On 28 June 2024, I presented a paper titled “La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest : enjeux éthiques et décolonisation des humanités numériques” at the 12th International Conference on Mande Studies in Bamako, Mali, organised by the Mande Studies Association (MANSA). This presentation, part of the panel “Décoloniser l’organisation et les systèmes de connaissance // […]
On 9 November 2023, the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) officially launched the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) in Berlin. This project, which I’m directing, is a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 6,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, photographs, and references on Islam and Muslims
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Thanks to a generous grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, our Remoboko research group organised its final conference entitled “University Campuses in Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas” at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin on 6-8 September. This conference sought to examine how university campuses in Africa and beyond: The
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
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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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.
On 22 February 2022, I gave a talk for the Chaire de recherche sur l’islam contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest (ICAO) at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Abstract Si l’Université de Lomé, auparavant sous l’emprise du parti unique du Rassemblement du peuple togolais, est souvent perçue comme un haut lieu de la contestation parfois