Decentralization and conflict in Uganda: Governance adrift

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-24

  Manyak, Terrell G ^a   Katono, Isaac Wasswa ^b  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

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