Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1983
B.A., Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1978

Dr. Johnson W. Makoba is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of  Sociology.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.  He has been teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1990. 

Dr. Makoba is the author of  Government Policy and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa.  He has also published several articles in the International Journal of Sociology of Law, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, Austrian Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, African Development, and other scholarly journals. 

His areas of specialization include race and ethnic relations, organizations and bureaucracies, Third World development, and African State NGO relations Studies.  He is currently engaged in research on the role of the nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and other issues in third world development studies.

Selected Publications

Makoba, Johnson W. (forthcoming). "Relationship between NGOs and the African State." In George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Pita Ogaba Agbese, eds. /Africa in the New Century: The Challenges of Governance and Development/. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.

Makoba, Johnson W. (forthcoming). "African Leadership and Management of Africa 's Economies." In George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Pita Ogaba Agbese, eds. /Africa in the New Century: The Challenges of Governance and Development/. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.

Makoba, Johnson W. (forthcoming). "Globalization and Marginalization of Labor: Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa." In Berch Berberoglu (Ed.). Globalization in the 21st Century. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Co-authored with Elavie Ndura “The Roots of Contemporary Ethnic Conflict and Violence in Burundi”, in Santosh C. Saha (Ed.), Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or The Politics of Convinction? Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2006.

"Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and Third World Development: An Alternative Approach to Development," Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XIX, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 53-63.

--- with Mathebela E. Ntebeng, "Affirmative Action Policy and the Search for Racial Equality in Post-Apartheid South Africa," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Vol. LVIII, No. 1 (January-March, 2002): 165-176.

Government Policy and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Studies of Tanzania and Zamibia, 1964-84 (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press,1998).

"Toward the Commercialization of Microfinance Institutions: A Global Phenomenon," in the Austrian Journal of Development Studies, JEP XVII/3,4, 2001: 353-363.

"Rethinking Current Explanations of Political Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Third World Studies, XVI, 2, Fall, 1999, 61-73.

"Beyond the State-Market Debate: The Role of the State and Market in Third World Economic Development," Austrian Journal of Development Studies, XII, 4, 1996, 447-461.

"Public Control and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania and Zambia," Africa Development, XVIII, 3, Sept.-Oct. 1993, 37-59.

"Toward a General Theory of Social Exchange," Social Behavior and Personality, 21, 3, 1993, 227-240.

"On the Use and Application of Legal Concepts in the Study of Non-Western Societies," International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 20, 3, Sept. 1992, 201-223.

E-mail: makoba@unr.nevada.edu

Dr. Makoba's Curriculum Vitae

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