The dictatorial regime of armed conflicts has enforced one of the most uncontrollable plagues on humanity. This life-threatening pandemic has moved creative writers like Ernest Hemingway to probe its tragedies in A Farewell to Arms (1929). Weighing Frederic Henry’s narrative with characterization, this essay examines the totalitarian regime of the …
The implementation of an occupational health and safety (OHS) management system is essential to the functioning of a company. In the context of globalization, companies need to be efficient and competitive while reducing the risks and costs associated with occupational accidents and diseases. Indeed, essentially dedicated to the issue of …
The two novels the hairdresser of Kouta and The butcher of Kouta of Massa Makan Diabaté feature a novel very modeled on his Malinké culture and also the marks of orality. This scriptural choice is an affirmation and promotion of its cultural identity. A culture where the word occupies a …
After the period of democratic transition in Togo in 1992, several development plans were put in place to raise the economic level of the country. The objectives of these different plans did not really succeed given the poisonous political atmosphere that prevailed in the country. This contribution has the merit …
Pastoral livestock breeding is currently experiencing and unprecedented crisis in the Sahel, particularity in the rural commune of Tillia (). This crisis is due to the presence of non-state armed groups in the Sahel. The main objective of this article is to highlight the link between insecurity and pastoralism. More …
Contemporary African societies are undermined by political mismanagement. This delays the welfare of the population. Based on Odafe Atogun’s novel Taduno’s song (2016), this paper questions the function of the artist in the African contemporary society. The resort to cultural studies theory permits to view songs and music as factors …
This work is a critical analysis of Chinua Achebe’s writing techniques in Thing Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. It shows how characters’ culture, and identity shaped by society’s principles, and religious power, leads to alienation and isolation. It analyses identity dynamics of characters in relation to their social, …
The objective of this study is to analyze the means and strategies of appropriation and control of drug trafficking territories by the actors of smoking rooms. Data collection through a questionnaire, an interview guide and indirect observation were the subject of a quantitative and qualitative analysis (content analysis) with a …
This study examines the ravages of corruption on the university performance and excellence as well as on the society as a whole. Based on sociocriticism, specifically new historicism, the study raises issues of unethical practices such as favoritism in the admission process that have been understudied. It equally questions this …
The issue of peacekeeping is one of the main factors in the regulation of international relations. It often occupies a prominent place in the conceptions of countries. Historically, the basic principles of international peacekeeping were formulated by the Western powers, as they ideologically dominated international institutions with the United Nations …
