This paper questions the myth of the poto-mitan woman whictructures conjugal and parental relations within West Indian society in Désirada by Maryse Condé. This myth, whose origins date back to the slavery and colonial past of the Caribbean, is taken up and questioned in the novel by the Guadeloupean writer. …
The specificity of the literary production of any African writer is that he is constantly confronted with the management of two languages and two cultures at least.Therefore, it can be stated that the intertextuality is the ideologeme that governs most of the works of African authors. Thus, I will try …
The problem of sanitation in an urban environment is classically based on the evacuation of waste and rainwater through a collection and transport network. The sanitation networks, particularly the wastewater and rainwater evacuation pipes in Cotonou, are today faced with a dysfunction due to the daily practices of city dwellers. …
The results of this study stem from the content analysis of the corpus of protocols of the “Test the Three Characters” (Backes-Thomas, 1969) provided by 329 participants that we randomly selected at the level of schools of Niamey. The general objective of the research was to explore the identifications with …
This article discusses president Thomas Sankara’s multilateral policy dating back to his appointment as Prime Minister on January 11, 1983. Already, he made no secret of his anti-imperialist orientation and then became president on August 4, 1984. The ideological bases of his multilateral policy contained in the Political Orientation Speech …
This study focuses on the attribution by his entourage of a problematic nickname to one of the characters of Guy de Maupassant’s short story, This pig of Morin. The wearing of this unfavorable nickname raises a considerable problem, because it leads to an existential instability that affects Morin’s daily life, …
This article analyzes the precarious situation of reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire. It highlights the possibilities and limits of the stagnant Ivorian reconciliation, where relative peace remains very fragile. The analysis examines the possibilities and limits of reconciliation and sustainable peace. The argumentative and discursive strategies of the political actors constitute …
In Burkina Faso, two anthropological studies on covid-19 (CORAF-Media and CORAFMOB) reveal methodological difficulties and the positioning of anthropology in an epidemic crisis. This methodological reflection starts from the conditions of execution of this research involving critical analysis and production of results to guide the response. The presentation of results …
This article aims to study the maneuvers of discursive influence that frame the partisan treatment of political information in the Ivorian print media. To achieve this objective, the article is based on the empirical results of the analysis of political discourse over two weeks deriving from four (4) national daily …
This paper intends to show that the the content of the novels of Calixthe Beyala and Ken Bugul deal with a transgressive aesthetic, characterised by an inflation of sexuality that makes the reader think about erotic writing. The exposure of the female body and unbridled sexuality is a major element …
