This thesis presents the research done within the study of lateritics gravel materials used in construction of roads (case of gravel roads in sahel countries). The main objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the physical and mechanical caracteristics…
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This dissertation focuses on reactions to the French canon in four Francophone novels. The study examines the use of allusions to, quotations from, and parallels with French canonical works in an effort to determine how these canonical works are mobilized in the creation of a ne…
This research explores the spatial patterning of archaeological surface features at the Jenné-jeno Settlement Complex to gain a better understanding of the settlement organization represented by the nucleated settlement clusters. This involved an intensive surface survey recordi…
This dissertation analyzes why political power in Diamou, a small town in Western Mali, is unable to support local development. A historical description of successive configurations of political power, based on oral history research in the area, shows that local power is always …
Guided by Principles and Parameters Theory this thesis provides a grammatical description of Songhai, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Mali, Niger, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The variety of the language considered is that spoken in Gao in northeastern Mali. Phonological, morpholo…
This dissertation examines the legal institutions established under French colonial rule in the town of Kayes in the upper Senegal River valley (present-day Mali), between 1880 and 1913. It traces out the process by which these institutions were established and changed over time…
African literature written in French in the 1970s and 1980s is charged with recurring instances of graphic violence: some have argued that the excess of motifs pertaining to violence is detrimental to the narrative's credibility. In my work, I propose to explore the extent of th…
Historical fertility studies and recent world demographic surveys have been kind to researchers who view contraceptive adoption as a diffusion mechanism. In the last decade, major theoretical breakthroughs have been achieved in helping us understand how such diffusion may occur;…
Postmodernism and postcolonialism are both offsprings of modernity. To be postmodern does not mean to totally obliterate modernity. In postmodernity, however, the illusions of progress, order, universalism, hegemony, are dissipated. Reason, the very foundation on which modernity…
This study borrows theoretical perspectives applied in studies of migrant fertility--related to migrant selectivity, life disruption, and urban adaptation--to examine urban migration-child mortality interrelationships in three West African countries--Ghana, Mali and Senegal. The…
The purpose of this dissertation is to untangle the meaning and practice of duawu in Mali, first through my case study among Bozo women and then through enlarging the sample to include other language groups. I show how they are similar or different from biblical teaching and the…
The Supyire language of southern Mali is a member of the Senufo group of the Gur family of Niger-Congo. Previous studies on the language have been limited to isolated aspects of the grammar. This description, based on the Kampwo dialect spoken to the west of Sikasso, aims at a c…
My work in Comparative Literary Studies and French explores the link between the Mande oral tradition and its literature to reveal the presence and absence of the griots' words and their portrayal in the novel. Authors Amadou Hampaté Bâ (L'Étrange Destin de Wangrin ); Massa Maka…
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have similar colonial histories, population sizes and standards of living, yet they have very different experiences with democratization since transitioning from authoritarianism in the early 1990s. Data from various sources show that Mali has establ…
This dissertation clarifies ethnoarchaeology's role in post-positivist epistemology through both a critical re-examination of ethnoarchaeology's position within archaeology and a study of household vessel exchange and consumption in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali. I argue that e…
The three settlement mounds of Dia, located at the western edge of the Inland Niger Delta of Mali, are known from oral and written sources to represent one of the oldest urban sites in the region, older even than the much better known cities of Djenne and Timbuktu. Archaeologica…
This dissertation examines the first generation of Sahélien filmmakers, their films, and the broader Sahélien film industry as mechanisms of change in the Sahel—in particular in Senegal, Mali, and Niger—from the time of independence to circa 1980. This dissertation considers the…
This dissertation focuses on forms of migration and the ways in which the movement of people drove social and cultural changes at the village level in the French colonial district of Buguni (southern Mali). It covers different mobile social groups--including migrant workers, fre…
In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conv…