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.
Delphine FROMENT, “Diplomatic Gift in East Africa at the End of the 19th Century: Modalities and Issues of Gif-Exchange between the British Consulate in Zanzibar and a Chagga Chief in 1883”, Mambo!, Vol. XVI,...
This paper is about politics in Western Uganda and the multiple ways it relates to organizations of activists working on human rights issues. It draws examples from a local organization dealing with illegal expropriations...
Willy Mutunga today, as the President of the Supreme Court of Kenya @ Bobby Pal
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....
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...
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by infoIFRA · Published December 1, 2018 · Last modified May 27, 2019
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...
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...
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by infoIFRA · Published February 2, 2018 · Last modified January 21, 2019
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....
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by infoIFRA · Published December 21, 2017 · Last modified January 20, 2019
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...
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by infoIFRA · Published December 15, 2017 · Last modified January 22, 2019
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...