He has been involved in a number of research projects related to resource management including a four year project on Political Ecology of Wildlife and Forest Governance in Tanzania (with colleagues from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Sokoine University). He is presenting a paper based on a joint project on Transformations in Property Rights and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: An Institutionalist Perspective. The project is being undertaken with colleagues from the University of Michigan. Maganga earned a Ph.D. from Roskilde University, an M.Sc. from the University of Zimbabwe, and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Dar es Salaam.