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On the Waters: Economic and Political Drivers of Maritime Conflicts between Uganda and its Neighbors

by Robert Ojambo Abstract The Great Lakes region has, in the recent past, been awash with numerous border conflicts/or threats to conflict among the member states. Whereas various studies have endeavored to explain the emergence of such conflicts, many of them lay the blame on colonial cartographical errors and territorial hegemony that developed after independence. […]

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Commodifying Water in Coastal Tanzania: Natural Resource Management and Social Relations, 1926-1937

by Chau Johnson Kelly Abstract Based on a close read of colonial archives from Dar es Salaam, this article examines how the commodification and regulation of water led to friction between residents and colonial officials in Mikindani, Tanzania shortly after Britain’s acquisition of the territory. Questions of failed development and technology transfer are juxtaposed against […]

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