Les aménagements du bassin du fleuve Sénégal pendant la colonisation : 1850/1960
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Abstract EN:
After a precise description of the senegal river valley's, it is a very complete analysis of each development projects, which is being done. For each projects statements which has to be settleddavn, the political, economic and social contexts, as much in france than in the valley is related. This allows us to unterstand the causes of the failures and the difficulties of a political statement or the spreading out of a poor area. The political, economic, ecological and social's life in the valley is being dealt by to pics : real estate, landed property, conflicts, climatic problems, scarcity or starvation. The african chief district's attitude and the european's commercial houses which contribute to the population's misery, especially during the two world wars, has been denounced.
Abstract FR:
Apres une description precise de la vallee du fleuve senegal, c'est l'analyse tres complete de chaque projet d'amenageme nt qui est faite. Pour chaque mise en place des projets, le contexte politique, economique et social tant en france que dans la vallee est relate. Cela permet de comprendre les causes des echecs et les difficultes d'une politique d'amenagem ent ou de developpement d'une region pauvre. La vie politique, economique, ecologique et sociale dans la vallee est abordee par theme : conflits fonciers, problemes climatiqeus, disette ou famine. L'attitude de la cheffereie africaine et des maisons de commerce europeennes qui contribuent a la misere de la population notamment pendant les deux guerres mondiales est denoncee.