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Title

Law and the struggle for democracy in East Africa / edited by Joseph Oloka-Onyango, Kivutha Kibwana, Chris Maina Peter.

Publication

Nairobi, Kenya : Claripress, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oloka-Onyango, Joseph.
• Kibwana, Kivutha
• Peter, Chris Maina, 1954-
• Regional Conference on Law, Politics, and Multi-party Democracy in East Africa (1st : 1993 : Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania)

Description

xiv, 773 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Since 1960
• Democracy > Africa, Eastern > Congresses
• Law > Africa, Eastern > Congresses
• Africa, Eastern > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Daressalam (1993)

Note

• "This book ... is the product of the First Regional Conference on Law, Politics and Multi-party Democracy in East Africa, which was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in October 1993 ..."--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The winds of democratic transofmration of society in Africa / Francis Lucas Nyalali (8 p.). -- Competition, liberalization and democratic transition in Tanzania / G.K Munishi (19 p.). -- The transition to multi-party democracy in Tanzania : / Kapepwa I Tambila (16 p.). -- The historical dimensions of democracy in Uganda : / P. Godfrey Okoth (34 p.). -- Party systems and control of government powers : / Jwani T Mwaikusa (16 p.). -- Presidentialism, ethnicity, militarism and democracy in Africa : / Smokin C Wanjala (15 p.). -- A critical reappraisal of the socio-cultural background to the anti-democratic culture in East Africa / Katama Mkangi (22 p.). -- Internal and external pressures in the struggle for pluralism in Uganda / John-Jean Barya (20 p.).
• Activism, apathy and conformity : / Mwesiga Baregu (15 p.). -- The labour movement and the democratisation process in Kenya / Okech-Owiti (20 p.). -- Political parties, NGOs (non governmental organizations) and civil society in Uganda / F.W Jjuuko (19 p.). -- Building popular democracy in Africa : / Willy Mutunga (37 p.). -- Some remarks on struggles for democracy and human rights in Tanzania / C.S.L Chachage (15 p.). -- Building democracy in a polarised civil society : / Mutahi, G Mgunyi (32 p.). -- Human rights in the transition to multi-party democracy : / Hamida H Sheikh (8 p.). -- Preconditions for demarginalizing women and youth in Ugandan politics / Joan Kakwenzire (19 p.).
• Democratization in Uganda : / Sylvia Tamale (15 p.). -- Democracy in precolonial Africa and the search for appropriate models in contemporary Africa society / A. Osotsi Mojola (12 p.). -- Returning Kenya to its original values / Gibson Kamau Kuria (21 p.). -- The role and place of culture and decentralization in Uganda's struggle for pluralism / Apolo Nsibambi (10 p.). -- Winding up the state : / Ahmed Nasir M Abdullahi (9 p.). -- Constitution making in Tanzania : / Ibrahim H Juma (17 p.). -- State and citizen : / Kivutha Kibwana (57 p.). -- The legal aspects of Zambia's transition to multi-party democracy / Mumba Malila (10 p.). -- Taming the executive : / Joseph Oloka-Onyango (24 p.). -- Determining the face of change : / Chris Maina Peter (15 p.). -- Legal constitutional reforms to facilitate multi-party democracy : / Githu Muigai (19 p.). -- The law and practice of elections in Uganda : / E Khiddu-Makubuya (40 p.). -- A derailed democratic transition : / Maria Nzomo (22 p.). -- Election monitoring and its constraints in Africa : / Ayiemba-Omolo (18 p.). -- The Malawi referendum of June 1993 : / Clement Ng'ong'ola (18 p.). -- Annotated bibliographies on constitutional and democratic issues in East AAfrica (110 p.).

ISBN

• 9966960201 (hard)
• 996696021X (soft)

LCCN

^^^96980220^

OCLC

• 35042218
• SCSB-10153665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library