This dissertation discussed the political movements which took place throughout Africa in the early 1990. Known diversely as the third liberation of Africa or the awakening of democracy, the movements started as students, political activists and opponents, members of the civil s…
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This dissertation focuses on the political implications of education in Senegal from 1884 to 1914, a period during which French colonial officials created significant numbers of new schools and reformed existing ones. It asks how the development of colonial schooling in Senegal …
This dissertation examines the representation of Africa in colonial and neocolonial novels and films and alternative representational approaches by postcolonial African novelists and filmmakers. The dissertation asserts that the "Dark Continent" image of Africa was established i…
A study of Beloved (1987), Douceurs du Bercail (1998) and David's Story (2001), novels written by Toni Morrison, Aminata Sow Fall and Zoë Wicomb respectively connects three women writers from North America, West Africa and South Africa. This dissertation will analyze how, as bla…
The aim of our research is to study the changing dynamics of poverty and solidarity in the context of economic crisis in the capital city of Dakar. It is based on qualitative data and a theoretical framework primarily founded on the emergent "sociology of the new African individ…
Piliostigma reticulatum and Guiera senegalensis are two native shrubs that coexist with row crops in parkland systems of the Sahel of Africa. Although permanently green all year around in soil depleted in nutrients and dry for a nine-month period, these shrubs have been largely …
For a number of years, there has been some concern about the status of English at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), Senegal, especially for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and technology. This study analyzed the needs of students in the…
Les TIC sont à l'avant garde de l'économie postindustrielle. Toutefois, elles risquent d'élargir l'écart entre les pays riches et les pays pauvres si ces derniers n'arrivent pas à s'insérer dans l'économie du savoir. Comme ce fut le cas pour les universités occidentales, les uni…
Educational development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has long been delayed due to weak capacities in the production and management of relevant knowledge. The lack of adequate and reliable education management information systems continues to impede the formulation and …
Cartographic sources tell us 18th century Gorée was a rural colonial outpost with few military structures and three distinct villages of African settlement: Gourmettes (free merchants), Habitants (free persons associated with Company headquarters), and captives. The last group a…
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…