Obstetric fistula is among the public health issues that are preventable and treatable, as evidenced by its elimination in industrialized nations. The aim of this quantitative, cross-sectional study was to use Andersen’s behavioral model of health services utilization to examine…
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Uganda’s AIDS epidemic was amplified by political breakdown and economic collapse during the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, however, Uganda has attracted international attention for producing the most dramatic decline in HIV rates in East Africa. Largely due to the government’s op…
This research employs a framework of social power, as coined by Michael Mann (1986; 1993), to understand the processes of state formation and development in Uganda. Using historical knowledge to understand the extent of social power relations in Ugandan society, the thesis asses…
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…
This study took a novel experimental approach from the field of cognitive linguistics to quantitatively describe the impact of culture on the use of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the context of peace and conflict. Beginning with the hypothesis that ICT…
Several studies suggest that the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries (DCs) can help such countries achieve national development goals - especially if accompanied by appropriate government policies designed to regulate and promot…
Microfinance has grown from a niche development intervention in the 1990s to one that commands global influence and donor support. By 2006 microfinance had become part of financial sector development policy through the concept of financial inclusion. At the same time theoretical…
The level of brutality and violence against children abducted and forcefully conscripted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda pricked the conscience of humanity. The suffering of the people in northern Uganda was described by Jan Egeland, the former United Nati…
This thesis presents the results of contemporary limnological and palaeolimnological investigations of a series of crater lakes in order to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental history of western Uganda, East Africa. The research examines questions of spatial and temporal heterog…
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…
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,…