Willy Mutunga, a Lifelong Activist (Marie WOLFROM)
Willy Mutunga today, as the President of the Supreme Court of Kenya @ Bobby Pal
Category: Mambo!
Mambo! is a series of working papers. They present the results of fieldwork research and preliminary analysis. More than 50 papers have been published since 2000 and are available online.
Developing against Development: Resistance as Participation in Development Induced Displacement in Kenya (Dulo NYAORO)
Read the full Mambo here. This research posits that resistance is part of any participation process in development projects. Resistance often occurs due to the limitations of formal participation and not lack of it....
Elaborating Public Action for Irrigation in Uganda (Charlotte TORRETTI)
Read the full Mambo here. In Uganda, agricultural schemes introduced irrigation and rice mostly in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Three projects implemented by the Chinese cooperation quickly fell aside as the country...
MAMBO! Authors guidelines
Mambo! is a series of working papers published by IFRA (affiliated) researchers and grantees. They present the results of fieldwork research and provide our readers with preliminary analyses on social sciences topics in East...
The ‘Green Land Grab’ in Apaa Village in Uganda (Eria Serwajja)
Read the full Mambo here. Seizure of community land in Uganda by foreign companies for environmental ends – dubbed as ‘green land grabbing’ (Corson & MacDonald, 2012) – is on the rise. As of...
The Lands Use Plans and the Villages’ Subdivisions in the Global Land Rush in Tanzania (Adriana Blache)
Read the full Mambo! here. In Tanzania, the struggle for space and resources is embedded in a long history of accumulation by dispossession, shaped by a large web of multi-scalar powers of exclusion....
State Influence in the Market and Transport Sectors in Kampala (Anna Fichtmüller)
Read the full Mambo here. It is said that the mobilization of particular interest groups is a vital component to the consolidation of democracy (Goodfellow 2017a). Thus, discovering a vibrant associational structure in the...
Co-constituting Cost-recovery, Assembling Benevolence (Christiane Tristl)
Read the full Mambo here Concerned about “providing reliable and sustainable water supply in the developing world,” a multinational water pump manufacturing company identified the inability to: collect and manage revenue, reduce “non-revenue-water” and...
Transnational Activism: An Entangled History of the Disability Movement in Tanzania (Sam De Schutter)
Read full Mambo here Disability does not just refer to an individual impairment, but is constructed through social relations and is about how society deals with bodily norms and deviance. As social relations, norms...
Land Policies: Questioning discrepancies between discourse and practices in Tanzania (Joanny Bélair)
Read full Mambo here This working paper analyzes practices of consultation associated to two specific recent land policies in Tanzania. It aims at understanding why there are important discrepancies between official policies and practices...
