Makerere University, Uganda: Recent submissions
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Constraints affecting the participation of girls and women in sports in Uganda
(1994)Despite the fact that the population of Uganda consists of nearly 60% females, there are more males involved in sports in Uganda than women. More men are penetrating sports at the international level than women in Uganda. ... -
The integration of refugees into Uganda's education system
(1999)This is a proposal for a four-year research programme designed to monitor the impact of the process of integration of educational services for refugees in Adjumani, Arua, and Moya Districts. This process will be part of ... -
Basis of conflict among peasant communities
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1987)Nearly thirty five years ago the broad mass of the Kenyan people, particularly those from central Kenya and the Rift Valley took up arms to wage a protracted people's war against British imperialism. The war was fought ... -
Financing of local government with special reference to vertical and horizontal revenue sharing
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1993)"Decentralization" is a label that is put on many bottles. '"Decentralization" may mean everything from "deconcentration", where the Central Government exerts its powers through satellites scattered around in the country; ... -
Constitutions, constitutionalism and the economy: lessons from Tanzania.
(1991-07)Tanzania is a poor Third World country whose people were among the 780 million people who were described by the World of Bank as living in the direst poverty "a condition of life so charactarised by malnutrition, illiteracy ... -
Problems and issues of development in Asia : general review
(1969)This is a review of the progress achieved so far in development and it focuses attention on certain major problems and issues of development policy which confront the developing countries in Asia. The approach has been ... -
Rain making rites in Ihanzu
(1963)The subject of this paper is a ceremony which occurs once each year in Ihanzu. It takes place at the capital of the chiefdom. A series of acts is performed over a period of three days in the month of November or December, ... -
Social issues in the prevention of perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.
(1992)Over the last 10 years, a strong relationship between women’s status including access to income and decision-making in the home have drawn. Increasing attention in the area of reproductive health. Changing trends in economic ... -
A brief description of the social system of the Lugbara.
(1950)The Lugbara and Madi (properly Ma’di, but I shall keep the traditional spelling) are the most easterly speakers of the Eastern Sudanic group of languages, which stretches from the Lake Chad region to the Nile Valley. They ... -
Broken symbols and religious innovation in Africa: An evaluation of theories of religious change.
(1982)The following essay represents a search for heuristically useful theory to understand the forces of religious innovation in an African context. The search progresses by employing a model derived from studies in symbolic ... -
Formation and impact of political parties in 1950s up to independence (1962): Lessons for democracy.
(2003)There is no doubt that the time to independence was both exciting and confused. It was exciting because it carried hope for independence but it was confused because the road map to independence after a long time of colonial ... -
Land tenure, access to land, and agricultural development in Uganda.
(1989-08)Africanist scholars and African governments are caught in a land policy dilemma. Both neoclassical economic theory and Marxist theory assert that increased concentration of landholding is a precondition to development ... -
Temporal consciousness in African belief and ideology.
(1982)In delineating the temporal consciousness of the people belonging to a traditional African culture, perhaps, the most subtle difficulty is that of overcoming the assumption of a normative concept of time. Augustine's ... -
Humanitarian assistance and its implication on the integration of refugees in Uganda: Some observations.
This paper outlines the evolution of the' refugee problem' in Uganda. In addition, an attempt is made to analyze the various modes of assistance offered to refugees by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ... -
Technology among petty commodity producers: The case of Katwe metal workers.
(2014-10-14)The study seeks to examine the role of petty commodity producers in the national economy. It deals with the question of the reproduction of urban labour power in regard to the interconnection between workers of the industrial, ... -
The livestock industry: its changing pattern in subsistence farming and East African development.
(2014-10-14)It is widely recognised that East Africa is essentially an agricultural country although recently industrialization, especially in the processing sector of primary agricultural products, has received great attention. Except ... -
Food systems under stress (FSUS) project FSUS/PRA workshop – Tanzania Magindu Village, Kibaha District, 23-25 August 1993.
(1994-04)Magindu village lies within the Coastal Region and is situated 25 km south of Chalinze (about 45 minutes by car along a sandy track) just beyond the intersection with the Central Railway Line. The village is inhabited by ...