A5103119040- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- African history and culture studies
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African history and culture analysis
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Sex work and related issues
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Global Health and Surgery
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- African cultural and philosophical studies
Central Queensland University
2023
University of Leeds
2006-2022
Montana State University
2011-2014
Bridge University
2001
University of Cambridge
2001
British Institute in Eastern Africa
2000
This article examines the use of genealogy in politics colonial Bunyoro, a kingdom within modern state Uganda. In particular, focuses on Bunyoro's attempt to have territory that had been transferred neighbouring at time conquest, known as ‘lost counties’, restored their homeland. Such ethnic, irredentist political activity Africa has often regarded retrogressive and anti-modern. early attempts win back lost counties did emphasise ruling dynasty's genealogical claim for regional pre-eminence...
Introduction 1. Sexuality and fertility in the pre-colonial period 2. Disease mortality, 1860-1925 3. Early colonial sexuality 4. Marriage Buganda, 1925-69 5. Prostitution Buhaya, 1925-1969 6. Ankole: marriage ethnicity of sex, 7. Fertility Ankole, Buganda 1925-6 8. death, 1925-196 9. Sexuality, disease 1970S Conclusion And Epilogue: AIDS demographic change historical context
Summary This article sheds new light on the impact and experience of western biomedicine in colonial Africa. We use patient registers from Western Uganda’s earliest mission hospital to explore whether how Christian conversion education affected African health behaviour. A data set 18,600 admissions permits analysis patients’ age, sex, residence, religion, diagnoses, duration hospitalisation treatment outcomes. document Toro Hospital’s substantial geographic reach, trace evolving practices...
R APID population growth is commonly depicted as one of the greatest problems facing modern Africa. For decades, tendency birth rates to exceed mortality has prompted predictions land shortage, resource depletion and mass starvation. Underlying causes high fertility are hypothesized have been an unusually demand for human agricultural labour, ‘traditional religious pronatalism’ a ‘horror barrenness’, while in some areas later colonial period saw shortening durations post-partum sexual...
Abstract The Cwezi-kubandwa cult was the most prominent form of religious belief in interlacustrine region East Africa during pre-colonial period. It has long been regarded as providing ideological support to monarchical regimes across region. Recently, though, scholars have contrasted hegemonic ambitions state with evidence that also provided opponents authority structures both and organizational resources. In particular historians hypothesized offered women a refuge from patriarchal...
ABSTRACT Traditional sources tell us relatively little about how Africans perceived death in the past. In some societies, however, changing attitudes towards mortality can be identified from names which were given to babies. Bunyoro almost a third of that during colonial period referred death. The declining frequency death-related 1940s offers significant insights into impact Christianity, education and population growth on Nyoro's worldview. That did not re-emerge era AIDS is indication...
Introduction: Bunyoro & the demographic environmental history of Africa - The state pre-colonial ecology, health demography Crisis reform in age Kamurasi Kabaleega, 1860-90 origins, nature impact conquest Politics 1900-24 Bunyoro's economy Famine, disease Neglect nostalgia: politics 1924-55 Disease Conclusion Bibliography.
Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 threatened years effort by the Chinese authorities to extend its influence around world. This article seeks enhance understanding China’s defensive engagement with global health agencies, and more broadly relationship between pandemics soft power, through an analysis Uganda’s evolving response HIV/AIDS. As COVID-19, HIV/AIDS presented a fundamental threat not only countries’ internal social stability population health, but also governmental legitimacy...
Abstract This is a study of ethnic politics in colonial Buganda, one East Africa's largest and oldest kingdoms. It compares two strategies integration: designed to discipline the enormous, disparate body economic migrants who sought share Buganda's cash-cropping wealth; other aimed at undermining irredentism Nyoro population "Lost Counties", territory that had been conquered by British transferred their Ganda allies during 1890s conquest Bunyoro. Some mechanisms – requirement acknowledge...
The Cwezi-kubandwa cult was the most prominent form of religious belief in interlacustrine region East Africa during pre-colonial period. It has long been regarded as providing ideological support to monarchical regimes across region. Recently, though, scholars have contrasted hegemonic ambitions state with evidence that also provided opponents authority structures both and organizational resources. In particular historians hypothesized offered women a refuge from patriarchal political...
China and Australia differ markedly in cultural social context, the demands placed on interpreters, training provided to interpreters prepare them for professional duties. This paper aims explore Australia’s translation interpreting (T&I) programs elaborate “goodness of fit” demonstrates how both pragmatic context (in nations) explains anomalies their approaches.
Abstract Within the Great Lakes region of East Africa previous research on emergence HIV/AIDS has focused primarily Uganda's Central and Tanzania's Kagera Regions, locally dominant ethnic groups, Ganda Haya. The patterns sexual behaviour which facilitated rapid spread HIV have typically been associated with changes occurred during 1970s, a decade characterised by declining state services, growing violence black marketeering, worsening vulnerability. This article argues that in order to...
As societies evolve with shared purpose and varying continue to develop longterm economic relationships other cultures, the need for increased competency in developing widespread, interculturally sensitive communication skills becomes more essential.The of this inquiry is closely examine potential disparities between levels intercultural sensitivity among three groups participants: international students, domestic students travel experience, without experience.The study will focus on...
The absence of writing from indigenous sub-Saharan cultures has often been identified as one the key elements that distinguished African societies those Europe and Asia. Literacy permits an extension range human intercourse, increased bureaucratic commercial complexity, enlargement stabilization political scale. Some scholars suggest it also encourages a more abstract detached way thinking about present-day problems. Writing is, moreover, commonly assumed to transform people's understanding...
Cet article resume les recherches sur la population des Buhaya en Tanzanie du Nord-Ouest. Leur histoire demographique est inhabituelle par rapport aux autres regions de l'Afrique orientale : premierement, malgre pauvrete sol, densite plus elevee qu'ailleurs ; deuxiement, n'a pas diminue suite a basse fertilite et haute mortalite enfantine, mais bien au contraire, ont enregistre grande augmentation dans region, ceci etant notamment l'apport colonisation britannique (paix, nourriture...
Abstract By 2018 approximately 32 million deaths worldwide had been attributed to HIV/AIDS. Yet the impact of AIDS pandemic has profoundly uneven. In Global North, HIV constructed as marginal; in much Africa, it is pervasive and transformative, fundamentally reshaping local economies, civil society, state structures continent’s relations with outside world. reality a series distinct epidemics, each their own histories. recent years, scientists have challenged historians’ understanding HIV’s...