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The riddle of malnutrition
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ISBN: 082144591X 9780821445914 9780821422465 9780821422458 0821422456 0821422464 Year: 2017 Publisher: Athens, Ohio

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More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a disease—as a medical emergency—not a preventable condition, further compromising nutritional health in Uganda. Rather than rely on a foreign-led model, physicians in Uganda responded to this failure by developing a novel public health program known as Mwanamugimu. The new approach prioritized local expertise and empowering Ugandan women, blending biomedical knowledge with African sensibilities and cultural competencies. In The Riddle of Malnutrition, Jennifer Tappan examines how over the course of half a century Mwanamugimu tackled the most fatal form of childhood malnutrition—kwashiorkor—and promoted nutritional health in the midst of postcolonial violence, political upheaval, and neoliberal resource constraints. She draws on a diverse array of sources to illuminate the interplay between colonialism, the production of scientific knowledge, and the delivery of health services in contemporary Africa.


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Wondering and wandering of hearts
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ISBN: 9970480138 9789970480135 9789970480128 997048012X Year: 2017 Publisher: Kampala

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The moon in your sky
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ISBN: 0826273289 9780826273284 0826220304 9780826220301 Year: 2014 Publisher: Columbia, Missouri

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The Moon in Your Sky: An Immigrant's Journey Home brings to life the remarkable story of Annah Emuge. Growing up in Uganda under the rule of Idi Amin, Annah and her peers faced hardships few of us can imagine, living with the constant threat of soldiers breaking into their homes, raiding and pillaging as they pleased. Annah found strength in her relationship with her mother, Esther, and in her relationship with God. Esther encouraged Annah to educate herself and "go out into the world." Annah's faith led her to James, an evangelical preacher who became her husband. The two left Uganda for the United States when James received a scholarship to study at Ohio University, only to be stranded there with two small children when the Ugandan government collapsed. The loss of his dreams, along with the realities of American life for African immigrants, proved to be more than James could withstand, and he succumbed to alcoholism. How Annah overcame the trials she endured in the land she had thought would hold only promise for her and her family is a riveting story of perseverance that will inspire any reader. Annah's sorrows give depth to the great joys she experiences as she not only survives but triumphs, working to make both of her countries better places.


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Désordre colonial dans la propriété : Une histoire lacustre du royaume du Buganda (1885-1925)
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ISBN: 2493207017 2493207025 Year: 2022 Publisher: Nairobi, Paris : Africae,

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Cet ouvrage porte sur les conséquences multiples de l’imposition coloniale de la propriété privée dans une île du lac Victoria, l’île de Bussi, qui devient en 1900 la propriété privée du Premier ministre et Régent du royaume du Buganda colonial, sir Apolo Kagwa. Trois thèmes enchevêtrés sont abordés, entre les années 1880 et les années 1920 : l’arrivée brutale de la propriété privée occidentale dans un royaume africain qui ne la connaissait pas, l’importance oubliée des îles et des rivages du lac Victoria au sein du royaume et l’émergence d’un nouveau parti politico-religieux qui s’oppose à l’oligarchie coloniale au pouvoir au Buganda. Cette recherche aboutit à une relecture profonde, à partir de ce petit espace lacustre, de l’histoire de l’ensemble du royaume du Buganda et de l’Ouganda colonial entre 1885 et 1925, et plus largement du gouvernement indirect et de la globalisation de la propriété privée. Elle complexifie ainsi l’histoire du Buganda en y intégrant les espaces lacustres, approche inédite dans l’historiographie sur l’Ouganda colonial. Elle permet de déconstruire les traditions historiques actuelles et de montrer que leurs racines remontent pour la plupart au Buganda des années 1920 et sont héritées des habitants du lac Victoria. L’ouvrage démontre que la tension autours des chefs héréditaires claniques au Buganda est autant une tension géographique entre gens du lac et gens de la terre qu’une tension entre pouvoirs anciens claniques et un pouvoir de patronage modernisateur (comme le veut l’historiographie). D’autre part, ce travail souligne que la montée en puissance d’organisations politiques et religieuses réformistes, annonçant les mouvements nationalistes, est particulièrement nourrie par le mécontentement foncier des anciens habitants du lac et de ses rivages. Leur colère est également causée par les effets de la lutte menée par les autorités contre la maladie du sommeil. Leur vie a en effet été ravagée par une crise écologique coloniale qui les a…


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African Democracy : Its Origins and Development in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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ISBN: 9970196766 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Fountain Publishers Limited,

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Informed and healthy : theoretical and applied perspectives on the value of information to health care
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ISBN: 0128042907 0128043660 9780128043660 9780128042908 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Academic Press,

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Informed and Healthy: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on the Value of Information to Health Care focuses on two major issues: the value attributed to information by users and its effect on health care, and secondly, a new model of information behavior in which the value of information drives various information activities unlike many information models which tend to give prominence to information needs. The book uses rich qualitative data to highlight the health information system in Uganda, and expands the analysis by comparing it to other systems utilized by different countries at diverse levels of development. Topics such as access and use of information, value attribution and effect on health outcomes, and modelling information behavior and its implications on health informatics are discussed in detail. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, planners and policy makers, as well as information professionals, academics and researchers interested in health information and its applicability in different environments.--


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Beyond the state in rural Uganda
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ISBN: 074865299X 1282058908 9786612058905 0748636676 9780748636679 9780748635184 0748635181 9780748652990 Year: 2009 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute,

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In this innovative study, Ben Jones argues that scholars too often assume that the state is the most important force behind change in local political communities in Africa. Studies look to the state, and to the impact of government reforms, as ways of understanding processes of development and change. Using the example of Uganda, regarded as one of Africa's few ""success stories"", Jones chronicles the insignificance of the state and the marginal impact of Western development agencies. Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan village reveals that it is churches, the village court, and org


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Performing wisdom
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ISBN: 9401210586 9789401210584 9789042038110 904203811X Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam

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This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in importance to 'literature'. A major focus was the ways in which forms of orature can be made relevant to the demands of rapidly developing nations faced with insistent problems (HIV/AIDS, administrative needs, shifts in social and familial structure, the changing roles of women).Both innovative


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Child to Soldier : Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
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ISBN: 144266424X 9781442664241 9781442614178 144261417X 9781442646049 1442646047 1442664258 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,


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Uganda : mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur, milieu
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ISBN: 9068323458 9068324160 Year: 2005 Volume: *36 Publisher: Amsterdam Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)

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