1 - Toward a Sustainable Empowerment of Women as the Foundation of Post-colonial Society

Presentation Abstract
This paper investigates the theories and practices of women's empowerment as the indispensable foundation of post-colonial society in order to connect it with the consideration of the economy in a wider sense to serve sustainability.
We examine the history of post-colonialism and sort out the necessary issues for the analysis. The place of women and their movements has been essential to counterpose the large-sized and semi-forced development following the developed countries, especially in the 1980s, but such a trend was classified as that of eco-feminism and found only a limited field of discussion. We replace its issues to serve the consideration of sustainability. 
Taking this theoretical point into consideration, the practical part investigates the possible effects and latent problems of the social implementation of some more electricity in the village of Medina Sabakh in Senegal. Our joint research includes natural scientists whose major is the internet-type energy and its implementations, and who are planning to implement it into the district. To avoid failures of previous projects, we examine in advance how such an implementation can be carried out and maintained by the population in a sustainable way. From the considerations, this paper argues the possibilities of the sustainable empowerment of women that can also be generalized in other cases.