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Dr. Sylvia Antonia Nakimera Nannyonga-Tamusuza is a Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) and Head of the Grants Administration and Management Support Unit at Makerere University. She has published on popular music, Catholic Church music, school music competitions, dance as music, sexuality in music and dance, politics and gender in music, the interface between ethnomusicology and music education, and identities in diasporic music, music repatriation and archiving. Her publications include the book Baakisimba: Gender in Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda (Routledge, 2005) and many articles in journals and edited volumes. She is co-editor of Ethnomusicology in East Africa: Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond (Fountain 2012). Her recent publication is on women’s negotiation for peace and conflict management using expressive arts, gendered mobile music, and archival studies based on the Makerere University Klaus Wachsmann