Activities in 2026

Blog post co-authored with Vincent Hiribarren for Digital History Bielefeld, reflecting on the Hannover workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies.

Call for papers for a four-day workshop at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, 21–24 September 2026, co-organised with Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngué Um, and Menno van Zaanen, and funded by the DFG Point Sud programme.

Publication of the edited volume L'Afrique des religions à l'épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations, featuring a chapter co-authored with Fiacre Anato on the limits of religious categorisations in Beninese censuses and surveys.

Aksana Ismailbekova and I presented our project "Islam's 'Peripheries'" at the VolkswagenStiftung "Open Up" kick-off event at Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover.

Three-day workshop in Hannover bringing together 25 researchers from 16 countries to explore digital humanities and AI in African Studies, co-organised with Vincent Hiribarren and funded by the VolkswagenStiftung.

K.D. Thompson reviewed my book Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin in The Journal of Modern African Studies, describing it as 'a vital contribution to our understanding of West African faith-based student associations'.

Grateful that my book Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin has been reviewed by Macodou Fall in Research Africa Reviews.