My Research

As I am wrapping up my research on various topics that I’ve been working on for the last three years, I will be publishing my work on this page. This way students, scholars, bloggers and everyone interested in my research will be able to have access to my work before it is actually published in various publications.

ACADEMIC WORK

CHINESE COMING TO AFRICA: COMPETITION, COOPERATION, INTERACTION AND INTERDEPENDENCY; LESSONS FROM TANZANIA BA PAPER, APRIL 2010

SELLING THE INVISIBLE: BUSINESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ON THE UGANDAN EQUATOR, ACADEMIC ARTICLE UNDER REVIEW, DECEMBER 2009, UPDATED APRIL 2010

THE “ALBINO PARADOX” – FAITH, CULTURE AND DESPAIR IN CONTEMPORARY TANZANIA, ACADEMIC ARTICLE UNDER PEER REVIEW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, OCTOBER 2009

I will start by posting a presentation I delivered at Yale University in April 2009. The presentation is entitled:

The Most Unequal Equals: Historical and Present Trends of the Sino-Tanzanian Friendship

You can access it by clicking on the title. An article will the same title will be made available by May 15th.

Shorts essays:

The Dark Decade of Coups: Can African Dictators learn from History? February 19th 2009

From Zanzeland to Washington DC Timeless Anxieties, Familiar Challenges February 10th 2009

 


Awesome quote of the day

I’m going through my research material from Uganda as I’m preparing to write my masters thesis. I just came across one of the most hilarious quotes on my tapes. Check this out (it’s by a woman craft maker):

 

A  man who speaks and gives orders is that who has money to meet the needs of his wife. But if a man cannot fulfill those duties, then he is not a man after all, right? He’s just a nagging woman with a penis.

 

 

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This Vanguard reportage deserves to be seen.

I don’t normally post things that are not Africa-related but this young man from Taiwan is simply amazing. Lin Yu Chun participated in a Taiwanese version of the American Idol called Super Star Avenue, singing the song I will always love you by Whitney Houston. I’ll keep it short: his version of the song is clearly better than what Mrs. Houston is capable of singing right now. Some dubbed him the “Susan Boyle of Taiwan” and there might just be something of this young man. Check it out yourselves. I’m sure you’ll be surprised as well.

To all of us who have experienced the adventure that is a boda-boda (motorcycle-taxi in East Africa, primarily in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo)








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