A high profile Public Lecture will take place marking the re-birth of The Makerere Africa Lecture Series by the Gender Mainstreaming Directorate (GMD) of Makerere University on

A high profile Public Lecture will take place marking the re-birth of The Makerere Africa Lecture Series by the Gender Mainstreaming Directorate (GMD) of Makerere University on

Friday 2nd December 2011, Makerere University Main Hall from 3.00pm to 6:00pm. The Public Lecture will be presented by Hon Professor Peter Anyan'g Nyongo', MP and Minister of Medical Services, Republic of Kenya: a distinguished and exceptionally accomplished alumnus.

In fact, the Makerere Africa Lecture Series was the brainchild of the Anyang' Nyong'o Guild Executive of 1970, according to yet another distinguished alumnus, Professor Okello Oculi:

Makerere’s celebration of scholarly achievement by Professor Ali A. Mazrui sends out a useful signal to Nigeria….And talking of Nigeria, the culture of public lectures that Mazrui took to a higher gear at Makerere, led to a novel project created by the Makerere Students Guild (or executive). Growing dissatisfaction with what was increasingly regarded as Mazrui’s hostility to radical African nationalism, the Guild under the troika of Peter Anyang Nyongo, Joshua Mugyenyi and Daudi Mulabya Taliwako convinced Y.K. Lule, Makerere’s Principal, to fund ‘The Makerere Africa Lecture Series’. Distinguished scholars would be nominated to deliver an annual lecture. Makerere would publish and market the lectures to libraries worldwide. Professor Ade Ajayi was nominated to launch the series. He arrived in Kampala the morning after Idi Amin’s coup. He was met at the Apolo Hotel and urged to return to Nigeria immediately.1

Whereas the inaugural of the Makerere Africa Lecture Series was stillborn due to Idi Amin’s coup of 1971; we have re-conceived and plan to have it re-birthed forty (40) years later on Friday 2nd December 2011. Hence, we have invited Professor Anyang’ Nyong’o to present on the topic: "Ending the Servitude of Life Givers: the Liberation of East African Women since Nyerere's Equality Call." The discussant of the lecture is Dr. Thelma Awori, Honarary Consul General of Liberia in Uganda and the Guest of Honour is Prof. Apolo Nsibambi.

1 Okello Oculi, “Makerere, Mazrui and Tajudeen” in 10Years:Pambazuka News—Pan African Voices for Freedom and Justice, 2009-10-01, Issue 450: http://pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/59151