Wotsuna Khamalwa is professor of Anthropology and Science of Religion at Makerere University, Uganda. He holds a PhD from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, an MA/STL from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, a B. Phil from Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, and a Diploma in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Consolata Philosophicum, Nairobi. He has widely published in Anthropology and Religion, including a book, Identity, Power and Culture: Imbalu, Initiation Among the Bamasaba in Uganda, ISBN 3 927510-81 5, and has lectured in Philosophy, Religion and Anthropology in Kenya, Germany, the UK, the USA, and Uganda. He was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Lampeter in the UK in 2002; and authored an M. A. Module on African Christianity, for the Study of Religions/ Religious Experience, and was awarded a Bene Merenti by the UWL Senate.

He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, and at Columbus State University, Georgia, USA in 2007. His current research interests include, inter alia, the interface between Anthropology and Religion; Traditional Healing Methods and HIV/AIDS; Role of Music, Dance and Drama in Ritual; Continuing and Changing Modernities, the Socio-Cultural and Economic Uses of Matooke, as well as Magic, Ritual and Human Sacrifice in Uganda.
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