# Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte d'Ivoire

- **Type:** Journal article
- **Authors:** Frédérick Madore
- **Journal:** Africa Today
- **Volume:** 67
- **Issue:** 2-3
- **Publisher:** Indiana University Press
- **Date:** 2020
- **Pages:** 17-38
- **Language:** English
- **DOI:** [10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02](https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02)
- **Countries:** Côte d'Ivoire
- **Project:** [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.md)
- **Tags:** Côte d'Ivoire, Muslim Feminist, Religious Entrepreneurship, Media, Women Leaders, Islam, West Africa, Gender
- **Web page:** https://www.frederickmadore.com/publications/muslim-feminist-media-cote-divoire-2020

## Reference

Frédérick Madore. (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. https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02

## Abstract

This article analyzes the career path of Aminata Kane Koné, a highly educated Ivorian Muslim woman, who has emerged as a female figure of success. A prominent activist of the Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans de Côte d'Ivoire in the 2000s, she has become a self-made religious entrepreneur through media and social initiatives. She has overcome social constraints to establish herself as a highly mediatized Muslim public intellectual, influential not only in Islamic circles, but within the broader society. Her case illustrates ways in which relationships between gender and Islamic authority are changing in West Africa. She embodies a uniquely hybrid feminism, influenced by her secular education and her Muslim faith.

## Cited by

- Soleh Hasan Wahid, Syahid Abdulloh (2026). [Digital Islamic authority: a revolutionary shift or mere hype? a systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-026-01328-5). *SN Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (2026): 62*.
- Taskia Uswatun Khasanah, Ainur Rhain, Kharis Nugroho, Ahmad Nurrohim, Muhammad Abuzar (2025). [Career Women in Tafsir Al Misbah: An Analytical Study of Fazlur Rahman's Double Movement Theory](https://doi.org/10.61455/sicopus.v4i01.388). *Solo International Collaboration and Publication of Social Sciences and Humanities 4, no. 1 (2025): 105-20*.
- Jeannett Martin (2024). [Muslimas mit Hochschulbildung in Westafrika. Eine Literaturschau zu Charakteristika und beruflichem Future Making](https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v43i2.02). *PERIPHERIE 43, no. 171-172 (2024): 240-58*.
- Muchsin al- Fikri, Delvin Musa Navaro Matulessy (2024). [Implementation of Spiritual Communication in Building the Masjid Preneur Movement in Indonesia](https://doi.org/10.61397/tla.v2i1.228). *TOPLAMA 2, no. 1 (2024): 139-46*.
- Issouf Binaté (2023). [La transmission des savoirs islamiques au prisme du beïtu en Côte d'Ivoire](https://www.archipelies.org/1498). *Archipélies, no. 15 (2023)*.
- Laurence Jutras (2022). [Djinns, femmes et islam à Odienné en Côte d'Ivoire](https://archipel.uqam.ca/17137/). *Masters thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2022*.
- Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber (2022). [Religious Life in African Societies](https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197608494.013.16). *In The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa, edited by R. Sooryamoorthy and Nene Ernest Khalema, 97-116. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022*.
- Rahina Muazu (2022). ['Why invite her here? Her voice is ʿawra!': vocal nudity debates and Muslim female preachers in northern Nigeria](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000286). *Africa 92, no. 3 (2022): 334-53*.
- Jean Schmitz, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, Cédric Jourde (2022). [Introduction : soufisme, salafisme et subalternité dans un Sahel transnational](https://doi.org/10.3917/kart.schmi.2023.01.0009). *In Le Sahel musulman entre soufisme et salafisme : subalternité, luttes de classement et transnationalisme, edited by Jean Schmitz, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, and Cédric Jourde, 9-30. Paris: Karthala, 2022*.
- Bala A. Musa, Agnes Lucy Lando (2022). [Religion and Online Community in African Contexts](https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549803.013.9). *In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion, edited by Heidi A. Campbell and Pauline Cheong, 184-200. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022*.
- Robert Launay (2021). [The Qur'an School and Trajectories of Islamic Education](https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367144241-9). *In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa, edited by Terje Østebø, 92-105. London: Routledge, 2021*.
- Louis Audet Gosselin (2021). [Muslim Youth and Lived Experiences of Islam](https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367144241-24). *In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa, edited by Terje Østebø, 267-77. London: Routledge, 2021*.

## Links

- [Source](https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2_3.02)

## BibTeX

```bibtex
@article{muslim-feminist-media-cote-divoire-2020,
    title = {Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte d'Ivoire},
    author = {Frédérick Madore},
    year = {2020},
    abstract = {This article analyzes the career path of Aminata Kane Koné, a highly educated Ivorian Muslim woman, who has emerged as a female figure of success. A prominent activist of the Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans de Côte d'Ivoire in the 2000s, she has become a self-made religious entrepreneur through media and social initiatives. She has overcome social constraints to establish herself as a highly mediatized Muslim public intellectual, influential not only in Islamic circles, but within the broader society. Her case illustrates ways in which relationships between gender and Islamic authority are changing in West Africa. She embodies a uniquely hybrid feminism, influenced by her secular education and her Muslim faith.},
    doi = {10.2979/africatoday.67.2\_3.02},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2\_3.02},
    language = {English},
    journal = {Africa Today},
    volume = {67},
    number = {2-3},
    pages = {17--38},
    keywords = {Côte d'Ivoire, Muslim Feminist, Religious Entrepreneurship, Media, Women Leaders, Islam, West Africa, Gender}
}
```