Humanities & Social Sciences

Kabale University hosts the first Professorial Inaugural Lecture

Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joy C Kwesiga officiating the ceremony. Kabale University; one of the 9 public Universities in Uganda has today held its first-ever professorial inaugural lecture.  Under the Department of Governance in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences the colorful ceremony was officiated by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Joy Kwesiga. This key historical started with a...

Introduction of Prof. Benon C Basheka at the 1st Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Assoc Prof. Mesharch Walto Katusiimeh

I am pleased to introduce Professor Benon C. Basheka. I have extensively read his published academic articles and keenly followed his academic journey. I am therefore happy to introduce a man who I can rightly call a mentor and now a colleague since 2002 when I began my teaching career at University level. Professor Basheka...

Governance and Leadership-Wrappers of Constitutional Democracy

In 2020, most African states commemorate their 60th anniversary since attaining Independence from the colonial masters. At such a time, academic honesty demands us to reflect, revisit and reevaluate the development models adopted by African states in the past decades. Such a discourse cannot ignore the governance and leadership questions especially when the subject of...

Second Runyakitara Orthography Training

Kabale University Institute of Language Studies organized a two weeks Runyakitara orthography intensive training that started on the 6th to the 18th of January 2020. The training attracted different categories of people including primary and secondary school teachers, S.6 vacation students among others. The students who spent two weeks of intensive training at Kabale University,...

Kabale University Professor appointed as an Extraordinary Professor in a top South African Business School

Professor Benon Basheka, who recently joined Kabale University as a Professor of Governance has been appointed to a prestigious position of an Extra-Ordinary Professor at the NWU Business School in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences in South Africa. An Extraordinary Professor is appointed for a specific purpose to teach a particular course at...

Community Outreach at Karoli Lwanga Hospital, Nyakibale, Rukungiri District

Community Outreach is one of the Community Services curried out periodically in the Department of Social Work, Social Administration, and Governance. In a bid to extend psychosocial support to in-patient at various hospitals in Kigezi region, the Department chose to extend the service to Rukungiri District at Karoli Lwanga Hospital, Nyakibale on the 6th April...

Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage in Institutions of Higher Learning in Uganda

Kabale University in partnership with Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda is implementing a three years project of promoting intangible cultural heritage in Ugandan Universities. This project is sponsored by UNESCO and Kabale University is among the four Universities that we’re selected to implement the project. The project focuses on creating awareness and sensitizing the communities on...

Launching the brown bag seminars at Kabale University

Members of the Research and Publications Steering Committee together with Prof. Twesigomwe, DVC – AA, (2nd right) The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences launched the Brown Bag Seminars. These seminars are intended to promote research within the University. In order to broaden the research concept within the Faculty, this idea was floated and adopted by...

Kabale University Offers Career Guidance to Secondary Schools in Eastern Uganda

Kabale University offers career guidance to Secondary Schools as part our Corporate Social Responsibility. This November 2018, we were able to offer this service to schools in the Eastern Part of Uganda. Some Secondary Schools in the districts of Busia, Tororo, Mbale, Soroti, Serere and Ngora benefited from this program. Dr. Francis Akena, Dr.Marus Eton, Dr.Sarah...

Kabale University donates over 450 Volumes of books to Kabale branch of Public Libraries

As an act of community out-reach, Kabale University donated over 450 volumes of books to Kabale branch of Public Libraries covering the areas of general knowledge, English, Mathematics, Life science, Physical science, History, Political Science and children books. “Books are for use, every book should find it’s user” as extracted from the Five laws of library...