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The copyright of this thesis vests in the author. No quotation from it or information derived from it is to be published without full acknowledgementTown of the source. The thesis is to be used for private study or non- commercial research purposes only. Cape Published by the University ofof Cape Town (UCT) in terms of the non-exclusive license granted to UCT by the author. University GENDER DYNAMICS IN HOME OWNERSHIP IN KAMPALA, UGANDA By FLORENCE AKIIKI ASIIMWE Thesis presented for the degree of: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Town In Department of Sociology Graduate School of Humanities Cape University ofof Cape Town Supervisor: Prof. Owen Crankshaw University February 2008 DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to my late mother Janet Nyabuje Manyuru Abwooli who passed away on 26th May 2004 and to my late brother Engineer Samuel Asaba Akiiki who passed away on 4th September 1992 for the instrumental role they played in my education. Without their financial support at the initial stage of my education I would not have come this far. To my late mother Nyabuje thank you for the value you attached to education. Even though your parents denied you education because you were a girl, you did not want the same denial to be extended to your girl children. To my late brother Asaba, thank you for the advice you gave to our father not to let us drop out of school. You were a torch to all of us who were behind you. Thanks for the sacrifice you made to spend part of your university allowance (boom) to pay my school fees. I will always treasure your love and the trail youTown set for us to follow. To fulfil the saying ‘One good turn deserves another’, I have ensured that all your children you left me to take care of are educated to whatever level they want to. Your sacrifice therefore was not in vain. Cape of University i DECLARATION I declare that this thesis is my own work. I know that Plagiarism is wrong. All quotations in this thesis from other authors have been cited and referenced. Date: 13 February 2008 Place: University of Cape Town Signed: ___________________________ Town Cape of University ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Various people and institutions contributed in different ways to the success of this work. I wish to recognize the following people for the moral, social, and academic support without which I would have found this work a heavy burden to carry. I am indeed grateful to Makerere University for granting me both the sponsorship and study leave to pursue the Ph.D. programme. I am indeed grateful for this generosity to meet my subsistence while at University of Cape Town, research funds and payment of my salary while on study leave. I thank Codesria for supplementary research funding and for sponsoring me to attend the Annual Writing Workshop for Scholarly Publishing. I am also grateful to IFRA for supplementary research funding. I also thank National Council of Science and Technology in Uganda for allowing me to conduct this study. Town This thesis would not have been supported by any evidence had it not been the generosity of time the respondents in Banda andCape Kiwatule gave to me through their life stories. Thank you so much women ofand men of Banda and Kiwatule for the time you spared to tell me the enriching life stories. Thanks for allowing me to invade your private lives and homesteads. For confidentiality purposes I cannot disclose your names. I am indebted to thank my research assistants: Josephine and Ponsiano, my research guides Badru and Medi for the enormous task of identifying respondents and mobilization. I also thank Rosette the Kampala City Council official Nakawa Division for introducing meUniversity to the community. Thanks also go to local council officials of Banda and Kiwatule for introducing me to the respondents and accepting me to work in their local area. I wish to thank my fellow colleagues from Makerere University and the continent with whom we shared doctoral degree challenges. It is these shared experiences that enabled me to keep on the struggle. Special thanks go to Charlotte Karungi, Flora Muhanguzi, Leah Sikoyo for the assistance rendered to renew my registration. Special thanks to Charlotte Karungi for availing me the police ‘good conduct report’ to renew iii my study visa while I was in Cape Town. Thanks also go to Anthony Gidudu for providing me with the various maps that I have incorporated in this thesis. I thank all my friends, Agatha, Ojuka, Mokhantso Makoae, Nyatia, Darlison, Okwi, Flora Muhanguzi, Betty Owor, Sam Majalija, Jimmy, Richard, Steven Tumutegerize, Alex and Christine Magezi, Esther Mungoma, Barbra Bashabe, Joan, Jackie, Cedia, Perez, Emma, Kezia, Racheal, Ernest, the Stellas, Kelvin, Joseph, Babra, A.J, Helen, Jenestic, Annet, Robyn, Adam, Poole, Paul and Juliet Kahumuza. In the same vein I thank the crew from University of Western Cape (UWC): Kakai, Fred, Richard, John, for the love you showed me as ‘SENGA’. Thank you members of Bloulelie Circle house No.4 for the love and company you gave Lawrence and I in the last days of thesis writing. Thanks to all my friends in Uganda, Cape Town, Netherlands and other parts of the globe not mentioned here for the good wishes and moral support. I love you all. Town My special thanks go to Associate Professor Ken Jubber, his wife Daphne for the fatherly and motherly support rendered and particularly for keeping my property every time I was away in Uganda. God Bless youCape abundantly. Thanks Ken for reading my thesis and for the constructive comments during the Ph.D. Sociology workshop. Thanks also go to Nuroo and all her ofcolleagues in Knowledge Commons, UCT Library for the time and help freely given to me during the final editing of this thesis. Special thanks to Beatrice Aliba for paragraphs set up. You were an angel sent by God at the time when I needed you most. In a special way UniversityI thank my supervisor Professor Owen Crankshaw in the department of Sociology at University of Cape Town, for my intellectual growth in research endeavor. His good guidance, critical reading of the many drafts and patience, enabled me to grow academically in many aspects especially in writing skills. I thank him for the words of encouragement even when the going seemed too tough. I will always remember these words ‘well done’; ‘great improvement’; and ' this reads better’. These simple but great words encouraged me to go on when at times I felt like giving up. Thanks also go other members of academic staff in the department of Sociology at University of Cape Town for the moral support and encouragement. In the same vein, iv I thank my colleagues in the department of Sociology, Makerere University for words of encouragement. I also thank Makerere University academic staff members for the support during the strike for improved salary and the good wishes while I served Makerere University Academic Staff Association as the General Secretary. It was indeed a trying moment to serve you while pursuing this programme. To my family, thanks for being there for me in times of need and desperation. My sisters: Betty and Lydia for taking care of the family in my absence and for all the moral support. Special thanks go to Lydia for parental guidance to the girls. Your constant monitoring and involvement in girl children issues made them what they are now. Thanks to my brothers: Amos, Moses, and Kisembo for words of encouragement. My nieces: Lillian, Grace, Doreen, Sarah, and Judith, thanks for being such nice girls while I was away. My sincere thanks to my nephew Duncan Mwesigwa for taking care of the whole family, financial managementTown of my accounts and development projects while I was away. Thanks to my companion and partner Lawrence for the social support, encouraging short messages and patience. In a special way, thank you for all the cooking, waCapeshing, ironing and cleaning in the last days of completing this thesis. Thanks indeed for creating a new gender contract whereby you took over responsibilities thatof are usually regarded as wife’s roles in a patriarchal Ugandan society. I thank the Kazi group Association members for whom I was a Treasurer, for all the moral support and for taking care of my family members while I was away. Thanks to Mugisa for the financial contribution for the academic gown as a way of encouragement for me to complete this Ph.D. programme. I hope I will not disappointUniversity you in this regard. Lastly and most importantly, I thank God Almighty for the gift of life and for keeping me safe in South Africa where crime and road accidents are the order of the day. Thanks to God Almighty for keeping my family safe while I was away. v ABSTRACT This study explores the different ways in which married women in Kampala, Uganda are unable to become homeowners during marriage and at widowhood. In the process, the study also explores the special mechanisms through which married women became homeowners through marriage and at widowhood. The study was premised on the assumption that gender inequality in homeownership exists and persists in Uganda in spite of urbanization, increase in information flow, education and income of women. Although married women live in a home with their husband, they do not actually own the home. As a result, women tend to be users rather than owners. Although one would expect statutory law to guarantee married women home ownership rights during marriage, this is not the case. While Uganda’s state policy states that every citizen has the right to own property, in particular houses, there is no legal framework that guarantees married women equal ownershipTown rights of the home.

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