Girls' and women's access to education in Niger remains limited and their educational outcomes are low. This study explores recent education developments for women as it begins to move away from the traditional system, inherited from the age of colonization in various different …
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"Northern and central Nigeria have been engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and for a time, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram…
This study focuses on enhancing motivation for learning mathematics at the university Abdou Moumouni. It is situated in a dynamic development of educational activities to address the serious problem of motivation for learning science. More specifically, it is exploring whether v…
Market integration for agricultural products has been widely explored using different methodological approaches. While a substantial effort has been made towards improving the technical tools, the extent of the understanding of how markets work is still not satisfactory. The cur…
Climate change is projected to disproportionately affect arid and semi-arid regions of the world, including the African Sahel. Niger, a Sahelian country and one of the poorest countries in the world, is home to an estimated 1.5 million pastoralists, those whose livelihood is bas…
This research seeks to understand the phenomena of innovation and development participation among peasant farmers in Niger, a country that has earned last place on the most recent Human Development Index (187/187). Being fluent in Hausa, I collect qualitative data in the case st…
In African countries in general, particulary in Niger, the computer begins to find out its way at school. This pedagogical and integration process of the communication and the information technologies is highly dependent on human, pedagogical and technological parameters. To res…
Orality or Literature? That was the question that led to this dissertation. The central topic around which that project was generated is the epic stories sung by griots like Djéliba Badjé and Djado Sékou. Though this was just the tip of the iceberg, it became obvious from listen…
This is a dissertation about how Niamey, Niger is experienced in neighborhoods, through bodies, and around water. I examine the particular colonial and post-colonial historical processes that impacted development and distribution of Niamey's water infrastructure, and trace shift…
Art education and exposition of the colonial and immediate post-independence eras continue to influence how art in Niger is made, exchanged, and displayed. One form of contemporary Nigerien art that mostly clearly demonstrates this is weaving, and other relevant media include le…
Scope and Method of Study . The literature on "Dutch disease" emphasizes that an inflow of natural resource windfall in a country causes an appreciation of real exchange, thereby reducing the country's competitiveness. This phenomenon has triggered policy makers in countries exp…
At the inception of West African cinema the goal was to use the medium of film to correct the distortions left behind in the wake of colonial history. However, the problem with such a goal is that one soon finds out that there is really no history to correct in film. As Robert H…
Local ecological knowledge systems are dynamic expressions of perceiving and understanding the world, which have historically made and continue to make valuable contributions to ecology and conservation science. This dissertation examines the process and outcomes of integrating …
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.] production under subsistence farmer management on the sandy soils of southwestern Niger is faced with many challenges, including declining soil fertility, highly variable and scarce rainfall and poor resource base of the peasant farme…
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…
This study examined factors affecting the food systems and nutritional strategies of Hausa people living in contrasting ecological zones in Niger. The first research community is in a more northern pastoral region while the second community is in a savanna zone, which is ecologi…
In this thesis I present a brief grammar sketch of Fulfulde as spoken by the Wodaabe of Niger, giving special attention to the phonology of the language. One interesting aspect of Fulfulde morphophonology is the consonant gradation system which occurs in conjunction with the num…