This thesis provides a moral analysis of micro-regional forces in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, using the framework of the New Regionalism Approach (NRA). It presents an original contribution to the field through the addition of the Ghanaian-Ivoirian case study, as well as a unique a…
"34" Result
Sort By:
The historically peaceful and prosperous West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire has been embroiled in an ongoing civil war for the last 12 years. Formerly a French colony, Côte d'Ivoire has a turbulent history of colonization, ethnic divisions, coup d'états, and faulty democratic …
My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a de…
Liberalization of West African cocoa markets, following structural adjustment reforms, resulted in the elimination of parastatal marketing boards to promote greater pass-though of world prices to farmers. Concerns about subsequent effects on farmgate prices, farmer income, and m…
A significant body of literature in Francophone North and West Africa, and the French Antilles describes the pain and pleasure of the indigenous child growing up under colonial rule or in postcolonial societies. In the dissertation, I propose that the literary project of remembe…
Within the generally under-researched topic of civil war, research on the question of the causes of civil war is in a state of confusion. This is due primarily to the persistence of a false dichotomy between material and social-psychological theories, as well as to a tendency to…
This dissertation is a hermeneutic reading of four novels by the Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma: Les Soleils des indépendances , Monnè, outrages et défis, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, and Allah n'est pas obligé. The exegesis is based on the assumption that there is…
This dissertation is focused on the contribution of literature in the establishment of democracy in four French-speaking countries of the Golf of Guinea between 1988 and 1998. They are Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Togo. In 1991, a democratization movement that started in Ben…
In contemporary African literature, the theme of violence unfold in the context of the conflict opposing the Western world to Africa. It is mostly during the colonial and postcolonial periods that theme of blood became prominent in African literature. Since then, the novel has b…
Le présent mémoire a pour but d'illustrer à partir de données bibliographiques couvrant la période 1940–1996 la place faite aux femmes dans la littérature sur le secteur halieutique en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il vise à démontrer, sur une base comparative, comment la variable ethniqu…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
My dissertation explores the effect of ethnic conflict, or regulations meant to avoid ethnic strife, on firm employment and productivity in developing countries. The first chapter investigates the impact of the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire that began in 2000, using a census of all …
This dissertation draws on ethnographic research conducted in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire to explore how the subjectivities of les branchés - a local term encompassing several categories of same-sex desire and practice including travestis, woubis, yossis, and increasingly, "MSM" - ar…
In countries of conflict, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often resort to humanitarian relief. A small number of peace and conflict resolution organizations (P/CROs) engage more directly, through grassroots mediation, elite negotiation and advocacy. This thesis observes th…
Vers / Mouvements is a cross-cultural exploration of movement in contemporary French-language poetry and theater from the 1970-1982. The study focuses on poets Anne-Marie Albiach (France) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and playwrights Werewere Liking (Cameroon/Ivory Coast)…
This study examines in Marlene Gorris' De Stilte Rond Christine M. (1982), Desiré Ecaré's Visages de femmes (1985) and Djibril Diop Mambety's La Petite vendeuse de soleil (1999) the western viewer's philosophical transformation into the domain of visionary and participatory spec…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
Mona is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Mona people in central Cote d'Ivoire. This paper presents an introductory analysis of the clause, sentence, noun phrase structures, and verb morphology of Mona. The chapter on verb morphology looks closely at what has been labelled th…
Depuis sa légitimation au XIII siècle par Le Serment du Mandingue* jusqu'à nos jours, bien qu'on ait tenté à diverses reprises de le définir, le griot reste un personnage insaisissable. La parole étant son instrument exclusif de travail, il occupe une position stratégique au cœu…