More than meets the eye
The personal archives of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist, suggests that same-faith presidential tickets are not necessarily about religious domination.
The personal archives of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist, suggests that same-faith presidential tickets are not necessarily about religious domination.
Mainstream discourses about Aamajiranci, northern Nigeria’s Qur'anic schooling system, expose the power politics of knowledge in postcolonial societies.
We need to rethink how people seek sustenance and wealth, but not divorced from their moral values, convictions, and expectations.
The legal politics of religious difference in late colonial northern Nigeria still resonate more than 60 years post-independence.
Many see Salafism as rigid and unbending, but in the Sahel, political conditions force its proponents to be smart and savvy.
Salafism is across Ethiopia. While Saudi Arabia has played a role, Ethiopian Muslims themselves are playing a bigger one.
The novelist on 3 books he returns to: by Wole Soyinka, Ibn Khaldun, and a third on the history and the system of writing of an early 20th-century Cameroonian king.
The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.
A photo essay on Masjid Tajul Huda, a mostly West African mosque in the Bronx, New York.
Islamic scholarship in Africa and the meaning and end of decolonization in the work of religious studies scholar, Ousmane Kane.
Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.
Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.
Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?
Burkina Faso's security crisis and its new status quo of permanent military intervention will test the resilience of its political institutions.
In post al-Bashir Sudan, new paradigms animate political action, while old ones have returned. Towards what sort of future might the protesters march?
Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
Their decision to wear "western clothes" in public, spark debate on modernity and morality in Northern Nigeria.
South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.
Karl Marx can be useful to people fighting for social justice and who at the same time are deeply religious.