This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut of the processes that have so greatly enriched, dignifi…
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As a filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène's ultimate goal was to re-educate and incite dialogue and action within the post-colonial African society. Referencing Sembène's films, Xala (1974), Guelwaar (1992) and Moolaadé (2004), this paper examines Sembène's efforts to re-educate and de-in…
Introduced in Senegal in the early 1830s by the French, prisons became a key element in the apparatus of colonial repression. By the mid-1910s, they spread throughout the colony and thirty-three prisons were built by the time of independence. Public security, health policies, ra…
Water availability is a critical limiting element in semi-arid ecosystem productivity and presents particular challenges in Sahelian countries such as Senegal. The landscapes are characterized by the presence of two common semi-arid shrubs (Piliostigma reticulatum and Guiera sen…
In this dissertation I examine the ways in which people living in Dakar, Senegal use, display, collect and encounter photographs and media derived images in the course of their daily activities. In particular, I suggest how this expressive behavior reflects and responds to both …
Critical review of the existing literature on African women writers clearly shows that nowhere is the question of writing as a cultural negotiation posed, discussed or much less addressed. This is a lacuna that this dissertation addresses for the first time by proposing a re-rea…
This study examines when, where and how meritocratic bureaucracies emerge in Africa. Meritocratic bureaucracies offer their employees rewarding career paths, performance incentives and adequate insulation from negative political interventions. They are a key component of develop…
Taalibe Baay, or Disciples of the Senegalese Shaykh `Ibrāhīm (Baay) Ñas, form a transnational network defined primarily by relations of religious apprenticeship and co-discipleship. Whereas several major Islamic adherences in Senegal arose as quasi-political intermediaries betwe…
Why do the groups that fight secessionist wars frequently go back and forth between violence and nonviolence? While empirical evidence from the existing literature shows that most secessionist conflicts are violent, the literature does not address why the level of violence withi…
The last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep h…
By reevaluating the contributions of Galandou Diouf and his efficacy as a politician, this dissertation recasts Diouf as a major player in early twentieth-century Senegalese politics. Galandou Diouf's career has rested uneasily between Blaise Diagne and Lamine Guèye, documented …
The development of a country is based largely on the quality of its human resources, which depends in great part on the education and training of its youth, both female and male. However, the educational system in many African countries, and particularly in Senegal, is in a crit…
The influence of globalization in contemporary society is widespread, generating spaces governed by international market forces rather than by local or national institutions and allowing the transmission of information and images to global audiences. Such phenomena seem to promo…
Through a close textual analysis of characteristic but diverse forms of West African cultural production, including plays, novels, videos, and films, this dissertation examines ways that the contradictions of globalization are embedded in both the commodity of the automobile and…
This dissertation asserts that the movements of Wolof-speaking women in Senegal, also recognized as techniques of the body, serve very culturally specific purposes that are taught from generation to generation. These techniques sustain the woman's distinctive expressivity and ag…
Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical knowledge empire, has come to o…
Cette thèse explore l'évolution parallèle entre la Louisiane et la Sénégambie sous la domination française en particulier. Le peuplement de la Louisiane durant cette période a été marqué par l'arrivée de nombreux esclaves noirs venant de la Sénégambie. Cette spécificité démograp…
This dissertation demonstrates how Glissant's theory of Relation is imagined within the contemporary African novel. Particular attention has been paid to novels by Abdourahman A. Waberi and Fatou Diome which highlight themes of errantry, migration, identity and belonging. These …
This is an examination of the thematic and formal elements of Ken Bugul's first six books (1982-2005). Fyfe contextualizes this Senegalese female author's works as a literary response to alienation in the post-colonial time period. Drawing on the performance and Wolofophone elem…