Christine Obbo

Christine Obbo (born in 1947) is an Ugandan socio-cultural anthropologist. She attended school at Makerere University in Uganda, earning her BA and MA there and went on to receive a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, with a scholarship from Rockefeller Foundation.[1] She was then a professor at Wheaton College and then Wayne State University,[1][2] later becoming involved in activities with HIV/AIDS,[2] gender, and policy issues.

Career

As an anthropologist, Obbo focuses on Ugandan ethnography.[1] She is the author of the book African Women.[3] Later, she focuses on investigating both social and cultural impacts of African HIV/AIDS crisis as she is interested in examining the links between economic system and sex-gender dynamic in Uganda and how it could slow the spread of HIV in Uganda socially.[4] Many of her work can be dated back to 1980s and Obbo is still active in early 2000.[5] She had contributed her expertise in many areas, including but not limited to participating in various UN-sponsored conferences to highlight the social issues of HIV/AIDS in Uganda to the international community, as well as writing for CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) publication.[1]

Personal life

Obbo married anthropologist Aidan Southall. Together, they have one daughter and one son.[6] In 2009, Aidan Southall passed away.[7]

gollark: I assume `len` is doing codepoints, characters are hard.
gollark: Even encoding languages and stuff will drag in politics.
gollark: What? No, that's ridiculous.
gollark: I don't think this has much of an effect generally, as most stuff counts by codepoints (which is wrong in some ways but OH WELL) and it's the same amount of those either way.
gollark: Fun!

References
  1. Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Henry Louis (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
  2. Times, John Tierney and Special To the New York. "AIDS in Africa: Experts Study Role of Promiscuous Sex in the Epidemic". Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  3. "Christine Obbo Books – Biography and List of Works – Author of 'African Women'". www.biblio.com. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  4. Kuhanen, Jan (January 2008). "The Historiography of HIV and AIDS in Uganda". History in Africa. 35: 301–325. doi:10.1353/hia.0.0009. ISSN 0361-5413.
  5. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  6. "Doctor Aidan Southall: Urban anthropologist who pioneered the study of". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  7. Obbo, Christine (2009-08-08). "Aidan Southall: A Tribute and Partial Memoir". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 10 (2). doi:10.1353/cch.0.0075. ISSN 1532-5768.


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