Activities

Visited École nationale des chartes in Paris on the invitation of Vincent Jolivet.

A series of four public talks at EHESS, Paris, in May 2025, exploring the histories of Islam and religious pluralism in francophone West Africa using digital humanities methods.

Attending and presenting at the Humanistica 2025 conference in Dakar, focusing on Digital Humanities and AI.

New book publication based on research conducted at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient since 2021.

Comparative analysis of national Islamic umbrella organizations in four West African countries.

Panel discussion at the 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA).

Presented a paper with Fiacre Anato at the workshop L'Afrique des religions à l'épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations at the Université Paris Cité. Examined religious categorisation dynamics in Benin, highlighting the tension between Vodun's statistical decline and its cultural vitality.

Presented findings on Islamic knowledge production in Francophone West Africa at the ZMO workshop "Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South". Examined how Muslim intellectuals navigate multiple epistemologies using a corpus of 1,500 Islamic periodicals.

The edited volume 'Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences', co-edited with Abdoulaye Sounaye, is now available in open access.

Announcing the acceptance of the panel proposal 'Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives' for ECAS 2025 in Prague.