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- A fire has gutted an iconic building at Uganda's Makerere University, which is a prominent landmark in the capital. Known as the "Ivory Tower", an overnight blaze has left its distinctive white walls with blue-shuttered windows blackened.
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Oct 3, 2024 · On 2nd October 2024, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni officially opened the re-constructed Makerere University’s iconic Main Building, and installed Dr. Crispus Kiyonga as the new Chancellor.
Oct 2, 2024 · President Yoweri Museveni, together with the Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, officially opened the restored Main Building of Makerere University today. The iconic structure was severely damaged by a fire in 2020.
Today, Makerere’s Literature Department, which nurtured Ngugi between 1959 and 1964, is overcrowded by students and is disconnected from the culture of the halls of residence. It no longer organises competitions in which lecturers can support students to write, direct and stage plays.
- How Culture Influences Young Adults
- Cultural Evolution and Transmission
- Beyond Makerere
We conducted our research with the help and expertise of a team mostly composed of recent Makerere alumni. The team interviewed over 3,000 Makerere students in 2015 who were then living in the halls as well as over 1,000 alumni who attended Makerere between 1970 and 2000. In our article, we advance that hall cultural influence is stronger for inter...
How stable are these findings over time, though? The advantage of interviewing alumni that graduated between 1970 and 2000 is that we can learn whether they change over time. We found that hall cultural influence seems to wane over time. Cultural influence was smaller among alumni, likely because they left Makerere a few decades ago. We also learne...
The broader question of cultural influence is ever-present across Africa and beyond. It extends to any university, to political organisations such as political parties, and to professional organisations, including labour unions and business associations. The University of Ghana, for example, provides a comparable setting of young elite socialisatio...
- Joan Ricart-Huguet
Oct 2, 2024 · The reconstructed Makerere University main building, also known as the Ivory Tower, was reopened Wednesday by President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady and education minister Janet Museveni.
On 20 September 2020, the main building of Makerere University (the Ivory Tower) was severely damaged by fire, [20] allegedly following a probe by Uganda Parliament into financial mismanagement by university authorities.
