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The overall aim of the Foundation is to continue the tremendous work of the Late Abu Mayanja in the political and socio-economic development of Uganda.

In pursuit of this objective, we adopted the idea of holding the Abu Mayanja memorial lectures. The inaugural lecture was delivered in July 2007 by Professor Ali Mazrui on the development of democratic rule in Uganda; whilst Hon Justice Julia Sebutinde of the International Criminal Court (ICC) critically reviewed Uganda�s real options regarding the indictments of leaders of the Lords Resistance Army by the ICC in 2008.

In August 2009, Prof. Mahmood Mamdani delivered the third annual lecture in which he critiqued the conflict between Buganda and Uganda. Rachel Mayanja, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor on gender issues and the advancement of women delivered the 2011 lecture on the timely topic: �The Women�s Movement: Reality or Fallacy?�

On Tuesday April 28th 2015 Charles Peter Mayiga, Katikkiro of Buganda is set to deliver the 5th Abu Mayanja Memorial Lecture under the theme: �Abu Mayanja�s Contribution to the Restoration of the Kingdom of Buganda

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Justice Sebutinde to deliver Second Memorial Lecture
The 2nd lecture will be given by the Honourable Justice Julia Sebutinde, of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on the theme “Celebrating Ten Years of the Rome Statute (1998-2008): Does Uganda Have Reason to Join the Party?”, and it will take place on 6th August 2008 at the Kampala Sheraton Hotel starting at 5 PM.

Justice Julia Sebutinde, a British-trained Ugandan lawyer, was called to the Uganda Bar in 1979. From 1978-1991 she worked within Uganda's Ministry of Justice, where she rose to the level of Principal State Attorney / Principal Legislative Counsel. From 1991-1996 she worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, London as a Legislative Consultant and was seconded to the newly-independent Republic of Namibia, where she was attached to the Ministry of Justice as a Legislative expert.

In 1996 she was appointed Judge of the High Court of Uganda. Between 1999 and 2003 Judge Sebutinde chaired three high-level Commissions which investigated allegations of corruption in the Uganda Police Force, the Ministry of Defence and the Uganda Revenue Authority, respectively.
Third Abu Mayanja Memorial Lecture Invitation
The Abu Mayanja Foundation invites members of civil society, lawyers, politicians, academia, religious and cultural leaders, human rights activists, business leaders, NGOs to the 3rd Annual Abu Mayanja Memorial Lecture.

The lecture will be delivered by the distinguished Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Anthropology at the University of Columbia , USA; on 7 August 2009 at the Kampala Serena Conference Centre starting at 5 PM. The topic of the lecture is “Buganda and Uganda at a Crossroads.”
ICC needs reasons to drop Kony case, says Ssebutinde
Uganda must convince the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it has the special machinery to investigate and prosecute the indicted LRA leaders before it can be allowed to try Kony, Justice Julia Ssebutinde has said.

Ssebutinde, a judge in the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, yesterday said the Government could not just ask the ICC to drop charges against Kony.

Kony and his top commanders have been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Ssebutinde was delivering a paper on the 10 years of the Rome Statute under which the ICC was created.

This was during the second annual Abu Mayanja memorial lecture at the Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday.

The theme of the lecture was “Celebrating 10 years of the Rome Statute 1998-2008; Does Uganda have reason to join the party?”

In April, Kony refused to sign the final peace accord in Juba, saying he wanted clarification on his fate as far as the indictments were concerned.

According to Ssebutinde, the ICC cannot just let Uganda drop the case before it is convinced that there will be justice. Besides, it is not up to Uganda alone to drop the charges, she said.

“A lot of lobbying and diplomatic footwork on the part of Uganda must be done,” Ssebutinde said. “The Government has to convince the UN Security Council and the pre-trial chamber that dropping the indictments is in the interest of justice.”

Uganda, Ssebutinde said, referred the case to the ICC after failing to apprehend Kony.

She explained that the ICC ordered an investigation and was convinced that there was cause to handle the case.

Therefore, she said, Uganda cannot just drop the case the way the Director of Public Prosecutions does in national jurisdictions.

Uganda, the judge added, needed to make a special legislation for that, equip the special court and enhance and facilitate the investigative machinery, specifically to handle that case.

“All these must be in place in order to convince the ICC to drop the case.”

Even if the ICC accepted to drop the indictments, apprehending Kony is still a challenge, Ssebutinde said.

The former Solicitor General, Peter Kabatsi, said Uganda had reason to celebrate the creation of the ICC because of its past.
“Given our history of skulls in Namanve, Luweero and in the North, Uganda should celebrate. People cannot escape justice, go abroad or be protected by authorities here.”

Source: www.newvision.co.ug
Prof. Mamdani to deliver third Abu Mayanja Memorial Lecture
Prof. Mahmood Mamdani has indicated that he shall deliver the third annual Abu Mayanja Memorial Lecture. The topic of the lecture is “Buganda and Uganda at a Crossroads.”

Prof. Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia\'s Institute of African Studies. He is a former President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
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Campaign to free women applies to few - Rachel Mayanja
Elite women are not doing enough to uplift the status of rural women, a former special adviser to the UN Secretary General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Ms Rachael Mayanja, has said.

Speaking at the Abu Mayanja Memorial lecture in Kampala on Tuesday, Ms Mayanja said rural women are now fighting to break the ‘glass ceiling’ since the campaign to free women is applying just to a minority group, which negates the reason for the women’s movement.

She blamed the problem on the limited resources to support women’s programmes, and urged women MPs to make laws in favour of women. But Ms Veronica Nakijoba, a lecturer at Makerere University School of Gender Studies, said as educated women, they have championed some causes and argued that blame should not be heaped on elite women but rather think of how to further advance the cause.

The memorial lecture, which ran on the theme Women’s Movement: a Reality or Fallacy, is running for the fourth year.

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