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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 …

The Law of International Maritime Boundaries is characterized by an evolution that can be noticed at many levels. These levels include the application of equitable principles, the criteria for delimitation, the basis of title, the techniques, the methods and the applicable law. …

This study searches for origins of an ethos of independent journalism in two formerly authoritarian states in francophone West Africa--Benin and Cote d'Ivoire (or Ivory Coast). In both countries since the late 1980s and early 1990s, a diverse and outspoken press, free of direct …

This Ph.D. thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out amongst Muslims of Malian origin in Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire, between February 1993 and June 1995. The dissertation is concerned with the description of processes of identification in the context of urban life and int…

Since the early 1990s, Mande hunters' associations in Côte d'Ivoire have become a national, anti-crime force even as members maintain their regional roles as hunters, healers, and sorcerers. Hunters have done so in accordance with a repertoire of ritual narratives, sacrifices, a…

Within the generally under-researched topic of civil war, research on the question of the causes of civil war is in a state of confusion. This is due primarily to the persistence of a false dichotomy between material and social-psychological theories, as well as to a tendency to…