Anna Deutschmann untersucht die Bedeutung studentischer Mobilisierung und Organisation. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Erkenntnissen der Elitesoziologie und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bewegungsforschung bildet die Grundlage für die Analyse zweier empirischer Fallstudien. Die Fälle…
This research explores human response to climate change and asks how this interaction may have helped to form the large-scale prehistoric urbanism in the Timbuktu region. New understandings on the nature of prehistoric urbanism on the Niger Bend have been laid out by employing v…
This study examined the perspectives, experiences, and leadership of rural women from Lassa who were members of one grassroots organization, Yiriwaton. Further, the study sought to understand the impact this organization had on this group of women in terms of their empowerment a…
After three consecutive years of insufficient rainfall and a decade of higher temperatures, West Africa is facing high urbanization rates due to lack of food and water, the result from the extreme climate. The Tamasheq, a nomadic tribe that spreads through the Saharan countries …
My dissertation explores the changing status of objects and architecture in Mali through an examination of three case studies: the traditional sculpture of the Bamana Jo society, the Musée National du Mali, and the historic site of Hamdallaye, the 19th century capital of the Isl…
This dissertation examines the socio-cultural and historical contours of musical expression and identity formation in postcolonial Bamako, Mali, a sprawling West African metropolis on the upper Niger River. Specifically, this work engages with a particular community of urban art…
This thesis reassesses the Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Trade primarily via archaeological data from the northern Sahel of West Africa. Specifically, it focuses on the trading entrepots which developed on the southern fringes of the Sahara during the Early Islamic period. This re…
This research examines the rise of African rice farming and the economic use of plants at the Dia archaeological mound complex, in the upper Middle Niger Delta (MND), during the Late Stone Age to Iron Age transition. Although the Middle Niger floodplain has long been considered …
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…
Extensive efforts have been made to find operational metrics of food security and its geographical variation in the West African Sahel since the catastrophic famines of the 1970s and 1980s. Food insecurity has been estimated using many different types of data, including satellit…
The purpose of this study was to develop a model that can allocate water between users of different areas in a large-scale irrigation project. The objective function of such a model consists of maximizing the net benefit of the project, subject to a number of constraints dependi…
This dissertation examines the processes of selecting, training, and mentoring managers, also known as "pilots," and considered as change agents in the development of community telecentres in Mali. These processes are analyzed according to their positive and negative outcomes re…
This dissertation examines the spiritual economy in Nioro du Sahel, an important Islamic religious center in the West African state of Mali, tracing the development of the plurality of Islamic discourses and practices as well as their inscription in broader social, political and…
This dissertation focuses on the economics of infrastructure development and public finance. The dissertation is composed of three papers: The first paper analyzes the optimal solutions for supplying electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant energy …
SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) is the leading inherited cause of infant mortality, with an estimated incidence of one in 6,000 to 10,000 live births and a carrier frequency of 1/30 to 1/50 in populations of European and Asian ancestry. SMA has been thought of as a pan-ethnic dise…
Meningococcal meningitis outbreaks caused by Neisseria meningitidis occur annually in the African meningitis belt, a region stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia. Asymptomatic pharyngeal colonization by meningococci, known as carriage, is common compared to invasive disease and th…
Given its importance as an urban staple and growing importance in the consumption basket of rural people, rice has become a key part of Mali's food strategy. Despite considerable increases in production since the 1990s, Mali still relies on imports for about a quarter of its ric…
This dissertation examines the dynamics and mediation of modernity in urban West African expressive culture, particularly as engaged by female vocal singing stars in Bamako, Mali of an urban popular music style called Wassolu. Since the 1990s this historically marginalized migra…
Ce memoire presente une lecture mythocritique de Da Monzon de Segou, epopee bambora, serie de recits traditionnels recueillis par Lilyan Kesteloot dans le Mali des annees 60. L'analyse, qui repose sur les elements theoriques proposes par Gilbert Durand et Pierre Brunel, tente de…