Francophone West Research Articles

The Unraveling of a Neglected Source : A Report on Women in Francophone West Africa in the 1930s.

Abstract In October 1937, the Governor-General of AOF appointed Denise Moran Savineau to head a mission of inquiry into the social and economic situation of women and the family in the French West African colonies. Moran, one of the rare women to be employed by the French colonial administration, produced a remarkable study. This article attempts to place her document in its historical context. Attention is paid to the economic and social conditions of the 1930s and the French colonial policy of the 1936 Popular Front government. In the second part of the article, the document in question is examined by themes: women and production, trade, employment, rural and forced labor (especially the case of the Office du Niger), slavery and pawnship, women and the colonial justice System, education and medical facilities.

Sustaining Higher Education in Francophone West Africa: The Togolese Case

(1996). Sustaining Higher Education in Francophone West Africa: The Togolese Case. The Educational Forum: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 68-74.

Survival Strategy or Business Training Ground? The Significance of Urban Agriculture for the Advancement of Women in African Cities

Crop cultivation and the rearing of livestock in the open spaces of large third world cities have reached the point where their importance as a part of the urban informal sector can no longer be overlooked. In East Africa, several recent surveys have confirmed that urban cultivation, carried on largely by women, is both prevalent and vital to the livelihood of a significant proportion of the population (Freeman 1991; Rakodi 1988; Mazingira Institute 1987). These surveys complement a rather slim body of previous field research focused specifically on urban agriculture in Africa. Most of the latter deal with cities in Francophone central and west Africa (Vennettier 1988, 1972, 1961; Jeannin 1972; Morriniere 1972; Lassere 1958). A number deal with cultivation in the peri-urban fringe (Swindell 1988; Guyer 1987; Haubert 1985). The general conclusion of these studies is that many urban households, at all income levels, produce a considerable proportion of their own subsistence needs. The more recent evidence further suggests that, despite a relatively short history in large African cities like Nairobi, cultivation of open spaces by women seems set to become even more important in the years to come. By contrast, most studies dealing generally with African urban development and the informal sector have either ignored women cultivators altogether (International Labour Organization [ILO] 1985, 1972; Sandbrook 1982; House 1981; Rempel 1978; van Zwanenberg 1972), accorded their food-production efforts little real significance (Peil and Sada 1984, 59; Hake 1977), or viewed them as a subcategory of other, more visible activities of urban women entrepreneurs (Coquery-Vidrovitch 1991; Beavon and Rogerson 1990; Robertson 1976).

From Citizenship to Négritude: “Making a Difference” in Elite Ideologies of Colonized Francophone West Africa

By examining three historical stages between 1914 and the late 1950s in the development of African political ideology in Francophone West Africa, this essay will explore the problem represented by the category of the colonized.1This category, first formulated in 1961 by Frantz Fanon, has increasingly been used to revise understandings of African ideologies formed before 1960 in terms of political economy. Indeed, ever since Fanon published his polemical,The Wretched of the Earth(1968), the rage of the colonized has been naturalized in academic literature asthereaction to colonization. Yet in arguing that the rage of the peasants did not characterize the reaction of the “most completely” colonized (the elites and merchants), Fanon acknowledged that rage did not define the position of his elite predecessors. Fanon's work appeared in the twilight of the colonial era not as a dispassionate analysis but as a call to action. He intended to awaken the peasant's rage, which he considered the legitimate and local reaction to colonialism, within the elites, who did not share this attitude towards the colonizer.

The Presence of Islam Among the Akan of Ghana: A Bibliographic Essay

The primary geographical focus for the historical study of Islam in west Africa, until recently, was the western and central Sudan. As the often-cited J. S. Trimingham wrote (1962:7) “The Guinea States in the south lie outside our sphere since they were not in contact with the Sudan states and were uninfluenced by Islam.” Trimingham's conclusion paralleled those of early twentieth-century French and English scholars who dealt with the issue of Islam in west Africa. Paul Marty's voluminous studies, dating from the second decade of this century, dealt with the Islamic and Muslim-influenced traditions of the various peoples of Francophone west Africa. H. R. Palmer, one of the early British writers of this century, concentrated on the northern territories of Nigeria, where Islam has enjoyed a long history.Two factors explain the focus of these scholars on the western and central Sudan. First, the better known Islamic-influenced kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and Kanem-Bornu were all located in this region. Second, the Islamic states of the western and central Sudan, in particular, presented the greatest problem to both the French and the British during the early periods of the colonial era. Therefore, the focus on this area may have been motivated by the desire of these writers to understand the Islamic factor. Whatever the motivation of writers like Marty, Palmer, and their associates, Trimingham was wrong to conclude that the “the Guinea States” (i.e., the peoples living in the coastal forest belt) were “uninfluenced by Islam.”

Black Africa, 1945-1980: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development.

Part I: The End of the Colonial Period 1. The Economic Dimensions of British and French Decolonisation in Black Africa 2. The Colonial Inheritance Part II: Economic Performance and Explanations, 1960-1980 3. Performance, Expectations and the 'Policy' Approach 4. 'Non-Policy' Explanations of Limited Development Part III: The 'Policy' Explanation in Six African States 5. Anglophone West Africa: Ghana and Nigeria 6. Anglophone East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania 7. Francophone West Africa: Ivory Coast 8. Francophone West Africa: Senegal 9. Summary and Conclusions: Economic Decolonisation and 'Arrested Development'.

Where is higher education in Francophone West Africa heading?

Where is higher education in Francophone West Africa heading?

Rural-Urban Migration, Urbanization, and Economic Development

Previous articleNext article No AccessRural-Urban Migration, Urbanization, and Economic DevelopmentJacques LedentJacques Ledent Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 30, Number 3Apr., 1982Third World Migration and Urbanization: A Symposium Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/452574 Views: 66Total views on this site Citations: 29Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1982 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Md. Yousuf Gazi, Md. Zillur Rahman, Md. Mahin Uddin, F. M. 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