquith Commission. The Asquith Commissioners hoped that university adult education offered through centres of extra-mural studies would serve the remote areas that were unreachable by the university colleges through offering adults opportunities for part-time study. The end of World war II and the subsequent cre…
Environmental risk management from below: Living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda
This article explores how the people of Bududa used culturally and spiritually embedded knowledge to tame extreme weather and ably live with the spectre and reality of landslides since the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on multiple oral and written sources, the article shows how landslides were experienced in the past and chronicles recent government and community responses to living with landslides. The article shows that local approache…
Doing Conceptual History in Africa
Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribut…
Colonial Cartograhy: A Hidden Crucible of the Migingo Conflict
Scholars have extensively studied the ways in which colonial borders configure the African continent. In East Africa, studies have demonstrated that the colonial naturalized inter-state boundaries have been a source of territorial conflicts. Focusing on the Uganda-Kenya conflict over Migingo Island, this article examines the forces that shaped the demands and claims of either state over the island. Migingo is a rocky islet in Lake Victoria that h…
Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda
Bulambuli district in eastern Uganda suffered chronic insecurity arising from cattle rustling since the 1960s and recently became awash with escalating land conflicts. Focusing on the disputed ownership over Plot 94 in Bunambutye, Khanakwa examines the intersection between cattle rustling, land conflicts, and peace-building. While scholarship often overlooks the relationship between livestock theft and social conflict, evidence from Bulambuli hig…
Facing social-politcal challenges: A historical examination on the survival methods of the Nubi ethnic minority in Uganda
Since the pacification of Uganda by the British Imperial Government in 1894, up to the time Nubians were recognized as an ethnic community in 1995, they continue to retain their indigenous ethnic identity, through professing Islam, speaking their traditional language (Ki-Nubi) and practicing their own traditional values, for example traditional dressings and foods. Nubians quest for survival as an ethnic group has been threatened over the time by…
Reinventing Imbalu and Forcible Circumcision: Gisu Political Identity and the Fight for Mbale in Late Colonial Uganda
Ugandan colonial authorities carved Bugisu and Bukedi districts out of Mbale district in 1954, isolating Mbale town as a separate entity. With ethnic tensions escalating as independence approached, Gisu and Gwere fought for Mbale's ownership. Empowered by decentralisation, Bugisu District Council pressed the colonial state to declare Mbale part of Bugisu, viewing the town as key to the region's wealth, and providing a symbolic status similar to t…
Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda
Bulambuli district in eastern Uganda suffered chronic insecurity arising from cattle rustling since the 1960s and recently became awash with escalating land conflicts. Focusing on the disputed ownership over Plot 94 in Bunambutye, Khanakwa examines the intersection between cattle rustling, land conflicts, and peace-building. While scholarship often overlooks the relationship between livestock theft and social conflict, evidence from Bulambuli hig…
Colonial Cartograhy: A Hidden Crucible of the Migingo Conflict
Scholars have extensively studied the ways in which colonial borders configure the African continent. In East Africa, studies have demonstrated that the colonial naturalized inter-state boundaries have been a source of territorial conflicts. Focusing on the Uganda-Kenya conflict over Migingo Island, this article examines the forces that shaped the demands and claims of either state over the island. Migingo is a rocky islet in Lake Victoria that h…
Reinventing Imbalu and Forcible Circumcision: Gisu Political Identity and the Fight for Mbale in Late Colonial Uganda
Ugandan colonial authorities carved Bugisu and Bukedi districts out of Mbale district in 1954, isolating Mbale town as a separate entity. With ethnic tensions escalating as independence approached, Gisu and Gwere fought for Mbale's ownership. Empowered by decentralisation, Bugisu District Council pressed the colonial state to declare Mbale part of Bugisu, viewing the town as key to the region's wealth, and providing a symbolic status similar to t…
Reinventing Imbalu and Forcible Circumcision: Gisu Political Identity and the Fight for Mbale in Late Colonial Uganda
Ugandan colonial authorities carved Bugisu and Bukedi districts out of Mbale district in 1954, isolating Mbale town as a separate entity. With ethnic tensions escalating as independence approached, Gisu and Gwere fought for Mbale's ownership. Empowered by decentralisation, Bugisu District Council pressed the colonial state to declare Mbale part of Bugisu, viewing the town as key to the region's wealth, and providing a symbolic status similar to t…
Facing social-politcal challenges: A historical examination on the survival methods of the Nubi ethnic minority in Uganda
Since the pacification of Uganda by the British Imperial Government in 1894, up to the time Nubians were recognized as an ethnic community in 1995, they continue to retain their indigenous ethnic identity, through professing Islam, speaking their traditional language (Ki-Nubi) and practicing their own traditional values, for example traditional dressings and foods. Nubians quest for survival as an ethnic group has been threatened over the time by…
Doing Conceptual History in Africa
Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribut…
Colonial Cartograhy: A Hidden Crucible of the Migingo Conflict
Scholars have extensively studied the ways in which colonial borders configure the African continent. In East Africa, studies have demonstrated that the colonial naturalized inter-state boundaries have been a source of territorial conflicts. Focusing on the Uganda-Kenya conflict over Migingo Island, this article examines the forces that shaped the demands and claims of either state over the island. Migingo is a rocky islet in Lake Victoria that h…
Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims: Understanding Struggles Over Land in Bunambutye, Eastern Uganda
Bulambuli district in eastern Uganda suffered chronic insecurity arising from cattle rustling since the 1960s and recently became awash with escalating land conflicts. Focusing on the disputed ownership over Plot 94 in Bunambutye, Khanakwa examines the intersection between cattle rustling, land conflicts, and peace-building. While scholarship often overlooks the relationship between livestock theft and social conflict, evidence from Bulambuli hig…
Adult Education at Makerere University College (1953-1962): Motivations and Provisions
Makerere University College opened in 1953, established the Department of Extra-Mural Studies following the recommendations of the 1945 Asquith Commission. The Asquith Commissioners hoped that university adult education offered through centres of extra-mural studies would serve the remote areas that were unreachable by the university colleges through offering adults opportunities for part-time study. The end of World war II and the subsequent cre…
Environmental risk management from below: Living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda
This article explores how the people of Bududa used culturally and spiritually embedded knowledge to tame extreme weather and ably live with the spectre and reality of landslides since the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on multiple oral and written sources, the article shows how landslides were experienced in the past and chronicles recent government and community responses to living with landslides. The article shows that local approache…
Africanisation of Adult Education at Makerere University College in the 1960s
Africanisation was a major concern of post-independence in East Africa, and particularly in Uganda, its pursuit at Makerere University College was deliberate in the 1960s. While it was a major preoccupation of nationalist leaders, it has hardly received the attention of researchers on the history of education at the university. How was university adult education Africanised at Makerere? This article answers this question using archival sources an…
Lending meaning to Catholic presence in Uganda: The story of Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga 1966-1969
This article examines the legacy of Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga in shaping Uganda’s Catholic religious heritage through the creation, preservation, and revitalisation of sacred spaces. While scholarship has largely emphasized Nsubuga’s political leadership during Uganda’s turbulent decades, this study foregrounds his role in Catholic memory-making and spatial politics in the 1960s. Drawing on archival records, oral interviews, and secondary literat…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)