Senegal

Is the writer's role simply to create art for art's sake or do writers have to utilize their talents for the good of society. Ngugi wa Thiongo of Kenya and Ousmane Sembene of Senegal, like many other African writers, are of the opinion that in a society such as the one in which …

In sub-Saharan Africa, demographers have mostly studied marriage as a direct determinant of reproductive behaviours. However, being a key vector of social reproduction, research on marriage is also of value because of its multiple implications on demographic behaviours, whether …

This dissertation serves two distinct purposes. First, it fills a void in the study of the Jola people of southwestern Senegal by providing the first comprehensive ethnomedical analysis of a Jola subgroup. Second, it examines the full range of circumstances that render young Jol…

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…

Sub-Saharan African women only began to publish novels in French in the mid-1970s. In my dissertation, I study the works of Senegalese authors Aminata Sow Fall and Mariama Ba, two of the most prominent writers of this first generation, as well as three works by the French writer…

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…

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…

L'etude de la survivance de l'art oral traditionnel dans le roman negro-africain d'expression francaise, cas de Karim d'Ousmane Soce et des Soleils des independances d'Ahmadou Kourouma, aborde en trois chapitres les differents aspects importants suggeres implicitement par la for…

Senegal, a Muslim majority and democratic country, has long coined itself as "le pays de la terànga" (Land of Hospitality). This dissertation explores the central importance of terànga –the Wolof word which encapsulates the generous and civic-minded qualities of individuals – to…

Karim is a Senegalese novel written in 1935 by Ousmane Soce. This novelist was a member of the small group of black students from the West Indies and Africa who studied in Paris in the early 1930's. These students, among whom were also Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, and Leon Dam…

“Deepening Democracy Galsen [slang for “Senegal” or “Senegalese”] Style: Y’en a Marre, HipHop and Politics in Senegal,” is an interdisciplinary ethnography examining music, politics, and activism among one of Africa’s foundational HipHop scenes. HipHop Studies in the U.S. and be…

This thesis addresses the topic of the movement of Negritude launched by Senghor and Cesaire, two French poets from Senegal and from Martinique, who participated in the political struggles of the period 1930 to 1960. For Senghor, Negritude, the sum of the cultural values of the …

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 …

This dissertation reveals why Senegal has confronted difficulties in establishing and maintaining an articulated rural development strategy. Departing from a weak state model, this work develops the concept of symbiotic societal differential dynamism to explain how the modern Se…

This work investigates the categorial system of noun classification in Seereer-Siin, a West Atlantic (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Senegal, West Africa. Based on a original corpus of data collected by the author in Fatick, Senegal, the study is a description and analysis of t…

This study examines the liberal conception of civil society and its applicability to the context of Africa. Although it acknowledges the reality of civil society as a paradigmatic way of thinking about democracy and good governance, it questions the conception of civil society a…