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…
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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 provides an overview of the water crisis currently afflicting East Africa and concurrently presents good practices and provides policy recommendations intended to mitigate the effects of hydrological change upon populations in the region. This paper focuses on six co…
Using Face Negotiation Theory (FNT) and its associated assumptions to guide the study, the current project addressed the lack of African centered communication research by conducting a mixed-method study in Uganda and Ethiopia regarding how culture and family socialization patte…
This dissertation argues that gender was a crucial organizing factor within Idi Amin's military state in the 1970s. Using newspapers, official decrees, transcripts from the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights, and qualitative interviews, I analyze the intersect…
The early 1990s saw the collapse of undemocratic régimes across Africa. Suddenly, where single-party systems, racial dictatorships, or military rulers had offered them no such options before, citizens had opportunities to choose between myriad parties at the polls and to hold th…
This dissertation depicted the events in the lives of the Lugbara Ethnic group, who will go down in the history of Uganda, through their actual existence, their deeds, their accomplishments and their contributions, but particularly because of their successful, "small Christian c…
The banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), is the most important constraint to banana production in East African highlands. For most resource-poor farmers in the region, biological control is the only viable option because it requires little or no cash investment. I inve…
The research for this dissertation was conducted over nearly two years in a rural area of eastern Uganda With Muslims of the Basoga ethnic group who had been reached by an intensive, faith-based HIV/AIDS education and prevention program (the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda…
This thesis analyses the history of state formation in Mid-Western Uganda and illustrates that the origins of state formation in this region go back by centuries. The thesis shows how states emerged in the region and argues that warfare violence played a major role in the proces…