The article discusses the historical context and evolution of coffee smuggling in East and Central Africa from 1950 to 1980. It provides a brief description of coffee production and marketing and the growth of smuggling in the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that a well-established smuggling culture existed in northwestern Tanzania and southern Uganda with connections to ...

This article combines local oral reminiscences with recent epidemiological literature to sketch a historical context around the onset and expansion of the HIV-1 epidemic in southern Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The local historical imagination has associated the appearance of AIDS in two ways. First, with specific socio-economic structures and circumstances c...

This article investigates the historical origins of Uganda's HIV and AIDS prevention and the challenges it faced. By utilising a variety of sources, the article draws a picture of the early prevention campaign that ended in crisis in 1990, the consequent refurbishment of anti-AIDS efforts in the early 1990s and the ideological and practical problems they faced. The...