Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Ugandahasbeen seenas a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and c…
Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures-like those in…
A history of pre-colonial warfare in eastern Africa. Contents include: 'Tools & Tactics', 'Organisation & Fuction', 'Violence & Society' and 'The Culture of Conflict'.
by Cooper, Tom, Fontanellaz, Adrien
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by Cooper, Tom, Fontanellaz, Adrien
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by Cooper, Tom, Fontanellaz, Adrien
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"In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and g…
"In September 1996, in the aftermath of the Rwandese Genocide, a multinational African force led by Rwanda invaded what was then Zaire, with the aim of crushing the remnants of the genocidaire regime and of overthrowing that long time friend of the West, the dictator Marshal Mob…
This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. It draws on personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States
