In 1966, just six years after gaining independence, Senegal made a bold international statement by hosting a pan-African arts festival of unprecedented proportions. The World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN) broke new ground by musically performing, rather than merely discussing,…
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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…
This dissertation examines the subject of modern art in Senegal over the course of four decades. Based on field research conducted in Dakar from June 1998 to June 1999, it focuses on the discourses and artistic production of three generations of artists beginning with those who …
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…
This dissertation examines the social history of garbage management in Dakar in the wake of structural adjustment as a lens into the changing landscape of citizenship in this important African democracy. Senegal's capital has been racked with a cycle of garbage crises which peri…
In this dissertation I examine the ways in which people living in Dakar, Senegal use, display, collect and encounter photographs and media derived images in the course of their daily activities. In particular, I suggest how this expressive behavior reflects and responds to both …
The aim of our research is to study the changing dynamics of poverty and solidarity in the context of economic crisis in the capital city of Dakar. It is based on qualitative data and a theoretical framework primarily founded on the emergent "sociology of the new African individ…
For a number of years, there has been some concern about the status of English at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), Senegal, especially for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and technology. This study analyzed the needs of students in the…
Les TIC sont à l'avant garde de l'économie postindustrielle. Toutefois, elles risquent d'élargir l'écart entre les pays riches et les pays pauvres si ces derniers n'arrivent pas à s'insérer dans l'économie du savoir. Comme ce fut le cas pour les universités occidentales, les uni…
This dissertation examines the complex and contradictory expectations, regulations, and logics that govern neoliberal development in Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, I draw transnational migration and foreign investment into the same ethnographic framework to consider how urba…
In this dissertation, I investigate what it meant to be a young woman (aged eighteen to forty) in Dakar of the 20005 through the lens of women's tours (tur), rotating credit institutions (or tontines) that often also functioned as social dance parties. Tours in Dakar in the 2000…
My dissertation analyzes the experiences of Africans who travel out of their home countries seeking a life of safety, peace, wealth and dignity. Different life circumstances and sets of aspirations lead them to Dakar, Senegal, where their journeys come to a halt. They don’t want…
À Dakar, cet immense marché à ciel ouvert, les femmes marginalisées par les politiques officielles de développement s'organisent pour prendre en charge les problèmes économiques, sociaux et environnementaux à travers les initiatives qui leur permettent de participer à la vie urb…
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…
Young women who participate in Dakar's burgeoning, cross-class Islamist movement shape participant identities based on a desire for moral change, and not on a specific set of political or economic grievances. The Sunnite movement, which has proliferated since the mid-1990's larg…