Bio

Associate Professor of Political Science (jointly appointed in Africana Studies) and Research Fellow with the Centre for International and Comparative Politics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I write a weekly opinion column for Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.

Website: moseskhisa.com

Teaching and Research Interests

Comparative Politics and International Political Economy with a focus on Africa.

Current Projects

• Book monograph: African Political Thought and Civil Military Relations.
• Uganda’s 2026 General Elections – Guest Co-Editor for a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Publications

Books:

• Encyclopedia of African Politics (Co-Editor)
• Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda (Editor)
• Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa (Co-editor)
• Africa’s New Global Politics (Monograph with Rita Kiki Edozie)

Peer Reviewed Articles:

• “From The ‘Bobi Wine Factor’to the ‘Muhoozi Project’: Uganda’s 2026 Elections and the Politics of Presidential Succession” (with Luke Melchiorre), African Affairs (2026).
• “Rwanda-Uganda Relations: Elites’ Attitudes and Perceptions in Interstate Relations” (with Gerald Bareebe), Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 61, no. 2 (2023): 152-176.
• “Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda” (with Rwengabo Sabastiano) Armed Forces & Society (2023).
• “Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda,” African Studies Review, August 2022.
• “Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 Elections,” (with Sam Wilkins & Richard Vokes), African Affairs 120, no. 481 (2021): 629-643.
• “Politicization and Professionalization: The Progress and Perils of Civil-Military Transformation in Museveni’s Uganda,” Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 289-312.
• “Reconceptualizing Civil-Military Relations in Africa” (with Christopher Day), Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 174-197.
• “Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa” (with Christopher Day and William Reno), Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 156-173.
• “Shrinking Democratic Space? Crisis of Consensus and Contentious Politics in Uganda,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 57, no. 3 (2019): 343-362..
• “Politics of Exclusion and Institutional Transformation in Ethiopia,” Third World Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2019): 542-557.
• “Whose Africa is Rising,” Review of African Political Economy 46, no. 160 (2019): 304-316.
• “Managing Elite Defection in Uganda,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 10, no. 4 (2016): 729-748.
• “Political Uncertainty and Its Impact of Social Service Delivery in Uganda,” Africa Development 40, no. 4 (2015).
• “The Making of the Informal State in Uganda,” African Development 38, no. 1&2 (2013): 191-226.

Book Chapters & Book Reviews

Many… available via Google Scholar.

Area(s) of Expertise

African Political Thought
Civil Military Relations
Comparative and International Political Economy
Democratization and Authoritarianism