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European support for the opposition to closer union of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, with special reference to the period from 1945-1953
(The University of Edinburgh, 1988)This dissertation is a study of the interplay of Imperial, Colonial and Settler politics in support of, and in opposition to the establishment of a united white ruled central Africa. Accordingly, consideration of African ... -
Women, the peasantry and the state in Ethiopia
(The University of Edinburgh, 1990)This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in 1988-89 in a rural community within Menz, a highland Amhara society of Northern Shewa, Ethiopia. It considers two sets of interactions operative in a Peasants' Association. ... -
Human disturbances and vegetation dynamics in the Narok district of Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 1991) -
History of cotton-growing in East and Central Africa : British demand, African supply
(The University of Edinburgh, 1993)Based on extensive UK and African archival research and a wide survey of secondary sources, this thesis examines various aspects of African cotton production from prehistoric to modern times. Its main emphasis is on ... -
African/Caribbeans in Scotland: A socio-geographical study
(University of Edinburgh, 1995) -
Perspectives on teacher professional development : a study of the experiences and perceptions of black teachers in South Africa
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
Learning to Work? : changing discourses on education and training in South Africa, 1976-96
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
Nature, cattle thieves and various other midnight robbers: Images of people, place and landscape in Damaraland, Namibia
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997)This thesis is a study of the social-economy of pastoralism in Damaraland, a former homeland of Namibia. It focuses on communal livestock farmers and their families, their strategies for coping with drought, poverty and ... -
Mayibuye iAfrika! : a grounded theology of land restitution in South Africa
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Politics, culture and medicine in Malawi: Historical continuities and ruptures with special reference to HIV/AIDS
(2002)From reflexive, theoretical, historical and fieldwork perspectives, this multidisciplinary work (using triangulated methodological approaches) challenges and interrogates current viewpoints on health promotion, in the ... -
Settlement, livelihoods and identity in Southern Tanzania : a comparative history of the Ngoni and Ndendeuli
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003-07-10)The focus of the thesis is a comparative history of two neighbouring ethnic groups in Songea District and their agroecological environments: the Ngoni, a branch of the Mfecane migrations from South Africa which dominated ... -
From Havana With Love: A Critical Case Study of South-South Development Co-operation Operating Between Cuba and South Africa in the Health Care Sector
(The University of Edinburgh: College of Humanities and Social Sciences: School of Social and Political Studies, 2003-09)This dissertation considers the impact of an inter-governmental agreement between Cuba and South Africa in the health sector. The agreement, first signed in 1997, seeks to mitigate the shortage of doctors in South Africa, ... -
Brethren in Christ mission in Zambia, 1906-1978: a historical study of western missionary leadership patterns and the emergence of Tonga church leaders
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005) -
NEPAD and South-South Development Co-operation Between Cuba and South Africa
(2005-01-07)This paper will address the relevance and potential of South-South development co-operation between African and non-African states within the broader principles of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). ... -
From Lake Nyassa to Philadelphia: a geography of the Zambesi Expedition, 1858-64
(Cambridge University Press, 2005-03)This paper is about collecting, travel and the geographies of science. At one level it examines the circumstances that led to Isaac Lea’s description in Philadelphia of six freshwater mussel shells of the family Unionidae, ... -
Food, Carvings and Shelter: The Adoption and Appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies in Tanzanian Micro and Small Enterprises
(The University of Edinburgh: College of Humanities and Social Sciences: School of Social and Political Studies, 2005-07)African countries have recently experienced an extraordinary and largely unanticipated boom in the uptake of mobile phones, and increasing rates of access to the internet. This thesis investigates how and why these ... -
The Zambesi Expedition: African Nature in the British Scientific Metropolis
(2006-06-22)This thesis investigates the geography in and of Victorian scientific practice by examining the Zambesi Expedition (1858-1864), which was led by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone. A team of assistants accompanied ... -
The Complexity of Aid: government strategies, donor agendas and the coordination of development assistance in Rwanda 1994-2004
(2006-11-29)This thesis contributes to current debates on aid politics, policy and practice by exploring the dynamics of the new aid agenda which emerged in the 1990s and early 2000s, focused on poverty reduction and the Millennium ... -
Skills development, the enabling environment and informal micro-enterprise in Ghana
(2007)Unemployment and underemployment, particularly among the youth, are serious concerns to governments across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Fifteen years on from the World Conference on Education For All (EFA) in Jomtien, EFA ... -
Knowing and deciding: participation in conservation and development initiatives in Namibia and Argentina
(2007)This thesis explores how people’s knowledge about sustainability affects participation in combined conservation and development initiatives. It focuses principally on two case studies that embody these dual objectives: the ...