This dissertation looks at the relationship between agro-food markets, social networks and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economists have long recognized the importance of information for the efficient functioning of markets. Due to limited or costly information, excess price di…
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Why do Muslim-majority states adopt some policies to improve women's lives but reject others? Despite concerted local and international pressure on states to adopt policies promoting women's rights, not all policies are adopted. Existing explanations focus on the role of women's…
This dissertation takes an actor-oriented approach to examining translation, reformulation, and rejection of transnational gender and rights-based development interventions in rural, south-central Niger. These actions are contextualized in complex power relations and social hier…
This dissertation is a study of Islamic Hausa women in the West African Republics of Nigeria and Niger and the unique roles they played in shaping, even at times defining, modern Hausa culture. The study begins in the last decades of the nineteenth century, a point of time which…
The veiled, camel-caravanning Tuareg appear regularly in National Geographic specials and travel documentaries. Their mysterious image and colorful past lures people hoping to glimpse the wonders of the Sahara. However, Tuareg culture has not remained stagnate despite the images…
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, crucial processes of political and economic liberalizations transformed the political landscape in much of the post-colonial world. The reigning theory of modernization which was pegged in the era of political emancipation to nat…
This dissertation examines the appropriation of the Islamic sermon ( wa'z ) in contemporary Niger. It focuses on Niamey, the capital of Niger, and shows how in the last ten years young Muslims have carried out the calls to popularize the tradition of the prophet Muhammad (Sunna)…
The goal of this study is to explore specialized and popular cultural models of trachoma, and the interaction between the trachoma elimination program and its target audience in one trachoma hyper-endemic intervention community. Eighty four million people worldwide, mainly child…
Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adel…
Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adel…
"In Niger, urban centers have become ... areas of unemployment filled with young men trying ... to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations ... [The] fada [is] a space where men gather to escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking…