Women's literacy is primarily correlated with poverty alleviation, empowerment and demographic change. Yet, many women throughout the developing world suffer from low levels of literacy and basic education. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a literature review of w…
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Ce mémoire présente une recherche qualitative de type exploratoire portant sur la collaboration parents-intervenants dans le contexte de l'action éducative en milieu ouvert (AEMO) auprès des enfants en danger au Sénégal. Le but de la recherche est d'identifier et de promouvoir u…
The use of Jatropha curcas as a source of oil for fueling water pumps holds promise for rural communities struggling to achieve water security in arid climates. The potential for use in developing communities as an affordable, sustainable fuel source has been highly recommended …
Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic research in Dakar, Senegal as well as an 18-month focused case study with Senegalese rappers in Los Angeles, this dissertation explores Senegalese hip hop production as the performative negotiation of postcolonial urban space. Engaging tradit…
In the past three decades, education systems throughout the world have experienced major transformations in relation to the overall quest of more relevance and effectiveness (Mundy, 2005; Lessard, 2000; Farrell, 1997). These developments took, among other forms, a trend towards …
The first thing considered in discourse that is focused upon the notion of publishing is paper and that which is utilized to create words upon it, ink. Secondly, the book comes to mind. This research project illuminates the origins of publishing in Sénégal from a socio-cultural …
In this thesis I seek to determine whether or not two African writers who experienced different colonial traditions but share a common ideological perspective portray independence differently in their literary works. To reach this goal, I make a comparative study of selected pos…
L'analyse des processus d'industrialisation est une discipline qu'on peut situer à la jonction de l'économie du développement et de la théorie du commerce international.Dans un cas,une controverse oppose encore les tenants de la stratégie dite d'orientation vers les marchés exté…
Pepper veinal mottle virus (PVMV) is a potyvirus that causes great losses in yield and quality on Capsicum spp. in Senegal and many other countries. We have characterized the virus, identified sources of resistance to it, and studied the inheritance of resistance. Response to vi…
The work presented in the thesis describes the bioaccumulation of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the food chain in West African region. The first part of the work consists in a general introduction (chapters I and II), while the second part deals with the development and va…
This dissertation examines disputing and dispute resolution primarily among married couples in the small city of Saint-Louis, in the northwest comer of Senegal, West Africa. The goal of this project is two-fold: first, to locate “couples disputing” in the context of the culture …
The publication of the manifesto Eloge de la Creolite in 1989 riveted our attention back to Francophone Caribbean literature and to issues of race, culture and identity which Francophone intellectuals have been grappling with since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is…
Marriage in West Africa is almost universal; polygyny, a form of union where a man is married to more than one wife, is widely practiced in Senegal and Mali. Age at first marriage is very early for girls and divorced or widowed women quickly remarry. The first chapter is a study…
This dissertation addresses ways in which the world cultural context makes genocide a more probable policy choice for certain regimes. The overwhelming majority of genocide research has examined only one or two cases. There have been few attempts to make comparisons across cases…
Education has been considered an important factor in the establishment and consolidation of democratic forms of government, and many researchers have attempted to document the impact of formal education on democratization and democratic consolidation. However, little attention h…
This is a study about community, politics, creativity and the spaces in which they meet in an increasingly globalized West African city. As a point of departure, I take a sociohistorical approach to cultural policy in Dakar, Senegal, where art and cultural exhibitions have promo…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
The education of young girls in Senegal is affected by low admission and completion rates. This study unveils some of the socio-economic factors relating to the schooling of females in rural Muslim areas; it focuses on Fouta Toro, Senegal. Despite certain measures which aimed at…