Africa Today’s author of the month
I am honoured to have been named “Author of the month” by the journal Africa Today.
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2022
Workshop Religions on Campus: Coexisting Traditions, Reformulating the Secular and Life Projects
With the Remoboko research group, we organised a workshop entitled “Religions on Campus: Coexisting Traditions, Reformulating the Secular and Life Projects” at the LASDEL in Niamey (Niger) from 31 October to 5 November 2022. The event was attended by 17 participants from Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Mali, France and Germany. I presented a paper entitled “‘Trop
Lutte contre le terrorisme et sécuritisation du salafisme au Bénin et au Togo : instrumentalisations diverses d’une “menace étrangère”
I contributed to the latest issue of the Bulletin FrancoPaix of the Centre Franco-Paix of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand. I wrote a report based on my research on Muslim minorities in Benin and Togo. Abstract La détérioration de la situation sécuritaire au Burkina Faso, qui a suivi la chute du président Blaise Compaoré en octobre 2014,
Digital Humanities in the Making: The Islam Burkina Faso Collection
On September 16, I presented my digital humanities project Islam Burkina Faso Collection at the ZMO Open Day.
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Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship
On 15 September, together with Perry Collins, we presented a paper entitled “Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship” for the panel on “Digital Humanities” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Abstract Despite the growing popularity of digital humanities, a limited number of initiatives related
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12th European Summer University (ESU) in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”
In August 2022, I attended the 12th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”, hosted by the University of Leipzig and organised by Elisabeth Burr in collaboration with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL). The two-week intensive programme consisted of 36 hours of workshops, four teaser sessions, six lectures, four project presentations and
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Special Issue “Muslim Minorities in Africa”
The double special issue I co-edited with Dorothea E. Schulz on “Muslim Minorities in Africa”, in the making since 2019, is finally out in Islamic Africa! I feel privileged to have worked with these amazing scholars from various disciplines: Laura Collins, Dr. Gino Vlavonou, Katrin Langewiesche, Hassan Ndzovu, Kristina Mashimi, Nelly Mwale, Nadeem Mahomed and
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A “Yovo” Historian in Benin and Togo: Conducting Fieldwork in Times of Pandemic and Fears of Jihadism Spreading
On June 15, 2022, I participated in the Workshop “Researching Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa” at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Point de passage et frontières religieuses
Workshop organized at LASDEL (Niamey) on June 3, 2022.
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Salafisme et sécuritisation de l’islam au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une “menace étrangère”
Paper presented at the Islamist Protest, Terrorism and (In)Security in Africa Conference at the Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun (Yaoundé) on June 2nd, 2022.