Makerere Ali Mazruiana Project, MMP building
Behind the MMP
This building traces its origin way back in the 1970s and was meant to cater for students’ lecture rooms, lecturers’ offices and other facilities to enable students excel in their education. The building stands astride School Of Social Sciences building now and behind the Guild Canteen.
Over the years, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) has inevitably lived to see overcrowding lecture rooms with some of the lectures conducted in the Main building.
It is alleged that the hopes for completion of the building were abridged when most of the Asian engineers fled the country following Amin’s expulsion of Asians. Efforts to complete the building were further stabbed in the back later in 1979 following Amin’s abdication of the throne.

The good news
According to Hasifa Kabejja, the CHUSS spokes person, the building which was highlighted for renovation during the celebrations of MAK@90 by president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, will be worked on early next year.
“We are hopeful that the space issues are going to be solved as we hope to have a number of lecture rooms on this block yet to be worked on. The building is going to be the general centre with big and spacious lecture rooms,” Kabejja said.
The building which for years has stood dilapidated with rusty iron bars is proposed to be a four-storey multi-disciplinary building with its reconstruction slated to commence early next year.

The project will cost Shs38b and will be financed by a loan from the African Development Bank (ADB).

The Mazruiana Project is also expected to accommodate the School Of Social Sciences’ Book Bank, which is now housed at the School of Women and Gender Studies book bank.