List of Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction to the book. By Dr Winnifred Bedigen and Dr Nankie Ramabu. Chapter Two: Beyond the Insider/Outsider Binary in Fieldwork: Intersectionality as an Alternative Analysis of a Fieldwork Experience in Uganda. By Dr Eunice Akullo Chapter Three: Fluid Ethnography: Ceremony Research Methodology (CRM) in Nilotic Societies of Southern South Sudan. By Dr Winnifred Bedigen Chapter Four: Ceremonial Taboos for Uncovering Gendered Power Relations in the Tachoni Circumcision Ritual. By Dr Lucy K.L Mandillah Chapter Five: Exploring Botho philosophy as a foundation for a culturally relevant and ethical participative research process: Considerations and reflections from a mixed method project in Botswana. By Dr Nankie Ramabu Chapter Six: Orality and reflexivity in empirical research: Re-imagining the unwritten past in post-conflict northern Uganda .

By Dr Betty Okot Chapter Seven: The Ontological Significance of Silence in African Communities: Exploring How Silence Communicates in Botswana, and southern South Sudan. By Dr Nankie Ramabu and Dr Winnifred Bedigen Chapter Eight: Negotiating Power, Reflexivity and Positionality: Gender and the Joking Relationship in Researching Women in Rural Northern Ghana. By Dr Constance Awinpoka Akurugu Chapter Nine: Decolonising Data: Indigenous Methodologies for Community-Driven Research in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Dr John Mary Kanyamurwa Chapter Ten: Rethinking Governance Evaluation: Influencing Policy Outcomes through the African Peer Review Mechanism in Uganda. By Dr Martin Kizito Chapter Eleven: Conclusion By Dr Winnifred Bedigen and Dr Nankie Ramabu.