In June 2019, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) at Makerere University received funding from The Mellon Foundation of New York to support a research project titled, Historicising the Humanities at Makerere University since 1922. The project, which sought to rethink and reshape the role of humanities in Uganda, re- examined the basis and significance of humanities and humanistic social sciences at Makerere University from a historical perspective. The research resulted into a publication of an edited volume titled, Historicising the Humanities at Makerere: Trends, Patterns and Prospects1. The book provides an insight into the intellectual history and trends of the humanities and humanistic social sciences disciplines at Makerere University and raises questions about the basis of their existence and reflects on their trajectories, roles and positions within the changing higher institution education in the region and beyond.