This work was motivated by two major facts: the African environment is at the heart of the continent's relationships with colonialism, neocolonialism and globalization; but there is not enough literary emphasis on this environmental centrality. This work contributes in bridging …
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In this dissertation, I combine population genetic and demographic history analyses of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosome genetic markers with spatially explicit modeling techniques to study the biogeographic mechanisms responsible for shaping patterns of genetic diversit…
Ecological niche theory states that a set of environmental conditions exists that a species relies upon in order to survive and reproduce. Collectively, these variables define a species' niche, which includes a species' dispersal abilities and its range. Ecological niche modelin…
This dissertation focuses on the works of two well-known African Francophone novelists, Ahmadou Kourouma from the Ivory Coast and Mongo Beti from Cameroon. The objective of this study is to look at the influences of African oral traditions and analyze the literary transposition …
In my dissertation I propose a stylistic analysis of literary representations of hybrid identities in four postcolonial Francophone novels written by female authors: Georgette! by the French-Algerian author Farida Belghoul, En attendant le bonheur by Guadeloupean author Maryse C…
This dissertation is about the transformation of an African pastoral system, involving the intertwined processes of intensification and individualization. The intensification of the pastoral system is a response to the disappearance of rangelands, and has led to a significant in…
Throughout history, Cameroon has been a site of refuge for people of different origins. The penetration of Islam as early as the eighth century and, later, both the trans-Saharan and the Atlantic slave trades created a vast movement of people inside the African continent. Coloni…
This study uses expatriation as an analytical framework for exploring the works of African women who have left their African homelands and have relocated to the West. These five authors, Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon, Ken Bugul from Senegal, Assia Djebar from Algeria, Buchi Emec…
Although the origins of the traditional Bildungsroman , or novel of development highlighting the personal formation of a male protagonist, have been pinpointed in late-eighteenth century German literary studies with Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795) cite…
Nous appuyant sur l'idée du récit littéraire comme discours qui «sait», nous explorons trois romans africains où l'importance du savoir et de sa dissémination est étudiée: Mission terminée, L'Aventure ambiguë et Sango Malo. Le thème prométhéen s'engage dans les romans dans lesqu…
The thesis is a comparative study of Bildungsromane--novels of growth and education that culminate with the young protagonist's awareness of a mature sense of self. The Bildungsromane selected for this dissertation are: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Summer by Edi…
This thesis is an investigation of the democratization process gaining momentum in sub-Saharan Africa. Following independence in the 1950's and 60's, many states were ruled by undemocratic military or single-party regimes; however, between 1989 and 1991, strikes and widespread p…
This dissertation examines the relationship between ethnicity and fertility in West Africa based on recent data from national demographic surveys and ethnographic information from the region. Although the total fertility rate differs little across ethnic groups in West Africa, t…
This dissertation examines the palace architecture of Adamaoua and North provinces of northern Cameroon. It is concerned largely with the palaces of the sub-emirates of the Sokoto Empire, founded immediately before and after the commencement of the jihad of Usumanu dan Fodio whi…
Nsibiri is a type of non-verbal communication and a form of writing that originated among the Ejagham people of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon in West Africa. This graphic writing system, which may be upwards of a thousand years old, consists of pictographs and i…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
This study provides insight into the cause(s) of a significant source of recurring conflict in one area of Nigeria-Cameroon relations—the undelineated nature of the southern and northern portions of the border between the two countries. The study analyzes two contending hypothet…
The study of the League of Nations Mandates System is not frequently explored in the historiography of international history and the history of imperialism. The framers of the League of Nations Covenant created it to supervise the governance of the German colonies and Ottoman te…
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 …