Africanist Theses recently accepted at UK Universities
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2010
Obinna Okwelume (2010) ‘Igbo Caste Practices: Persistence and Public Attitudes in the Media’, Ph.D thesis, University of Birmingham. Supervisors: Dr Insa Nolte and Professor Karin Barber.
2009
Abu Bakarr Bash-Taqi (2009) ‘Risk and Insurance in Rural Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Sussex. Supervisor: Dr Stephen Devereux.
Patty Chang (2009) ‘The Demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons in Senegal’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Neil MacFarlane.
Matthew I. J. Davies (2009) ‘An Applied Archaeological and Anthropological Study of Intensive Agriculture in the Northern Cherangani Hills, Kenya’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Peter Mitchell.
Victor Ayodele Bamijoko Davies (2009) ‘Essays on Conflict Economies [Sierra Leone]’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr Paul Collier and Dr Anke Hoeffler.
Carl Death (2009) ‘One World Comes to One Country? Governing Sustainable Development from the Johannesburg Summit’, Ph.D thesis, University of Aberystwyth. Supervisors: Dr Rita Abrahamsen and Dr Ayla Gol.
Boyie Dlamini (2009) ‘Management of Educational Change on Mpumalanga Province in South Africa through the Implementation of Curriculum 2005’, Ph.D thesis, University of Kent.
Rebecca Hodes (2009) ‘Siyayinqoba/Beat It!: HIV/AIDS on South African Television c.1999-2006’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor William Beinart.
Bruce Allen Hearn (2009) ‘The Extent of African Equity Market Integration: A Source of Capital in a Global Marketplace’, Ph.D thesis, King’s College London.
Ryan Johnson (2009) ‘Networks of Imperial Tropical Medicine: Ideas and Practices of Health and Hygiene in the British Empire, 1895-1914’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Mark Harrison.
David Kovara (2009) ‘Saying No to Sex: US Central Funding, HIV/AIDS and Abstinence Promotion in Kenya’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Walford.
John W. McArthur (2009) ‘Essays on African Economic Growth and Development’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Francis Teal.
Daniel J. McGahey (2009) ‘Maintaining Opportunism and Mobility in Drylands: The Impact of Veterinary Cordon Fences in Botswana’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas and Dr Patricia Daley.
Godwin Uyi Ojo (2009) From Participation to Empowerment? Assessing NGO and TNC-led Community-Based Resource Management Schemes in Nigeria’, Ph.D thesis, King’s College London.
Ruth Payne (2009) ‘Child-headed Households in Zambia: From Concepts to Realities’, Ph.D thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London. Supervisors: Professor David Simon and Dr Katie Willis.
Clayton Peel (2009) ‘Diaspora Ethnicity and Politics in the Electronic Media: Case Studies of United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean Internet Websites and their Associations’, Ph.D thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies/University of Wales. Supervisors: Professor Juan Rogers and Professor Terence Ranger.
Catherine Porter (2009) ‘Analysing Welfare Over Time: Three Approaches for Rural Ethiopia, 1984-2004’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Stefan Dercon.
Dobrota Alzbeta Pucherova (2009) ‘Contested Boundaries: Race, Gender and Desire in Southern African Writing, 1960-2005’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Elleke Boehmer.
Miriam Prys (2009) ‘Regions, Power and Hegemony: India and South Africa Compared’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Louise Fawcett.
Francisco De Lima Aires Parreira Roquett (2009) ‘The Public Services Impact Approach: Towards a Management System Capable of Enhancing the Human Development Outcomes of the Public Sector – The Case of Ethiopia’, Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Professor Simon Deakin.
Hannes Schroeder (2009) ‘African Slavery and Forced Migration to Barbados: An Isotopic Perspective’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor Robert E. M. Hedges and Professor Chris Gosden.
Alexander Iain Shaw (2009) ‘The Characterization of Calcrete Based on its Environmental Settings within Selected Regions of the Kalahari, Southern Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Andrew Goudie.
Alex Sienaert (2009) ‘Labour Supply, Public Transfers and Household Welfare: Essays on South Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Margaret Stevens.
Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane (2009) ‘Invisible Urbanism in Johannesburg: A Scourge for Urban Planning?’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Jocelyn Alexander.
Nidia Patricia Veitch (2009) ‘Human Capital Investment in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Sheffield. Supervisors: Professor Sarah Brown and Dr Steven McIntosh.
Andrew Forrest Zeitlin (2009) ‘Institutions, Innovation and Incentives in Rural Ghana’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Francis Teal.
2008
Alexander H. Arnall (2008) ‘Development Interventions in Mozambique: Human Agency and the NGO-Community Interface’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor David S. G. Thomas and Professor Diana Liverman.
Lillian Melinda Artz (2008) ‘An Examination of the Attrition of Domestic Violence Cases within the Criminal Justice System in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, Queens’ University, Belfast.
Joseph Senu Ashidi (2008) ‘Investigation into Some Nigerian Medicinal Plants Used in the Treatment of Cancer’, Ph.D thesis, King’s College London.
Stephen Bell (2008) ‘Exploring Empowerment in Rural Uganda: Young People’s Sexual health and NGOs’, Ph.D thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London. Supervisors: Professor David Simon and Dr Vandana Desai.
Danielle Beswick (2008) ‘Aid and Statehood in Post-genocide Rwanda: The Politics of a Donor Darling’, Ph.D thesis, Manchester University. Supervisor: Professor Rosaleen Duffy.
Sallie L. Burrough (2008) ‘Late Quatemary Palaeolacustrine Environments of the Middle Kalahari’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor David S. G. Thomas.
Tracey Carson (2008) ‘Black Trade Unions and Political Boycotts in the Cape Province, South Africa, 1978-1982’, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor William Beinart.
Michael J. Causey (2008) ‘Delineating Pastoralist Behaviour and Long-term Environmental Change: A GIS Landscape Approach on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor Peter Mitchell and Dr Gary Lock.
Charles K. Cater (2008) ‘Corporations, Resources and War: Angola 1992-2002’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr David G. Williams.
John Anthony Chesworth (2008) ‘The Use of Scripture in Swahili Tracts by Muslims and Christians in East Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Birmingham.
Lucie Dale Cluver (2008) ‘Risk and Protective Factors for the Psychological Well-being of Children Orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Frances Gardner.
Florence Crick (2008) ‘Exposure to Drought Adaptive Strategies amongst Rural Natural Resource Dependent Societies in Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor David S. G. Thomas and Dr Henry Osbahr.
Steven Davies (2008) ‘The Political Economy of Land Tenure in Ethiopia’, Ph.D thesis, University of St Andrews. Supervisor: Professor Ian Taylor.
Marcelle Dawson (2008) ‘Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa: The Anti-Privatisation Forum and Struggles around Access to Water in Johannesburg’, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor William Beinart.
Dugbazah, Justina Eyram (2008) Gender, Migration and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana: A case of the Ho District. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Birmingham. Supervisors: Dr. Lynne Brydon and Dr. Insa Nolte.
Wilberforce Sefakor Dzisah (2008) ‘The News Media and Democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)’, Ph.D thesis, University of Westminster.
Elizabeth Fortin (2008) ‘Arena of Contestation: Policy Processes and Land Tenure Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, D.Phil thesis, University of Sussex.
Stephanie Goins (2008) ‘The Role of Forgiveness in the Reintegration of Child Soldiers’, Ph.D thesis, University of Wales. Supervisors: Professor Haddon Willmer and Dr Jo Boyden.
Markus Haacker (2008) ‘Economic Growth in Development: Health, Demographics and Access to Technologies [sub-Saharan Africa]’, Ph.D thesis, LSE, London.
Gillian Kay (2008) ‘Mechanisms of Southern African Rainfall Variability in Coupled Climate Models’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr Richard Washington and Dr Mark New.
Gernot Klantschnig (2008) ‘The Making of Nigeria’s War on Drugs: International Cooperation and the Politics of Illicit Substance Control, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor David Anderson.
Yvonne Malan (2008) ‘The Spectre of Justice: The Problematic Legacy of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor David Anderson.
Lorraine Moore (2008) ‘Regulating the Environment: The Political Ecology of Elephant Conservation from the Global Arena to Namibia’, Ph.D thesis, University of Lancaster. Supervisor: Professor Rosaleen Duffy.
Synne Movik (2008) ‘Fluid Rights: South Africa’s Water Allocation Reform’, D.Phil thesis, University of Sussex.
Leben Nelson Moro (2008) ‘Oil, Conflict and Displacement in Sudan’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr Dawn Chatty and Professor Douglas H. Johnson.
Eseosa Osazee (2008) ‘Employee Referral in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Nigerian Labour Market’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Ian Kessler.
Chidi Aselm Odinkalu (2008) ‘Regional Integration and Human Rights in Africa’, Ph.D thesis, LSE, London. Supervisor: Dr Chaloka Beyani.
Carolyn Petersen (2008) ‘Contesting Citizenship: Civil Society Struggles over Livelihood and Educational Access in Coastal Settlements of the Western Cape, South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Edinburgh. Supervisors: Professor Alan Barnard, and Professor Kenneth King; www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2631
Aimillia Mohd Ramli (2008) ‘Race, Gender and Colonialism in Victorian Representations of North Africa: The Writings of Charlotte Brontë, Ouida and Grant Allen’, Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester. Supervisor: Dr Howard J. Booth.
Amalia Ribi (2008) ‘Humanitarian Imperialism. The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism in the Interwar Years’, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch.
Tom Salter (2008) ‘Rumba from Congo to Cape Town’, Ph.D thesis, University of Edinburgh. Supervisor: Professor Paul Nugent.
Murray Charles Simpson (2008) ‘The Impacts of Community Benefit Tourism on Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction [Africa]’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon.
Natalia Ann Shunmugan (2008) ‘The Politics of Repatriation and Reburial in Post-apartheid South Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr David Pratten and Professor Marcus Banks.
Izak Petrus Johannes Smit (2008) ‘Artificial Surface-water Provision in a Semi-Arid Savanna: A Spatio-temporal Analysis of Herbivore Distribution Patterns in Relation to Artificial Waterholes under Different Habitat, Rainfall and Management Scenarios in the Kruger National Park, South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge.
Rebecca Louise Sampson (2008) ‘The Changing Nature of Childhood in South Africa and Its Impact on the Street Child, with Social Reference to Domestic Legislation’, Ph.D thesis, University of Reading. Supervisor: Professor Sandy Ghandhi.
Brian A. Stewart (2008) ‘Refitting Repasts: A Spatial Exploration of Food Processing, Sharing and Disposal at the Dunefield Midden Campsite, South Africa’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Peter Mitchell.
Julie J. Taylor (2008) ‘Naming the Land: Identity, Authority and Environment in Namibia’s West Caprivi’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Jocelyn Alexander.
Blessing Miles Tendi (2008) ‘Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga: The Use and Abuse of History’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr Jocelyn Alexander and Professor William Beinart.
Joseph Kofi Teye (2008) ‘Forest Resource Management in Ghana: An Analysis of Policy and Institutions’, Ph.D thesis, University of Leeds.
Corinne M. Weaver (2008) ‘Turbulent Flow and Sand Dune Dynamics: Identifying Controls on Aeolian Sediment Transport’ [Namibia], D. Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr Gile Wiggs.
Fiona Mary White (2008) ‘Strengthening Democracy? The Role of Social Movements as Agents of Civil Society in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, University of London.
Elizabeth May Williams (2008) ‘“Until South Africa is Free, We Shall Not be Free!”: Black British Solidarity with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle during the 1980s’, Ph.D thesis, University of London. Supervisor: Dr Hilary Sapire.
Gemma Clare Wright (2008) 'Socially Perceived Necessities in South Africa: Is a Democratically Derived Definition of Poverty Achievable?', D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: George Smith.
Agnes P. Zani (2008) ‘Continuity and Change in Kenyan Secondary Education since Independence, 1969-2004: A Study of Gender and Social Inequalities on Educational Attainment’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Anthony Heath.
