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…
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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…
Between the two world wars, French-run schools in West Africa experienced a change in structure, purpose and curriculum. Reversing a decades old trend of a liberal arts education that aimed to assimilate all Africans into French culture and society, state-sponsored schools inste…
L'objet de cette recherche doctorale porte sur la caractérisation de l'entrepreneuriat communautaire en contexte de précarité ainsi que sur l'analyse de son potentiel innovateur et alternatif. Le problème de recherche provient du constat relatif à la disjonction entre le milieu …
The aim of this thesis is to study the World Bank's participatory development process in the 2007 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for the Republic of Senegal. I seek to shed light on the question of whether or not the Bank is willing to follow through its participatory commitm…
This study qualitatively explores recent developments in immigration between Francophone Africa and France through an analysis of two recent immigration novels: Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique and Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge. A crisis of identity as well as tensio…
In this dissertation, I investigate what it meant to be a young woman (aged eighteen to forty) in Dakar of the 20005 through the lens of women's tours (tur), rotating credit institutions (or tontines) that often also functioned as social dance parties. Tours in Dakar in the 2000…
This dissertation examines the complex and contradictory expectations, regulations, and logics that govern neoliberal development in Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, I draw transnational migration and foreign investment into the same ethnographic framework to consider how urba…
Children (n = 359) in three regions of Senegal received 30 mg iron + 200 ug folic acid (Fe30 + FA), 60 mg iron + 400 ug folic acid (Fe60 + FA), multiple micronutrients (including 30 mg iron, 200 ug folic acid) (MMN), or a placebo weekly for 17–20 weeks in school. Prevalence of m…
Developing countries like Senegal are faced with high illiteracy rates. In its efforts to improve literacy, the Senegalese government has developed nationwide adult literacy programs, and has adopted a strategy commonly known as "faire-faire", based on a partnership between the …
This dissertation is a vertical case study of a higher education reform process that took place at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Senegal from 1992 to 2003. The reform process called the CNES (Concertation Nationale sur l'enseignement supérieur/National Consultation f…
Nous appuyant sur l'idée du récit littéraire comme discours qui «sait», nous explorons trois romans africains où l'importance du savoir et de sa dissémination est étudiée: Mission terminée, L'Aventure ambiguë et Sango Malo. Le thème prométhéen s'engage dans les romans dans lesqu…
This dissertation examines the relationship between ethnicity and fertility in West Africa based on recent data from national demographic surveys and ethnographic information from the region. Although the total fertility rate differs little across ethnic groups in West Africa, t…
Even today, it is extremely rare to come across any works of literary critique that treat, beyond a superficial mention, the writings of the Senegalese writer Ousmane Socé Diop. Why is this? His two novels, his collection of short stories and legends, along with his poetry, are …
This dissertation studies issues related to the problem of large class size in French-Speaking West Africa with a closer look at the specific cases of the Republics of Togo and Senegal. Statistical reports on school enrollment data from elementary and secondary schools have help…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
This dissertation is comprised of three qualitative studies that look at a number of urban processes in M'Bour, Senegal through three separate theoretical lenses. Urban agriculture (UA) serves as the entry point to, and framework for, the inquiry. The diverse approaches are held…
Irregular migration has become a politically controversial issue in most immigrant-receiving countries. Academic research has shown that states and their immigration policies actively create the legal conditions for the existence and perpetuation of irregular migration. Much of …
Since Senegal's independence, scholars have critically examined each president on how his policies shaped contemporary Senegalese art and its promotion at home and abroad. The presidential patronage of the arts garners an international authority based on cultural supremacy. This…