Our Old Testament studies colleague at Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), Dr. Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala, has been promoted to Associate Professor. This is good news for Makerere and for the African guild of biblical studies. Professor Nkabala has a solid background in a contextually sensitive biblical studies and as a professor, she will be able to profile this perspective at Makerere and in Uganda and beyond. Her main research focus has been the religious rhetoric of the so-called Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, cf. her monograph Kony as Moses: Old Testament Texts and Motifs in the Early Years of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda, cf. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059378, but she has also published important studies in the interface between Bible and gender.

I have known Professor Nambalirwa since she was a bachelor's student at Makerere. Eventually, I had the privilege to supervise her M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses, and today we collaborate in a research group and on a book project. She is a brilliant scholar and I am happy that Makerere University acknowledges this by promoting her.

— Knut Holter