This study addresses factors that contribute to women's madness in African and Caribbean literature as depicted in four novels by Mariana Bâ, Ken Bugul, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. In these texts written by women, the loss or absence of family love in childhood and adolescence, th…
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This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut of the processes that have so greatly enriched, dignifi…
This dissertation reveals why Senegal has confronted difficulties in establishing and maintaining an articulated rural development strategy. Departing from a weak state model, this work develops the concept of symbiotic societal differential dynamism to explain how the modern Se…
This dissertation is an effort to explain the constitution of order among the Nuer as an acephalous society. Theoretical formulations best represented by Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America have demonstrated how principles of self-governance can be used to constitute so…
This study explores political culture in the city of Kaolack, Senegal as it occurs in a number of realms of social practice--the city's central market, women's dance, cloth and clothing, and clientelistic politics. These are presented as instances of hegemonic process, the inter…
The main purpose of this research was to study aspects of social change in education, housing, health, labor force composition, and political participation in Muslim nations in two periods: 1975 and 1985. Further, the researcher compared the extent of change among Muslim countri…
The unprecedented waves of strikes which erupted in British Africa during the war era were dramatic proof that the shadow cast by the Second World War extended far beyond the actual theatres of combat and also demonstrated the state's limited capacity to engineer the colonial ec…
China’s official media are nearly a decade into a global expansion programme to challenge the dominance of Anglo-American news organisations and their framing of world events. This research tackles the questions of whether Chinese media abroad deserve to be dismissed as channels…
This thesis provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the contentious “sovereignty” dispute between Taiwan and China, especially following the signing of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) in 2010. Distinctive from many contemporary studie…
This empirical thesis explores the ways some Third World States use the patent regime as set out in the TRIPS Agreement to effect certain development and public health goals. It also investigates how non-state actors in these countries participate in patent law making, thereby c…
This thesis focuses on the role of agency during political transition processes in divided societies. To be more specific, it examines how the Iraqi political elites view democracy and what type of political institutions they support. The years between 2012 and 2015 are of great…
This thesis examines the impact of structural reform strategies of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan. In doing so, it explores the extent to which the ethos and instruments of rule of law and good governan…
This thesis investigates the representation of Nigeria in the British news media. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines the interplay of culture, race, ideology and geo-political power relations in the production of news. It interrogates the influence of sources, the …
This thesis offers a perspective on why majority-poor democracies might fail to pursue pro-poor policies. In particular, it discusses why in Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party led by Lalu Prasad Yadav, which claimed to represent the poor and under-privileged, did not cl…
Current approaches to post-war state reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the soc…
The study develops two significant arguments in relation to Pakistan's socio-legal situation and analysis. First, it outlines and discusses the various prominent facets of the country's legal architecture to formulate and present, what the thesis terms as, Pakistan's Socio-Legal…