People

Elizabeth Kyazike

Elizabeth Kyazike has a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Dar es Salaam. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Kyambogo University and the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Her research has been centred mainly on the Kansyore phenomena a group of delayed return hunter gatherers. Elizabeth is Uganda’s leading development archaeologist which has given her experience and motivation to document memories. She is the principal investigator in the project that entails documenting the memories of slavery and slave trade at Fort Patiko one of the chief slave markets where the slaves were taken out of Uganda to especially the then equatorial province.