At the 64th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, the IASG sponsored two panels:
Representing and Imagining African Muslims: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Rabiat Akande, Harvard University
- France, this “Great Muslim Power”: la politique musulmane française and the fantasy of the Oriental Despot in Northwest Africa (Fatima-Ezzahrae Touilila, Columbia University)
- National Muslims, the Hajj, and Islamophobia: Nigerian Politics in the 1950s (Sarah Katz, Loyola University New Orleans)
- A Broken Claim to Connection: Black aesthetics and performance in Islam (Thabang Nkuna, Witwatersrand University)
Investigating Change in Contemporary Islam in Africa
Chair: Rhea Rahman, Brooklyn College
- Islam as discourse: Producing a South African Shi’a subject (Gadija Ahjum, University of Cape Town)
- Islam in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Vincent R. Ogoti, University of Wisconsin Madison)
- “Allied Democratic Forces in Uganda: A Case of Jihadi-Salafism or Local Political Movement in Disguise?” (Abdulhakim A. Nsobya, University of Cape Town)