Dominica Dipio
{{short description|Ugandan nun, filmmaker, author, and professor}}
{{infobox person
| name = Dominic Dipio
| birth_place = Adjumani, Uganda
| occupation = Author, filmmaker, professor
| alma mater = Makerere University
| years_active = 1991-present
}}
Dominica or Dominic Dipio (professionally referred to as Professor Sister Dominic Dipio) is a Ugandan religious sister, a filmmaker, author and a professor of Literature and Film at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.{{cite web |title=Prof. Dominica Dipio |url=http://llc.mak.ac.ug/staff/prof-dominica-dipio |website=llc.mak.ac.ug |publisher=School of Languages, Literature and Communication, CHUSS |access-date=2 July 2020 |language=en}}{{Cite news|title=No higher honour for Prof Dominic Dipio|url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/No-higher-honour-Prof-Dominic-Dipio/689364-5362206-rabh3/index.html|newspaper=Daily Monitor|date=25 November 2019|first=Emilly Comfort|last=Maractho}}{{cite book |title=Who's Who in Research: Media Studies |date=2013 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-78320-160-0 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aberDwAAQBAJ&q=makerere%20university%20dipio&pg=PT75 |access-date=7 July 2020 |language=en |chapter=Dominica Dipio}} As a sister, she belongs to the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church, MSMMC, a Ugandan-founded religious congregation in Roman Catholic Diocese of Lira in Northern Uganda.{{cite web |title=Home page |url=https://msmmc.org/ |publisher=Missionary Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church |access-date=2 July 2020 |language=en-gb}} In November 2019 she was appointed Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope Francis.{{Cite web|title=Resignations and Appointments|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/11/11/191111c.html|access-date=2020-07-01|website=press.vatican.va}}{{cite web |title=Ugandan Nun Appointed Consultor of Pontifical Council for Culture Feels "humbled, honored" |url=https://msmmc.org/index.php/news/item/2-ugandan-nun-appointed-consultor-of-pontifical-council-for-culture-feels-humbled-honored |work=News |publisher=Missionary Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church |access-date=2 July 2020 |language=en-gb |date=10 November 2019}}
Background and education
Dipio was born in Adjumani in the West Nile region of Uganda. She attended Saint Mary's Girls', Aboke, for her O' Level before proceeding to Trinity College Nabbingo for her A' Levels. She subsequently attended Makerere University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in education and then a master's degree in literature. In 1991, Dipio undertook a certificate in Women's Studies at the then Faculty of Social Sciences at Makerere University. In 2004, she completed her PhD in Film studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She concurrently lectured on introduction to film criticism and African cinema at the same university as she underwent her studies.{{Cite web|last=Neliba|date=22 November 2019|title=UGANDA: Pope Francis Appoints Sr Dominica Dipio to the Pontifical Council for Culture|url=http://cisanewsafrica.com/uganda-pope-francis-appoints-sr-dominica-dipio-to-the-pontifical-council-for-culture/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Cisa News Africa|language=en-GB}} In 2010, she was named a Presidential Fellow of the Rutgers University-based African Studies Association.{{cite web |title=ASA Presidential Fellows Program: 2010 Presidential Fellows |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/asa-presidential-fellows-program/ |website= |publisher=African Studies Association |access-date=2 July 2020}}
Career
In academia, Dipio is a professor of literature and in 2007 was appointed Head of the Literature Department at Makerere University, making her the first African female head of the department. She has also served as a consultant on curriculum development most notably when Uganda's Kyambogo University, in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), was preparing to develop a curriculum on cultural heritage.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1507436/kyambogo-introduces-curriculum-cultural-heritage|access-date=2020-07-01|title=Kyambogo introduces curriculum on cultural heritage|first=Lawrence|last=Mulondo|date=23 September 2019|newspaper=New Vision}}
Dipio is involved in the Uganda film industry having directed and produced a number of films and documentaries. She has served as a judge and member of jury at a number of film festivals such as the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) in 2011, the Amakula Film festival, and served as chief judge at the inaugural Uganda Film Festival in 2013 as well as at others after that.
In February 2019, Dipio was one of the jury members at the Ecumenical Film Awards at the Berlinale Film Festival in Germany. The annual Ecumenical film award which was in its 27th year was organised by the International Interchurch Film Organization (Interfilm) and the World Catholic Association for Communication (SIGNIS).{{Cite web|title=Signis|url=http://www.signis.net/|access-date=2020-07-08|website=www.signis.net|language=en}}{{Citation|last=Martène|first=Edmond|title=De Silentio & Signis|work=Monastic Sign Languages|year=1987|pages=421–428|place=Berlin, New York|publisher=De Gruyter Mouton|doi=10.1515/9783110865028.421|isbn=978-3-11-086502-8}}{{Cite web|title=Ecumenical Jury selected to award film prizes at Berlinale 2019|url=https://www.ecumenicalnews.com/article/ecumenical-jury-selected-to-award-film-prizes-at-berlinale-2019/60638.htm|access-date=2020-07-08|website=www.ecumenicalnews.com|date=9 January 2019 |language=en}}
Prior to her appointment as Consultor, Dipio served as one of several consultants to the Pontifical Council for Social Communication in the Vatican at the appointment of Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.{{Cite news|title=Vatican: Pope: Review of 2011 Activities|work=Catholic News World|url=http://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2011_12_30_archive.html|access-date=2020-07-07|language=en}} She was simultaneously a member of the Uganda Episcopal Conference Social Communications Commission.{{Cite web|title=Rev. Sr. Dominic Dipio Appointed Consultant of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications|work=News|url=https://chuss.mak.ac.ug/news/content/rev-sr-dominic-dipio-appointed-consultant-pontifical-council-social-communications|access-date=2020-07-01|publisher=Makerere University College of Humanities and Social Science}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=Performing Community: Essays on Ugandan Oral Culture|publisher=Novus Press|year=2008|editor1-first=Dominica|editor1-last=Dipio|editor2-first=Lene|editor2-last=Johannessen|editor3-first=Stuart|editor3-last=Sillars|isbn=9788270994991|location=Oslo}}{{cite magazine|url=https://artmatters.info/2011/12/new-book-looks-into-the-relationship-between-folklore-and-transmission-of-wisdom-in-uganda/|title=New Book Looks into the Relationship between Folklore and Transmission of Wisdom in Uganda|magazine=artmatters.info|first=Bamuturaki|last=Musinguzi|date=December 10, 2011}}
- {{cite book|title=East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions|editor1-first=J. K. S.|editor1-last=Makokha|editor2-first=Egara|editor2-last=Kabaji|editor3-first=Dominica|editor3-last=Dipio|location=Berlin|publisher=Logos|year=2011|isbn=978-3-8325-2816-4}}Reviews of East African Literature:
- {{cite web|url=https://en.igihe.com/business/book-review-east-african-progress.html|first=Hassan|last=Higenyi|date=November 2011|title=East African Progress|work=IGEHE}}
- {{cite journal|last=Waliaula|first=Ken Walibora|date=Summer 2012|doi=10.2979/reseafrilite.43.2.188|issue=2|journal=Research in African Literatures|jstor=10.2979/reseafrilite.43.2.188|pages=188–189|title=none|volume=43}}
- {{cite journal|url=https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107482|first=Mikhail D.|last=Gromov|journal=Swahili Forum|title=Review|volume=19|year=2012|pages=i–viii}}
- {{cite book|first=Dominica|last=Dipio|year= 2014|title= Gender Terrains in African Cinema|location= Pretoria|publisher= UNISA Press|isbn= 9781868887354}}Reviews of Gender Terrains in African Cinema:
- {{cite magazine|date=Summer 2016|magazine=YOUNISA|page=36|title=Shelf life|url=https://ww.unisa.ac.za/www.unisa.ac.za/static/corporate_web/Content/News%20%26%20Media/Publications/docs/Younisa_Summer2016.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Dube|first=Bevelyn|date=September 2016|doi=10.1386/jams.8.3.423_5|issue=3|journal=Journal of African Media Studies|pages=423–424|publisher=Intellect|title=none|volume=8}}
- {{cite journal|last=Ennin|first=Theresah P.|date=March 2017|issue=1|journal=African Studies Quarterly|pages=113–114|title=Review|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-503775300/dominica-dipio-2014-gender-terrains-in-african-cinema|volume=17}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Nabutanyi |editor1-first=Edgar Fred |editor2-last=Kahyana |editor2-first=Danson |editor3-last=Dipio |editor3-first=Dominica |title=Discourse and identities : writing and contemporary eastern African peripheral subjectivities |date=2019 |publisher=Fountain |location=Kampala |isbn=9789970195268}}{{cite book |title=Catalogue record for "Discourse and identities" |publisher=Worldcat |oclc = 1156429607}}
Films and documentaries
- Mother-Centered Africa (2019)
- Word Craft (2017)
- Rainmaking: A disappearing practice (2016){{cite news|newspaper=The EastAfrican|title=Documentary explores custom of rainmaking in Uganda|date=6 August 2016|url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Documentary-explores-custom-of-rainmaking-in-Uganda/434746-3332812-11933vnz/index.html|first=Bamuturaki|last=Musinguzi}}
- "It is the Law" (2010){{Cite web|date=2010-01-27|title=Oral Folklore lights up 3rd Mak-NUFU Project seminar|url=https://news.mak.ac.ug/node/911|access-date=2020-07-14|website=Makerere University News Portal|language=en}}
- A meal to forget : a man guilty of trying too hard (2009), winner of Arts Press Association Award{{cite news|newspaper=Daily Monitor|title=2009's movie hits and misses|date=26 December 2009|url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Theatre---Cinema/691234-830760-dh2sji/index.html}}
- Crafting the Bamasaba (2009){{cite thesis|type=Master's thesis|last=Magara|first=Evelyn Cindy|year=2014|title=Symbolism in Ugandan films|publisher=Makerere University|location=Kampala, Uganda|hdl=10570/3900}}{{cite web|url=https://news.mak.ac.ug/2009/12/crafting-bamasaba-mak-nufu-film-premiere|title=Crafting the Bamasaba: a Mak-NUFU film premiere|work=News & Announcements for Makerere Community|date=15 December 2009|publisher=Makerere University|access-date=2020-07-04}}
- Dearly Beloved (2007){{cite news|url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1159506/makerere-eur-literature-dept-jewel|newspaper=New Vision|date=7 August 2007|title=Makerere's literature dept finds a jewel}}
References
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External links
- [http://llc.mak.ac.ug/staff/prof-dominica-dipio Webpage at School of Languages, Literature and Communication, CHUSS, Makerere University]
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