Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lin…
Grâce à une réflexion sur ma création poétique, cette thèse exploite « la poétique négro-africaine de l’exil » à travers cinq recueils de Césaire, Kayóya, Senghor et Tshitungu Kongolo. D’une part, mon recueil extériorise les joies et les peines du Burundi précolonial, colonial, …
Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’agentivité des femmes et à la participation de ces dernières aux efforts visant la cessation des hostilités et la consolidation de la paix suite à un conflit armé. Ce travail porte une attention particulière aux obstacles rencontrés par celles désiran…
In this dissertation, based on German-language primary documents found in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, I examine the spatial strategies of resistance in the colony German East Africa. I argue that German policies on transportation, labor, Islamic practice, and edu…
This thesis provides an overview of the water crisis currently afflicting East Africa and concurrently presents good practices and provides policy recommendations intended to mitigate the effects of hydrological change upon populations in the region. This paper focuses on six co…
The purpose of this dissertation is to critically assess the role of external intervention in managing selected ethnic conflicts in Africa. Given the pervasive threat of ethnic conflict and the growing incidence of internal wars spilling across borders, understanding the impact …
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent2019s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, par…
Burundi since the genocide
by Kay, Reginald, Lemarchand, René, Martin, David
fromReport / Minority Rights group