Search for dissertations about: "African history"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 86 swedish dissertations containing the words African history.
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11. For God's Sake : The Work and Long-Term Impact of Christian Missionaries in Cameroon 1844-2018
Abstract : Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made great strides towards more accessible and higher quality schooling and medical systems in recent years. Despite this, education and health care in Africa lag behind other developing regions and large inequalities in educational levels and health care access remain across countries, subnational regions, and gender. READ MORE
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12. Human demographic history : Insights on the human past based on genomes from Southern through Central Africa
Abstract : Evidence from paleontology, archaeology and population genetics support that modern humans originated in Africa. While the out-of-Africa event and subsequent colonization of all continents are well documented, human history in Africa at that time and before is less studied. READ MORE
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13. From indentured labourer to free wage worker in South Africa : Some aspects and changes of the Indian South African socio-economic and labour position, 1860-1950
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14. State Capacity and Development in Francophone West Africa
Abstract : This thesis proposes a unique quantitative investigation of the long-term development of modern states in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is done by measuring and analysing the dynamic history of tax revenue, as a key measure of the capacity of the state, and development in four countries in francophone West Africa – Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger and Senegal – over the long 20th century. READ MORE
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15. Land, Labour, Legacies : Long-term Trends in Inequality and Living Standards in Tanzania, c. 1920-2020
Abstract : Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to raise their populations out of poverty. One of these countries is Tanzania. READ MORE