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Women and Agrarian Change: Issues of Land Rights/Ownership
(1988)This paper starts on the premise of differentiation among the peasantry and despite the controversies surrounding the concept of differentiation and class (Bernstein ( 1979) , with regard to the African peasantry, I ... -
Lineage and clan in a Bantu clan
(1997)This paper deals with the forms of clanship in a state society and is based upon fieldwork in Tanganyika with the Washambala. -
Intellectual level of some native tribes
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Can Masai be Kenyans?
(1968)The paper describes the Masai political environment and their drive to nationalism which includes the cultural protests against the Europeans. -
British public opinion and the annexation of Uganda , 1892 - 1894.
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1954)On September 30th, 1888 the Imperial British East Africa Company received a Royal Charter from Lord Salisbury's Government. The Chairman was Sir William Mackinnon, already chairman of the British India Steam Navigation ... -
Demobilisation of the National Resistance Army of Uganda - A peace dividend.
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1993)The end of the Cold War era has brought an end to many of the conflicts (Ethiopia, Namibia) that disrupted the African continent and brought suffering to both the warring armies and civilian population during the past ... -
Educating citizens for Tanzania
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1966)For more than a century Africans living in what is now Tanzania have been exposed-- increasingly as the years have passed--to the values, customs, and scientific knowledge of the Western and, to a lesser extent Eastern ... -
Uganda's long connection with the problem of refugees: From the Polish refugees of World War II to the present
(Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1993)Between l942 and 1944 7,000 Polish refugees, mainly women and children, were received in Uganda. They were settled in two camps, Nyabyeya, in Masindi District and Koja (Mpunge) in Mukono District. In 1948 most of these ... -
The magnitude of human trafficking in Uganda: a case study of major cities and towns in Uganda
(2007-06)Trafficking in human beings is one of the biggest challenges facing the challenges the world today. It is the fastest growing vice by which people are forced into slavery (United Nations 2007). Trafficking in persons: ... -
Food Systems under Stress (FSUS) Project: Country Profile: Botswana
(1994-04)Botswana, with a total land area of 582,000 km2, is landlocked sharing borders with the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Much of Botswana has been described as "flat with gentle undulations and ... -
An analysis of the Agro-industry in Uganda and its role in economic development
(1965)Uganda's major industry is agriculture and most non-farm production and service is related to agriculture. Nearly ninety per--cent of the population lives in rural areas. A large share of the industrial employment in centres ... -
Settlement and resettlement experience from Uganda’s National parks, game reserves and forest reserves
(1994)In Uganda the need for and justification of population resettlement has risen from a number of aspects related to the country’s economic setting. The existence of agricultural land of high potential but low population ... -
Refugees and Politics in Uganda
(1993-12)It is common government rhetoric to talk of the granting of asylum as a humanitarian act. But as Loescher (1992: 34-51) has observed, refugee problems are intensely political and their causes and consequences are ... -
Reflection on the character of the Sudanese state and the making of a dominant power bloc
(1984-10-12)State formation in the Sudan may be traced to the middle of eighth century B.C. and the rise of Nubian Kingdoms which exerted cultural as well as economic influence over the lands that now constitute the modern Sudan and ...