Islam Burkina Faso Collection

2021

A project led by Frédérick Madore

Launched in 2021 by Frédérick Madore, the Islam Burkina Faso Collection is an open-access digital database containing over 2,600 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso. The site also indexes over 215 bibliographical references of books, book chapters, journal articles, Ph.D. dissertations and master theses on the topic.

This material comes from Dr. Madore’s doctoral research (2013-2018) on the history of Islamic activism among youth and women in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s, during which he has digitized more than 7,000 newspaper articles about Muslims in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire (celebrations of religious holidays, organizations of Islamic activities, statements by Muslim leaders, interactions with Arab-Muslim countries, activities of Islamic NGOs, etc.), as well as nearly 1,000 various Islamic pamphlets, bulletins and magazines.

This project is one of the first digital humanities initiatives to be published under a new University of Florida Libraries program, LibraryPress@UF. This program, an imprint of the Libraries and the University of Florida Press, seeks to develop public scholarship across formats that extend and complement the work of traditional academic publishing. 

To learn more about this project, see Frédérick Madore, “La Collection Islam Burkina Faso : promesses et défis des humanités numériques”, Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique (2021).