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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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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…