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Men and maternal health: The dilemma of shortlived male involvement strategies in Uganda
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2018)This article has been written to call for further attention to the importance of involving males in efforts to reduce maternal mortality. Since the 1995 International Conference on Population and Development [ICPD], ... -
Frontline Farmers, Backline Sources: Women as a tertiary voice in climate change coverage
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2015)Gender meaning construction and interpretation, which suggest women’s inferiority to men, is deeply rooted in social-cultural signs and codes drawn from traditional contexts. In Uganda, girls start to face this reality at ... -
Covering Migration—in Africa and Europe: Results from a Comparative Analysis of 11 Countries
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2020-07-20)While the issue of migration has heavily impacted on public debates in the Global North, much less is known about coverage of migration in the Global South. This pilot study sets out to dewesternize the discussion, by ... -
Local Governments and Primary Education in Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03)Decentralisation was one of the major reforms in the 1990s in Uganda, geared towards improving democratic governance and service delivery. However, districts have had variable performance, especially in providing primary ... -
(Re)producing cultural narratives on women in public affairs programmes in Uganda
(Journal of African Media Studies, 2019)Ugandan women have made tremendous strides in public life, and hold strategic positions in politics and policy-making. This increased participation in public life is attributed to Uganda’s focused pro-women constitution ... -
Mass media, women and public life in Uganda : interrogating representation, interaction and engagement
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2017)This study was motivated by the strides Uganda has made towards the growth of the media and women’s participation in public life. The puzzle is that this increased participation of women in public life is hardly captured ... -
Broadcasting governance and development in ‘Museveni's Uganda’
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-06-09)Despite recent developments in technology and globalisation, the broadcast and print media in many countries still run on separate tracks. This article, which is based on qualitative research carried out between 2012 and ... -
Ugandan adolescents’ sources, interpretation and evaluation of sexual content in entertainment media programming
(Taylor and Francis (Routledge), 2016-08-05)Although mounting evidence in Western nations indicates that entertainment media influence young people’s sexual socialisation, virtually no research has addressed the topic in sub-Saharan Africa. The present study employed ...
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