This study investigated factors that affect parents' decisions to send their girls to school, in contrast to their boys, in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Though arguments for girls' education are compelling, more girls are still out of school in most developing countr…
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This dissertation examines the relationship between ethnicity and fertility in West Africa based on recent data from national demographic surveys and ethnographic information from the region. Although the total fertility rate differs little across ethnic groups in West Africa, t…
This study examined factors and processes contributing to militarization in The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone from the colonial period to 1985. It drew from open systems organizational change theory and the literature on the military to study the development of a natio…
The problems, policies, and prospects of urban transport have assumed added urgency due to the pressing need in Senegal and The Gambia to improve both its supply and standard. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of urban transportation services are major barriers to socioeconomi…
African population continues to increase each year with millions of girl children living in oppressive conditions, illiteracy, poverty, disease and ignorance. For The Gambia to succeed in her vision to revolutionize her economy and raise the standard of living by the year 2020, …
As women who are sub-fertile, infertile or whose children have died, kanyalengs play a special role at public gatherings and celebrations as performers in The Gambia. The collective activities of kanyalengs speak to the hardships that are associated with the inability to meet cu…
Cette thèse explore l'évolution parallèle entre la Louisiane et la Sénégambie sous la domination française en particulier. Le peuplement de la Louisiane durant cette période a été marqué par l'arrivée de nombreux esclaves noirs venant de la Sénégambie. Cette spécificité démograp…
This dissertation analyses the benefits and costs of currency unions, focusing on the proposed West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), which consists of The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The economic structure of the zone is characterized by low economic growth an…
Girls' education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co…
Bugarabu is a musical emblem of the West African Jola people, residents of the Senegambia region (the Gambia and Senegal). Musically and culturally, bugarabu is a complex, unusual tradition. The drumming is played by a single musician on a set of three or four drums of various p…
The research examines malaria etiology, prevention, and treatment in a village in The Gambia. It is argued that malaria associated beliefs and practices in the village manifest themselves in the context of global, national, and local processes. The primary global processes assoc…
A thesis that examines two major social changes experienced by European cities: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. It also discusses the link between both these social changes with a variety of theoretical approaches and in many descriptive contrib…