This thesis will explore the history and cultural heritage of the structures and sites along the West African coast, occupied by Europeans during the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It may appear overly ambitious to study the entire West African coast, but this will present a brief …
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My dissertation examines popular support for democratic institutions in Africa. Democratization on the African continent continues to capture the interest of scholars and policy maker alike, not only because of democracy's association with economic wellbeing, but also because of…
Dance companies burgeoned in West Africa following independence from the late 1950s through the 1960s, including the establishment of the Ghana Dance Ensemble (GDE), Le Ballet National du Senegal, and Les Ballets Africains of Guinea. These companies, among others, played major r…
This dissertation utilizes a phenomenological approach to explore indigenous grammars of knowing constituting the spiritual epistemologies of the Yorùbá of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana. These grammars of knowing are treated as major theoretical resources that can greatly inform…
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa—undermining democratization efforts, initiating lasting cycles of intra-military violence, and even descending into civil war. Since decolonization, over 200 coup attempts have been made across the co…
Bitter Sea is the story of Masha, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants whose path to the U.S. was anything but direct (including stops in the USSR as well as pre- and post-independence West Africa). Her questions about diaspora, connection, and home, are challenged and enriched b…
This dissertation examines the recent influx of Pentecostal-charismatic churches into the Northern Region of Ghana, a rural, underdeveloped region whose predominantly Muslim population has increasingly become the target of evangelistic efforts undertaken by Christians from the s…
The EU's relationship with Africa is defined by power asymmetry, commonly characterised by a distribution of resources and capabilities across issue areas that almost always favour those at the top. Although asymmetry constrains weaker parties in identifying their preferences an…
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have been lauded as a primary modality for stimulating growth and for effecting positive social changes in developing economies such as Ghana. The problem is that FDI activity in economies such as Ghana has not developed into sustained and broad …
Equal access to educational opportunities is pivotal for the development of a state and the society it governs. Inequality in all areas of society worsens when a minority group is not given equal access to educational opportunities. This study focuses specifically on the educati…
The Edible Complex: Postcolonial Narrative and the Politics of Eating analyzes literary texts from Ghana, India, Pakistan, and South Africa to argue that recurring scenes of eating across a wide body of postcolonial literature function as a fierce and specifically corporeal crit…
After the Cold War and fall of Communism in the East bloc, a dramatic transformation took place in world geopolitics known as the third wave of democratization. From the 1970s to the 1990s, third wave democracies became a foil to military dictatorships and Marxist-style juntas t…
The maturation of 'third wave' democracies across the globe provokes new salient questions about how the characteristics of formal democratic institutions, such as political party systems, relate to critical outcomes in political economy, democratic endurance and peace studies. …
C.L.R. James (1901-1989), native of Trinidad, is perhaps the most libertarian revolutionary thinker of both the Pan-African and international labor movements in the twentieth century. Best known as the author of The Black Jacobins (1938), the classic account of Toussaint L'Ouver…
Most theories designed to appraise literary works by Africans and people of African descent have acknowledged the major influence of orature, but the concept (or conceptualisation) of orature in these works, mainly by men, has been focused only on limited aspects of orature. Thi…
The semi-arid Sub-Saharan region of Africa is in a state of permanent instability at a variety of spatio-temporal momentum. Efforts at sustaining and managing this fragile but all-important ecosystem and its processes require collecting, storing and analyzing multispatial and te…
Early adolescence is when many physical, biological and psychological changes occur. Among the many transition events going on at this time is the move from elementary to middle, junior high and high school. It is at this critical time that adolescents begin to question their id…
What kinds of power-resources do third party interveners employ to influence adversarial parties' behavior in the course of mediation? What factors and circumstances shape the effective use of such resources? This study attempts to answer these and allied questions by examining …
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…