Researchers from the Great Lakes Center for the Study of the United States at Makerere University presented at the Florida Political Science Association Conference in April 2026 held at Saint Leo University.
It was my pleasure to Chair this panel along with the Center Director Prof Edward Silvestre Kaweesi.
The Center's 2025-26 Cohort of Researchers presented papers/updates on their projects.
Relationality: Uganda and the United States Since 1945.
Panelists:
Charlotte Karungi Mafumbo, Ph.D. and Jacqueline Nakaiza, Ph.D. “Counterterrorism as Relationality: Uganda-USA Relations since 1990.” Center for the Study of the United States, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Bernard Luwerekera, Ph.D. “US-Uganda Relations through the Peace Corps Lens: Volunteers’ Lived Experiences, Impact and Legacy.” Center for the Study of the United States, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Itah Patience Mbethki. “’When I was in America’: Edu-relationality, Culture and Fulbright Scholars in Uganda’s Public Universities.” Center for the Study of the United States, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
George Okiror, Ph.D. “US – Uganda relations on matters of Constitutionalism and Rule of Law” Center for the Study of the United States, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

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