TROY professor’s Fulbright research preserves oral histories from pre-colonial Uganda

Nokes met with the 100-year-old Kwar Adhola (King) Moses Stephen Owor of the Jopadhola people in Eastern Uganda.

Nokes met with the 100-year-old Kwar Adhola (King) Moses Stephen Owor of the Jopadhola people in Eastern Uganda.

Since mid-April, Dr. Scott Nokes has travelled throughout Uganda collecting pre-colonial oral stories from storytellers as part of his research through a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant. 

Nokes, professor of medieval literature in TROY’s English Department, arrived in Uganda in January with the plan to conduct his research for six months. However, he spent the first…

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