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 ...

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 ...

The paper contends that the struggle for participation and control of political power is at the centre, is one of the major causes of political conflict in this country. In the end, the paper advocates for the decentralization ...

This paper explains the ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region in the context of the historical backgrounds of the region. It attempts to unearth the issue from its historical, sociological, cultural and ...

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 ...

At the time Rwanda and Uganda helped President Laurent Kabila come to power in the DRC (then Zaire) in May 1997, any critical observer would have anticipated that Uganda and Rwanda had become formidable allies. And no one, ...

What theoretical framework I have been able to salvage is, as the title of my paper suggests, largely evolutionary. The "political generations" which I wish to distinguish in the various stages of colonial rule are those ...

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, ...

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 ...