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Bumsters, big black organs and old white gold: Embodied racial myths in sexual relationships of Gambian beach boys.
(Taylor and Francis, 2005)
Sexuality is a platform upon which ideologies are enacted. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in The Gambia, this paper discusses the embodiment of racial myths about male Black bodies and Western affluence. Methods utilized ...
The adventures of the Randy Professor and Angela the sugar mummy: Sex in fictional serials in Ugandan popular magazines.
(Taylor and Francis, 2005)
In 1996 newspaper vendors in Ugandan towns started selling a new kind of locally produced ‘lifestyle’ magazine. On the covers there were young, scantily dressed girls and inside news articles, fictional serials, lifestyle ...
The widow, the will, and widow-inheritance in Kampala: Revisiting victimisation arguments.
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)
Widows are often presented as victims of patriarchal sexual dictates in analyses of widow-inheritance. Our study explored experiences of widowhood in Kampala. Ethnographic fieldwork combined participant observation, ...
Decentralized health services and the children's right to health : a case study of Birere Sub-County, Isingiro District
(Makerere University, 2006)
The purpose of the study was to establish whether decentralized health services (DHS) had satisfactorily· contributed to the realization of the right to health of the children in Birere sub-county. This was prompted by the ...
Widowed mama-grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)
This article explores the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of urban elderly residents in Kasubi-Kawaala, a slum on the margins of Kampala city, Uganda. The city is mainly stereotyped as a space for able-bodied ...
Socializing influences and the value of sex: The experience of adolescent school girls in rural Masaka, Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)
In order to explore the socializing influences which have shaped rural adolescent schoolgirls' views and values about sex in a high HIV prevalence area of Uganda, detailed qualitative data was obtained over a one year ...
Attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing for HIV among pregnant women in rural South-west Uganda.
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)
This paper describes the results of a study exploring the attitudes of women attending maternity clinics to voluntary counselling and testing during pregnancy in rural areas in south-west Uganda. It was a qualitative study ...
Understanding benefactor and beneficiary: protest stories in Nakivale Camp.
(2000)
I will begin with a brief narrative of the protest and a discussion of my approach; more detailed explication of the claims advanced by refugees and officials in the protests will follow. This explication will highlight ...
Deafness, parental bonding, self-esteem and depression among adolescents.
(Makerere University, 2009)
The study compared the quality of perceived maternal bonding style, level of self esteem and depression in deaf and hearing adolescents, and also examined the relationship between perceived maternal bonding, self esteem ...
An ethical assessment of the management of the compulsory motor third party insurance policy in Uganda, 2000-2008
(Makerere University, 2008-06)
The main rationale behind the Third party insurance Act (1996) was that it primarily seeks to protect persons (third party) who get affected in cases of any accident or death involving any motor vehicle/motor cycle whose ...