Makerere University

It is all of our responsibility to defend brave people such as Uganda’s Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Agather Atuhaire, Bobi Wine and Kenya’s Kasmeul McOure

Campuses elsewhere in Africa have seen the damage done by student activism influenced by political parties, a matter that has raised concern at South Africa’s higher education…

Graduation at the ‘Harvard of Africa’ nearly didn’t take place — because the university ran out of gowns

For academic Stella Nyanzi, obscenity — radical rudeness — is an act of rebellion against the repressive Museveni regime

The charge is "misusing a computer." Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison

She has campaigned for the rights of girls, women and LGBTQIA+ people in Uganda and leads Pads4​GirlsUG a campaign to provide free sanitary pads

The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya

An award-winning device created by a Ugandan engineer and his colleagues could replace expensive blood tests

The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’

As MPs scuffle over the president’s ageing reign, protesters take the battle to the streets

Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation

At Ibadan Polytechnic in Nigeria, Jonathan Adejunmobi has a hard job teaching journalism. For a start, there’s not even water to flush the toilets. Then, the school he heads has…