The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ancestors in African novels and press for a reading of West African writers, which values their fictional creation as autonomous from their cultural origins. The main purpose of this …
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The literary works of the Guinean author, Laye Camara, are born out of the author's internal and mental landscape composed of layers of cultural sediment. They celebrate the glorious heritage which for over a thousand years adorned the region of the Upper Niger, (the vast ancien…
This thesis deals with the historical shaping of a Baga cultural identity. It begins by situating the Baga people, inhabitants of the mangroves of the Guinean coast, and by ethnographically analyzing the main components of their society and of their identity. An important aspect…
This study examined the factors influencing the emergence of an unequal social order in precolonial Fulbe communities in the Fuuta Jalon region of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, and its perpetuation despite various political, economic, and social reforms ushered in during …
This dissertation is a regional study of power and authority in a West African state, Kankan-Baté, from its founding in the seventeenth century through the French colonial conquest and occupation of 1891 to 1920. Located on the banks of the Milo River in the present-day country …
The study of orality in Africa is a relatively recent phenomenon undertaken by African as well as Foreign folklore specialists with the view of studying different aspects of life in African cultures from the perspectives of history, anthropology, and sociology and above all, thr…
This study focuses on how children grew up in Africa during the European colonization as delineated in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Camara Laye's The Dark Child, Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child. Chapter I explains the colo…
David Mickelsen, in "The Bildungsroman in Africa: The case of Mission terminee" argues that this novel "enlarges our notion of the Bildungsroman" by combining "traditional, indigenous forms with inherited, European ones." This statement alone locates the Bildungsroman in Africa …
The last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep h…
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…
This dissertation proposes an explanation for how Islamic senses of divinity, prophets, and the afterlife influence perceptions of the legitimacy of various political and religious leaders and male heads of families in the rural northern part of the Fouta Djallon region of Guine…
The evidence that people have access to education is that they take part in educational programs (Sutton, 1995). Equality of access to schooling is measured by participation rates for both men and women. In most of the sub-Saharan African countries schools are open to all, howev…
This dissertation examines status identity and social change in the Futa Jallon highlands of Guinea through an exploration of "unorthodox" inter-status marriages between "lower status" men and Fulbe women. Situating these contemporary hypergamous unions in historical perspective…
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narr…
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narr…
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narr…