From 2007-2009 the College of Prayer International based in Atlanta, GA established three campuses in the nation of Uganda in Arua, Gulu, and the Parliament of Uganda. The purpose of this research project is to assess the lasting results of this three-year period of ministry and…
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This research work analyzes two comparative cases of World Bank poverty alleviation development programs in Bangladesh and Uganda. The work investigates the internal and external conditions under which poverty alleviation programs may increase in-country income inequality. It wa…
In this dissertation I examine the history and musical culture related to the Kawuugulu royal drums of the Baganda people. I argue that the royal drums and their use articulate principles of social organization through symbolic performances of history, which performers reenact i…
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…
Guerrilla commanders Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi seized power in 1986 and 1991. Both made press freedom a prominent and credible policy to differentiate themselves from their predecessors in seeking domestic and international support in their efforts to…
HIV/AIDS continues to devastate Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 25 million adults and children are living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 2.2 million people die from AIDS every year. The epidemic has created some twelve million orphans. Sub-Saharan Africa has been …
The term War on Terror is compared to the language of criminal justice in both theory and practice, using just war theory, semiotics, and empirical research on how terrorism is effectively defeated. The phrase War on Terror raises false public expectations that the problem of te…
The Katwe salt industry was a key factor in the pre-colonial centrality of the western lakes region in the regional economy of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa that includes present-day Uganda, Rwanda, eastern Congo, southern Sudan, and northern Tanzania. Western Uganda,…
Inspired by Graham Allison's explanations of the Cuban missile crisis, this dissertation focuses on the October 1996–May 1997 civil war in Zaire and seeks to illuminate the complex puzzles of the changes in the behavior of state and non-state actors in the sub-region in the post…
This dissertation provides an explanatory framework for why contemporary rebel groups experience different outcomes in civil war. I place these different fates along a spectrum of survival and demise to capture a wider range of outcomes beyond success or failure, rebellion or no…
The core objective of this thesis was to draw lessons from the factors of success that underlie the development of Tunisian and Ugandan organic sectors to advance recommendations that can help spur the development of African organics. The study drew on secondary data obtained fr…
This research investigated the role and effect of government expenditure on the capital accumulation process in open economies. In particular, the dissertation analyzed whether or not government revenues raised, both at home and abroad, were used for consumption expenditures or …
This study of bio-invasion employs an institutional-historical perspective to study the transfer of water hyacinth from Brazil to Africa via an expanding network of imperial and scientific institutions, its subsequent proliferation as an environmental hazard in the Lake Victoria…
This thesis examines the identity formation of diasporic Ismaili women who were born in East Africa (i.e., Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) and grew up or have spent a formative portion of their lives in Canada. Analyses of the in-depth interview responses from all eight participants in…
The number of displaced persons has increased dramatically over the past few decades and is expected to continue to rise. By the end of 1999 there were believed to be between 32 and 38 million displaced persons worldwide (UN 2000, USCR 2000). Most of these people have been or wi…
This study analyzes the current efforts among the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to harmonize their macro and microeconomic policies, expand their regional trade and deepen their mutual cooperation in many other aspects of their relations. In so doing, the …
Poetry constitutes the genre in which East Africa has made its most significant contributions to modern African literature. But, unfortunately, perhaps because of its late development, this poetry has not been accorded the critical attention which it deserves by virtue of its dy…
This thesis explores interactions between self-fashioning and consumption in the hip hop scene in Uganda. In the performances of musical and social life, hip hop reveals first, tactile interactions between ideas and objects, subjective and relational to processes of consumption …
This thesis applies interdisciplinary approaches to explore interactions between two forms of community governance in Acholiland from 1898 to 2010, locating itself within Peace Studies. One form, kaka, was “traditional”, featuring varied forms of “facultative mutualisms” among t…