This study focuses on enhancing motivation for learning mathematics at the university Abdou Moumouni. It is situated in a dynamic development of educational activities to address the serious problem of motivation for learning science. More specifically, it is exploring whether v…
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Market integration for agricultural products has been widely explored using different methodological approaches. While a substantial effort has been made towards improving the technical tools, the extent of the understanding of how markets work is still not satisfactory. The cur…
The term "digital divide" refers to the socioeconomic and other disparities between those people who have opportunities and skills enabling them to benefit from digital resources, especially the Internet, and those who do not have these opportunities or skills. For example, due …
My dissertation considers West African Francophone literature in its relationship with local traditional oral literature. This study examines the intertextual dialogue between the Zarma-Songhoï oral narrative, The Epic Of Askia Mohammed, and the modern fictional tale of Toula, b…
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol offers developing countries the opportunity to participate in the effort to reduce global greenhouse gas levels while also benefitting from sustainable development opportunities. To date, the majority of CDM investments…
Building on both the current thinking among international development practitioners and the on-going scholarly debate on evaluation capacity development (ECD), this study aims to identify strategies that might help to strengthen national evaluation capacity in a variety of count…
In search for solutions to the various hydro-agricultural practices in Sahel, we propose a new hybrid pumping system based on the complementary nature of the two renewable energies for their important prominence in this zone, namely solar and wind. The proposed hybrid system con…
Aujourd'hui encore, de nombreux pays en développement connaissent une désillusion en ce qui concerne la valeur économique de l'éducation. La pénurie de main d'œuvre qualifiée, la pauvreté des ménages, les disparités de revenus et le chômage croissant des diplômés persitent toujo…
The purpose of this study was to assess the counseling and guidance needs of middle school students of Niger as perceived by policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and parents. It also assessed the areas of counseling and guidance that were most beneficial and necess…
For decades after independence many African nations have invested a significant portion of their national budget into education development. Global enrollment rates however, are still low in many Sub-Saharan countries. Moreover, the enrollment rate hides gender disparity and con…
This dissertation examines the roles of women in Hausa tatsuniyoyi (folktales) from an Afrocentric and womanist perspective. In African societies, the culture depends on the oral tradition for survival. Thus the information we gather from oral literature gives us insight about a…
This is a study of the relationship between livelihood strategies, soil fertility investment and land use in the village of Fandou Beri, southwestern Niger. The aim has been to place alleged soil degradation in a specific, differentiated and dynamic local context. The village, w…
In western Niger soil fertility depletion threatens food production. Cattle management and manure are used to maintain soil fertility. However, cattle population and insufficient feed limit the use of manure for improving soil fertility. The purpose of this research was to asses…
A study of the paralic Agbada lithofacies has been undertaken to re-assess the Neogene palynological stratigraphy and sedimentation history of the eastern Niger Delta. The sediments examined are from five onshore boreholes including the Ama-1, Ibewa-3, Erema-3, Ihugbogo-1 and Yo…
This study documents and analyzes the different forms and styles of the metal jewelry of the Tuareg of Niger, and examines their meaning, symbolism, use and transformation in Tuareg society. For Tuareg smiths and patrons, jewelry is a critical art form and fully represents their…
This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…
In this thesis I present a brief grammar sketch of Fulfulde as spoken by the Wodaabe of Niger, giving special attention to the phonology of the language. One interesting aspect of Fulfulde morphophonology is the consonant gradation system which occurs in conjunction with the num…
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…
Extensive efforts have been made to find operational metrics of food security and its geographical variation in the West African Sahel since the catastrophic famines of the 1970s and 1980s. Food insecurity has been estimated using many different types of data, including satellit…