Kalyango Ronald Sebba

Dr Kalyango Ronald Sebba is a lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at Kyambogo University, in Kampala, Uganda. Until recently he was lecturer at the School of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University. 

He teaches courses on social policy and community health. He also teaches courses covering conflict and post-conflict situations; forced migration; refugee livelihoods and household economy; gender-based violence; and children in conflict. 

He has worked as a consultant for the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organisation, the American Refugee Committee and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, among others. 

Ronald says:

“From the West, we are always looking at: how do we control mobility? And yet for most of us in the [Global] South, it is more or less like, how are people interlinked, and how do they work together in terms of social cohesion, working together, living together and earning a living together, and how does it fit into their agency for survival and development? So when you look at that kind of perspective, within the region, [our view of mobility] takes on something completely different.”

So what do we need to know if we’re going to understand mobility in the Horn of Africa today?

“Mobility enhances people’s livelihoods. They’re able to move from areas where they have no jobs, to areas where they can get jobs and where they can get employment. It makes it possible for remittances, for instance, working in certain regions, earning an income and then sending it back”.

Research by Kalyango Ronald Sebba