Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1988-2000
Agriculture
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
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
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
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 Sangsop, 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
Hoff, Joanna Tenneh Diggs. The Role of Women in National Development in Liberia,
1800-1900. 160p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1989.
Economics
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
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
Kwon, Hyeok Joe. The Genesis and Evolution of African Easterly Waves. 243p., Thesis
(PH.D.), 1988.
History
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
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
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
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
Kaci, Ahmed. The State Centralization and Control of the Broadcasting Media in
Algeria from 1962 to 1982. 876p, 1988.
Plant Pathology
Campbell, Keith William. Resistance to Aspergillus Ear Rot and Aflatoxin (Zea Mays,
Breeding). 90p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1995.
Political Science
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
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
Kolia, Raiza Ahmed. A Study of Gender Training Programs Used Internationally: a
Focus on the African Experience. 266p., Thesis (PH.D.), 1994.