Question foncière et crise urbaine dans les villes d'Afrique occidentale francophone (Land ownership and urban crisis in the towns of French- speaking West Africa)

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Monique Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
French Speaking

scholarly journals Perceived Stress at Work and Associated Factors among E-Waste Workers in French-Speaking West Africa

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 851
Author(s):  
Nonvignon Marius Kêdoté ◽  
Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh ◽  
Steve Biko Tobada ◽  
Aymeric Joaquin Darboux ◽  
Pérince Fonton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
African Region ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Stress At Work

Perceived stress at work is an important risk factor that affects the mental and physical health of workers. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with perceived stress in the informal electronic and electrical equipment waste processing sector in French-speaking West Africa. From 14 to 21 November 2019, a cross-sectional survey was carried out among e-waste workers in five countries in the French-speaking West African region, and participants were selected by stratified random sampling. Participants were interviewed on socio-demographic variables and characteristics related to e-waste management activities using a questionnaire incorporating Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale (10-item version). Factors associated with perceived stress were determined by multivariate logistic regression. A total of 740 e-waste workers were interviewed. The mean age of the workers was 34.59 ± 11.65 years, with extremes of 14 and 74 years. Most of the interviewees were repairers (43.11%). The prevalence of perceived stress among the e-waste workers was 76.76%. Insufficient income, number of working days per week, perceived violence at work, and the interference of work with family responsibilities or leisure were the risk factors that were the most associated with perceived stress. The high prevalence of perceived stress and its associated factors call for consideration and improvement of the working conditions of e-waste workers.

Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa.

1969 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 715
Author(s):  
L. Gray Cowan ◽  
Ruth Schachter Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
West Africa ◽  
French Speaking

The Development of the Theatre in French-speaking West Africa

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Unionmwan Edebiri
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
International Exhibition ◽  
West African ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
French Colonial

French-speaking African drama owed much of its growth in the colonial era to French initiative and support. From 1933 to the late 40s, French-speaking African drama was virtually synonymous with the end-of-year theatrical presentations at the William Ponty School in Gorée, Senegal. Not only did the French colonial administration encourage the students to tour the capitals of French West African colonies with their plays during the holidays but it also sponsored a William Ponty School troupe to the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, where it performed Sokamé and Les prétendants rivaux.

Postcolonial Borderland Legacies of Anglo–French Partition in West Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. S. Miles
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The One ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract:More than five decades after independence, Africa still struggles with the legacies of colonial partition. On the territorial frontiers between the postcolonial inheritors of the two major colonial powers, Great Britain and France, the continuing impact of European colonialism remains most acute. On the one hand, the splitting of erstwhile homogeneous ethnic groups into British and French camps gave rise to new national identities; on the other hand, it circumvented any possibility of sovereignty via ethnic solidarity. To date, however, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the ethnic groups that were divided between English- and French-speaking states in West Africa, let alone the African continent writ large. This article joins postcolonial ethnography to the emerging field of comparative borderland studies. It argues that, although norms of state-based identity have been internalized in the Anglophone–Francophone borderlands, indigenous bases of association and behavior continue to define life along the West African frontier in ways that undermine state sovereignty. Although social scientists tend to focus on national- and sub-national-level analyses, and increasingly on the effects of globalization on institutional change, study of the African borderlands highlights the continuing importance of colonial legacies and grassroots-derived research.

scholarly journals The mango in French-speaking West Africa

Fruits ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Yves Rey ◽  
Thierno Mamadou Diallo ◽  
Henri Vannière ◽  
Christian Didier ◽  
Sidiki Kéita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
French Speaking

scholarly journals The emergence of the national medical assistance scheme for the poorest in Mali

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Touré ◽  
Valéry Ridde
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Universal Health

Abstract Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is now high up the international agenda. There are still major needs to be met in West Africa, particularly in Mali, where providing health care for the poorest remains a big challenge. The majority of the region’s countries are currently seeking to define the content of their compulsory, contribution-based medical insurance system. However, very few countries apart from Mali have decided to, in parallel, develop a solution for poorest that is not based on contributions.Methods: This qualitative research article examines the historical process that has permitted the emergence of this ground-breaking public policy.Results: The research shows that the process has been very long, chaotic and sometimes suspended for long periods. One of the biggest challenges has been that of intersectoriality and the social construction of the groups to be targeted by this public policy (the poorest), as institutional tensions have evolved in accordance with the political issues linked to social protection. Eventually, the medical assistance scheme for the poorest (RAMED) saw the light of day in 2011, funded entirely by the government.Conclusions: Its emergence would appear to be attributable not so much to any new concern for the poorest in society but rather to a desire to give the social protection policy engaged in a guarantee of universality. The RAMED nonetheless remains an innovation within French-speaking West Africa.

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