This new fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Gabon brings up to date the political affairs of the country, since the accession to power of Ali Bongo, eldest son of Omar Bongo, the former president-for-life, who died in 2009 after the publication of the third edition. …
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Gabon contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and c…
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…
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…
Through an analysis of works by Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan female writers (Mariama Bâ, Ken Bugul, Ntyugwetondo Angèle Rawiri and Ama Ata Aidoo), I examine the various narrative strategies elaborated by African women authors to resist binary oppositions, and to advoca…
Despite 40 years of independence, Africa is still synonymous with failed development. This work's hypothesis is that dominance-dependence hindered the sustainable development of Africa. European powers, such as France and Britain, expanded their empire to Africa in order to gain…