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The administrator as a change agent: an overview
(1983-03-18)It is agreed that administration has a major leadership role to fulfill in the work of the agency or organisation. The following are some of the major areas within which administration should take leadership. -
Adolescent fertility and sexuality in Uganda: determinants, consequencies and management.
(2014-11-05)In Uganda, adolescents constitute almost half of the total population and being of reproductive age, they contribute more to fertility than any other categories of persons. Moreover, adolescents have unique problems related ... -
The agrarian question and the role of women as chief agricultural producers in Africa: the case of Uganda
(1984-02-10)Women's participation in agricultural production cannot be viewed outside the socio-economic, socio-cultural and political contexts of the societies in which they find themselves. Similarly, agricultural productivity must ... -
Agricultural change: compulsion in the implementation agricultural policies: a case study from Iringa
(1985)In order to clarify the content of the tragic case discussed in this paper, background Sections on selected characteristics of the district are given. The paper discusses the evolution of farming systems in Ismani Division- ... -
Agricultural change: compulsion in the implementation agricultural policies: a case study from Iringa
(1985)In order to clarify the content of the tragic case discussed in this paper, background Sections on selected characteristics of the district are given. The paper discusses the evolution of farming systems in Ismani Division- ... -
Aspects of food shortages in Tanganyika (1925-45)
(2014-11-07)The problem of food hunger and shortage has attracted the attention of scholars from a number of different disciplines. Members of the medical profession are interested in the problem largely because of its direct physiological ... -
Aspects of urban unemployment in Uganda.
(1966)From the early years of this century, a periodic problem besetting development in Uganda has been shortage of labour, a shortage which was shared by the Baganda farmers who came to depend on hired labour. From the 1920s ... -
Aspects of urban unemployment in Uganda.
(1966)From the early years of this century, a periodic problem besetting development in Uganda has been shortage of labour, a shortage which was shared by the Baganda farmers who came to depend on hired labour. From the 1920s ... -
A brief description of the social system of the Lugbara.
(1950)The Lugbara and Madi (properly Ma’di, but I shall keep the traditional spelling) are the most easterly speakers of the Eastern Sudanic group of languages, which stretches from the Lake Chad region to the Nile Valley. They ... -
Broken symbols and religious innovation in Africa: An evaluation of theories of religious change.
(1982)The following essay represents a search for heuristically useful theory to understand the forces of religious innovation in an African context. The search progresses by employing a model derived from studies in symbolic ... -
Broken symbols and religious innovation in Africa: An evaluation of theories of religious change.
(1982)The following essay represents a search for heuristically useful theory to understand the forces of religious innovation in an African context. The search progresses by employing a model derived from studies in symbolic ... -
The causes of labour migration.
(1968)Labour migration in East Africa persists as a continuing movement of farmers and school leavers to sell their labour in rural or urban areas away from their homes. In a situation where the supply of this unskilled labour ... -
The causes of labour migration.
(1968)Labour migration in East Africa persists as a continuing movement of farmers and school leavers to sell their labour in rural or urban areas away from their homes. In a situation where the supply of this unskilled labour ... -
A company that failed
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A company that failed
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Constitutions, constitutionalism and the economy: lessons from Tanzania.
(1991-07)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 ... -
Constitutions, constitutionalism and the economy: lessons from Tanzania.
(1991-07)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 ...