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Title: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about his briefing with nearly two dozen advisers and aides including Cabinet officials and CDC Director Tom Frieden on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and cases of the disease in the U
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2014-10-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Obama speaks to reporters about his briefing with with nearly two dozen advisers and aides including Cabinet officials and CDC Director Tom Frieden on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and cases of the disease in the U.S. Obama promises additional training and resources to deal with the emergency and describes his efforts to rally assistance from Japan and several European nations. The meeting was called after the discovery of a second Ebola case in the U.S. involving a nurse who...
Show morePresident Obama speaks to reporters about his briefing with with nearly two dozen advisers and aides including Cabinet officials and CDC Director Tom Frieden on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and cases of the disease in the U.S. Obama promises additional training and resources to deal with the emergency and describes his efforts to rally assistance from Japan and several European nations. The meeting was called after the discovery of a second Ebola case in the U.S. involving a nurse who traveled by airplane shortly before her symptoms appeared. Held in the White House.
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Title: U.S. President Barack Obama is interviewed by the new host of "Meet the Press," Chuck Todd
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2014-09-07
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Barack H. Obama is interviewed by the new host of "Meet the Press," Chuck Todd. Todd grills Obama on planned military actions against ISIS in Iraq, military efforts in Syria, the U.S. role in fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, immigration reform legislation, mid-term election prospects, the differences between the Democrat's and Republican's legislative agendas, and the slow economic recovery. Held in the White House.

Title: U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2014-09-24
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. He outlines a global response to combating the the radical group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and says he will continue to work with a broad coalition to "dismantle this network of death." He insists the U.S. will not put troops on the ground but instead work with local authorities. Obama acknowledges that the U.S. continues to work through its own racial and ethnic tensions, citing the preceding summer...
Show morePresident Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. He outlines a global response to combating the the radical group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and says he will continue to work with a broad coalition to "dismantle this network of death." He insists the U.S. will not put troops on the ground but instead work with local authorities. Obama acknowledges that the U.S. continues to work through its own racial and ethnic tensions, citing the preceding summer conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, between police and the African-American community. He also speaks briefly about other global issues, mentioning Russia's intervention in Ukraine, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Title: Transcultural and religious bricolage : how the Nation of Islam (re)constructed a religion
Creator: Maefield, Jajuan J.
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study examines the influence(s) that Sufism in general, and West African Sufism in particular, had on African American practitioners of Islam in North America as evidenced by the growth and development of the Nation of Islam (NOI). In what follows, I argue that African Americans created a distinctive cultural attribute of Black Islam that had yet to exist on the American continent. This distinctive way of examining Black Islam is neither Arabocentric nor Afrocentric, but rather it...
Show moreThis study examines the influence(s) that Sufism in general, and West African Sufism in particular, had on African American practitioners of Islam in North America as evidenced by the growth and development of the Nation of Islam (NOI). In what follows, I argue that African Americans created a distinctive cultural attribute of Black Islam that had yet to exist on the American continent. This distinctive way of examining Black Islam is neither Arabocentric nor Afrocentric, but rather it reveals a distinctive African Diasporic element of Black Islam whereby the NOI created a hybrid Islamic identity that (1) was rooted in the racial context of the United States during the early to mid-twentieth century, (2) aligned with West African Sufi Islamic practices, (3) retained and reinvented basic tenets of “traditional Islam,” and (4) created mythologies in order circumvent white secular and sacred power structures, signaling both a cultural and religious transformation within the NOI. This social a religious transformation was created through transcultural bricolage, a hybridity of the cultural, religious, and abstract interpretations and inventions that allowed members of the NOI to practice a brand of Islam that was rooted in the particularities of the black experience. This study reveals how the Nation of Islam was forged through the processes of bricolage, a method of construction that involves using whatever is at hand, and transculturation, the process of using merging and converging cultures, to construct a religion that centered African Americans adherents.
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Title: Social significance of African beads : case studies of the Yoruba and Bini peoples
Creator: Pokornowski, Ila Pelkey
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The history and development of wax-printed textiles intended for West Africa and Zaire
Creator: Nielsen, Ruth T.
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Cultural imagery and exchange programs as sources of U.S. soft power in West Africa : unfolding U.S. cultural relations with West Africa from 1957 to 1991
Creator: Assani, Amzat
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Teaching without the textbooks : new challenges of literature teaching in a West African university
Creator: Eshiet, Imo Ubokudom
Date: 1995
Collection: Glendora Review

Title: Film policy and the development of the African cinema
Creator: Okome, Onookome
Date: 1995
Collection: Glendora Review

Title: The future of demilitarisation and civil military relations in West Africa : challenges and prospects for democratic consolidation
Creator: Fayemi, Kayode
Date: 1998-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This paper examines the state of civil-military relations and the prospects for demilitarisation and democratisation in contemporary West Africa. Its underlying thesis is that West Africa poses one of the greatest dilemmas to the prospects for demilitarisation in Africa. At the same time, it offers a potentially useful mechanism for regional peace and security with implications for (de)militarisation in Africa. While the paper recognises the historico-structural dimensions of militarisation...
Show moreThis paper examines the state of civil-military relations and the prospects for demilitarisation and democratisation in contemporary West Africa. Its underlying thesis is that West Africa poses one of the greatest dilemmas to the prospects for demilitarisation in Africa. At the same time, it offers a potentially useful mechanism for regional peace and security with implications for (de)militarisation in Africa. While the paper recognises the historico-structural dimensions of militarisation as well as the behavioural obstacles to demilitarisation, it captures the challenges and prospects in terms of the complexity of state-civil society relations and suggests a holistic understanding of the concept of security. This, it does with a view to de-emphasising force as the key mechanism for conflict resolution, and promoting an inclusive institutional framework for demilitarisation and development.
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Title: African crisis response initiative and the new African security (dis)order
Creator: Aning, Emmanuel Kwezi
Date: 2001-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This article examines the role of the US in post-cold war West African security issues. It analyses the impact of the ACRI and the reactions from the continent—from the OAU, ECOWAS and influential countries like Nigeria—given the efforts being made by African governments to grapple with their own security concerns. It concludes with a tentative assessment of the possibilities for ACRI's effectiveness and its prospects for achieving credibility among African governments and civil society.

Title: Genehoa, Jaloffi, et Sierraliones regna
Creator: Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Date: 1664/1674
Collection: Maps

Title: Nigerian mass media handling of conflict situations in the West African sub-region
Creator: Edeani, David O., 1933-
Date: 1994
Collection: Africa Media Review
Description: A content analytic study examines the coverage of conflicts within, between, and among nations of the West African sub-region by three of Nigeria's leading national dailies and three major weekly news magazines. The aim of the study was to find out how far the newspapers and news magazines made efforts to contribute toward the resolution of the conflicts, in terms of the extent to which they covered the conflicts, and how they went about presenting their news stories, writing their editorials...
Show moreA content analytic study examines the coverage of conflicts within, between, and among nations of the West African sub-region by three of Nigeria's leading national dailies and three major weekly news magazines. The aim of the study was to find out how far the newspapers and news magazines made efforts to contribute toward the resolution of the conflicts, in terms of the extent to which they covered the conflicts, and how they went about presenting their news stories, writing their editorials, and making their commentaries on the conflicts. The results showed that the dailies and the weekly news magazines made fairly good efforts to report on the conflicts, and that they gave relatively appropriate emphases to conflict stories, and exhibited such other professional standards as balance, constructiveness, and responsibility in story writing and presentation. However, these standards did not apply to all the nations of the sub-region to the same degree, except for emphases and constructiveness. Nigerian conflicts took a large majority of the media's attention in terms of absolute coverage and balance and responsibility in story writing and presentation, as against conflicts in the 15 other West African nations.
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Title: From "eco-pessimism" to "eco-optimism" -- ECOMOG and the West African integration process
Creator: Aning, Emmanuel Kwezi
Date: 1999-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science

Title: Trends and determinants of food consumption patterns in West Africa
Creator: Me-Nsope, Nathalie Mongue
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation examines food consumption patterns in the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS). The study provides detailed information on food demand parameters, which are critical to improving policymakers' ability to make sound food policy decisions. Chapter 2 analyzes per capita food availability data from FAO's food balance sheet (FBS) from 1980 through 2009. It identifies major contributors to diets and documents shifts in levels and composition of food supply at the...
Show moreThis dissertation examines food consumption patterns in the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS). The study provides detailed information on food demand parameters, which are critical to improving policymakers' ability to make sound food policy decisions. Chapter 2 analyzes per capita food availability data from FAO's food balance sheet (FBS) from 1980 through 2009. It identifies major contributors to diets and documents shifts in levels and composition of food supply at the country level. The analysis reveals: 1) a trend towards greater per capita calorie supplies for most countries; 2) a diversification in the composition of food supply; 3) a cassava revolution in some Coastal Non-Sahelian countries; 4) some diet upgrading in terms of protein availability; and 5) growth in daily fat supply per capita for most countries.Chapter 3 estimates the effects of urbanization and gross domestic product per capita on starchy staples (SS) demand in Senegal, Mali and Benin using an Error-Corrected Linearized Almost Ideal Demand System. Short-run and long run-elasticities are estimated using per capita food availability data obtained from FAO's FBS and supplementary data. Support for a statistical association between urbanization and SS demand is found only in the case of millet in Mali. The results suggest mixed evidence on the effect of relative prices on SS demand and on substitution between coarse grains and rice. Evidence also supports more expenditure-elastic demand for millet and sorghum than for rice in Senegal and Mali, contrary to conventional expectations. Aggregate-level analysis of food demand ignores the effects of the distribution of income and of differences in food supply across regions on food demand. As a result, Chapter 4 uses Mali's 2006 household budget survey data to estimate a censored Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model for cereals in Mali. Cereals demand parameters are estimated by rural/ urban location and by income group. All expenditure elasticities were positive, as expected. Uncompensated own-price elasticities also support downward-sloping demand curves for all cereals. The results suggest high substitution between rice and coarse grains in both the rural and the urban areas and across income groups. Chapter 5 measures the welfare effects of cereals price shocks observed from 2008 to 2011 by means of a proportional compensating variation that allows for second-order demand responses to cereal price changes. Across all income groups and place of residence, the full effect is only slightly lower than the first-order effect. This reflects the fact that during this period all cereals prices were rising sharply, limiting the scope for substitution to "cheaper" cereals. Without considering the possibility of producer supply response in the rural areas, the magnitude of the welfare loss was higher for rural households than urban households. In both the rural and the urban areas, the welfare loss from observed price changes, in terms of relative share of income affected, was greater for poorer households than richer households from 2008 to 2011. However, the absolute income loss was greater for the higher income groups. The findings present a scope to encourage ongoing diversification of staple food sources to give consumers more opportunity for substitution and choice. Price transmission across cereals suggests a need for a cereals policy rather than just, for example, a rice policy. The results suggest strong future growth in demand (pressure on prices if supply is not increased), and a need to focus on driving down unit costs throughout the food system.
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Title: Motivations for international collaborations in social work education
Creator: Kuilema, Joseph Alan
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: International collaborations in social work education are increasing without an adequate understanding of what motivates them, and what sorts of outcomes they produce. The existing research on such collaborations has often focused on examining collaborations only from the perspective of those in Europe and North America. This study presents the results of in-depth qualitative interviews with a sample of 25 individuals representing students, faculty, and administrators at two case study pairs...
Show moreInternational collaborations in social work education are increasing without an adequate understanding of what motivates them, and what sorts of outcomes they produce. The existing research on such collaborations has often focused on examining collaborations only from the perspective of those in Europe and North America. This study presents the results of in-depth qualitative interviews with a sample of 25 individuals representing students, faculty, and administrators at two case study pairs of social work institutions. In each case study, one of the institutions is located in the Midwestern United States, and the other in West Africa. The study utilized an integrated theoretical framework including elements of critical theory, social network analysis, and the theory of collaborative advantage. Results show significant differences in motivations for the pursuit of international collaborations between individuals at various levels within institutions and by the type and location of institutions. Institutions use international collaboration in order to compete both locally and globally for students, faculty, and resources. Students are motivated to pursue international collaborations in order to develop themselves and their professional opportunities. The results suggest that more attention needs to potential differences in motivations for collaboration, and to the models social worker use to pursue them.
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Title: A history of ideas : West Africa, "The Black Atlantic", and Pan-Africanism
Creator: Odamtten, Harry Nii Koney
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: An analysis of verb series in Kuteb
Creator: Koops, Robert George
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Transfer costs of cereals marketing in Mali : implications for Mali's regional trade in West Africa
Creator: Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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