In February, Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren welcomed 26 experts from 16 countries in Hanover for "Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies," a scoping workshop funded by @VolkswagenStiftung.
Short interviews with participants: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/
I am delighted to be spending May in Paris as a "professeur invité" at the EHESS. My sincere thanks to Marie Miran and Mathieu Terrier for the invitation. I'll be giving four public lectures on my research on the history of Islam and Muslim societies in francophone West Africa since the 1960s
I'm excited to announce the publication of my new book, a culmination of my research at the @zmo-berlin.bsky.social since 2021 as part of the project "Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life". It is available in open access and can be downloaded for free
Off to Chicago tomorrow for the African Studies Association conference. My forthcoming book Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin will be the focus of an Author Meets Critic panel. If you're at #ASA2024, join us on 12 Dec. (10:15am Purdue Room)
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9
Off to Chicago tomorrow for the African Studies Association conference. My forthcoming book "Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin" will be the focus of an "Author Meets Critic" panel. If you're at #ASA2024, join us on 12 December (10:15am Purdue Room)!
www.degruyter.com/document/isb...
@fmadore.bsky.social and I are convening a panel on #DigitalHumanities and #AI in #AfricanStudies #ECAS2025. Please submit your paper before 15th Dec guarant.eu/ecasconferen... #DH #AfricanHistory
I've put together a starter pack for Sahel-watchers new to BlueSky. Please suggest others I may have missed! go.bsky.app/CX1DCBE
The edited volume "Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences", which I co-edited with Abdoulaye Sounaye, is now in open access. You can download the full book in ZMO's institutional repository:
doi.org/10.58144/202...
The panel proposal "Digital Humanities ( #DH ) and #AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives" that I submitted with Vincent Hiribarren has been accepted for the #ECAS2025. The conference will take place in Prague next year.
frederickmadore.com/conference/d...
The panel proposal "Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives" that I submitted with @bixhiribarren has been accepted for the #ECAS2025. The conference will take place in Prague next year.
https://frederickmadore.com/conference/digit
Join us tomorrow at 16:00 (Berlin time) for the launch of the "Islam West Africa Collection" at the @mict_intl. To get the Zoom link, you can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtduG...
My @remoboko colleague Vincent Favier at @ZMO and Koudbi Kaboré are convening the panel "Training for good life or a good society? Religious students’ individual and collective aspirations in public universities in sub-Saharan Africa" at the #ECAS2023.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/ecas2023/p/
Inspired by the @Wikicite initiative, I uploaded the metadata of about 230 references on #Islam in #BurkinaFaso on @wikidata. @WDScholia then generates very interesting visualizations of the research on the topic: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q3081878
#DH #digitalhumanities
As part of the issue, I wrote an article entitled “A Beninese Imam's Controversial 2019 Election Campaign: Muslim Leadership and Political Engagement in a Minority Context”
brill.com/view/journals/iafr/13/1/...
The double special issue I co-edited with D.Schulz on "Muslim Minorities in Africa" is finally out in Islamic Africa! I feel privileged to have worked with @L_CCollins, G.Vlavonou, K.Langewiesche, @hndzovu, @KMashimi, N.Mwale, N.Mahomed and A.E. Leinweber
https://brill.com/view/journals/iafr/13/1
The @remoboko research group (@ZMO_Berlin) is organizing a workshop on "Religion in higher educational institutions in Africa and beyond". To attend on Zoom, please register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdOu...
By portraying T.Atchadam as the leader of a radical ethnic and religious movement with Islamist goals, F.Gnassingbé and his supporters sought to weaken this emerging challenger and garner support from Western countries while simultaneously driving a wedge between Muslim leaders.
My first paper coming from my new research project has just come out in @jmodafstudies. I examine the unique role that Muslim leaders in Togo played in the anti-government protests that broke out in 2017-18 and the Gnassingbé regime's strategic response.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X21000094
We also have a blog on @hypothesesorg, which already includes several posts on religiosity on university campuses in Niger and Nigeria
https://remoboko.hypotheses.org/
For updates about our research project "Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life" (Remoboko) @ZMO_Berlin, follow our new Twitter handle @remoboko!
My latest article, "Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in #CIV", is now out in Africa Today for a special issue on religious entrepreneurship!
https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2-3.02
I am happy to announce that I am starting a new position as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa project at the @ZMO_Berlin in February! Thank you to all the great scholars @UFSahelResearch, @UFGlobalIslam, and @africa_uf!
L'article est aussi disponible en français:
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/art...
My new article is out today in @AfricaIai: "Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso"
You can read it here:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000108
#Islam #Burkina #lwili
Heading to Boston for the #ASA2019 Conference! I will chair a panel on "Muslim Minorities in Africa":
-Ashley E. Leinweber (@MissouriState)
-Dorothea E. Schulz (@WWU_Muenster)
-Katrin Langewiesche (@uni_mainz_eng)
-John Hanson (@IUBHistory)
@africa_uf @UFGlobalIslam
A new review of my book "La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest" is now out in the latest issue of The Journal of African History (by Abdoulaye Sounaye) #Islam #BurkinaFaso
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853719000677
Remadji Hoinathy (@issafrica), "Les chantiers de la laïcité au #Tchad":
Même si la laïcité demeure une pierre angulaire du vivre-ensemble, les dynamiques actuelles lui prévoient un avenir des plus mouvementé. La question linguistique (arabophones/francophones) est très importante
Koudbi Kaboré (Uni. Joseph Ki-Zerbo): Au #BurkinaFaso, la laïcité est étroitement liée à la gestion du pluralisme religieux par l'État. Bien qu’elles soient importantes, les pratiques traditionnelles et coutumières dans l’espace public sont souvent oubliées dans les analyses.
@issafrica B. Sangaré: "La notion de laïcité au #Mali s’est historiquement inscrite dans des arrangements institutionnels, des relations politiques, des histoires sociales et des circonstances particulières, qui impliquent une acceptation minimale de l’idée de pluralité dans ses usages."