Sarah Ssali

"We have just concluded a fruitful period. Interestingly, this is not the first time we are having a joint workshop. We have had them in Nairobi before but then, they were back to back and we never really met."

"This is more-so as the grantees and fellows of both programs focus on the broad theme of conflict and peacebuilding in Africa."

"This is important because it helps in consolidating the next generation of Africa’s knowledge producers and professoriate, enabling them know each other better and form life-long, career-enhancing relationships."

"They must read widely as it is a must for their work so that they can determine what the key developments in their field are, and decide on what issues to focus on, or the potential contribution they hope their research will have on their field."

"Fellows and grantees need to understand how other scholars or their peers in a particular field have researched about a subject, or another related subject that they want to work on"

"have to familiarize themselves and be well immersed in the theories addressing a particular field of study or subject-matter."

"fellows and grantees should also realize there is also area-focused knowledge production, which involves locating their works in locally published texts/literature in order to strengthen and locate their field of inquiry in the area and context from which it comes"

"It is therefore very important for fellows and grantees to read and stay informed about the knowledge produced within the Continent and other parts of the world, while also continuously exploring ways of contributing to global knowledge production."