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Kyapa mu Ngalo and the land question: understanding the politics and dynamics of land reform in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)Taking Buganda kingdom’s Kyapa mu Ngalo program and the central government’s calls to abolish Mailo land tenure as entry points, this thesis interrogates the contemporary land question in Buganda by tracing its historical ... -
Traditional Institutions and State Power: Culturalist Contestations in Buganda and Ankole
(Makerere University, 2024-11-04)This thesis examines the decolonial potential of society-based campaigns seeking to preserve culture through the creation of kingdoms and skeletal kingdoms in contemporary Uganda. In two different regions of Buganda and ... -
From Nägarit to National Sovereignty: Lineages of Political Modernity in Ethiopia
(Makerere University, 2024-12-01)This study shows that modern state power in Ethiopia emerged in a historical process of change and continuity marked by the colonial transformations of Italian East Africa (1936-1941). Theoretically conceived as a ... -
People and State: A Genealogy of the Political Constitution of the Nigerian State
(Makerere University, 2024-07-04)Recent agitations to restructure the Nigerian state reflect the deep discontent that has defined the political constitution of Nigeria since the 1940s. Extant explanations attribute the absence of an agreeable political ... -
Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
(Makerere University, 2023-11-05)In conceptualizing the emergence of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) and the mass violence that the religious movement orchestrated, scholarship and popular literature have accentuated ... -
Customary resistance to marketization of land: Lango clans in Northern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-01-23)This PhD thesis investigates how clan leaders in the Lango region of Uganda - as a political force within society - are resisting the advance of (capitalist) markets in Land. The theoretical analysis contributes to the ... -
Singing politics: popular music, popular politics and contingencies of protest in NRM's Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05)This thesis project is an analytical examination of the deployment of musical expression in the practice of state politics under Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM). There are two dimensions under which this ... -
State craft in the natural resources management structure of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019)My thesis investigates how the process to centralize the structures of natural resource management in Uganda evolved out of and was shaped by the politics of social governance disguised as conservation. Making a conceptual ... -
Beyond ethnic patriotism: A comparative study of Toro and Kigezi Districts in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2020-09)To explain the ‘puzzle of tribe’ in East Africa, the historians of Africa claimed that it was African leaders they called ‘ethnic patriots’ whose intellectual and political work constituted their people into tribes. The ... -
Transgressing Buyira: An historical inquiry into violence astride a Congo-Uganda border
(Makerere University, 2020-07)In the forenoon of 27 November 2016 Uganda’s Rwenzori region climaxed in mass bloodshed. The Buhikira Royal Palace of the Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu (OBR) came under a fierce attack by the Uganda joint security forces. Both ... -
Family-education: A strategy toward imparting natural family planning in Kaproron Parish - Tororo Archdiocese in the light of humanae vitae
(Makerere University, 2015-05)Family Education: A strategy toward imparting Natural Family Planning in Kaproron Parish, Tororo Archdiocese, was the central topic of our project. Natural family planning refers to methods for achieving or postponing ... -
An ethical evaluation of trade controls policy in Uganda: Case of East African Community Customs Union
(Makerere University, 2015-10)The study was an Evaluation of Trade Policies in Uganda: Case of East African Community Customs Union. An attempt was made to examine the extent to which exchange of resources in Uganda would be affected by the EAC Customs ... -
Challenges to the realisation of the right to adequate food in post-war Uganda: A case study of Otuke District
(Makerere University, 2014-12)The study assessed the challenges to realisation of the right to adequate food in post-LRA war affected areas in Northern Uganda. The study objectives were to; a) To identify and describe the human rights instruments in ... -
New religious movements: a pastoral challenge to evangelization in Kampala archdiocese. A case study of Jinja Kaloli parish
(Makerere University, 2015-05)study was conducted on the topic- New Religious Movements: A Pastoral Challenge to Evangelization in Kampala Archdiocese: A case study of Jinja Kaloli Parish. NRMs are a real pastoral challenge to the work of evangelization ... -
Challenges to the realisation of the right to adequate food in post-war Uganda: A case study of Otuke District
(Makerere University, 2014-12)The study assessed the challenges to realisation of the right to adequate food in post-LRA war affected areas in Northern Uganda. The study objectives were to; a) To identify and describe the human rights instruments in ... -
Climate change perceptions, adaptation and mitigation strategies of livestock farmers in the Teso region Uganda
(Makerere University, 2016-09)Agriculture on which the majority of the population in Teso depends as a livelihood source is prone to negative effects of climate change. This study is about a determination of local farmers understanding of climate change ... -
Promotion of justice: A strategy towards integral human development among the Christians of Kamuge-Olinga Parish, Tororo Arch Diocese
(Makerere University, 2013-05)The research was limited to the thematic scope of Catholic Social Teaching branch of theology. The general objective was to contribute to development in theory and practice by establishing the thesis that promotion of ... -
Human resource policy and lecturer performance in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University
(Makerere University, 2017-01)The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between human resource policy and lecturer performance in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University. The study was guided by three objectives ... -
An investigation into the impact of Catholic education on families in Mugalike Parish in relation to Vatican II Gravissimum educationis
(Makerere University, 2015-05)According to the status quo, that is; simultaneous eruptions of poorly founded families, the constant domestic violence, the many “Christian families” whose life is modeled not after Christ, the rampant divorces, the neglect ... -
Self-efficacy, motivation and job performance among secondary school teachers in Mityana District
(Makerere University, 2015-05)The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between self efficacy, motivation and job performance among secondary school teachers in Mityana District. The study was guided by four objectives that is, to ...
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