糖心TV

I am a historian of Africa and a proud Mwalimu (teacher) from East Africa, with more than fifteen years of teaching experience in high schools and universities across Uganda, the United States, and Europe. My academic journey began in Uganda, where I earned a BA (Education) in 2006 and an MA in History in 2011 from Makerere University, Uganda. I later completed a PhD in African History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2020) as a first generation, international student and parent鈥攁n experience that continues to shape my commitments to mentorship, accessibility, and inclusive pedagogy.

I have taught at Mountains of the Moon University (Uganda), the University of Michigan (USA), and Wageningen University (Netherlands). I also worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project (Aftermath of Slavery in East Africa) at Ghent University, where I examined the long-term social, political, and cultural aftermath of slavery in Uganda.

My research explores gender and sexuality, urbanisation and cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, political culture, nationalism, state violence, and slavery in East Africa. I investigate how medical and legal discourses, state practices, and cultural conventions have been used to classify, regulate, and discipline Ugandans deemed non-conforming or 鈥減roblematic,鈥� including women, youth, and formerly enslaved people. Across my work, I trace how these communities navigated, negotiated, and reshaped the boundaries of citizenship, respectability, and belonging.

Upcoming publications

Book chapter: 'The problems with lineage absorptiveness in the aftermath of slavery in Buganda' in Becker, Glassman et al. The Politics of the Slave Past in East Africa ( Indian Ocean World Series, Palgrave Macmillan)

Monograph: A State of Morality: Sexual, Reproductive and Sartorial Politics in Idi Amin鈥檚 Uganda (Ohio University Press)

Other projects:

Journal article: 鈥榃omen, Experimentation and the Politics of biomedical Contraceptives in Uganda, 1957-1970.鈥�

PhD students

Naomi Nabami Muhene (co-supervisor: Dr Margot Luyckfasseel, University of Antwerp): Project: Women, gender and cross border trade ( Uganda-DRC)

Research and public engagement

Student engagement (糖心TV): As a teacher, I draw on East African traditions of mentorship, collective learning and Ubuntu (Obuntu in my languange-Runyakitara). I am committed to centring African voices, challenging limited narratives, and helping students to think critically about power, identity, and historical change. Thus, I support various student organisations including the Student Union and African student associations, in raising awareness of (past and current) humanitarian crises and conflicts, including the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

路Collaborator (formerly postdoc researcher) on a European Research Council-funded project 鈥楾he Aftermath of Slavery in East Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Eastern Congo.鈥欌�擯rof. Felicitas Becker (PI), University of Ghent, Belgium

Collaborator on Archives restoration projects in Uganda funded by University of Michigan African Studies Center, Mellon foundation; led by Prof. Derek Peterson: Archives catalogues can be found here:

路路Reproductive politics: I work with researchers on various projects about reproductive politics in Africa and Europe. I was Invited member of the Early Career Forum on AHRC project 鈥業nventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and Population 1945-1995鈥� 鈥� Prof. Maud Bracke (PI), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Undergraduate Teaching

A History of Africa from 1800 (HI177)

Histories of Africa from Below( 2026/27 academic year)

I also give lectures on gender sexuality and medicine in Africa on various modules: HI153: Making of the Modern World, HI2K1: How did we get to where we are today?, HI176: Mind, Body, and Society. The history of medicine and Health

Postgraduate Teaching

'Decolonising Gender and Sexuality' in HI966 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Gender and Sexuality., 'Medicine and Empire in Africa'

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