Ernest Okello Ogwang

Ernest Okello Ogwang is a Ugandan academic and author. He served as the 1st Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at Makerere University. He is also an associate professor of literature and folklore at the same institution.

Background and education Ernest Okello Ogwang holds a Ph.D in Literature-Folklore from Indiana University, a Masters in Literature and a BA (Hons.) from Makerere University a university he joined in 1983. His areas of specialization for research and teaching include African Literature, Folklore and Literature, Oral Literature, Folklore (Genres and Artifacts, Methods, Intellectual History, Performance), Ethnographic Field Research, and Literary Theory and Criticism.

Publications

A Century of Existence. Colonial Library, National Literature, and Postcolonialism. Popular Cultural Forms: A Materialist Critique of Gender Representation in the Lang'o Orature. Popular Commemorations of the Uganda Martyrs Tradition.