{ "version": 1, "dataset": "research", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/research.json", "count": 6, "items": [ { "id": "islams-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/islams-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia", "title": "Islam's 'Peripheries': Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia", "shortTitle": "Islam's 'Peripheries'", "cardTitle": "Islam's 'Peripheries': DH & AI in West Africa and Central Asia", "subtitle": "Experimenting with AI on two multilingual collections, West African and Central Asian Islam, to read them at a scale close reading cannot reach, and to find where the methods mislead.", "years": "2026-2028", "startYear": 2026, "endYear": 2028, "current": true, "shortDescription": "Testing what AI can do with two multilingual collections, to compare Islamic discourse and responses to modernity in West Africa and Central Asia.", "description": "A research project testing what AI can do with two multilingual collections on Islamic communities in West Africa and Central Asia, and comparing Islamic discourse across the two regions.", "body": "Co-directed with Aksana Ismailbekova (opens in new tab), this project tests what artificial intelligence (AI) can do with two multilingual collections on Islamic communities in West Africa and Central Asia. Between them they hold thousands of documents whose volume and range of languages have kept most of the material out of reach.\n\nBoth regions sit at the edge of how Islamic history is usually written: West Africa since the 1960s, Central Asia across the colonial and early Soviet periods and the Tajik civil war of 1992–97. Reading them against each other compares Islamic discourse and responses to modernity under two different secular orders: laïcité in francophone West Africa, Soviet and post-Soviet secularism in Central Asia.\n\nThree aims\n\nFrom documents to structured data. Multimodal LLMs now outperform specialised OCR and HTR systems on low-resource languages and unfamiliar scripts: Hausa, Arabic, Cyrillic, Old Tatar, Tajik. Paired with context-aware entity extraction, we expect them to turn scanned pages into records that can be queried and linked.\n\nAccess through MCP and a chatbot. We plan a Model Context Protocol (opens in new tab) (MCP) server that gives any AI assistant a single interface onto both collections, with a companion “skill” that encodes curatorial judgement: search strategies, transliteration variants, documented bias. A researcher should then be able to put one question in natural language to both collections at once, without reading every language in them. The intended deliverable is a conversational assistant on the project website, running on an open-source LLM.\n\nOpen, local, reviewable. What the project builds is pipelines: code that calls existing LLMs to run OCR, handwriting recognition, and entity extraction. They are designed for open-source models small enough to run locally, without costly infrastructure. Domain experts keep the final say through human-in-the-loop validation (opens in new tab), and all code, data, and publications are to be released open access under FAIR principles.\n\nTwo “peripheral” collections\n\nBoth are held at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) (opens in new tab):\n\nThe Islam West Africa Collection (opens in new tab): 14,700+ items (newspapers, Islamic publications, 9,315 minutes of Hausa audio, photographs) covering Islam and Muslim communities in six West African countries from the 1960s onward.\n\nThe Reinhard Eisener Collection (opens in new tab): 1,546 documents across 50 archival boxes in eight languages (Russian, Uzbek, Tajik, Persian, Turki, English, German, French), on the Emirate of Bukhara (1917–30), early Soviet governance, and the Tajik civil war (1992–97).\n\nIf the methods hold across two collections this different, they should transfer to any collection that is large, multilingual, and under-described.", "keywords": [ "Digital Humanities", "AI", "West Africa", "Central Asia", "Islam", "Archives", "Comparative History", "Algorithmic Analysis" ], "regions": [ "West Africa", "Central Asia" ], "sourceLanguages": [ "Russian", "Arabic", "Hausa", "Tajik", "Uzbek", "Persian", "Turki", "French", "Ewe", "Kabyè", "German" ], "programme": "Open Up — New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies", "projectName": "Islam's 'Peripheries': Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia", "communications": [ "islam-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia-2026", "beyond-keywords-ai-iwac-mcp-2026", "dormant-digital-collections-ai-triage-dga-2026", "digital-hoarding-open-archives-warsaw-2026", "islam-peripheries-open-up-2026" ], "grants": [ "volkswagen-openup-2026" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/islams-peripheries.webp", "imageAlt": "Collage of three documents: a Central Asian newspaper page in Perso-Arabic script, and two West African Islamic magazine covers in Arabic and French", "figCaption": "Documents from the two collections: the Central Asian press, and West African Islamic magazines in Arabic and French", "ctas": [ { "label": "Islam West Africa Collection", "href": "https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/", "external": true, "primary": true }, { "label": "Reinhard Eisener Collection", "href": "https://www.zmo.de/en/library/special-collection-1/translate-to-english-reinhard-eisener-bestand", "external": true } ], "links": [ { "label": "Islam West Africa Collection", "url": "https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/" }, { "label": "Reinhard Eisener Collection", "url": "https://www.zmo.de/en/library/special-collection-1/translate-to-english-reinhard-eisener-bestand" } ] }, { "id": "dh-ai-african-studies", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/dh-ai-african-studies", "title": "Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies", "shortTitle": "Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies", "cardTitle": "Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies", "years": "2025-2027", "startYear": 2025, "endYear": 2027, "current": true, "shortDescription": "Exploring how DH and AI can transform knowledge production in African studies through ethical, sustainable, and Africa-centred digital infrastructures.", "description": "How digital humanities and AI are changing knowledge production in African studies: two 2026 workshops, a co-edited volume, and AI pipelines built for the IWAC.", "body": "Digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing how knowledge is produced in African studies. They make new kinds of analysis possible, and new narratives with them: reimagining cultural heritage, widening access to diverse sources, amplifying marginalised voices. As the field approaches an AI-driven “tipping point”, the project explores methods for designing, evaluating and sustaining digital infrastructures. These systems need to be grounded in African epistemologies rather than retrofitted from Western models.\n\nThese questions run through a collaborative initiative: two workshops in 2026 and a co-edited volume, Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies, to be published by Bielefeld University Press. The project brings together scholars and practitioners from Africa, Europe and beyond, and opens dialogue between the Global North and South. Three themes organise the work: transforming research methods through computational tools, building sustainable infrastructures in resource-constrained settings, and centring African knowledge systems in digital design. The move is from policy governance about AI to “practising with AI”, and towards the ethical development of DH across the continent.\n\nMy contribution addresses the practical “problem of scale” in African digital collections. Tracing my own route from “digital hoarder” to “historian-programmer”, I explore how far agentic coding lowers the barrier to entry: the researcher specifies a problem in natural language, and an AI agent writes, runs and debugs the code. Pipelines built on large language models (LLMs) take over labour-intensive work such as optical character recognition (OCR) and named entity recognition (NER). These Python-based workflows (opens in new tab) open up vast, under-resourced collections. The same approach turns a static archive into interactive visualisations (opens in new tab): networks of who appears alongside whom (opens in new tab), word frequencies traced year by year (opens in new tab), a semantic map that places 12,000 articles by textual similarity (opens in new tab). Most link back to the documents behind them, so readers can test their own questions against the sources.\n\nI prototype these methods in the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) (opens in new tab), whose 30-million-word corpus tests the limits of AI in historical research . Working from Moretti’s (2000) “distant reading (opens in new tab)”, I treat AI as a “co-intelligence” (Mollick, 2024 (opens in new tab)) for corpora too large to read in their entirety. AI-assisted sentiment analysis, for instance, examines how Islam and Muslims are represented in Francophone West African newspapers, with the results visualised in an interactive dashboard (opens in new tab). Human judgement still decides what the patterns mean; AI offers a workable way of handling the volume of digital material African history now generates.", "keywords": [ "digital humanities", "artificial intelligence", "African studies", "AI", "DH", "African epistemologies", "Islam West Africa Collection", "IWAC", "LLM", "OCR", "NER", "vibe coding" ], "funder": "Volkswagen Foundation · DFG Programme Point Sud", "projectName": "Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies", "publications": [ "ai-meets-archive-iwac-llm-2026", "trier-coder-interpreter-ia-historien-2026", "for-whom-for-what-purpose-dh-ai-african-studies-2026", "madore-2026-conversation-coauthorship-dh-ai", "charting-new-territory-digital-humanities-ki-african-studies-2026", "madore-2026-iwac-private-database-public-resource", "madore-2024-launch-iwac", "islam-burkina-faso-collection-2021" ], "communications": [ "serveurs-mcp-glam-africains-stias-2026", "stias-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026", "ai-africa-symposium-kansas-2026", "humanites-numeriques-dh-ia-etudes-africaines-reaf-2026", "retour-note-synthese-dh-ia-reaf-2026", "volkswagenstiftung-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026", "zmo-kitchen-talks-ai-islamic-african-studies", "archives-algorithms-iwac-2025", "when-ai-meets-the-archive-2025", "dh-ai-african-studies-2025", "historian-vs-ai-ecas-2025", "humanites-numeriques-ia-ecole-chartes-2025", "ai-archives-humanistica-2025", "tracing-islamic-knowledge-production", "islam-algorithms-ai", "collection-islam-humanites-2024", "collection-islam-afrique-ouest", "launch-islam-west-africa-collection", "digital-humanities-islam-burkina-faso", "publishing-islam-burkina-faso-collection-2022", "islam-burkina-faso-collection-omeka-2022" ], "grants": [ "point-sud-2026", "volkswagen-2025" ], "references": [ "volkswagenstiftung-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026", "stias-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026", "zmo-kitchen-talks-ai-islamic-african-studies" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/IWAC.webp", "imageAlt": "Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies" }, { "id": "digital-research-environment", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/digital-research-environment", "title": "Digital Research Environment", "shortTitle": "Digital Research Environment", "cardTitle": "Digital Research Environment (Africa Multiple)", "subtitle": "A research programme on how African research data is described, modelled, and made findable.", "years": "2026-", "startYear": 2026, "current": true, "shortDescription": "Building and studying the data infrastructure that connects the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, its four African research centres, and their partners.", "description": "Research data management, knowledge-graph development, AI-assisted processing, and agentic access at the Digital Research Environment of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth.", "body": "The Digital Research Environment (DRE) is the digital infrastructure unit of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (opens in new tab) at the University of Bayreuth. We design, build, and maintain the data systems that connect researchers across the Africa Multiple Research Centres (opens in new tab) (AMRCs) and partner institutions worldwide: research data management, knowledge-graph development, AI-assisted processing, and digital literacy, grounded in the FAIR (opens in new tab) and CARE (opens in new tab) principles. I joined as Data Curator in 2026.\n\nTwo principles govern the work. Curation is shared: each AMRC (Ouagadougou, Makhanda, Lagos, Eldoret) describes the data it knows best, and the DRE runs the infrastructure that connects them. Storage is distributed: data remains in its local repository while Bayreuth holds the metadata layer pointing to it, so research data becomes findable without being relocated.\n\nThat metadata layer is public as the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (opens in new tab) (AMIRA), an Omeka S site that makes the collections searchable from one place : nearly 4,000 research items, more than 90 projects, some 1,600 people and 600 organisations, in 28 languages across 39 countries.\n\nFederated description\n\nThe DRE works with each centre to assess what it holds and what can be linked to the platform: structuring and quality-checking collections, drafting data management plans, and preparing datasets for citation and long-term preservation.\n\nUnderneath the service is a research question: whose description counts. Good metadata makes a researcher’s work more discoverable, but the vocabularies that carry it are rarely neutral. Subject terms, where they exist at all, tend to derive from Library of Congress Subject Headings, often poorly suited to African sources and knowledge systems. We are working towards taxonomies in African languages, and towards modelling the relations between entities rather than only tagging them, so the records become a graph one can reason over. Reconciliation with Wikidata would anchor those entities outward, but its African coverage is thin, which makes the work a contribution as much as a lookup.\n\nAI-assisted processing\n\nThe metadata researchers supply is often thin, and subject description is almost always the weakest part of it. We are experimenting with AI-assisted processing as an additional service: OCR for print and handwriting, transcription of audio and video, summarisation, entity extraction, tagging and classification. The models run locally, on open-source weights and the Cluster’s own hardware, which keeps the pipeline GDPR-compliant for material that is often special-category personal data, and keeps costs down.\n\nAccess and dissemination\n\nA collection that cannot be interrogated is not findable in any sense that matters. Alongside searchable databases and project websites, the DRE builds dashboards, network graphs, and maps (opens in new tab) that foreground connections: the subjects that co-occur across collections, the collaboration networks no single catalogue record makes visible.\n\nUsers increasingly put their questions to an AI assistant instead of searching a catalogue. The AMIRA MCP server (opens in new tab) lets an assistant query the collection directly, so answers are drawn from the records and cite them, which reduces the hallucination that comes from asking a model what it already knows. Building and evaluating that layer is the current strand of the work.", "keywords": [ "Digital Research Environment", "DRE", "Africa Multiple", "AMIRA", "University of Bayreuth", "research data management", "FAIR", "CARE", "knowledge graph", "Wikidata", "Omeka S", "metadata", "ontologies", "AI-assisted cataloguing", "African studies" ], "funder": "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (EXC 2052)", "programme": "Africa Multiple 2.0 · 2026–2032", "projectName": "Digital Research Environment (University of Bayreuth)", "publications": [ "beyond-keywords-entity-linking-research-metadata-2026" ], "communications": [ "beyond-keywords-entity-linking-cikm-2026", "beyond-keywords-entity-linking-jcdl-2026", "responsible-ai-access-mcp-server-2026", "reconfiguring-archive-amira-2026" ], "references": [ "reconfiguring-archive-amira-2026" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/dre.webp", "imageAlt": "The AMIRA home page: the atlas masthead beside a panel counting the research items, projects, people, organisations, and languages in the collection", "figCaption": "AMIRA, the public metadata layer built by the DRE", "ctas": [ { "label": "AMIRA", "href": "https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/s/amira", "external": true, "primary": true }, { "label": "Digital Research Environment", "href": "https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_5-Digital-Solutions1/index.html", "external": true }, { "label": "DRE on GitHub", "href": "https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment", "external": true } ], "links": [ { "label": "AMIRA", "url": "https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/s/amira" }, { "label": "Digital Research Environment", "url": "https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_5-Digital-Solutions1/index.html" }, { "label": "DRE on GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment" } ] }, { "id": "religious-activism-campuses-togo-benin", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/religious-activism-campuses-togo-benin", "title": "Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin", "shortTitle": "Religious Activism on Campuses", "years": "2021-2024", "startYear": 2021, "endYear": 2024, "current": false, "shortDescription": "Examining how Christian and Muslim student associations transformed university life at the Université de Lomé and the Université d'Abomey-Calavi.", "body": "This project uncovers the neglected history of Christian and Muslim student associations at the Université de Lomé (Togo) and the Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Benin), and examines their resilience and adaptability over five decades. While much of the literature has focused on the role of student protests in triggering national conferences in Benin and Togo in the early 1990s, this study broadens the lens to include the significant but often overlooked religious dimension of campus life.\n\nDrawing on interviews with several generations of activists and press coverage from both countries, the research analyses the emergence and evolution of these religious associations under challenging political circumstances: a one-party dictatorship in Togo and a Marxist-Leninist regime in Benin. It explores how these groups navigated authoritarian rule, political liberalisation and the principles of laïcité, while shaping campus dynamics in institutions originally known as strongholds of leftist, anti-imperialist and secular ideologies.\n\nThe study reveals the university campus as a microcosm reflecting broader national socio-political trends, while also highlighting the importance of translocal factors in shaping the internal dynamics of these groups. Amidst the massification of university enrolments and rising graduate unemployment in recent decades, faith-based associations have expanded their role beyond religious guidance. Increasingly, they offer a “social curriculum”, providing a space for socialisation and a set of skills, norms and moral values that complement the secular academic curriculum.\n\nBy analysing the interplay between religion, politics and education, this book provides new insights into the evolving role of faith in public universities and broader societal transformations in West Africa. It explores the implications of growing religiosity for these public universities as secular institutions, and contributes to our understanding of how religious organisations have coexisted with, and sometimes challenged, traditional student associations since the 1970s.", "projectName": "Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin", "showFunding": false, "publications": [ "religious-activism-campuses", "religiosity-university-campuses", "exister-contexte-autoritaire-lome-2023" ], "communications": [ "presentation-discussion-religious-activism-campuses-ciram-2025", "author-meets-critic-faith-activism-2024", "university-campuses-africa-beyond", "interfaith-coexistence-campuses", "faith-based-student-organizations-2023", "workshop-religions-on-campus-2022", "yovo-historian-benin-togo", "associations-chretiennes-islamiques-campus", "militantisme-islamique-campus-lome", "workshop-religion-in-higher-educational-institutions-2021", "salafisme-pentecotisme-campus-benin-togo" ], "grants": [ "fritz-thyssen-2023" ], "fieldwork": [ "cotonou-porto-novo-benin-2024", "lome-togo-2024", "cotonou-porto-novo-benin-2022", "lome-togo-2022", "lome-togo-2021" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/campus-activism.webp", "imageAlt": "Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin", "audio": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/notebooklm/religious_activism_campus.mp3" }, { "id": "muslim-minorities-southern-cities-benin-togo", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/muslim-minorities-southern-cities-benin-togo", "title": "Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities of Benin and Togo", "shortTitle": "Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities", "years": "2018-2020", "startYear": 2018, "endYear": 2020, "current": false, "shortDescription": "Investigating the experiences and integration of Muslim minority communities in southern urban areas of Benin and Togo.", "body": "Muslims in Benin and Togo rarely make international headlines, except when warnings are issued about jihadist groups from the Sahel region encroaching on the Gulf of Guinea. This project moves beyond such narrow security concerns to examine the everyday lives of Muslim minorities in Cotonou, Porto-Novo, and Lomé. Using a combination of archival research and long-term ethnography, it traces the trajectories of these communities from the 1960s to the present day. It explores how living as an internally diverse minority within a Christian-majority environment shapes religious practice, civic engagement and claims to citizenship.\n\nA key finding of this project is that political elites often exploit global terror narratives to neutralise domestic dissent. In Togo, for example, the Faure Gnassingbé regime responded to the anti-government protests of 2017–2018 by pitting state-loyal “good Muslims” against perceived opposition-aligned “bad Muslims”. By branding the opposition leader Tikpi Atchadam and his party as “Salafi” radicals, the state exploited Western fears of jihadism to discredit calls for democratic reform .\n\nIn neighbouring Benin, Imam Ibrahim Ousmane’s controversial election to the National Assembly in 2019 exposed divisions within the Muslim community regarding legitimate representation in a minority context . In both cases, accusations of “radicalisation” are employed as rhetorical weapons in disputes over local leadership and resources, rather than reflecting imported ideologies .\n\nBeyond politics, the project examined the statistical narratives that shape religious life in these countries. While official census data suggests a clear shift from “African traditional religions” to monotheism, a critical analysis of religious categorisation reveals a more complex reality. In Benin, for example, Muslim and Christian identities rarely exist in isolation; they often overlap with long-standing Vodun practices . By transcending rigid theological boundaries, this research shows that minority status is not just a demographic limitation, but a dynamic space in which believers navigate faith, power and belonging in one of the most religiously diverse areas of West Africa.", "programme": "Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships", "projectName": "Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities of Benin and Togo", "publications": [ "ambition-federatrice-faitieres-islamiques-2026", "repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin-2026", "lutte-terrorisme-salafisme-benin-togo-2022", "beninese-imam-election-2022", "muslim-minorities-africa-2", "muslim-minorities-africa-1", "good-muslim-bad-muslim-togo-2021" ], "communications": [ "repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin", "salafisme-securitisation-benin-togo-2022", "generations-imam-benin-2021", "representations-islam-muslims-togo", "muslim-minorities-africa-2019", "good-muslim-bad-muslim-togo-2019", "defense-laicite-musulmans-burkina", "union-islamique-benin-elections" ], "grants": [ "banting-2018" ], "fieldwork": [ "cotonou-porto-novo-benin-2019", "lome-togo-2019" ], "references": [ "good-muslim-bad-muslim-togo-2021", "beninese-imam-election-2022", "lutte-terrorisme-salafisme-benin-togo-2022", "repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin-2026" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/muslim-minorities.webp", "imageAlt": "Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities of Benin and Togo", "audio": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/notebooklm/muslim-minorities-southern-cties-Benin-Togo.mp3" }, { "id": "youth-womens-islamic-activism-cote-divoire-burkina-faso", "url": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/youth-womens-islamic-activism-cote-divoire-burkina-faso", "title": "Youth and Women's Islamic Activism in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso", "shortTitle": "Youth and Women's Islamic Activism", "years": "2013-2018", "startYear": 2013, "endYear": 2018, "current": false, "shortDescription": "Analysing the evolving roles of youth and women in Islamic movements and organisations in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.", "body": "This research project is situated in the context of the increasing visibility of Islam in the Ivorian and Burkinabe public sphere, particularly since the 1990s, and the growing engagement of youth and women within this religious dynamic. The project explores the emerging new forms of Islamic activism, with a particular focus on the role of young people and women, their communication strategies and their contribution to reshaping the religious and social landscape.\n\nAn important focus of this research is the impact of the increasing mediatisation of Islam, both through traditional media (radio, periodicals) and new information and communication technologies (internet, social media). It analyses how these tools are used by religious actors, especially youth and women, to disseminate their discourse, assert their presence in the public sphere and negotiate social and religious norms. The project highlights the emergence of new mediatised religious figures, including women, who are gaining significant authority and visibility.\n\nThe project also includes an in-depth study of the presence of Ivorian and Burkinabe Islam in the digital age. This analysis reveals how the internet and social media are being used by Islamic associations, Muslim intellectuals and individual religious figures to disseminate the religious message, construct transnational community identities and belonging, and promote new forms of online religiosity. The research highlights the challenges and limitations of this digital transition for some organisations, as well as the crucial role of individual initiatives, often led by young people, in harnessing the potential of the web.\n\nAnother important strand of the project is concerned with intergenerational dynamics within Muslim communities. It analyses how the rise of a young Arabophone and Francophone elite, more familiar with new technologies, is challenging traditional forms of religious authority and seeking to position itself as the spokesperson for a ‘civil Islam’. This research highlights the tensions and convergences between generations in the construction of contemporary Islam in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso.\n\nSpecific themes explored in this project include the role of “francophone Muslim intellectuals” in the Burkinabe public sphere after the departure of President Blaise Compaoré (2014), the vitality and dynamism of Salafism in Côte d’Ivoire, and the organisation of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Côte d’Ivoire and the stakes involved. Special attention is also given to the emergence of influential female figures, such as Aminata Kane Koné , and their role as religious entrepreneurs and media personalities.\n\nBy combining qualitative research methods - notably interviews with Muslim actors, media content analysis (print media, websites, social media) and a socio-historical approach - this project contributes to a better understanding of the profound transformations taking place within Islam in West Africa, with a particular focus on the engagement and strategies of youth and women. It highlights the complexity of religious dynamics, the diversity of actors and discourses, and the socio-political stakes involved in the assertion of Islam in the Ivorian and Burkinabe contexts.", "funder": "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)", "projectName": "Youth and Women's Islamic Activism in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso", "publications": [ "religion-internet-burkina-faso-2024", "islam-university-campuses-cote-divoire-2023", "francophone-muslim-intellectuals-burkina-faso-2020", "muslim-feminist-media-cote-divoire-2020", "imams-islamic-preachers-ouagadougou-2020", "religieux-internet-ntic-burkina-faso-2019", "hadj-cote-divoire-2018", "rivalites-collaborations-islamiques-cote-ivoire-burkina-faso-2018", "salafism-cote-ivoire-mande-2017", "muslim-women-burkina-faso-2016", "salafism-cote-divoire-2016", "islam-medias-senat-burkina-faso-2016", "sphere-publique-musulmane", "islam-ivoirien-burkinabe-numerique-2016", "leaders-muslim-ngos-burkina-faso-2016", "communaute-musulmane-burkina-faso-2014", "precheurs-musulmans-burkina-faso-2013", "madore-islam-politique-ouagadougou-2013", "imams-precheurs-ouagadougou-2013" ], "communications": [ "emancipation-feminine-militantisme-islamique", "political-mobilizations-burkina-faso", "muslim-intellectuals-francophone-salafis", "public-islam-cote-ivoire-burkina-faso", "militantisme-islamique-feminin-burkina-2019", "islam-university-campuses-cote-divoire-2019", "current-dynamics-islam-burkina-faso", "young-muslims-civic-engagement-burkina", "elites-musulmanes-cote-divoire-burkina-faso", "militantisme-bissap-feminisme-islamique-2018", "nouveau-dynamisme-salafisme-cote-divoire-2017", "islam-burkina-cote-ivoire", "hajj-organization-state-cote-divoire-2016", "evolutions-nouvelles-formes-islam-afrique-ouest", "islam-ivoirien-burkinabe-numerique-2016", "rue-islam-associatif-enjeux-citoyens-2014", "precheurs-precheuses-burkina-faso-2013", "mediatisation-islam-ouagadougou-2013", "imams-islamic-preachers-ouagadougou-2013", "imams-espace-public-ouagadougou-2012" ], "grants": [ "bombardier-doctoral-2013", "frqsc-doctoral-2013", "frqsc-masters-2011", "bombardier-masters-2010" ], "fieldwork": [ "abidjan-cote-divoire-2014-2015", "ouagadougou-burkina-faso-2015", "ouagadougou-burkina-faso-2011" ], "references": [ "muslim-feminist-media-cote-divoire-2020" ], "image": "https://www.frederickmadore.com/images/research/youth-women-activism.webp", "imageAlt": "Youth and Women's Islamic Activism in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso" } ] }