The HIV/AIDS disease in Senegal is characterized by a stable national prevalence rate around 1% since 1990, its concentration among vulnerable sub-groups and in certain geographic areas, and its essentially heterosexual mode of transmission. However, explanatory studies of risky…
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This paper aims to understand how the significant out-migration of men from small-town Senegal influences the marriage process and resulting conjugal life, specifically in reference to those left-behind. To address this objective, a case study approach is utilized focusing on th…
This dissertation engages questions about the intersection of the global agenda to help poor countries progress with those countries' own efforts to improve their citizens' wellbeing. Specifically, I integrate statistical modeling techniques with fieldwork and original data on n…
In my doctoral dissertation, I discuss and explore notions of the literary and literary form in postcolonial studies. Beginning with a focus on recent expressions of unease about the theoretical paradigms through which the postcolonial perspective responds to literary texts, I d…
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
So long a letter of Mariama Bâ, which received, in 1980, the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, describes the life of the Wolof African woman facing a society ruled by male domination. This phallocracy is illustrated, in everyday life, by male dialogue and various …
This study focuses on the socio-historical analysis of a model of sport organization: the basket-ball federation from Senegal (FSBB). The strategic model of Crozier and Friedberg (1977) has been chosen to investigate the evolution of this organism from 1960 to the year 2000. A l…
Anemia of pregnancy remains highly prevalent in Senegal despite the national iron/folic acid (IFA) supplementation program, which consists of providing prescriptions to purchase IFA to women during prenatal visits. The purpose of this study was to provide a framework for recomme…
Cette recherche se déroule dans deux villages sénégalais en périphérie de Dakar, N'Gor et Yoff, auprès de représentants de l'ethnie Lébou—des mères et des enfants. Elle permet d'identifier des savoirs acquis par l'enfant Lébou de six ans, durant son enfance, au sein de sa sociét…
The maturation of 'third wave' democracies across the globe provokes new salient questions about how the characteristics of formal democratic institutions, such as political party systems, relate to critical outcomes in political economy, democratic endurance and peace studies. …
A modest historic province on the Atlantic coast of west-central Senegal, the Siin is portrayed in oral traditions and written documents as a vibrant cultural frontier, which oscillated between centralized and more dispersed forms of socio-political organization over the past 15…
(At) Play in the Postcolony confronts Senegal's current labor crisis through a sustained historical and ethnographic study of a government who claims the recent success of the national soccer team as evidence of its own efficacy (despite being famously unsuccessful at resolving …
From its beginnings in the 1920s, literature in French from Africa has been set against a backdrop of struggle and indelibly marked by conflict. Indeed, over the course of these last 80 years, whether striving for the creation of new independent nations or participating in natio…
Many critics consider Mariama Bâ as a feminist writer, but the reader of her two novels might wonder what characterizes her work as such. Therefore, the aim of each chapter, in order of appearance, is to analyze first the genres, then the elements of African tradition and Wester…
An examination of the themes that dominate the fictional works of two African women writers, Mariama Bâ and Calixthe Beyala, reveals that these women are using both their personal and cultural experiences to establish a framework for their fictional novels. As such, these novels…
This study is concerned with the artistic rewriting, in French and by writers and filmmakers of West African origins, of the massacre of Thiaroye (Senegal), the1944 mutiny of African soldiers severely repressed by the French army. The corpus is formed by the following works: a p…
Most theories designed to appraise literary works by Africans and people of African descent have acknowledged the major influence of orature, but the concept (or conceptualisation) of orature in these works, mainly by men, has been focused only on limited aspects of orature. Thi…
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…
I. This interdisciplinary study applies selected tropes of the letter and diary as types of personal writing to a study of the epistolary novel So Long a Letter. Bâ herself acknowledges and foregrounds both the letter and diary as features in the title and first paragraph of the…