The 1996 urban water sector reform in Senegal is not the sustainable development success claimed by its proponents. Privatization and cost-recovery management resulted in poor water and sanitation services unaffordable to many, increased access inequalities, and accelerated wate…
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This study explores and interrogates dominant representations of African university students by examining how students conceptualize and act upon their own agency. Using a qualitative case-study approach, the author examines how students actively confront the ideological and mat…
This dissertation comprises three chapters which cover two main topics. The first chapter provides a study on the quality of life of cities in Senegal, and the last two chapters analyze the effects of the adoption of value-added taxation on manufacturing firms in Ethiopia. Rapid…
Since the 1990s, women's community radio has been part of the media landscape of Africa countries. Set up and run by women, community radio is giving voice to women and empowering them. Drawing upon feminism and participatory communication, this research has used multiple method…
This study investigates language use, language acquisition, and identity construction among Senegalese immigrants in Paris and Rome. Whereas previous research in second language acquisition (SLA) has focused on the relationship between identity and language use in single sites, …
My dissertation analyzes the experiences of Africans who travel out of their home countries seeking a life of safety, peace, wealth and dignity. Different life circumstances and sets of aspirations lead them to Dakar, Senegal, where their journeys come to a halt. They don’t want…
This dissertation examines two distinct but interrelated processes of displacement experienced by the evictees of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, based on fieldwork (2004–2005) in the Tambacounda region of South-Eastern Senegal. While the first process concerns centralized mass …
La plupart des programmes et campagnes de prévention mis en œuvre depuis le début de la pandémie du SIDA en Afrique et dans le monde en général ont été conçus pour s'adresser principalement aux. personnes séronégatives ou du moins qui ignorent leur statut de sérologie VIH; ces d…
A profession basically includes two components: scientific skills and professional values, which are the guidelines of professionals' daily demeanor. The library profession is based on values like the preservation of humanity cultural heritage, a fair access to knowledge, intell…
Cette recherche vise à mieux comprendre le vécu social, ou la triple stigmatisation (femmes, handicap, VIH-sida) de femmes ayant des limitations fonctionnelles et porteuses du VIH/sida à Dakar, au Sénégal. Nous regardons d'abord le contexte général d'élaboration des politiques s…
This thesis explores the effects of: 1) traditional values, 2) parental involvement, and 3) poverty on student performance. Instead of regarding tradition and poverty as obstacles, this paper argues that they can play a positive role in improving the educational quality. This th…
Dans ce travail, nous avons mis en lumière la relation existant entre l'effort de promotion territoriale et l'attractivité du territoire au sein des agglomérations de Lyon (France), de Mbour (Sénégal) et de Saguenay (Québec) au cours de la période de 1977-1979 à 2007-2009. Nous …
This study examines mangrove dependencies and participation in mangrove rehabilitation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal. Anthropogenic pressures have been a primary contributor towards mangrove degradation. This degradation could negatively impact Sine-Saloum Delta communities …
Wind erosion is an environmental issue among the most critical one in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the planet. Soil erosion accelerated by the wind action causes damages both locally and regionally. Locally, wind erosion decreases the soil nutrients by the mobili…
Very little research focus has been placed on roselle hibiscus leaves even though they have been widely consumed by diverse groups of ethnic population. This research was conducted to (i) evaluate the effects of fertilizer treatments on the nutrient elements of the Senegal-origi…
Migration to the industrialized world, in particular, to the countries of France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, has been part and parcel of the Senegalese narrative dating back to the French colonial period. While migration has facilitated transnational trade between Sene…
This dissertation examines pre-colonial and colonial political upheaval and transformation in a West African region that today extends across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea. It demonstrates how a corridor of small, independent communities repeatedly resisted incu…
What explains the emergence and endurance of what Alfred Stepan has termed the “twin tolerations” between religion and democracy? This question is of broad comparative importance, from religiously vibrant democracies in Asia and Latin America to newly plural societies in Western…
This dissertation explores the morphophonology of Joola Eegimaa (Eegimaa hereafter), an endangered West Atlantic language spoken in the southern region of Senegal. Previous researches on this language focus on the morphosyntax (Bassene 2007 and Tendeng 2007) and the semantics, s…