Post independent African society is confronted with a wide variety of challenges, the most crucial of which include political struggles, economic crisis, growing poverty, cultural disintegration, societal contradictions, and responses to modernization and globalization. Individu…
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Inspired by Graham Allison's explanations of the Cuban missile crisis, this dissertation focuses on the October 1996–May 1997 civil war in Zaire and seeks to illuminate the complex puzzles of the changes in the behavior of state and non-state actors in the sub-region in the post…
The dissertation investigates the relationship between Francophone African literature and film and the self-representations of four prominent artists of the region. While scholars have previously examined interviews, essays, and letters for their biographical value, my dissertat…
African literature written in French in the 1970s and 1980s is charged with recurring instances of graphic violence: some have argued that the excess of motifs pertaining to violence is detrimental to the narrative's credibility. In my work, I propose to explore the extent of th…
This thesis seeks to examine Canadian foreign policy and the UN collective security and peacekeeping operations between 1950 and 1964. The focus of the research is to ascertain whether Canadian policy-makers were capable of exercising the Canadian involvement in Korea, Suez and …
For reasons of Cold War politics, and subsequently for what would become known as “soft power,” Canada has always been an enthusiastic player in the peacekeeping arena. Within these predominantly United Nations missions, supporting peacekeepers through intelligence operations ha…
Postmodernism and postcolonialism are both offsprings of modernity. To be postmodern does not mean to totally obliterate modernity. In postmodernity, however, the illusions of progress, order, universalism, hegemony, are dissipated. Reason, the very foundation on which modernity…
A conceptual framework for reconstructing paleohabitats of fossil species is developed here. Three approaches are considered, single-line, additive and multiplicative, and the presentation of an entirely new multiplicative approach is the subject of this thesis. This is based on…
Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual…
Genocide is conventionally seen through the mutually exclusive characterisations of perpetrators and victims. Attempts to understand this phenomenon in the 1990s postcolonial African Great Lakes region suffer from this same limitation. This dissertation critiques the limiting bi…
This dissertation examined the use of anti-realist aesthetics in the representation of history in postcolonial fiction produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, South India and Africa. More specifically, it focused on how postcolonial writers engage the issue of history, outside…
From its beginnings in the 1920s, literature in French from Africa has been set against a backdrop of struggle and indelibly marked by conflict. Indeed, over the course of these last 80 years, whether striving for the creation of new independent nations or participating in natio…
This study qualitatively explores recent developments in immigration between Francophone Africa and France through an analysis of two recent immigration novels: Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique and Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge. A crisis of identity as well as tensio…
Dans la première partie (section création), je présente L'Aventure au pays des fenêtres, un ensemble de nouvelles de mode réaliste, se déroulant à notre époque, faisant appel à divers types de narrateurs et liées par une toile unificatrice qui est, me semble-t-il, l'âme humaine …
Contemporary conflicts often produce vast territories outside the control of the recognized political sovereign. Instead of sinking into anarchy, rebel organizations may establish forms of political and social order within these territories. While many rebel groups remain predat…