# Frédérick Madore

> Frédérick Madore, Ph.D. is a historian of Islam in francophone West Africa and a digital humanities specialist working as Data Curator at the "Africa Multiple" Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth. This is his academic website, collecting his publications, conference activity, teaching, and digital humanities projects.

Frédérick Madore combines archival and field research with digital humanities and AI-enhanced computational pipelines to study Islam in francophone West Africa (notably Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo). His work covers Muslim activism on university campuses, Muslim minorities, religious authority, and the building of digital archives and tools for African studies.

This file follows the llms.txt convention (https://llmstxt.org/) to help AI agents and large language models discover the most relevant pages. All URLs are absolute and resolve to the live site. Structured data (JSON-LD), an RSS feed, and an XML sitemap are also available.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://www.frederickmadore.com/): Overview, current position, and latest activity.
- [Publications](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications): Complete, filterable list of books, journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, reports, and encyclopedia entries, with citation export (BibTeX, APA, MLA, Chicago).
- [Research](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research): Current and past research projects on Islam in West Africa and digital humanities.
- [Digital Humanities](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities): Digital archives, datasets, and AI tools, including the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC).
- [Activities](https://www.frederickmadore.com/activities): News, talks, workshops, and other scholarly activities.
- [Talks & Events](https://www.frederickmadore.com/conference-activity): Conference papers, invited lectures, seminars, workshops, panels, posters, podcasts, and presentation slides.
- [Teaching](https://www.frederickmadore.com/teaching): Courses, guest lectures, and syllabi.
- [CV](https://www.frederickmadore.com/cv): Full curriculum vitae.

## Research projects

- [Islam's 'Peripheries': Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/islams-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia) (2026-2028): Testing what AI can do with two multilingual collections, to compare Islamic discourse and responses to modernity in West Africa and Central Asia.
- [Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/dh-ai-african-studies) (2025-2027): Exploring how DH and AI can transform knowledge production in African studies through ethical, sustainable, and Africa-centred digital infrastructures.
- [Digital Research Environment](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/digital-research-environment) (2026-): Building and studying the data infrastructure that connects the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, its four African research centres, and their partners.
- [Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/religious-activism-campuses-togo-benin) (2021-2024): Examining how Christian and Muslim student associations transformed university life at the Université de Lomé and the Université d'Abomey-Calavi.
- [Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities of Benin and Togo](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/muslim-minorities-southern-cities-benin-togo) (2018-2020): Investigating the experiences and integration of Muslim minority communities in southern urban areas of Benin and Togo.
- [Youth and Women's Islamic Activism in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso](https://www.frederickmadore.com/research/youth-womens-islamic-activism-cote-divoire-burkina-faso) (2013-2018): Analyzing the evolving roles of youth and women in Islamic movements and organizations in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.

## Digital humanities projects

- [Islam West Africa Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac): An open-access archive of over 14,700 items on Islam and Muslims in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo.
- [Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [Genocide at the Security Council](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [IWAC MCP Server](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [IWAC Sentiment Analysis](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-sentiment-analysis): Interactive visualization of sentiment patterns in 12,280+ West African press articles on Islam, with multi-model comparison (ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral) and third-party arbitration.
- [Live Translation and Subtitles](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/live-translation): 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.
- [Omeka S Docker Template](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/omeka-s-docker): A reusable Docker template for deploying production-ready Omeka S digital archive installations with automatic setup, module management, and SSL support.
- [Global Heshmat](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [IWAC AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-ai-pipelines): Python workflows for processing the Islam West Africa Collection using Large Language Models—automating OCR, NER, transcription, and summarization at scale.
- [Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/dh-ai-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.
- [ZMO AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [ZMO Visualisations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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.
- [Remoboko Visualizations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/remoboko): Interactive visualizations 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.
- [IWAC Bibliographic Data on Wikidata](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-bibliographic-data-wikidata): Over 850 bibliographical references from the Islam West Africa Collection uploaded to Wikidata, enabling SPARQL queries and automatic visualizations through Scholia.
- [Digital Exhibits on Islam in Burkina Faso](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/burkina-faso-digital-exhibits): Two digital exhibits featuring curated materials from the Islam West Africa Collection, each with an interactive timeline, contextual narratives, and selective bibliography.
- [Islam Burkina Faso Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/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).

## Selected recent publications

- [Trier, coder, interpréter : comment l’IA redistribue le travail de l’historien face à 30 000 sources sur l’islam ouest-africain](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/trier-coder-interpreter-ia-historien-2026) (2026) — article
- [L'ambition fédératrice à l'épreuve de la diversité : étude comparative des faîtières islamiques au Burkina Faso, Togo, Bénin et Côte d'Ivoire](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/ambition-federatrice-faitieres-islamiques-2026) (2026) — chapter
- [For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/for-whom-for-what-purpose-dh-ai-african-studies-2026) (2026) — working-paper
- [From Conversation to Co-authorship: A Workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies, 18–20 February 2026, Herrenhausen, Hanover](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-conversation-coauthorship-dh-ai) (2026) — bulletin-article
- [Decentering Knowledge: Concepts, Conceptualizations, Translations, 13–14 October 2025, ZMO](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-decentering-knowledge) (2026) — bulletin-article
- [Repenser la catégorisation religieuse à partir du Bénin, terre du Vodun](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/repenser-categorisation-religieuse-benin-2026) (2026) — chapter
- [Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities und Künstliche Intelligenz in den African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/charting-new-territory-digital-humanities-ki-african-studies-2026) (2026) — blogpost
- [From Private Database to Public Resource to a Testing Ground for AI Methods: The Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2026-iwac-private-database-public-resource) (2026) — bulletin-article
- [Perspectives in Motion: Conceptual Fields from the Global South, Workshop, 2-3 December 2024, ZMO](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2025-perspectives-in-motion) (2025) — bulletin-article
- [Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970–2023](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religious-activism-campuses) (2025) — book
- [Launch Islam West Africa Collection, 9 November 2023, MiCT, Berlin/Online](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/madore-2024-launch-iwac) (2024) — bulletin-article
- [Religion on the Internet and New Information and Communication Technologies in Burkina Faso](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religion-internet-burkina-faso-2024) (2024) — chapter
- [Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/religiosity-university-campuses) (2023) — book
- [Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l'Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/exister-contexte-autoritaire-lome-2023) (2023) — chapter
- [Introduction: Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/introduction-religiosity-university-campuses-2023) (2023) — chapter
- [Islam on University Campuses in Côte d'Ivoire since the 1970s: Muslim Intellectuals and Francophone Salafism](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/islam-university-campuses-cote-divoire-2023) (2023) — chapter
- [Lutte contre le terrorisme et sécuritisation du salafisme au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d'une « menace étrangère »](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/lutte-terrorisme-salafisme-benin-togo-2022) (2022) — report
- [A Beninese Imam's Controversial 2019 Election Campaign: Muslim Leadership and Political Engagement in a Minority Context](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/beninese-imam-election-2022) (2022) — article
- [Three Questions to Dr. Frédérick Madore](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/three-questions-madore-2022) (2022) — blogpost
- [Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 2](https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-minorities-africa-2) (2022) — special-issue

## Selected recent talks & events

- [Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Multilingual Research Metadata](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/beyond-keywords-entity-linking-cikm-2026) (2026) — 35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
- [Responsible AI Access to Research Repositories: An MCP Server for African Studies Data](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/responsible-ai-access-mcp-server-2026) (2026) — AI Day 2026, Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS²), University of Bayreuth
- [Les serveurs MCP pour les GLAM africains : une voie d'avenir à l'ère de l'IA ?](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/serveurs-mcp-glam-africains-stias-2026) (2026) — Humanités numériques et intelligence artificielle en études africaines : vers des pratiques durables et équitables, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch
- [Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/stias-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026) (2026) — Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch
- [University of Kansas AI and Africa Symposium](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/ai-africa-symposium-kansas-2026) (2026) — AI and Africa Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence
- [Reconfiguring the Archive: Relationality and Discovery in the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/reconfiguring-archive-amira-2026) (2026) — Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cory Library for Historical Research, Makhanda
- [Humanités numériques (DH) et IA dans les études africaines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/humanites-numeriques-dh-ia-etudes-africaines-reaf-2026) (2026) — 9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris
- [Retour sur une note de synthèse analysant la relation entre Humanités Numériques, l’IA et les Études Africaines (Hanovre, février 2026)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/retour-note-synthese-dh-ia-reaf-2026) (2026) — 9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris
- [Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-peripheries-dh-ai-west-africa-central-asia-2026) (2026) — Seminar series 'Digital History in/of Central Asia and the South Caucasus', Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- [Beyond Keywords: AI-Mediated Access to the Islam West Africa Collection through an MCP Server and Agent Skill](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/beyond-keywords-ai-iwac-mcp-2026) (2026) — Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, University of Luxembourg
- [Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/dormant-digital-collections-ai-triage-dga-2026) (2026) — Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
- [From Digital Hoarding to Open Archives: Using AI Agents to Unlock West African Newspaper Collections](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/digital-hoarding-open-archives-warsaw-2026) (2026) — Non-European Approaches in European Academia: Strategies for De-Europeanizing Research, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- [Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/islam-peripheries-open-up-2026) (2026) — Kick-off 'Open Up', Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover
- [Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/volkswagenstiftung-dh-ai-african-studies-workshop-2026) (2026) — Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/communications/zmo-kitchen-talks-ai-islamic-african-studies) (2025) — ZMO Kitchen Talks, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

## Feeds and data

- [JSON API index](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/index.json): Discovery manifest for the static JSON API — lists every dataset, its size, and its URL.
- [Research projects (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/research.json): Project records cross-referencing the publications, talks, grants, and fieldwork that belong to each.
- [Publications (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/publications.json): Full publication records with identifiers, abstracts, citing works, and reviews.
- [Talks & events (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/communications.json): Full communication records with venue, coordinates, and programme details.
- [Activities (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/activities.json): News and activity entries, including the full body of each.
- [Digital humanities projects (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/digital-humanities.json): Project records with skills, awards, and reviews.
- [CV (JSON)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/cv.json): Career record — appointments, education, grants, awards, teaching, service, fieldwork, and languages.
- [RSS feed](https://www.frederickmadore.com/rss.xml): Latest activities and updates.
- [XML sitemap](https://www.frederickmadore.com/sitemap.xml): Full list of indexable pages.

## Contact and profiles

- Email: frederick.madore@uni-bayreuth.de
- Affiliation: Universität Bayreuth (Forschungszentrum für Afrikastudien), Bayreuth, Germany
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-2092)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=naUK0RQAAAAJ)
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frederick-Madore)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/fmadore)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickmadore/)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/fmadore.bsky.social)