Bisaso, Ronald2022-01-112022-01-112017Bisaso, R. (2017). Makerere University as a flagship institution: Sustaining the quest for relevance. In Flagship universities in Africa (pp. 425-466). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49403-6_11978-3-319-49402-9https://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/1194Makerere University is an interesting case of a traditional university in sub-Saharan Africa. Such universities were established as both national and regional symbols with the main objective of human resource capacity development. Makerere University transformed from a colonial university to a nationalist university, and is, at present, a neoliberal university (Eisemon, 1994; Mamdani, 2008; Musisi, 2003; Obong, 2004). At each stage of transformation of Makerere University as a flagship institution, emphasis on capacity building for human resources, research productivity to contribute to socioeconomic development, and policy development has been evident.enBook chapter