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…
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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…
(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…
One of the major cultural differences in Third World Cinema from Western Cinema is the collective consciousness of heritage, values, moral and family solidarity this passed from mothers to children. Western Cinema often portrays ungrateful, spoiled children who have been lauded …
Straight Outta Nigeria addresses the rising phenomena of video film emanating from Nigeria, better known as Nollywood . Nollywood is the third largest film market after Hollywood and the Hindu influenced Bollywood. Nollywood films have grown increasingly popular in the last deca…
The World Bank and other international institutions often promote market-based solutions for implementation of public services. This research examines the set-up, implementation, and results of public-private partnerships and outsourcing, using a World-Bank funded literacy proje…
This project is a critical and comparative investigation of Western and non-Western practices of body modification. Situated in the realm of feminist political theory, the project engages the literature and debates concerning embodiment, or the symbolic and concrete meanings of …
This study in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology examines how efforts to promote "traditional medicine" in postcolonial Senegal have opposed but ironically borrowed from Western biomedicine, redefining the role of the healer and the therapeutic process. In typical encount…
Muslim countries have experienced wide variation in levels of Islamist political mobilization in the contemporary period, both across geography and across time. Islamist political mobilization is manifest in multiple forms, including electoral mobilization in support of Islamist…