Based on a review of the legal standards which control the relations between sexes in different African countries, this article analyzes the processes through which discriminations against women affect their empowerment, their health and their safety, and compromise the development prospects....

</titre> This article attempts to understand why, despite the inflation of its uses and conceptual blurring, the concept of Crisis remains a central concept of Economics and its surrounding discourses. Furthermore, the instrumentalization of the explicative paradigm of Crisis, helps to legitimize...