Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1988-2000
 

Agriculture | To Top

Al-Juboory, Karim Husain.  Greenhouse, Laser Radiation, and In Vitro Culture Studies on the Growth and Propagation of Algerian Ivy. 176p, 1990.

Hartman, Glen Lee. Studies on Dactuliochaeta Glycines and the Epidemiology of Red Leaf Blotch of Soybeans. 147p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1988.

Lawn, Dennis Andrew.  Studies of Nematodes Associated with Maize, Soybean, and Sunflower in Illinois and the Republic of Zambia.  81p, 1988.

Mumera, Louis Musundi. Nitrogen and Genotype Effects on Assimilate Partitioning and Resistance to Striga in Maize (Striga Hermonthica, Zea Mays). 74p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1992.

Nizeyimana, Egide.  An Assessment of Morphological, Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Properties of Soils.  219p, 1990.

Agricultural Economics | To Top

Ayemou, Afla Odile.  An Analysis of the Supply of and Demand for the Ivory Coast's Export Coffee.  80p., 1989.

Jangulo, Maurice Chaaba. A Seed Industry Analysis of the Southern Africa Region (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Malawi). 158p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1993.

Sarassoro, Gboroton Fidele.  International Risk Management : The Case of Cocoa and Coffee in the Ivory Coast.  156p, 1988.

Wooten, Stephen R. Gardens Are For Cash, Grain is For Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali) (Rural Society). 381p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1997.

Anthropology | To Top

Barut, Sibel. Later Stone Age Lithic Raw Material Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya (Land Use, Hunter Gatherers). 354p, Thesis (PH.D.), 1997.

Carlson, Robert Geoffrey.  Haya Worldview and Ethos: An Ethnography of Alcohol Production and Consumption in Buleoba, Tanzania.    1989.

De Jorio, Rosa. Female Elites, Women's Formal Associations, and Political Practices in Urban Mali (West Africa). 350p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1997.

Mehlman, Michael James.  Later Quaternary Archaeological Sequences in Northern Tanzania.  756p, 1989.

Sikes, Nancy E. Early Hominid Habitat Preferences in East Africa: Stable Isotopic Evidence From Paleosols (Tanzania, Kenya). 396p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Comparative Literature | To Top

Ayodo, Awuor Evelyn. May I Grow to be as Strong as My Mother: The Storytelling Tradition of Black Women in Africa, The Caribbean And The United States. 323p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Fontenot, Deborah Yvonne B. A Vision of Anarchy: Correlate Structures of Exile and Madness in Selected Works of Doris Lessing and Her South African Contemporaries (Mphahlele, Head, Gordimer). 225p, Thesis (PH.D.), 1988 .

Kim, Soonsik Baek. Colonial and Post-colonial Discourse in the Novels of Yom Sang-sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie (Achebe Chinua, Nigera, Rushdie Salman, India, Korea). 329p., Thesis (Ph.D.), 1992.

Sagar, Aparajita. Forays into the Attic: the Postcolonial Fiction Of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee (Rhys Jean, Coetzee J. M. , South Africa, Caribbean). 294p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1991.

Development | To Top

Hoff, Joanna Tenneh Diggs. The Role of Women in National Development in Liberia, 1800-1900. 160p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1989.

Economics | To Top

Arifa, Ali. Investigation of the Relationship Between Population Growth and Income per Capita. 205p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1996.

Boakye, Jacob. Human Resource Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. 140p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Kwezalamba, Maxwell Maclean Elias. Interest Income Taxation and Household Saving Behavior in less Developed Economies: an Empirical Investigation. 204p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Education | To Top

Bagley, Cherie Albertha.  The Differential Effects of Racial Identity Stages on Personal Problem Solving Strategies.  193p, 1989.

Dolby, Nadine Elise. Transforming Race: Youth, Schooling, and Identity in South Africa. 417p, Thesis (PH.D.), 1998 .

Haricombe, Lorraine Jeanne. The Effect of an Academic Boycott on Academics in South Africa. 218p., Thesis (PH.D.) 1992.

Jaji, Lazarus Musekiwa.  School Improvement Research and Future Educational Policy Efforts in Zimbabwe.  204p, 1988.

Kathuri, Nephat Justus.  A Study of the New Agricultural Education Curriculum in the Secondary Schools of Kenya.  225p, 1990.

Mabokela, Reitumetse Obakeng. Black Students on White Campuses: Responses to Increasing Black Enrollments at Two South African Universities (Enrollment, Universities Amendment Act, Historically White). 333p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1998.

Maphinda-Lebbie, Tamba. Selected West African Agricultural Students' View of Their United States Graduate Training and Education in Light of Their Expected Home Country Agricultural Jobs and Conditions. 128p., Thesis (PH.D.) 1989.

Mollel, Naftali Medoti.  A Comparative Analysis of Job Design Characteristics, Organizational Structure, and Personal Attitudes in Tanzania.  164p, 1990.

Osegi, Peter Ndiidi.  Classification of Painting Styles among American and Nigerian Children : A Developmental Study.  201p, 1988.

Samy, Mohamed Mahmoud.  Technology Transfer in Egypt : An Analysis of the Roles of Agricultural Research and Extension.  177p, 1988.

Sikwibele, Anne Lungowe. International Education Assistance to Higher Education Development in Zambia: Problems, Policy Implications and Future Prospects. 258p Thesis (PH.D.), 1989.

Environment | To Top

Kwon, Hyeok Joe. The Genesis and Evolution of African Easterly Waves. 243p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1988.

History | To Top

Burin, ERIC A. The Peculiar Solution: the American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860. 248p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1998.

Djata, Sundiata. Fanga: The Bamana in the Middle Niger, 1830-1910. 375p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1994.

Labor | To Top

Mochebelele, Motsamai T. Migrant Labor and Farm Technical Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Lesotho. 119p. Thesis (PH.D.), 1996,.

Ndiaye, Serigne Mbacke. Labor Mobilization and Utilization among Small-scale Farmers in Chibale Chiefdom, Serenje, Zambia. 119p. Thesis (PH.D.), 1988.

Linguistics | To Top

Benhamida, Laurel.  Translators and Interpreters as Adopters and Agents of Diffusion of Planned Lexical Innovations.  312p, 1989.

Downing, Laura Jo.  Problems in Jita Tonology.  526p, 1990.

Dunn, Andrea Susan.  The Pragmatics of Selected Discourse Markers in Swahili.  181p, 1990.

Kambou, Moses Kwadwo. Acquisition of the English Article System by Francophone Students: the Case of Burkina Faso (Third Language Acquisition). 222p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1997.

Kamwangamalu, Nkonko Mudipanu.  Code-mixing across Languages : Structure, Functions,         and Constraints.  296p, 1989.

Kapanga, Mwamba Tshishiku. Language Variation and Change: a Case Study of Shaba Swahili (Zaire, Swahili). 430p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1991.

Kedrebeogo, Gerard. Language Maintenance and Shift in Communities of Oral Tradition: the Case of the Sillanko of Burkina Faso (West Africa). 177p. Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Khoali, Benjamin Thakampholo. A Sesotho Tonal Grammar (Lesotho, South Africa). 316p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1991. Mochiwa, Zacharia Salimu Marko. Depletion as Both a Syntactic and Semantic Phenomenon: the Case of Swahili (Kenya, Africa). 254p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1988.

Monareng, William Malakia. A Domain-based Approach to Northern Sotho Tonology: a Setswapo Dialect (South Africa). 197p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1993.

Mmusi, Sheila Onkaetse. Obligatory Contour Principle Effects and Violations: the Case of Setswana Verbal Tone (Botswana, South Africa). 259p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1992.

Niang, Mamadou Ousmane. Syllable "Sonority" Hierarchy and the Stress Patterns in Pulaar. A Metrical Approach (Africa). 290p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1993.

Ourso, Meterwa Akayhou.  Lama Phonology and Morphology.  312p, 1989.

Treece, Rick Everett. Deverbal Nominals in Kiswahili: Underspecification Morphology and the Lexicon (Nominals, Africa). 467p., Thesis (PH.D.),1990.

Literature | To Top

Casey, John Shepard. Self and Politics in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee (Coetzee, John Michael, South Africa). 294p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1994.

 Mass Communication| To Top

Kaci, Ahmed.  The State Centralization and Control of the Broadcasting Media in Algeria from 1962 to 1982.  876p, 1988.

Plant Pathology | To Top

Campbell, Keith William. Resistance to Aspergillus Ear Rot and Aflatoxin (Zea Mays, Breeding). 90p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Political Science | To Top

Gouws, Amanda. A Study of Political Tolerance in the Context Of South Africa. 172p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1992.

Kempton, Daniel Robert. Soviet Strategy Toward African National Liberation Movements (South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe). 349p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1988.

Kuperus, Tracy. State, Civil Society and Apartheid in South Africa: an Examination of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk. 367p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.

Mahali, Vincent Philani. Contradiction, Conflict and Convergence of Class and Nation in Black South African Politics, 1925-1985 (African National Congress, Apartheid, South African Communist Party, Black African). 384p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1996.

Naim, Syed Rashid.  The Radical Tradition in Islam and the Islamist Tendency in Contemporary Egypt.  504p, 1990.

Sociology | To Top

Walson, Patrick Afamefuna.  Life Satisfaction in Rural Anambra State of Nigeria.  134p, 1989.

Williams, John James. Urban Social Movements in Metropolitan Cape Town, South Africa. 556p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1989.
 

Women's Studies | To Top

Kolia, Raiza Ahmed. A Study of Gender Training Programs Used Internationally: a Focus on the African Experience. 266p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1994.