Western education in Nigeria, initiated by the British during its early occupation of the country in the 19th century, was shaped to suit the purposes of an occupying colonial power. With the coming of Nigerian independence the need to reconsider its place within the new framewo…
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This thesis aims to investigate how the theories of Frantz Fanon can be used to better understand contemporary Islamic militancy. Fanon is arguably one of the most important thinkers in the 20th century, particularly because of his influential ideas regarding colonialism. Recent…
This dissertation explores the spatial construction of modern Yemen, based on a comparison between colonial indirect rule in the south and the rule of the Zaydi Imamate in the north in the period between 1839 and 1934. Drawing on archival research in Britain and Yemen, this stud…
The purpose of the study is to investigate the historical and cultural constraints and current policies that have shaped the growth of western-style education for women in Cameroon and, in particular, the South West Province (SWP). This study focuses on women's education in the …
This dissertation directly engages issues of autonomy and agency in relation to African women, given that the stereotypical picture of these women in development literature and popular imagination worldwide is that they lack these attributes. The misrepresentation of African wom…
The starting point of the present dissertation is the study of the historical formation of Southern Africa as an integrated region of the modern world-economy. This is considered through the analysis of the main forms of successive, unequal relationship between the core and the …
This study examines the impact of transformations in Atlantic commerce on Africans living in southern Sierra Leone between 1790 and 1861. Extant studies of 19th century Africa have outlined a linear progression from the suppression of the slave trade to the rise of "legitimate c…
This dissertation examines why healing among the Yoruba people remained a successful popular institution in the colonial period between 1922 and 1955. The factors that allowed the Yoruba healing system to flourish were diverse. The Yoruba’s indigenous and colonial political stru…
This dissertation examines how rural public health became politically vital at key moments of national transition from the time of the Netherlands Indies colony in the 1930s to the present post-Suharto moment in Indonesia, bringing about complex changes in local forms of knowled…
This book-length study is about the very nature of a forgotten conflict, the Persian Gulf War, and how it drastically reconfigured and returned America back to its earlier forms of intervention, namely in the form of Colonialism, Inc. Certainly, the trauma and national memory of…
This study examines Tocqueville's account of national particularity, and of the nation as a political association. I aim to show that Tocqueville's frequent and multifaceted references to the nation coalesce into a systematic conception of nationhood that goes to the heart of hi…
Because of their relevance to the modern world, the topics of ethnicity, cultural performance, and civic affiliation are central issues of the current scholarship on the ancient Near East. My dissertation therefore analyzes the formation of Greek civic performances among Syrians…
This dissertation explores the ways in which France's position as an imperial power shaped French pronatalism, a political movement organized to address widespread anxieties about the nation's declining birthrate during the Third Republic (1870-1940). Though historians have conv…
The Adoption of the Maqāṣid al-Sharī`ah, (Purposive Objective of the Law) a principle orientated approach to Islamic law, is increasing being presented as a panacea to relieve the tension arising from the intersection of classic Islamic law, derived in a historical context of cl…
This article seeks to account for the different relationships between the central government and Berber populations in Morocco and Algeria—The first case being largely integrative and the other frequently conflictual. Through a comparative historical analysis, it highlights the …
This dissertation examines late 19th- and early 20th-century Arabic literary texts on China to challenge the Eurocentric scholarly assumption that writers in the Nahda period drew their models of modernity solely from Europe. Surviving only in fragmented and unexplored archives,…
My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes--the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies--and Levantines--white Italian immigrant merchants and …
My dissertation is a project that assesses recent critical claims that The Tempest is set in the New World. By examining the most likely literal and discursive settings for the play, I find that the characters, atmosphere, tone, and in fact the entire dramatic effect of the play…
This dissertation examines the complex process of identity formation in the town of Kétu located in southeastern Bénin Republic. Regional social and political instability during the nineteenth century pulled Kétu into a variety of regional identities defined by new ethnic, relig…