The major purpose of this study is to determine whether feminism exists in Senegal, according to the perceptions and definitions of thirty Senegalese women. Findings reflect that these women perceive themselves as independent, and define feminism as a vision of equality with reg…
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This dissertation is a study of the mixed race population who inhabited the port city of Saint Louis, Sénégal. It examines the society and identity that this group created and addresses the strategies they developed to respond to French rule between 1870 and 1920. Located at the…
This dissertation provides a literary response to the appropriation of Third-World women's texts by Western feminist discourses. I intend to question the constructed difference between literature and theory. I use the term African woman/women as a construct not of identity but o…
The research project that produced this dissertation is motivated by two concerns, one analytical, the other methodological. Methodologically, I conclude that machine-coded event data produce valid representations of political phenomena in Africa. Additional information for this…
We conducted a cross-sectional screening study of HIV-1 and HIV-2, human papillomavirus (HPV), and cervical intraepithelial lesions (SIL) in previously unscreened women in an outpatient infectious disease clinic in Dakar, Senegal. In addition, we conducted a prospective study of…
This dissertation examines the early publication history of Les Temps Modernes (Paris, 1945), Presence Africaine (Paris-Dakar, 1947), and Origenes (Havana, 1944). By surveying the history of each journal and then focusing on specific moments in their respective histories, I docu…
L'objectif principal de cette recherche exploratoire est de mieux saisir les représentations sociales des rapports sociaux de sexe que vivent trois sociétés soient le Sénégal, le Mexique et le Québec, à travers les revendications pour atteindre l'égalité. La recherche se situe s…
Indigenous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly important to sustainable development efforts as evidenced by upward trends in funding amounts and participation levels, acting as distribution channels for development assistance. However, in-depth knowled…
Les romancieres senegalaises Nafissatou Niang Diallo, Mariama Ba et Aminata Sow Fall ont suscite des epithetes qui vont de feministe a antifeministe pour caracteriser leur production litteraire. Notre propos est de demontrer qu'une telle lecture est reductrice car il s'agit la d…
This study examines the nature and dynamics of land tenure in two communities of rural Senegal. Tenure change is critical to debates about economic development in Africa. Some blame customary tenure's communal character and inflexibility for discouraging agricultural investment …
The Government of Senegal is attempting to liberalize the groundnut market. In the past, this market was highly regulated with government-set producer prices, groundnut oil processing mills owned by parastatals, and requirements that all groundnuts be sold to these quasi-governm…
Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal have conducted several efforts to develop the resources of the shared Senegal River basin. Because of poverty in the region, the development of the river basin's resources remains a major concern of authorities of the four countries, their po…
La troisième phase de la décentralisation au Sénégal s'est traduite par une large dévolution de pouvoir au profit des collectivités locales. En effet, en transférant neuf domaines de compétences qui étaient jusque là gérés par l'instance centrale de gouverne à des instances loca…
The mother-daughter dyad as it is explored in the narrative of three contemporary women writers, Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre, Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, is here reexamined in the light of the slow emergence of maternal speech fro…
Cette étude porte sur un conflit ethnorégional africain, le conflit casamançais au Sénégal. L'objectif de l'étude est double. Il s'agit en premier lieu de distinguer parmi les nombreuses explications au conflit celle qui est, à mon avis la plus juste, pour ensuite la compléter. …
This dissertation examines the morphology and syntax of Balanta (Ganja dialect) in light of recent developments in syntactic theory. The picture that emerges is a highly unified one, with clauses and noun phrases having similar structures, and verbal morphology reflecting the hi…
While the potential efficiency gains to be realized through water utility privatization have been extolled, the impacts of such programs on different categories of service users are not well understood or closely scrutinized in the literature. Along with efficiency, do privatiza…
The subject of this Ph.D. dissertation is the stochastic modeling of daily flows. The principal objective, which we have pursued throughout our work, is to perfect a daily flow simulation model capable of representing the way in which sahelian hydrographic networks function hydr…
Comment se fait-il que l'Afrique ait été incapable, jusqu'à présent, de se “développer”; c'est à dire d'arriver à une forte dynamisation de ses structures économiques? Par rapport à ces questions, trois grandes écoles de pensée s'opposent les unes contre les autres, parfois avec…