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Title: Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley and librarian Peter Limb interview Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies David Robinson
Creator: Robinson, David, 1938-
Date: 2012-09-25
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Dr. David Robinson, Michigan State University Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and Dr. David Wiley, Director of the MSU African Studies Center. Robinson explains how he became interested in West Africa during his college years and in association with Christian organizations, traveled to the region to aid displaced persons. Robinson also describes his research and human rights interests, his growing network of African scholars, how...
Show moreDr. David Robinson, Michigan State University Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and Dr. David Wiley, Director of the MSU African Studies Center. Robinson explains how he became interested in West Africa during his college years and in association with Christian organizations, traveled to the region to aid displaced persons. Robinson also describes his research and human rights interests, his growing network of African scholars, how the field of African studies has changed and how his own work uses an African focus. Wiley notes the quality of scholarship which Robinson has brought to MSU and Robinson talks about his work at the university, the challenges of developing an online digital African library for use around the world, and his ongoing connections with West African colleges. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
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Title: Citizens and subjects : Métis society, identity and the struggle over colonial politics in Saint Louis, Senegal, 1870-1920
Creator: Jones, Hilary
Date: 2003
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: La lutte pour l'integration sociale de la femme dans les oeuvres de Mariama Ba
Creator: Wanda, Sylvie Lakaine
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: La lutte pour l'integration sociale de la femme etait au coeur des preoccupations d'une societe postcoloniale Senegalaise en pleine mutation. C'est ce qui a incite de nombreuses auteures a l'instar de Mariame Ba qui a travers ses ecrits a formule son combat dans la lutte pour la liberation de la femme. Cette domination masculine a l'egard de la femme s'est accentuee a travers la colonisation qui avait pour consequence de ravaler la femme au second plan en lui infligeant un complexe flagrant d...
Show moreLa lutte pour l'integration sociale de la femme etait au coeur des preoccupations d'une societe postcoloniale Senegalaise en pleine mutation. C'est ce qui a incite de nombreuses auteures a l'instar de Mariame Ba qui a travers ses ecrits a formule son combat dans la lutte pour la liberation de la femme. Cette domination masculine a l'egard de la femme s'est accentuee a travers la colonisation qui avait pour consequence de ravaler la femme au second plan en lui infligeant un complexe flagrant d'inferiorite. L'indignation de l'auteure s'est faite ressentie lorsqu'elle a pris position pour combattre toutes sortes de discrimination eprouvees par la femme, en leur donnant du courage, et en les invitant a prendre leur destin en main.C'est ainsi qu'a partir des annees 1980, son combat est porteur de fruit de nos jours lorsqu'on constate de maniere incontestable l'integration de la femme dans les affaires politiques, sociales, administratives avec surtout la consecration de leurs droits a travers de nombreux instruments juridiques.
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Title: A descriptive study of Wolof mother-child mutual gaze interactions in rural Senegal and their associations with child language skills
Creator: Diop, Yatma
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The importance of mutual gaze in mother-child relationships and in the language development of children is well documented in Western societies, but we don’t if it is equally important in Africa. In the present study, the frequency, duration, and nature of mutual gaze interactions were observed between caregivers and children living in Wolof-speaking communities in rural Senegal. Relations between mother-child mutual gaze and Wolof children’s language skills were also considered. Caregivers ...
Show moreThe importance of mutual gaze in mother-child relationships and in the language development of children is well documented in Western societies, but we don’t if it is equally important in Africa. In the present study, the frequency, duration, and nature of mutual gaze interactions were observed between caregivers and children living in Wolof-speaking communities in rural Senegal. Relations between mother-child mutual gaze and Wolof children’s language skills were also considered. Caregivers (n = 60), and their children (age range: 20-30 months) were observed as they played together and their interactions videorecorded and coded. The Wolof versions of the CDI and language milestones parent reports of child language, were administered. Descriptive analyses of five-minute face-to-face interactions, revealed that rural Senegalese mothers look their children in the eye over 13 times with an average total duration of over 25 seconds. Mothers were the major initiators of the mutual gaze episodes, which were predominantly positive in nature, but they also demonstrated a high degree of responsiveness to children’s bids for mutual gaze. Separate linear regressions showed that mutual gaze frequency significantly predicted Wolof children’s vocabulary, but not their language milestones. Although some research suggests that eye gaze might be culturally stigmatized, results suggest that mothers use this approach frequently when interacting with their young children. It is also evident that mutual gaze can be important in helping Wolof children learn their mother tongue.
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Title: Allometric relationships of tropical tree species in Indonesia and Senegal
Creator: Liborius, Reinardus
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "This study focused on development of allometric relationships for tropical trees in Senegal and Indonesia as a new approach to estimating the annual rate of biomass and carbon accumulation." -- Abstract.

Title: Education, civil society, and democracy : the role of nonformal education in promoting civic orientations in Senegal
Creator: Kuenzi, Michelle Therese
Date: 2003
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Crime, punishment, and colonization : a history of the prison of Saint-Louis and the development of the penitentiary system in Senegal, ca. 1830-ca. 1940
Creator: Sene, Ibra
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTMy thesis explores the relationships between the prison of Saint-Louis (Senegal), the development of the penitentiary institution, and colonization in Senegal, between ca. 1830 and ca. 1940. Beyond the institutional frame, I focus on how the colonial society influenced the implementation of, and the mission assigned to, imprisonment. Conversely, I explore the extent to which the situation in the prison impacted the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized populations....
Show moreABSTRACTMy thesis explores the relationships between the prison of Saint-Louis (Senegal), the development of the penitentiary institution, and colonization in Senegal, between ca. 1830 and ca. 1940. Beyond the institutional frame, I focus on how the colonial society influenced the implementation of, and the mission assigned to, imprisonment. Conversely, I explore the extent to which the situation in the prison impacted the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized populations. First, I look at the evolution of the Prison of Saint-Louis by focusing on the preoccupations of the colonial authorities and the legislation that helped implement the establishment and organize its operation. I examine the facilities in comparison with the other prisons in the colony. Second, I analyze the internal operation of the prison in relation to the French colonial agenda and policies. Third and lastly, I focus on the `prison society'. I look at the contentions, negotiations and accommodations that occurred within the carceral space, between the colonizer and the colonized people. I show that imprisonment played an important role in French colonization in Senegal, and that the prison of Saint-Louis was not just a model for, but also the nodal center of, the development of the penitentiary. Colonial imprisonment was not meant to be a true replica of that in metropolitan France. Therefore, Saint-Louis received people who were just charged, those sentenced, vagrants, and even people in transit who never committed any crimes. The driving forces of the system were the need for control over a poorly understood sociopolitical order, and for cheap labor force, that went hand in hand with French territorial expansion. The absence of a clear penitentiary theory, of basic technical expertise in prison management, and of sufficient financial resources, distorted the system and created space for a prison subculture never really understood by the French, and which had a serious impact on the penitentiary.I collected archival sources in Senegal (Dakar and Saint-Louis) and France (Aix-en-Provence). I root the study in the historiography of African colonization, and imprisonment in other colonial settings. I am inspired by the Subaltern Studies and am using theories developed by Michel Foucault, David Rothman and the literature on punishment they inspired. I borrow from James Scott's concepts of the "weapons of the weak" and "infrapolitics of subordinate groups" to analyze African agency in the prison space.The crisis in the prison system in many African countries, the political use of imprisonment, and the increasing development of "private" methods of policing and punishment due to the growing lack of trust by large components of African civil societies in the formal legal systems, are mostly informed by the colonial legacy. I argue that understanding these trends and their antecedents through historical inquiry is critical in the current process of building more democratic and socially just societies in Africa. Imprisonment is an institution through the history of which we gain a fresh view on the logics, the actors, and the outcome of French colonialism. My research sheds new light on a critical part of the history of Senegal and West Africa, but also opens up new research directions for a better understanding of the philosophy and politics of punishment and their implications for the rule of law in our societies in the postcolonial era.
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