Digital Library
Open shelves for Bakiga knowledge and social work scholarship
Essays, historical studies and public scholarship from the Institute — organised for students, researchers and community readers.
Centre for Bakiga Studies
History, identity and oral tradition
Scholarly writing on ethnicity, aristocratic lineages, marriage, memory and the making of the Kigezi Highlands.
Bakiga Marriage and Historical Consciousness: Kinship, Memory and the Reproduction of Society
Marriage among the Bakiga as more than family formation — a central mechanism through which historical consciousness, kinship and social memory were reproduced.
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Abashambo and Abakora in the Historical Anthropology of Ndorwa
A scholarly reappraisal of aristocratic identity in the Kigezi Highlands — distinguishing Abashambo and Abakora without reducing either to colonial tribal categories.
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Bakiga or Banyakigezi? Ethnicity, Aristocratic Lineages, Historical Memory and the Making of Identity in the Kigezi Highlands
Why Bakiga and Banyakigezi are not interchangeable — and how aristocratic lineages, colonial ethnography and territorial belonging shaped identity in the Kigezi Highlands.
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Practice, justice and public life
Essays on children’s services, professional ethics, immigration policy and the future of the profession.
Mission impossible: why the Families First reforms to children’s services are wishful thinking
Without capacity in the workforce, Westminster’s renewed focus on early intervention is destined to fail. First published in BASW’s PSW magazine.
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How Labour’s immigration policies erode the foundations of our profession
Labour’s revival of the hostile environment is a systemic injustice — and social work will pay the price. First published in BASW’s PSW magazine.
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Once upon a time in social work – a profession under siege
A powerful longform essay on a profession that has lost its way — and a rallying cry for the radical imagination needed to reclaim its name. First published in BASW’s PSW magazine.
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Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honour: It Is a Warning
Burnout, bias and the theatre of care proceedings: a philosophical critique of social work in children and families in the UK.
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Stories Told in Pixels
A profession slowly losing its stones while its caretakers insist the structure remains perfectly sound.
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Essays, reflections and poems
Beyond Gashumba and Pastor Kayanja: The Battle Over Sacred Authority in Uganda
The public exchanges between Frank Gashumba and Pastor Robert Kayanja are not merely a personal dispute. They reveal a deeper contest over religious authority, accountability and democracy in contemporary Uganda.
Read essayAshes and Aftermath: A Social Worker’s Closing Chapter
Radical reflections on social work, after the threshold of life beyond child protection.
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Two Poems
On the quiet truths of a profession, and for the parents who carry more than anyone sees.
Read poetryFacing something the system won’t hear?
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