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    • The 1995 Constitution as a Tool for Dictatorship in Uganda: An African Dilemma of Constitutionalism 

      Robert, Ojambo (SpringerLink, 2022-11)
      This chapter examines the interplay between the 1995 Constitution and the growing tendency of dictatorship in Uganda. The main argument is that whereas the drafting of the 1995 Constitution was seen by many as an attempt ...

    • The Arab springs and the “walk to work” movement in Uganda: contest for political space and freedom 

      Robert, Ojambo (African Journal of Education, Science and Technology, 2016-01)
      This paper presents an overview of how the Arab Springs influenced events in the Walk-to Work Protests in Uganda during the period after the 2011 election. It builds on the previous analysis of the nexus between the Arab ...

    • Characterising the archaeological assemblage of Kaiso Village in the Ugandan Albertine Rift 

      Mirembe, Fatumah; Kyazike, Elizabeth (SpringerLink, 2022-12)
      This paper presents results from archaeological surveys and excavations conducted in 2012 around Kaiso Village located within the Albertine Graben part of the Western arm of the Great East African Rift Valley. This area ...

    • Democratisation Processes Amidst Cultural Diversity in Uganda 

      Kyazike, Elizabeth; Kanyamurwa, John Mary; Babalanda, Stanley (Springer International Publishing, 2022-11)
      Uganda attained independence on the 9th of October 1962 with a diverse cultural spectrum. Yet current analyses hardly interrogate the role of culture in the country’s democratisation processes. The purpose of this chapter ...

    • Differential returns from globalization to women smallholder coffee and food producers in rural Uganda 

      Kanyamurwa, JM; Wamala, S; Baryamutuma, R; Kabwama, E; Loewenson, R (AJOL: African Health Sciences., 2013)
      Globalization-related measures to liberalize trade and stimulate export production were applied in Uganda in the late 1980s, including in the coffee production sector, to revitalize agricultural production, increase incomes ...

    • Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present 

      Marchant, Rob; Richer, Suzi; Boles, Oliver; Capitan, Claudia; Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin J.; Lane, Paul; Prendergast, Mary E.; Stump, Daryl; De Cort, Gijs; Kaplan, Jed O.; Phelps, Leanne; Kay, Andrea; Olago, Dan; Petek, Nik; Platts, Philip J.; Widgren, Mats; Wynne-Jones, Stephanie; Ferro-Vázquez, Cruz; Benard, Jacquiline; Boivin, Nicole; Crowther, Alison; Cuní-Sanchez, Aida; Deere, Nicolas J.; Ekblom, Anneli; Farmer, Jennifer; Finch, Jemma; Fuller, Dorian; Gaillard-Lemdahl, Marie-José; Gillson, Lindsey; Githumbi, Esther; Kabora, Tabitha; Kariuki, Rebecca; Kinyanjui, Rahab; Kyazike, Elizabeth; Lang, Carol; Lejju, Julius; Kathleen, D. Morrison; Muiruri, Veronica; Mumbi, Cassian; Muthoni, Rebecca; Muzuka, Alfred; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Nzabandora, ChantalKabonyi; Onjala, Isaya; PasSchrijver, Annemiek; Rucina, Stephen; Shoemaker, Anna; Thornton-Barnett, Senna; Plas, Geertvan der; Watson, Elizabeth E.; Williamson, David; Wright, David (Elsevier: Earth-Science Reviews., 2018-03)
      East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data from East Africa to ...

    • Elections and domestic peace in Africa: assessing peace opportunities in Uganda’s 2021 presidential election 

      Kanyamurwa, John Mary; Kakuba, Juma Sultan; Kaddu, Ronald; Babalanda, Stanely (Springer International Publishing, 2022-11)
      Substantial narratives have in recent years been woven around the role of electoral democracy, widely welcoming it as a symbol of Africa’s advancement towards nonviolent power transfer and political stability. Yet, such ...

    • Ethnic pluralism and the challenge of thematic curriculum implementation in Uganda 

      Amone, Charles (Taylor&Francis Online: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021)
      Uganda has been developing and revising its curricula since the time of British colonial rule. The latest revision of the primary education curriculum led to the introduction of the Thematic Curriculum in 2007. This ...

    • Exploring the preference for indigenous medicinal plant medicine in Buliisa District, Western Uganda 

      Kyazike, Elizabeth (Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences: AJOL, 2021-08-11)
      This paper explores the preference for indigenous medicinal plant medicine in Buliisa district, situated in the Albertine Graben. Despite attempts to improve access to conventional health services, there seems to be a ...

    • Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization 

      Morrison, D.Kathleen; Hammer, Emily; Boles, Oliver; Madella, Marco; Whitehouse, Nicola; Gaillard, Marie-Jose; Bates, Jennifer; Linden, Marc Vander; Merlo, Stefania; Yao, Alice; Popova, Laura; Hill, Austin Chad; Antolin, Ferran; Bauer, Andrew; Biagetti, Stefano; Bishop, R. Rosie; Buckland, Phillip; Cruz, Pablo; Dreslerová, Dagmar; Dusseldorp, Gerrit; Ellis, Erle; Filipovic, Dragana; Foster, Thomas; Hannaford, Matthew J.; Harrison, P. Sandy; Hazarika, Manjil; Herold, Hajnalka; Hilpert, Johanna; Kaplan, Jed O.; Kay, Andrea; Goldewijk, Kees Klein; Kolář, Jan; Kyazike, Elizabeth; Laabs, Julian; Lancelotti, Carla; Lane, Paul; Lawrence, Dan; Lewis, Krista; Lombardo, Umberto; Lucarini, Giulio; Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel; Marchant, Rob; Mayle, Francis; McClatchie, Meriel; McLeester, Madeleine; Mooney, Scott; Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena; Navarrete, Vanessa; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Góes Neves, Eduardo; Nowak, Marek; Out, Welmoed A.; Petrie, Cameron; Phelps, Leanne N.; Pinke, Zsolt; Rostain, Stéphen; Russell, Thembi; Sluyter, Andrew; Styring, Amy K.; Tamanaha, Eduardo; Thomas, Evert; Veerasamy, Selvakumar; Welton, Lynn; Zanon, Marco (PLOS ONE, 2021-04-14)
      In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest ...

    • On the waters: economic and political drivers of maritime conflicts between Uganda and its neighbors 

      Robert, Ojambo (African Studies Quarterly, 2021-10)
      The Great Lakes region has, in the recent past, been awash with numerous border conflicts/or threats to conflict among the member states. Whereas various studies have endeavored to explain the emergence of such conflicts, ...

    • The political economy of globalization and employment returns to youth in Uganda 

      Kanyamurwa, John Mary (Springer International Publishing, 2020-06)
      The political economy of globalization, with its main features such as market-driven technology, trade, and capital flows, continues to alter the structure of labour markets in developing countries, adversely affecting ...

    • Politics of natural resource management and accountable systems in the delivery of water services in Uganda 

      Kanyamurwa, John Mary (AJOL: Africa Development., 2017-12-12)
      The political behaviour of public institutions exhibited in the management of critical natural resources influences the nature of service delivery. In particular, the character of such public organizations as regulators ...

    • Polygamy as a dominant pattern of sexual pairing among the Acholi of Uganda 

      Amone, Charles (Springer Link: Sexuality and Culture., 2019-09-30)
      Polygamy has of recent been a focus of attention of scholars, traditionalists, human rights activists and feminists. Whereas human rights activists and feminists regard polygamy as oppressive, discriminative and barbaric, ...

    • Reconstructing global security and peace building in Somalia’s changing context 

      Kanyamurwa, John Mary; Nangira, Betty (Springer International Publishing, 2021-11)
      Understood from the backdrop of global security contradictions, the current analysis highlights the Somali decades-old political predicament as a consequence of Cold War global security frameworks and clan-based power ...

    • State repression and democratic dispensation in Uganda 1996–2016 

      Kakuba, Sultan J. (SAGE Journals, 2021-07-11)
      State repression covers several and many aspects such as wrongful detention, harassment, intimidation, torture, beating, and killings within state boundaries. This study adopted a desk survey qualitative research design ...