This dissertation focuses on music and its historic connection with politics in Mozambique from the 1890s to the present, through the ‘lenses’ of songs in gitonga language from Inhambane in Mozambique. I studied the Vatonga people’s historical origins and culture and the develop…
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Education in Mozambique is amongst the lowest in Africa with one recent report ranking it 52nd out of 54 countries. Continuing professional development (CPD) for existing teachers is one way to improve teacher efficacy but funding remains inadequate. Partnerships between Higher …
This thesis deals with the circumstances that lead to a fragmented implementation of post-conflict justice and security reforms and their negative impact on institutional capacity to provide justice and security for citizens. It strenghtens the existing critique of SSR by employ…
Among the core concerns with the extraordinary proliferation of land deals in Africa - often referred to as "land grabs" - is that the signing of contracts between host states and foreign companies and/or other states for large swaths of territory and associated agribusinesses c…
One of the understudied geographies of the world economy is the large-scale export of second-hand clothing form the global North to Africa. The consumption and re-use 0 clothing traces a transnational gradient of inequality between the rich and poor. This thesis examines the (re…
What determines economic growth after civil wars? States emerging from civil war face a host of political, social, and economic challenges to recovery. But, extant research demonstrates that states with greater economic growth after civil war are more likely to sustain the peace…
Despite widespread depiction of civil war as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, the empirical record shows significant variation in post-civil war states’ regime trajectories. While some states settled into durable authoritarianism, others went on to enter the ranks of ele…
French sociologist Claude Fischler has said that food is central to our sense of identity as individuals, as family members and as members of larger groups. This dissertation examines the relationship between food and identity in the context of the culture and history of the peo…
The starting point of the present dissertation is the study of the historical formation of Southern Africa as an integrated region of the modern world-economy. This is considered through the analysis of the main forms of successive, unequal relationship between the core and the …
Local and regional procurement (LRP) relative to global food aid deliveries saw a sharp increase from 8% in 2001 to a historical high of nearly 30% in 2011. Despite this growing importance, relatively little is known about the LRP impacts on local market prices, household welfar…
Background In many countries, vaccine-preventable diseases remain major causes of child mortality. Childhood vaccination is one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of protecting the health of children across the globe. As countries strive towards universal vaccination …
Colonial narratives and nationalist rhetoric in Africa have always associated female sexuality with male desire and consumption, aberrance, or perversion. While historical narratives suggested that native women’s bodies should be tamed and possessed, African nationalist narrativ…
American foreign policy is made in a complex institutional setting in which a number of actors or groups may influence both the process and the substance of policy. Unfortunately, studies of American foreign policy do not typically recognize or cope with this, preferring to focu…
This project seeks to answer the question to what extent do specific individual, domestic, and system level variables affect the U.S. decision to intervene in intrastate conflicts from 1948 to 1997? Using the Correlates of War intrastate war dataset and a newly constructed datas…