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Shaaban Ali Kachenje Mlacha , Director of the Institute of Kiswahili Research in Tanzania, "Transmission of Islamic Knowledge through Library Resources in Tanzania"
Hamidu Bobboyi , Director of Arewa House Kaduna (Nigeria), "The Islamic Library Resources of Nigeria"
Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, Professor of Sociology, University of Nouakchott, "Mauritanian Manuscripts and Mauritanian Traditional Education"
Ousmane Kane, Associate Professor, International and Public Affairs , Columbia University, "Europhone, Non-Europhone and Hybrid Intellectuals: Rethinking the African Library"
Abdelwahab el-Affendi , Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, London and coordinator of the Center's Project on Democracy in the Muslim World, "The Roots of Ethnocentrism: The Sufi Tradition and the Evolution of Sudanese Identity"
Shamil Jeppie , Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, "The Struggle over Islamic Identities in Post-apartheid South Africa"
Muhammad Abdulaziz , Professor, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Nairobi, "Some Islamic Themes in Swahili Poetry"
Isaac Ogunbiyi , Professor of Arabic, Lagos State University. "The Search for a Yoruba Orthography in the 1880s: Obstacles to the Use of the Arabic Script"
Junior Fellows
Iddrisu Abdulai obtained the B.A. and MPhil at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His thesis focused on the history of the development of Islamic education in northern Ghana during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the time of his fellowship he was a History Lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. His research project, entitled “The Dilemma of the Colonial State and Muslim Education in Ghana, 1890-1950,” examined the dilemma encountered by the British colonial state in its relationship with Muslims and the Muslim tradition of education in northern Ghana. Abdulai is currently a PhD student in the Department of History, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Mukhtar Umar Bunza obtained the Ph.D. in history at Usmanu Danfodio University, Nigeria. His doctoral thesis focused on Christian Missions in Sokoto Province from 1935-1990. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of History at Usmanu Danfodiyo University. His research project, entitled “Muslims and the Modern State in Nigeria: A Study of the Impact of Foreign Religious Literature, 1980-90,” examined the impact of foreign (especially Iranian and Saudi Arabian) Islamic publications in Nigeria. The study explored how the increasing influx of foreign publications in Nigeria has caused Muslims to challenge the legitimacy of the Nigerian state and to propose an Islamic alternative, and provided insight into the relationship between local Nigerian politics and global Islamic discourses, especially with reference to sharia.
Hassan Mwakimako obtained the Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Nairobi. His research project, “Muslims and the Colonial State in the Eastern Coast of the Indian Ocean,” examined the responses of Muslims in three coastal towns (Mombassa, Malindi, and Lamu) to the colonial state through their engagement with the process of institutionalization of religious leadership. A particular focus of his work was the tensions that resulted when Muslim elites served under British rulers as administrators and judges (qadis).
Inyani K. Simala completed his Ph.D. at Moi University, Kenya with a thesis on gendered metaphors in Swahili poetry. He is currently in the Department of Kiswahili at Maseno University, Kisumu. His research on “Islam, Swahili Poetry, and Society in Africa” examined the Islamic point of view, voice, and theme in Swahili poetry, identified qualities common to Islamic thought as expressed in Swahili poetry, and explored various strategies envisaged by Swahili poets to cope with the crisis of modern existence as embodied in the state.
Gilbert Lamblin Taguem Fah received his Ph.D. from the University of Yaoundé, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ngaounderé, Cameroon. His research project, “Muslim Rulers, Justice and Politics in Cameroon: From Colonialism to the Postcolonial Period,” stressed the ambivalent relationship between Cameroonian Muslims and their French colonial rulers. His project examined Muslim rulers’ attempts to maintain their power through the application of Islamic law, and explored the development of the new and complex system of justice (partially Islamic and partially Western) that emerged in Cameroon as a result of colonial rule.
Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim , Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Abdu Khaliq Mahjub: The Reception of Marxism in Sudan"
Nikolai Dobronravine Professor of African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, "Islam and Politics in Turkmenistan through an Africanist's Eyes"
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