2024. Madore F. and L. Audet Gosselin. “Religion on the Internet and New Information and Communication Technologies in Burkina Faso.” In Religious Encounters and Social Dynamics in Burkina Faso, edited by A. Degorce, L.O. Kibora and K. Langewiesche, 263–88. Dakar: Amalion. Abstract This chapter explores the relationship between religion and the internet in Burkina Faso, focusing on the role of […]
This book examines the resilience of Christian and Muslim student associations at universities in Togo and Benin from 1970 to 2023. It reveals how these groups navigated authoritarianism and laïcité, reshaping campus life and offering a “social curriculum” to members amidst political and social transformations.
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Sounaye, A. and F. Madore (eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2023. Abstract This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It
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Abdoulaye Sounaye and I officially launched our edited volume Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Cologne on 2 June 2023. The book is the result of a series of conversations that began at the ECAS in Edinburgh in 2019, with the panel “Religiosity
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,
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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2020. “Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso.” Africa 90 (3): 625-46. Abstract The attention paid to the security threats hanging over Burkina Faso, while legitimate, has overshadowed the underlying transformations in Islamic associational life since the fall of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. This major political upheaval had a significant
La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest. Québec/Paris: Presses de l’Université Laval/Hermann, 2016. Abstract Autrefois qualifié de « fille aimée de l’Église », le Burkina Faso compte aujourd’hui plus de 60 % de musulmans. Outre leur importance numérique, ceux-ci se sont montrés dynamiques depuis le tournant des années 1990, notamment avec un foisonnement associatif particulièrement important,
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