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Dr. Ernest Okello Ogwang is a Ugandan academic who served as Makerere University's 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 Major from Indiana University, Bloomington, a Masters in Literature from Makerere University, and a BA (Hons.) from Makerere University.

Career
Dr. Okello Ogwang is a publisher with a number of peer-reviewed books, working papers, edited journals, and scholarly articles to his name. His areas of teaching and research specialty include African Literature, Folklore and Literature, Oral Literature, Folklore (Genres and Artifacts, Methods, Intellectual History, Performance), Ethnographic Field Research, and Literary Theory and Criticism. He has also taught various courses at Makerere University in the areas of African Literature, Oral Literature, Literature and Folklore: fieldwork course, Caribbean Literature, Ritual and Literature, Comparative Epic Poetry, Postcolonial Literature and Criticism. Dr. Okello Ogwang has participated in various consultancies with the Ministry of Education (1993-94), Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (2005), and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He has been appointed to serve on various Makerere University Task Forces, Committees, Visitation Teams, as well as the University Senate and University Council. Dr. Okello Ogwang has served and continues to serve on various academic bodies at both national and international levels. He has supervised a number of Masters and Ph.D. students to completion and provided Postdoctoral Mentorship to over five Senior Teaching Staff at Makerere University. He was also the vice president of the History of the Ugandan Centre in 2001.

Publications

 * A Century of Existence. ISBN 9970-02-022-6
 * 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.