AFRAB Workshop and meeting in Niamey, Niger, in March 2023
AFRAB鈥檚 sixth sub-regional workshop took place in Niamey in the offices of the 'Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines鈥 (IRSH Niamey) on 12 March 2023. The Nig茅rien team of researchers: Professor Zakari Maikorema, Dr Alakarbo Hassimou, Dr Abdoulaye Tchiambou, and the team鈥檚 research coordinator Dr Oumarou Moussa, met with Professor Rossi to discuss research progress over the last few months.
On March 13, 2023, IRSH hosted a research workshop organised as part of the collaboration between the LARSO laboratory (IRSH) and the AFRAB Project. Several participants had started working together on related topics in the context of the LESLAN Project. The workshop鈥檚 theme was 鈥淚slam and Abolitionsm in West Africa鈥 (Islam et Abolitionnisme en Afrique de l'Ouest). Several researchers from Francophone West African universities collaborating with AFRAB presented their research at the workshop, alongside other invited external presenters. The workshop鈥檚 topic was not only central to AFRAB鈥檚 theme, but it also built upon the momentum occasioned in Niger鈥檚 academia by the recent award of a Doctorate of Philosophy to Oumarou Moussa for his PhD thesis entitled 芦 The influence of Islam on the practice and abolition of slavery in Tuareg and Zarma-So艐ay societies in western Niger since the 19th century 禄 at the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey on 26 November 2022. Dr Moussa now coordinated the AFRAB research team in Niger. His is the first thesis defended in a university in Niger that dares to focus on what for decades has been a taboo subject: internal slavery and its resilience until today in spite of several legal measures taken by successive governments, aimed at eradicating this institution.
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Please click on the pdf link below to open the programme of the workshop 鈥淚slam et Abolitionnisme en Afrique de l'Ouest鈥: