As of 1 October 2026
Curriculum Vitae
Frédérick Madore, PhD: Historian | Digital Humanities & AI | Data Curator, University of Bayreuth
Universität Bayreuth
Forschungszentrum für Afrikastudien
Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth
Room 1.08
Forschungszentrum für Afrikastudien
Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth
Room 1.08
Professional Appointments
2026–
Data Curator,
Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple”, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
2025
Visiting Scholar,
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France.
2021–25
Research Fellow,
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Germany.
2020
Part-Time Professor,
Department of History, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2018–20
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for African Studies, University of Florida, United States.
Education
Degrees
2018
PhD in History.
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Dissertation: “Rivalités et collaborations entre ainés et cadets sociaux dans les milieux associatifs islamiques en Côte d’Ivoire et au Burkina Faso (1970-2017)”
Co-advisors: Muriel Gomez-Perez and Cédric Jourde (University of Ottawa)
2013
M.A. in History.
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
2010
B.A. in History.
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Digital Humanities Trainings
2023
“HUJI-FUB Digital Humanities Winter School”.
Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, 27 February-1 March.
2023
“Les humanités numériques dans les projets de recherche”.
École d’hiver EnExDi, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 23-27 January.
2022
“Digital Archives: Reading and Manipulating Large-Scale Catalogues, Curating and Creating Small-Scale Archives”.
12th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2-12 August.
Certificates
2017
Arabic Language Certificate.
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Publications
Books
2025
Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970–2023. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111428895(opens in new tab)
Reviewed in Research Africa Reviews(opens in new tab), The Journal of Modern African Studies(opens in new tab), African Studies Review(opens in new tab), and The American Historical Review(opens in new tab).
2023
Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag. doi:10.58144/20241107-000(opens in new tab)
2016
La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest. Québec/Paris: Presses de l’Université Laval/Hermann. doi:10.58144/20241205-000(opens in new tab)
Reviewed in The Journal of African History(opens in new tab), Cahiers d’études africaines(opens in new tab), and Afrique contemporaine(opens in new tab).
Guest Edited Journals
2022
Frédérick Madore and Dorothea Schulz (eds.), “Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 2”. Islamic Africa 13 (1). Link
2021
Frédérick Madore and Dorothea Schulz (eds.), “Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 1”. Islamic Africa 12 (2). Link
2017
Pamela Millet-Mouity and Frédérick Madore (eds.), “Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique”. Émulations (24). doi:10.14428/emulations.024(opens in new tab)
Journal Articles
Forthcoming
“Trier, coder, interpréter : comment l’IA redistribue le travail de l’historien face à 30 000 sources sur l’islam ouest-africain”. Journal of West African History 12 (2).
2022
“A Beninese Imam’s Controversial 2019 Election Campaign: Muslim Leadership and Political Engagement in a Minority Context”. Islamic Africa 13 (1): 1-26. doi:10.1163/21540993-01202004(opens in new tab)
2021
“La Collection Islam Burkina Faso : promesses et défis des humanités numériques”. Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique. doi:10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e610(opens in new tab)
2021
“‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017-2018)”. The Journal of Modern African Studies 59 (2): 197-217. doi:10.1017/S0022278X21000094(opens in new tab)
2020
“Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso”. Africa 90 (3): 625-646. doi:10.1017/S0001972020000108(opens in new tab)
2020
“Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte d’Ivoire”. Africa Today 67 (2-3): 17-38. doi:10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02(opens in new tab)
2018
Frédérick Madore and Yssoufou Traoré. “L’organisation du hadj en Côte d’Ivoire: entre facteur de cohésion et source de rivalités au sein de la communauté musulmane (1993-2010)”. Cahiers d’études africaines (229): 179-208. doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.21880(opens in new tab)
2017
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Frédérick Madore and Pamela Millet-Mouity. “Interview with Rosalind I. J. Hackett on Religion and Digital Media Trends in Africa”. Émulations (24): 125-133. doi:10.14428/emulations.024.008(opens in new tab)
2017
Pamela Millet-Mouity and Frédérick Madore. “Pour de nouvelles études sur les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique”. Émulations (24): 11-22. doi:10.14428/emulations.024.001(opens in new tab)
2016
Frédérick Madore and Muriel Gomez-Perez. “Muslim Women in Burkina Faso since the 1970s: Toward Recognition as Figures of Religious Authority?”. Islamic Africa 7 (2): 185-209. doi:10.1163/21540993-00702001(opens in new tab)
2016
“The New Vitality of Salafism in Côte d’Ivoire: Toward a Radicalization of Ivoirian Islam?”. Journal of Religion in Africa 46 (4): 417-452. doi:10.1163/15700666-12340090(opens in new tab)
2016
“Islam, médias, mise en place du Sénat et article 37 de la Constitution: changement de paradigme au Burkina Faso (1991–2014)?”. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 50 (1): 7-27. doi:10.1080/00083968.2015.1101008(opens in new tab)
2016
“L’islam ivoirien et burkinabé à l’ère du numérique 2.0”. Journal des anthropologues (146-147): 151-178. doi:10.4000/jda.6525(opens in new tab)
2013
Muriel Gomez-Perez and Frédérick Madore. “Prêcheurs(ses) musulmans(es) et stratégies de communication au Burkina Faso depuis 1990. Des processus différentiés de conversion interne”. Théologiques 21 (2): 121-157. doi:10.7202/1028465ar(opens in new tab)
Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“L’ambition fédératrice à l’épreuve de la diversité : étude comparative des faîtières islamiques au Burkina Faso, Togo, Bénin et Côte d’Ivoire”. In André Chappatte and Bourahima Diomandé (eds.), Vie associative et pratiques organisationnelles en Afrique de l’Ouest : saisir les associations par leur architecture bureaucratique. Paris: Africae.
2026
Frédérick Madore and Codjo Fiacre Anato. “Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du Vodun”. In Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, and Aurélien Dasré (eds.), L’Afrique des religions à l’épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose-Hémisphères éditions,
25-48. Link
2024
Frédérick Madore and Louis Audet Gosselin. “Religion on the Internet and New Information and Communication Technologies in Burkina Faso”. In Alice Degorce, Ludovic O. Kibora, and Katrin Langewiesche (eds.), Religious Encounters and Social Dynamics in Burkina Faso. Dakar: Amalion,
263-288. Link
2023
“Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l’Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005”. In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag,
51-83. doi:10.58144/20241107-000(opens in new tab)
2023
Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore. “Introduction: Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa”. In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag,
3-21. doi:10.58144/20241107-000(opens in new tab)
2023
Frédérick Madore and Issouf Binaté. “Islam on University Campuses in Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s: Muslim Intellectuals and Francophone Salafism”. In Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore (eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag,
273-307. doi:10.58144/20241107-000(opens in new tab)
2021
Frédérick Madore and Andrée-Ann Brassard. “Du plan au brouillon : l’essentiel pour structurer ses idées et éviter le syndrome de la page blanche”. In Florence Piron and Élisabeth Arsenault (eds.), Guide décolonisé et pluriversel de formation à la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines. Québec: Éditions science et bien commun. Link
2020
“Imams, Islamic Preachers, and Public Space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward New Intergenerational Relationships and a Muslim Public Sphere”. In Lady Jane Acquah and Toyin Falola (eds.), Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press,
183-213. Link
2019
Frédérick Madore and Louis Audet Gosselin. “Le religieux sur Internet et dans les NTIC au Burkina Faso”. In Alice Degorce, Ludovic O. Kibora, and Katrin Langewiesche (eds.), Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso. Dakar: Amalion,
269-296. Link
2016
Kathéry Couillard, Frédérick Madore and Muriel Gomez-Perez. “Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement”. In Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin (eds.), Faith and Charity: Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa. London: Pluto Press,
105-123. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1gk0810.11(opens in new tab)
Working Papers
2026
Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren, Agata Błoch et al. “For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies”. ZMO Programmatic Texts 16.
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. doi:10.58144/20260827-000(opens in new tab)
Report
2022
“Lutte contre le terrorisme et sécuritisation du salafisme au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une ‘menace étrangère’”. Bulletin FrancoPaix 7 (8), 2-7. Link
Encyclopedia Entry
2014
Frédérick Madore and Muriel Gomez-Perez. “Communauté Musulmane du Burkina Faso”. In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_27698(opens in new tab)
Bulletin Articles
2026
“From Conversation to Co-authorship: A Workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies, 18–20 February 2026, Herrenhausen, Hanover”. ZMO Bulletin (48): 10. doi:10.58144/20260430-000(opens in new tab)
2026
“Decentering Knowledge: Concepts, Conceptualizations, Translations, 13–14 October 2025, ZMO”. ZMO Bulletin (48): 6-7. doi:10.58144/20260430-000(opens in new tab)
2026
“From Private Database to Public Resource to a Testing Ground for AI Methods: The Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)”. Shared World - People, Faiths, Ideas, Practices: New Directions in Research 2023-2025, Jahrbuch: 113-120. doi:10.58144/20260302-000(opens in new tab)
2025
“Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South, Workshop, 2-3 December 2024, ZMO”. ZMO Bulletin (46): 7. doi:10.58144/20250401-000(opens in new tab)
2024
“Launch Islam West Africa Collection, 9 November 2023, MiCT, Berlin/Online”. ZMO Bulletin (44): 9. doi:10.58144/20240415-000(opens in new tab)
Blog Posts
2026
Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren. “Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities und Künstliche Intelligenz in den African Studies”. Digital History Bielefeld, 31 March. doi:10.58079/15z9p(opens in new tab)
2022
Rand El Zein and Frédérick Madore. “Three Questions to Dr. Frédérick Madore”. Remoboko blog, 7 April. doi:10.58079/tldm(opens in new tab)
2018
Vincent Hiribarren, Pamela Millet-Mouity and Frédérick Madore. “Religions numériques en Afrique”. Africa4. Regards croisés sur l’Afrique, 19 September. Link
Conference Proceedings
2017
“Le nouveau dynamisme du salafisme en Côte d’Ivoire: vers une radicalisation de l’islam ivoirien?”. In Les Actes du Dixième Congrès International de l’Association des Études Mandé. Aux carrefours des identités: cohabitation, conflit, et réconciliation en Afrique de l’Ouest et dans les diasporas. Link
Grants & Fellowships
2026–28
Open Up – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies(opens in new tab), Volkswagen Foundation.
332,390
EUR
Co-applicant: Aksana Ismailbekova
2026
Organisation of a conference, DFG Programme Point Sud.
60,410
EUR
Co-applicants: Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um, Menno van Zaanen
2025–26
Scoping Workshops(opens in new tab), Volkswagen Foundation.
53,670
EUR
Co-applicant: Vincent Hiribarren
2023
Support for an international conference(opens in new tab), Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
20,000
EUR
Co-applicant: Abdoulaye Sounaye
2018–20
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship(opens in new tab), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
140,000
CAD
2018–20
Canada Postdoctoral Research Award, SSHRC.
81,000
CAD [Turned Down]
2013–15
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarships, SSHRC.
105,000
CAD
2013–15
Doctoral Research Scholarship, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FRQSC).
80,000
CAD [Turned Down]
2011–12
Master’s Research Scholarship, FRQSC.
15,000
CAD
2010–11
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Master’s Scholarships, SSHRC.
17,500
CAD
Awards & Honours
2023
Emerging Open Scholarship Award(opens in new tab), Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI).
2022
Author of the month, Africa Today.
2018
Honour Roll of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Université Laval.
2017
Excellence in Publication Award, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient (CIRAM), Université Laval.
2015
Assistance to Publishing Award(opens in new tab), Fonds Gérard-Dion, Université Laval.
2013
Honour Roll of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Université Laval.
2010
Jean-Guy Paquet Scholarship(opens in new tab), Université Laval.
2010
Department of History Award of Excellence, Université Laval.
2007
Excellence Scholarship for admission to the B.A. in History, Université Laval.
Digital Humanities Projects
2026–
Genocide at the Security Council
A reproducible pipeline and interactive dashboard tracing how the word genocide was used across 106,302 UN Security Council speeches, 1992–2023. Built with Python and SvelteKit, with every figure traceable to the script that made it.
2026–
IWAC MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol server and companion agent skill that give AI assistants structured, read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection — overcoming the limitations of keyword search through structured, AI-mediated access to the corpus.
2026
Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)
Interactive research atlas for the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence — browse, filter, and compare projects, people, institutions, and research items across partner centres in Africa, Brazil, and Germany.
2026
Global Heshmat
An interactive map tracing the public artworks of the Egyptian sculptor Hassan Heshmat across ten countries, developed for the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). Built with SvelteKit and MapLibre GL JS.
2026
IWAC AI Pipelines
Python workflows for processing the Islam West Africa Collection using Large Language Models—automating OCR, NER, transcription, and summarisation at scale.
2026
Live Translation and Subtitles
A lightweight desktop app that captions a room as people speak, either translating into English or French or transcribing the spoken language. Built in Rust and Tauri for a bilingual workshop at STIAS in Stellenbosch.
2026
Omeka S Docker Template
A reusable Docker template for deploying production-ready Omeka S digital archive installations with automatic setup, module management, and SSL support.
2025–26
Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies
The website for a VolkswagenStiftung scoping workshop held in Hanover in February 2026, which documents its programme and 26 participants and carries a filterable bibliography of over 200 works, a concept map of the literature, six filmed interviews, and the forthcoming position paper.
2025
IWAC Sentiment Analysis
Interactive visualisation of sentiment patterns in 12,280+ West African press articles on Islam, with multi-model comparison (ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral) and third-party arbitration.
2025
ZMO AI Pipelines
Google Colab notebooks that make AI accessible for researchers: transcribe audio/video, extract text from documents (OCR/HTR), and generate summaries—no installation required.
2025
ZMO Visualisations
Two static web apps built using data scraped monthly from the ZMO website: a word cloud showing the topics covered by each research unit, and a dashboard providing an overview of the institute’s complete publication history since 1994.
2023–
Islam West Africa Collection
An open-access archive of over 14,700 items on Islam and Muslims in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo.
2023
IWAC Bibliographic Data on Wikidata
Over 850 bibliographical references from the Islam West Africa Collection uploaded to Wikidata, enabling SPARQL queries and automatic visualisations through Scholia.
2021
Digital Exhibits on Islam in Burkina Faso
Two digital exhibits featuring curated materials from the Islam West Africa Collection, each with an interactive timeline, contextual narratives, and selective bibliography.
2018–24
Remoboko Visualisations
Interactive visualisations for the Remoboko research group, including a points of interest map for my book and charts documenting the group’s publications, activities, and collaborative network.
2018–23
Islam Burkina Faso Collection
An open-access digital database developed to address a critical gap in research infrastructure for West African Islamic studies, containing over 2,900 documents on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso. Now archived within the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC).
Invited Talks
2026
“Les serveurs MCP pour les GLAM africains : une voie d’avenir à l’ère de l’IA ?”, Humanités numériques et intelligence artificielle en études africaines : vers des pratiques durables et équitables, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch,
23 September.
2026
“University of Kansas AI and Africa Symposium”, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
17 September.
2026
Aksana Ismailbekova and Frédérick Madore. “Islam’s ‘Peripheries’: Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia”, Seminar series ‘Digital History in/of Central Asia and the South Caucasus’, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
29 June.
2026
“Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,
6 May.
2026
“From Digital Hoarding to Open Archives: Using AI Agents to Unlock West African Newspaper Collections”, Non-European Approaches in European Academia: Strategies for De-Europeanizing Research, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
16 April.
2025
“Building AI Pipelines for African Digital Collections: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection”, Work talk ALMEDA project, Uppsala University,
5 December.
2025
“Présentation-discussion de l’ouvrage Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin”, Conférences midi du CIRAM, Université Laval,
6 November.
2025
“When AI Meets the Archive: Transforming the Islam West Africa Collection with Large Language Models”, SADiLaR Digital Humanities colloquia, North-West University,
20 August.
2025
“Militantisme religieux sur les campus universitaires : le cas du Bénin et du Togo”, Séminaire ‘Histoire et anthropologie comparées du fait religieux en Afrique’ animé par Marie Miran, Humathèque Condorcet,
28 May.
2025
“Humanités numériques et flux de recherche augmentés par l’IA pour la Collection islam Afrique de l’Ouest”, Work talk, École nationale des chartes,
22 May.
2025
“Rencontre entre chrétiens et musulmans: au-delà du binaire coexistence pacifique/conflits religieux”, Séminaire ‘Histoire et anthropologie comparées du fait religieux en Afrique’ animé par Marie Miran, Humathèque Condorcet,
21 May.
2025
“L’histoire des communautés musulmanes ouest-africaines : approches et perspectives des humanités numériques”, Séminaire ‘Actualité de la recherche en anthropologie sociale en Afrique’ animé par Sophie Bava, Alice Degorce et Marie Miran, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
20 May.
2025
“Questions d’islam en Afrique de l’Ouest. Les enjeux et défis de la recherche avec les archives physiques et numériques”, Séminaire de formation à la recherche en Afrique (SéFRA) animé par Fabienne Samson, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
12 May.
2025
“DigitalHistory.Exe: Running New Programs on Old Files”, Master Class, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF),
8 April.
2025
“L’ambition fédératrice à l’épreuve de la diversité : étude comparative des faîtières islamiques au Burkina Faso, Togo, Bénin et Côte d’Ivoire”, Workshop Religiosités et vies associatives en Afrique: entre stratégies d’organisation et vies en mouvement, Puidoux,
4 March.
2024
Frédérick Madore and Fiacre Anato. “Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du vodun”, Workshop L’Afrique des religions à l’épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations, Université Paris Cité,
5 December.
2024
“Tracing Islamic Knowledge Production in Francophone West African Newspapers (1990-Present)”, Workshop Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,
2 December.
2024
“Islam, Algorithms and AI”, ZMO Sommerfest, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,
18 July.
2024
“La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest: nouvelles perspectives sur l’histoire des communautés musulmanes via la presse et les humanités numériques”, Enjeux éthiques et juridiques au diapason des données de la recherche en études aréales, Aix-en-Provence, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme,
25 March.
2024
“Formation en recherche en ligne”, Atelier, Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL),
23 March.
2023
“Formation en recherche en ligne”, Atelier, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo,
19 July.
2023
“Interfaith coexistence on the campuses of the University of Lomé (Togo) and the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) since the 1970s”, Workshop Religion for Peace? Identifying Conditions and Mechanisms of Interfaith Peace, Berlin, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA),
6 June.
2022
“Digital Humanities in the Making: The Islam Burkina Faso Collection”, Open Day at ZMO, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,
16 September.
2022
“A ‘Yovo’ Historian in Benin and Togo: Conducting Fieldwork in Times of Pandemic and Fears of Jihadism Spreading”, Workshop Researching Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
14 June.
2022
“Point de passage et frontières religieuses”, Workshop Point de passage et frontières religieuses, Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL),
3 June.
2022
“Émancipation féminine et militantisme islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest depuis 1980: quelques enseignements du Burkina Faso, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du Togo et du Bénin”, Atelier international Femmes africaines dans une société d’hommes: espaces contraints, habilité sociale et formes d’émancipation, Université de Kabala,
22 March.
2022
“Les associations chrétiennes et islamiques sur les campus de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi et de l’Université de Lomé depuis 1970: la laïcité à l’université face à l’activisme religieux”, Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Recherche, Religions, Espaces et Développement (LARRED), Université d’Abomey-Calavi,
8 March.
2022
“Militantisme islamique sur le campus de l’Université de Lomé (Togo) depuis les années 1980: être musulman en contexte minoritaire, laïc et (semi-)autoritaire”, Chaire de recherche sur l’islam contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest, Université du Québec à Montréal,
22 February.
2021
“Salafisme et pentecôtisme sur les campus au Bénin et au Togo: la laïcité à l’université face à l’activisme religieux”, Conférences midi du CIRAM, Université Laval,
8 April.
2020
“Political mobilizations in Burkina Faso”, Workshop Political mobilizations in Burkina Faso, University of Ottawa,
27 November.
2020
“Representations of Islam and Muslims in Togo’s State-Owned Newspapers Since the 1960s: From Loyal Religious Minority to Potential Threat”, Workshop Islam, Media, and Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere, University of Florida,
9 October.
2020
“‘Muslim Intellectuals’ and ‘Francophone Salafis’ in West Africa: New Religious Elites?”, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington,
1 October.
2020
“Public Islam in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso: a comparative overview of the use of media by Muslims since the 1970s”, Workshop Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa & Elsewhere, University of Florida,
24 January.
2019
“La défense de la laïcité de l’État, un outil de revendication politique pour les musulmans au Burkina Faso (depuis 1960)”, Debating Laïcité in the Sahel: What Future for Secularism?, West African Research Center,
4 July.
2019
“La recherche documentaire en libre accès et la gestion de références bibliographiques avec Zotero”, Université Alassane Ouattara, Université Alassane Ouattara,
7 June.
2019
“L’Union Islamique du Bénin et les élections législatives: comment comprendre la crise interne”, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Université d’Abomey-Calavi,
28 May.
2018
“Current Dynamics of Islam in Burkina Faso”, Sahel Seminars, University of Florida,
16 November.
2018
“‘Plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant’? Young Muslims’ new forms of civic engagement in Burkina Faso (2014-2017)”, Workshop Muslim Youth and Lived Islam in Africa & Beyond, University of Florida,
19 October.
2018
“Les élites musulmanes en Côte d’Ivoire et au Burkina Faso depuis 1990 : des mobilisations politiques contrastées”, Conférences midi du CIRAM, Université Laval,
25 September.
2018
“‘Militantisme bissap’, féminisme islamique et entrepreneuriat religieux en Côte d’Ivoire: Aminata Kane Koné, une figure de la réussite”, Workshop Entrepreneuriat religieux et figures de la réussite en Afrique subsaharienne: terrains et concepts, Université Laval,
8 September.
2017
“L’islam au Burkina Faso et en Côte d’Ivoire: éveil et radicalisation?”, 76e conférence Archéopat, Université du Québec à Rimouski,
13 February.
Conference Participation
Panels organised
2026
Vincent Hiribarren and Frédérick Madore. “Humanités numériques (DH) et IA dans les études africaines”, 9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris, 30 June.
2025
Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren. “Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives”, 10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Prague, 26 June.
2024
“Author Meets Critic. Faith-based Student Activism in Togo and Benin: Muslims and Christians on University Campuses”, 67th Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Chicago, 12 December.
2019
“Muslim Minorities in Africa”, 62nd Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Boston, 21 November.
Papers presented
2026
Jiayu Yang, Durgesh Nandini, …, Frédérick Madore et al. “Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Multilingual Research Metadata”, 35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome,
9 November.
2026
“Reconfiguring the Archive: Relationality and Discovery in the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)”, Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cory Library for Historical Research, Makhanda,
1 July.
2026
Vincent Hiribarren and Frédérick Madore. “Retour sur une note de synthèse analysant la relation entre Humanités Numériques, l’IA et les Études Africaines (Hanovre, février 2026)”, 9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris,
30 June.
2026
“Beyond Keywords: AI-Mediated Access to the Islam West Africa Collection through an MCP Server and Agent Skill”, Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, University of Luxembourg,
15 June.
2026
Frédérick Madore and Aksana Ismailbekova. “Islam’s ‘Peripheries’: Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia”, Kick-off ‘Open Up’, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover,
4 March.
2025
“From Archives to Algorithms: Uncovering Transregional Islamic Connections through the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)”, Eighth European Congress on World and Global History, Linnaeus University,
11 September.
2025
Vincent Hiribarren and Frédérick Madore. “Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best?”, 10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Prague,
26 June.
2025
“Intelligence artificielle et traitement des archives numériques : applications et enjeux dans la Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest”, Colloque annuel Humanistica 2025, Cheikh Anta Diop University,
24 April.
2024
“La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest: enjeux éthiques et décolonisation des humanités numériques”, 12th International Conference on Mande Studies, Institut des Sciences Humaines,
28 June.
2023
“‘Too Young,’ ‘Immature,’ and not Committed Enough: The Decline of Faith-Based Student Organizations in Togo and Benin?”, 9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), University of Cologne,
2 June.
2022
Frédérick Madore and Perry Collins. “Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship”, 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Free University of Berlin,
15 September.
2022
“Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection with Omeka S”, 3rd Annual conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence “Medialities”, University of Bayreuth,
8 July.
2022
“Salafisme et sécuritisation de l’islam au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une ‘menace étrangère’”, Islamist Protest, Terrorism and (In)Security in Africa Conference, University of Maroua,
2 June.
2021
“Generations at Odds: The Controversial Political Candidacy of an Imam in Benin (2019)”, 11th International Conference of the Mande Studies Association (MANSA), Uppsala,
18 June.
2019
“‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ in Togo: The Construction of a Religious Minority Amid a Constitutional Crisis (2017–2018)”, 62nd Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Boston,
21 November.
2019
“Militantisme islamique féminin au Burkina Faso: des processus sinueux d’émancipation religieuse”, IIe Congrès international de l’Institut du Genre, University of Angers,
27 August.
2019
Issouf Binaté and Frédérick Madore. “Islam on University Campuses in Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s: ‘Muslim Intellectuals’ and Francophone Salafism”, 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), University of Edinburgh,
12 June.
2017
“Le nouveau dynamisme du salafisme en Côte d’Ivoire: vers une radicalisation de l’islam ivoirien?”, 10th International Conference of the Mande Studies Association (MANSA), International University of Grand-Bassam,
3 August.
2016
“The Organization of the Hajj and the State: Cohesion and Rivalries within the Muslim Community of Côte d’Ivoire (1993-2006)”, 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Washington D.C.,
3 December.
2016
“L’islam ivoirien et burkinabé à l’ère du numérique: des communautés musulmanes 2.0?”, 3ème rencontre des Jeunes Chercheur.e.s en Études Africaines, Paris Diderot University,
14 January.
2014
Muriel Gomez-Perez, Frédérick Madore and Mathias Boukary Savadogo. “Rue, islam associatif et enjeux citoyens: retour sur des orientations récentes au Sénégal, au Burkina Faso et en Côte d’Ivoire”, International Conference Le clos et l’ouvert. Acteurs religieux, acteurs sociaux et usages de la rue (Europe, Afrique, Asie, Amériques), Gaston Berger University,
29 October.
2013
Muriel Gomez-Perez and Frédérick Madore. “Prêcheurs et prêcheuses au Burkina Faso: regards croisés sur leurs stratégies de communication religieuse depuis 1990”, 81e Congrès de l’Association Francophone pour le Savoir (Acfas), Université Laval,
7 May.
2013
“La médiatisation de l’islam à Ouagadougou depuis 1991: entre normalisation des discours et nouvelle agency des musulmans”, 43rd Annual Canadian Association of African Studies Conference (CAAS), University of Ottawa,
3 May.
2013
“Imams, Islamic Preachers and Public Space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward New Intergenerational Relationships and a Muslim Public Sphere”, 2013 Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austin,
29 March.
2012
“Imams et espace public à Ouagadougou depuis 1990: entre visibilité nouvelle et concertation entre les générations”, 42nd Annual Canadian Association of African Studies Conference (CAAS), Université Laval,
4 May.
Posters presented
2026
Frédérick Madore, Oliver Baumann, Durgesh Nandini et al. “Responsible AI Access to Research Repositories: An MCP Server for African Studies Data”, AI Day 2026, Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS²), University of Bayreuth,
25 September.
Organisation of Academic Events
2026
Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um and Menno van Zaanen. “Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices”, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, 21-24 September.
2026
Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren. “Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies”, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, 18-20 February.
2023
“Launch of the Islam West Africa Collection”, Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT), 9 November.
2023
Abdoulaye Sounaye and Frédérick Madore. “University Campuses in Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 6-8 September.
2022
Abdoulaye Sounaye, Frédérick Madore, Vincent Favier et al. “Workshop ‘Religions on Campus: Coexisting Traditions, Reformulating the Secular and Life Projects’”, Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL), 31 October - 4 November.
2021
Abdoulaye Sounaye, Frédérick Madore, Vincent Favier et al. “Workshop ‘Religion in Higher Educational Institutions in Africa and Beyond: (Re)Conversion, Power, and Authority from a Comparative Perspective’”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 16-17 November.
2016
CIRAM. “Évolutions et nouvelles formes de l’islam en Afrique de l’Ouest: vers une radicalisation?”, Université Laval, 24 March.
Teaching Experience
Instructor
2020
The African Past, University of Ottawa (Canada), Undergraduate (Fall 2020).
2020
Francophone West Africa, University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate (Spring 2020).
2013–18
Dissertation historique [Historical writing], Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate (8 sections) (Fall 2013 – Winter 2018).
Guest Lecturer
2022
Islam and Muslims in West Africa, Religion in/from Africa,
Universität Bayreuth (Germany), Graduate.
2020
Colonial Surveillance in French West Africa in the Interwar Period, Politics, Identity and Violence in Africa,
University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate.
2019
Islam and Muslim Societies in Francophone West Africa, Religions of Africa,
University of Florida (United States), Undergraduate.
2018
Outils technologiques pour la recherche en histoire, Recherche et rédaction [Research and Writing],
Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
2018
La recherche historique en Afrique de l’Ouest: enjeux et défis, Les sciences historiques aujourd’hui [Historical Sciences Today],
Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
2017
Religions et enjeux de pouvoir, Afrique subsaharienne: diversité culturelle et mondialisation [Sub-Saharan Africa: Cultural Diversity and Globalisation],
Université Laval (Canada), Undergraduate.
2017
Sociétés, religion et politique, Politique et société en Afrique [Politics and Society in Africa],
Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.
2017
Outils technologiques pour la recherche doctorale, Projet de thèse [Dissertation Project],
Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.
2016
Outils technologiques pour la recherche doctorale, Projet de thèse [Dissertation Project],
Université Laval (Canada), Graduate.
Research Experience
Fieldwork
2024, 2015, 2014
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2024
Accra, Ghana
2024, 2022, 2019
Cotonou and Porto-Novo, Bénin
2024, 2022, 2021, 2019
Lomé, Togo
2015, 2011
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Research Roles
2024
Project Representative, “West African Newspaper Archive”, University of Bayreuth.
Led stakeholder engagement in four West African countries for a major newspaper digitisation initiative.
Successfully negotiated and secured letters of intent and cooperation agreements with key institutions and editors.
2016–17
Coordinator, CIRAM, Université Laval.
Coordinated activities of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient [Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Africa and the Middle East].
Drafted the application for the “Centre en émergence” [Emerging centre] status for the CIRAM. The recognition was granted by the Vice-rectorat à la recherche [Vice-Rector for Research] in 2017.
Developed the digital presence of the research centre (website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).
2016–17
Research Assistant, Université Laval/University of Ottawa.
For the SSHRC project “Mosquées, Hâjj et partis politiques au Sahel et en Afrique centrale: figures de réussite et entrepreneuriat religieux” [Mosques, Hâjj and Political Parties in the Sahel and in Central Africa: Figures of Success and Religious Entrepreneurship] directed by M. Gomez-Perez (lead researcher), C. Jourde and M. Brossier.
Trained the research team on data management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.
2014
Research Assistant, GIERSA, Université Laval.
Contributed to the creation of an online database of master and thesis dissertations on Africa for the website of the Groupe Interuniversitaire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Sociétés Africaines [Inter-University Group of Studies and Research on African Societies].
2011
Research Assistant, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).
For the SSHRC project “ONG confessionnelles en Afrique: une société civile en construction?” [Faith-based NGOs in Africa: A civil society in formation?] directed by M.N. LeBlanc (lead researcher) and M. Gomez-Perez.
Conducted interviews of leaders of Islamic NGOs in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and wrote field report.
Service to Profession
Editorial Board Memberships
2025–
Editorial committee, Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique.
Peer Review Activities
2026
Panel Proposals – 11th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS 2027).
Scientific Committee reviewer for the Digital trends and technology stream.
2026
3 Conference Papers – 35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026).
2026
Conference Paper – Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2026).
2026
Journal Article – African Affairs.
2025
Journal Article – Cahiers d’études africaines.
2025
Conference Paper – The Web Conference 2026 (WWW2026).
2025
Journal Article – African Affairs. Verified on Web of Science (opens in new tab)
2022
Journal Article – Archipélies. Verified on Web of Science (opens in new tab)
2022
Journal Article – Politique africaine.
2021
Journal Article – Africa Spectrum. Verified on Web of Science (opens in new tab)
2019
Journal Article – The Communication Review. Verified on Web of Science (opens in new tab)
2018
Journal Article – Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. Verified on Web of Science (opens in new tab)
Consulting and Legal Expertise
2025–
Consultant, Communitology.
Provide research-driven analysis and expert testimony in asylum and immigration proceedings.
Prepare Country of Origin Information (COI) reports for cases on Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo.
Media Appearances
Podcasts
2025
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies”, ZMO Kitchen Talks, ep. 14.
11 December. Listen
Interviews and Appearances
2019
Interviewed by TV5 Monde, 64’ le monde en français.
29 January. Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso
2019
Interviewed by QUB Radio.
28 January. Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso
2019
Interviewed by Journal de Montréal.
26 January. Topic: Deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso
Languages
Native
French
C2
English
B2
German
Professional Affiliations
2023–2025
Humanistica, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
2022–Present
Association des Humanités numériques d’Afrique francophone (AHNAF).
2020–2025
Mande Studies Association (MANSA).
2018–Present
Sahel Research Group (SRG), University of Florida.
2017–Present
Islam in Africa Studies Group (IASG), African Studies Association (ASA).
Secretary (2024–Present)
Computer Skills
Data analysis & visualisation
Python, OpenRefine, ECharts, MapLibre, data wrangling, topic modelling, network analysis, sentiment analysis, semantic search/embeddings
Digital humanities tools
Omeka S, IIIF, Wikidata, linked data (RDF, SPARQL), Tesseract OCR, web scraping, WordPress
Development & infrastructure
Svelte, Git/GitHub, Docker, MongoDB, Claude Code, AI-assisted development
Research & documentation
Zotero, Microsoft Office