Since its emergence during the nationalist years of 1945-60, African fiction has persistently explored the dialectic between the promise of change and the pressures of compromise. The desire to re-imagine the nation--to constitute it anew, at any and all scales--is the lifeblood…
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Insofar as drought characterises the Sahel climate, irrigation has provided the only alternative in developing a viable agriculture. Faced with the ever increasing and varied needs for water consumption, development of a hydro-agricultural infrastructure is a relevant and approp…
Based on twelve months of fieldwork in Dakar, Senegal and funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, this thesis examines how in the context of contemporary globalization, increased volumes of luxury commodities shape the modern consciousness of individuals in a developing African ci…
Afin de determiner ce que des enseignants d'education physique du secondaire consideres comme efficaces dans leur milieu sont capables de faire dans un contexte de classes a effectifs plethoriques et limitees en materiel, quatre etudes portant sur la gestion du temps de presence…
Agroforestry parklands are agroforestry systems where trees are mixed with crops on the same unit of land. These tree-crop associations can have a positive, a negative or no effect on the soil or on the growth and yield of the plants. Foliar biomass production of the tree, Cordy…
This dissertation is an analysis of the nature of so-called ‘polygamy’ in Africa. By identifying the specific markers of it evident in selected African novels, and comparing these findings with the socio-historical record, this study attempts to map the attitudes, as expressed b…
This is a case study of rural-urban migration among the women of Affiniam-Boutem, a predominantly Catholic Diola village in the southwestern Lower Casamance region of Senegal, West Africa. It includes the results of research conducted in 1989 and 1990, employing several sources …
Ce memoire est une reflexion sur les roles qu'occupent les personnages feminins dans les societes decrites a l'interieur de deux romans de l'auteure senegalaise Aminata Sow Fall. La methodologie utilisee est la sociocritique selon l'approche de Claude Duchet. Selon ce theoricien…
This study examines relationships between energy use and the exploitation of woodland natural resources in the West African nation of Senegal. As in many other countries in the developing world, the majority of the population in Senegal depend on woodfuels, i.e., firewood and ch…
This dissertation has as its aim the demonstration that the search of identity in the Black African literature is an echo of the ideological positions taken in the literature. The thesis of the dissertation is supported by a comparative study of two literary works which are a re…
This dissertation explores the implications of political and economic reform for local scale governance, defined primarily in terms of conflict management. A decade of neoliberal reform in Africa has revealed a fundamental dilemma; regime threatening conflict is associated with,…
Cette these porte sur l'inscription du rapport langue/ecriture dans le texte litteraire. Elle examine la question des normes qui sous-tendent ce rapport dans une forme litteaire, le roman. Dans ce qu'il subsume de "normal" et de "normatif" du point de vue d'une langue, le concep…
For three days in September 1940 a large British naval squadron bombarded the French colonial city of Dakar, Senegal, with little success. The attack was preceded by an attempted peaceful landing by negotiators under a flag of truce. The fighting included a beach landing, exchan…
L'étude des isotopies animales qui se rapportent à la “Vénus noire” et à la “Vénus blanche” se fonde sur la théorie de l'isotopie, un concept que la sémantique structurale doit à Algirdas Greimas. Notre étude se veut avant tout une description sémantique des divers aspects des a…
Historical fertility studies and recent world demographic surveys have been kind to researchers who view contraceptive adoption as a diffusion mechanism. In the last decade, major theoretical breakthroughs have been achieved in helping us understand how such diffusion may occur;…
Although lexical borrowing has always been a central topic in linguistic research, its study has suffered from three major limitations: (1) It has failed to consider social variations in patterns of borrowings. (2) It has assumed a model of two languages in contact. (3) Research…
La recherche presentee concerne la satisfaction au travail des enseignants. Elle a deux objectifs. Il s'agit, d'une part, d'examiner le degre de satisfaction generale que les professeurs de l'enseignement moyen et secondaire du Senegal eprouveni a l'egard de leur condition ensei…
Professional development is usually pursued by providing adult professionals with opportunities to learn and update their knowledge and skills that will increase their productivity. Farmers representing 75% of the workforce in Senegal need to acquire and update farming skills th…
L'objectif de la présente étude était d'évaluer les effets du programme Accès des Femmes Sénégalaises Aux Services Financiers (AFSSEF) sur les conditions de vie des femmes bénéficiaires, au regard de leurs problèmes socio-économiques, de leur statut social et de leur pouvoir au …