Donderdag 11 Mei 2023
LUCIS/ASCL Lecture: Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Donderdag 11 Mei 2023 15:30 - 17:00
In many Muslim contexts across West Africa, the Hausa concept of 'boko' has come to mean a Western style of education, in contrast with 'adini', or Islamic religiosity. In this LUCIS Keynote, co-organised with the African Studies Centre Leiden, Dr Abdoulaye Sounaye will discuss the relationship between boko and adini in the light of contemporary Islamic dynamics in West Africa. How does the popularity of Islamic learning and religiosity influence this relationship? Dr Sounaye will demonstrate how these theories of knowledge overlap and engage in constant dialogue with one another, using examples from his fieldwork in Niger and Nigeria. Speaker: Dr Abdoulaye Sounaye. Location: Kamerlingh Onnes Building / Faculty of Law, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES Leiden
