My dissertation is based on oral history and archival research in Guinea Bissau and Senegal. My work contributes to the historical approaches to gender, modernity and development, especially in regards to research methodologies. My research approach allows women informants to br…
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This dissertation examines pre-colonial and colonial political upheaval and transformation in a West African region that today extends across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea. It demonstrates how a corridor of small, independent communities repeatedly resisted incu…
Development initiatives in Africa have proven largely ineffective. Neoliberal policies promoted by international aid agencies have done little to improve the livelihoods of civil society. For example, a push for cashew nut production and the opening of fishing grounds to foreign…