In the Yoruba-speaking Shabe region which spans the border of the Republic of Benin and Nigeria, the changing historical constraints and political economy of the borderland intersect with constructions of identity and ideologies of gender in complex ways. Informal trade across t…
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Le présent mémoire a pour but d'illustrer à partir de données bibliographiques couvrant la période 1940–1996 la place faite aux femmes dans la littérature sur le secteur halieutique en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il vise à démontrer, sur une base comparative, comment la variable ethniqu…
This dissertation is focused on the contribution of literature in the establishment of democracy in four French-speaking countries of the Golf of Guinea between 1988 and 1998. They are Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Togo. In 1991, a democratization movement that started in Ben…
The current context of escalating antisocial behaviors in Bénin, in general, and in its major cities, in particular, demands that urban evangelical churches be freed from whatever is holding them from offering an appropriate response to the situation. Biblical exploration of eig…
Generating economic growth for the millions who live in poverty in developing countries is one of the key world problems of our time. In many cases, economic growth is driven by technological improvements. One of the technologies which could generate economic growth in Africa is…
Using a combination of oral traditions and written sources, this work reconstructs the history of Owo, a frontier Yoruba kingdom in southwestern Nigeria, from about the 12th century to the 20th century. One of a number of kingdoms springing up in this forest country in the 11th …
The maturation of 'third wave' democracies across the globe provokes new salient questions about how the characteristics of formal democratic institutions, such as political party systems, relate to critical outcomes in political economy, democratic endurance and peace studies. …
In an increasingly interconnected world, developing countries need to be active participants in the information society. Contact between different cultures is on the rise; cultural resources have become consumer resources; and cultural minorities across the globe who have integr…
This thesis will explore the history and cultural heritage of the structures and sites along the West African coast, occupied by Europeans during the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It may appear overly ambitious to study the entire West African coast, but this will present a brief …
This thesis is a critical analysis of, The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, commonly referred to as the Savoy-Sarr report. The report addresses the call for the return of the cultural heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa from France, but incorp…