Islam West Africa Dashboard

At 14,500+ documents spanning six decades and six countries, the Islam West Africa Collection exceeds what traditional reading methods can navigate. This interactive dashboard enables exploration at scale—revealing patterns, connections, and trends that would remain invisible through close reading alone.

Through maps, timelines, networks, and word clouds, the interface invites you to filter by country, newspaper, or date range and discover patterns on your own terms.

What you can explore

• Where: See which countries and cities appear most frequently, and track where specific people or organizations are mentioned
• When: Visualize how coverage grew over time, compare newspaper publication spans, and watch an animated chart showing how key terms evolved decade by decade
• Who and what: Browse a network graph connecting people, organizations, and events that appear together in articles
• Language patterns: Generate word clouds filtered by country and year, explore topic clusters, and examine which terms appear alongside each other

Interface

Bilingual (English/French), with dark mode support. Filter states are saved in the URL, so you can bookmark or share specific views.