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Launch Islam West Africa Collection – 9 November
November 9, 2023
On 9 November 2023, the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) will officially launch the Islam West Africa Collection in Berlin. This project, which I’m directing, is a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, photographs, and references on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d‘Ivoire. This project, funded by the Berlin Senate, is a continuation of the Islam Burkina Faso Collection, which I created in 2021 in collaboration with the University of Florida.
Far from being the end of a project, this is just the beginning, as the database will continue to grow and will lay the groundwork for future collaborations with other scholars and institutes as more countries may be added.
The event will be hybrid, from 16:00 to 17:30, followed by a reception. Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Issouf Binaté (Université Alassane Ouattara, Côte d’Ivoire) and Kai Kresse (ZMO) will comment on the project.
For the Zoom link or to attend in person (RSVP by November 1st), please register at https://www.zmo.de/en/events/launch-islam-west-africa-collection