...Stephen B. Isabirye Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle, Editors: Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence . Athens, Ohio:Ohio University Press, 1995. 278 pages. $44.95; Canon Kodwo E. Ankrah: Development and the Church of Uganda: Mission, Myths...

... Kodwo E. Ankrah: Development and the Church of Uganda: Mission, Myths, and Metaphors. Nairobi: Action Publishers, 1998. 197 pages. Price unavailable at press time. Paul Gifford: African Christianity: Its Public Role. Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998. 368 pages...

.... Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1995. 278 pages. $44.95. Canon Kodwo E. Ankrah: Development and the Church of Uganda: Mission, Myths, and Metaphors. Nairobi: Action Publishers, 1998. 197 pages. Price unavailable at press time. Paul Gifford: African Christianity: Its Public Role. Bloomington...

.... Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1995. 278 pages. $44.95. Canon Kodwo E. Ankrah: Development and the Church of Uganda: Mission, Myths, and Metaphors. Nairobi: Action Publishers, 1998. 197 pages. Price unavailable at press time. Paul Gifford: African Christianity: Its Public Role. Bloomington...

... clashes in which hundreds of thousands of people died and millions were forced into exile. In 1990, the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) launched a major military offensive from Uganda against government forces inside Rwanda. The government forces were able to repel the RPF and forced...

.... One-quarter of the top twenty exporting countries of green coffee—seeds that have been processed but not roasted—are found in sub-­Saharan Africa. Coffees from Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania are known worldwide by coffee connoisseurs. Countries in sub-­Saharan Africa...

... by Ethiopia to siphon water off for irrigation purposes were likely to provoke air strikes against the Ethiopian dams.25 Such bellicosity prompted Ethiopia to join Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda in drawing up a revised version of the NBCFA treaty that explicitly mandated an equitable sharing...

... by the growing antagonism between Sudan and Eritrea. The alignments within the Horn of Africa changed in the years from 1993 to 1998, with a consequent polarization between Sudan, on the one hand, and Ethiopia and Uganda, now supporting Eritrea, on the other.11 After an incident on the Eritrean border...

.... Uganda USAID estimates that 550,000 people are in need of humanitarian assis- tance in Uganda. Relief officials estimate 41,638 metric tons of food would be needed to take care of the population at risk. The United States plans to provide 8,015...

..., had previously worked for the Cuango Mining Corporation in the Luzumba region during the period of UNITA occupation and was licensed to do so by the group. UNITA introduced to RCD several mining companies that were willing to cooperate with the rebels and their allies Rwanda and Uganda...

... Kaguta Museveni of Uganda that the “invasion of Rwanda by uniformed members of the Ugandan Army was totally unacceptable.” In the case of Sudan, Cohen laments the exclusion of the National Islamic Front (NIF) leader, Hassan al-Turabi, from early efforts...

... in the repatriation of these people. He also suggests that the United States should have been straight with President Yow- eri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda that the “invasion of Rwanda by uniformed members of the Ugandan Army was totally unacceptable...

... Kaguta Museveni of Uganda that the “invasion of Rwanda by uniformed members of the Ugandan Army was totally unacceptable.” In the case of Sudan, Cohen laments the exclusion of the National Islamic Front (NIF) leader, Hassan al-Turabi, from early efforts...

...: Adapted from Hisayo Katsui, Negotiating the Human-­Rights Approach and the Charity-­ based Approach in Development Cooperation Activities: Experiences of Deaf Women in Uganda (Tokyo: Tokyo Foundation, 2009), www.tokyofoundation.org/sylff/wp-­content/uploads/2009/03 /katsui.pdf. Used...

... of the roads—it takes four hours to travel just forty miles from the border of Uganda to Yei. The actions of the Khartoum government cannot be tolerated any longer. It is a brutal, repressive regime. Government-sponsored militias torch houses, loot...

... performed near miracles with their poverty rates. The World Bank states that Uganda’s poverty rate, for instance, declined from 56 percent in 1992 to 36 percent in 2006. Nigeria’s poverty rate declined from 74 percent to 52 percent in the five years ending in 2005. This is good and cheerful news...

... any future discovery of useful mineral deposits and/or oil. In Uganda, it is involved in pharmaceuticals, especially in the production and supply of treated mosquito-net beds. In sum, China’s activities in Africa are substantial and multifaceted and its role is both beneficial and detrimental...

.... However, even if the Jewish state had been established in Patagonia, Madagascar, or Uganda, as had at one time or another been suggested, the underlying ideological con- fl ict between militant Islam and liberal democracy would still be with us. This conclusion is fully supported by the historical...

... of a tragedy, the book contains some obvious errors of fact, or at best, simplification. For example, the Rwandan exiles who were later to lead the invasion of Rwanda from Uganda were admittedly predominantly Tutsi but were neither aristocratic nor educated at family expense outside the country. Those...

... and the rule of law, democratization, and regional peace and stability. Though a most welcome account of a tragedy, the book contains some obvious errors of fact, or at best, simplification. For example, the Rwandan exiles who were later to lead the invasion of Rwanda from Uganda were admittedly...