This dissertation explores the link between Fulbe ethnicity and Fulbe control of the entrepreneurial sector in Guinea following the liberalization policies that were instituted after April 1984, when the country's socialist regime fell. The study is based on a mixed method appro…
"25" Result
Sort By:
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the historical processes that have impacted the fishes of the Fouta Djallon highlands and surrounding areas. This mountainous region in Guinea, West Africa, lies on the northern edge of the Guinean Range. This geologic formation, of Jura…
This dissertation is a regional study of power and authority in a West African state, Kankan-Baté, from its founding in the seventeenth century through the French colonial conquest and occupation of 1891 to 1920. Located on the banks of the Milo River in the present-day country …
La scolarisation des filles en Guinée française, plus précisément au Fouta-Djallon, est l'objet de la présente thèse. L'imposition de cette institution coloniale a provoqué l'émergence d'un modèle culturel qui a bouleversé l'équilibre interne de la société dans son ensemble. Les…
The history of Fuuta-Jallon in the second half of the nineteenth century was examined according to the version of the griots and the elders. Information on issues pertaining to the Fulbhe system of social, political and economic organization was gathered through interviews condu…
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ancestors in African novels and press for a reading of West African writers, which values their fictional creation as autonomous from their cultural origins. The main purpose of this …
This study examined the factors influencing the emergence of an unequal social order in precolonial Fulbe communities in the Fuuta Jalon region of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, and its perpetuation despite various political, economic, and social reforms ushered in during …
This dissertation uses the 1961–63 Demystification Program of the Guinean socialist government as the focal point for a historical ethnography of a West African postcolonial state. The Demystification Program aimed at eradicating the indigenous religion and accompanying masquera…
A conceptual framework for reconstructing paleohabitats of fossil species is developed here. Three approaches are considered, single-line, additive and multiplicative, and the presentation of an entirely new multiplicative approach is the subject of this thesis. This is based on…
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 last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep h…
This dissertation analyses the benefits and costs of currency unions, focusing on the proposed West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), which consists of The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The economic structure of the zone is characterized by low economic growth an…
This dissertation proposes an explanation for how Islamic senses of divinity, prophets, and the afterlife influence perceptions of the legitimacy of various political and religious leaders and male heads of families in the rural northern part of the Fouta Djallon region of Guine…
This dissertation examines pre-colonial and colonial political upheaval and transformation in a West African region that today extends across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea. It demonstrates how a corridor of small, independent communities repeatedly resisted incu…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of insecurity and mobility as conditions of everyday life for Muslim Pular speakers in the West African Republic of Guinea. Living in a hierarchical society with a deep history of mobility that was reshaped and accelerated during an era…
David Mickelsen, in "The Bildungsroman in Africa: The case of Mission terminee" argues that this novel "enlarges our notion of the Bildungsroman" by combining "traditional, indigenous forms with inherited, European ones." This statement alone locates the Bildungsroman in Africa …
This thesis investigates the efforts of the West Indian Church to establish and run a fascinating Mission in an area of West Africa already influenced by Islam or traditional religion. It focuses mainly on the Pongas Mission's efforts to spread the Gospel but also discusses its …
This study focuses on how children grew up in Africa during the European colonization as delineated in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Camara Laye's The Dark Child, Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child. Chapter I explains the colo…
The study of orality in Africa is a relatively recent phenomenon undertaken by African as well as Foreign folklore specialists with the view of studying different aspects of life in African cultures from the perspectives of history, anthropology, and sociology and above all, thr…