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Sahel Research Group at ASA 2024

Annual meeting 2024, Chicago, IL

University of Florida Sahel Research Group talks

Thursday December 12

  • 10:15-12:00, Purdue. Author Meets Critic: Faith-based Student Activism in Togo and Benin: Muslims and Christians on University Campuses. With K.D. Thompson, Frédérick Madore, Ebenezer Obadare, Leonardo Villalón and Marius Kothor
  • 1:30-3:15, Denver. Regime Protectors, Counter-Terrorism Forces, or Coup Plotters? Understanding Africa’s Special Operation Forces. With Sebastian Elischer and Rachel Sigman
  • 1:30-3:15, Ohio State. (Post)nomads in Global Africa. With Fiona Mc Laughlin, Adib Bencherif, Baba Adou and Abdoulaye Kane
  • 1:30- 3:15, Addison. The Future of African Studies and the ASA in/and a Global Africa. With Oumar Ba

Friday December 13

  • 8:00-9:45, McHenry. Narratives of Tuareg communities: Echoes and Silence in the Algerian Sahara in 2024. With Adib Bencherif
  • 10:15-12:00, Denver. Mauritania’s ‘Military Democracy’: Resilience, Fragility, and Regional Implications. With Baba Adou and Sebastian Elischer
  • 3:45-5:30, Indiana. Intersecting Crises and the Reconfiguration of the Sahel. With Wendy Wilson-Fall, Renata Serra, Leonardo Villalón, Jean Hervé Jezequel and Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim

Saturday December 14

  • 8:00-9:45, Sheffield. Towards a Decolonial U-Turn: Lamine Senghor, the League Against Imperialism, and Anti-Colonialism in Interwar Europe. With Oumar Ba
  • 3:45-5:30, Navy Pier. AfricaNow! Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger: towards a new chapter? With Peter Sampson, Leonardo Villalón, Andrew Lebovich and Mamadou Bodian