About
I am a Research Fellow at
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), working on the project
Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa. Previously, I was a
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Center for African Studies at the University of Florida, and a Part-Time Professor at the
University of Ottawa. I completed my Ph.D. in History at the Université Laval (Canada) with distinction in 2018.
My research is comparative and examines the history of Islam and Muslim societies in francophone West Africa from the 1950s to the present. I have conducted extensive fieldwork and archival research in Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo, focusing on Islamic activism among youth and women, their appropriation of (new) media, and Muslim politics. As part of my work in digital humanities, I have also developed an
open-access digital database that now contains more than 2900 documents and 275 bibliographical references related to Islam in Burkina Faso.
I am the author of the book
La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest (Presses de l’Université Laval/
Hermann, 2016). I co-edited a volume (
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences, 2023) and two special journal issues: “
Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 1 &
Part 2” (
Islamic Africa, 2021-2022) and “
Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique” (
Émulations, 2017). My research has also been published in eleven peer-reviewed journals and five edited collections.
Education
2018 Ph.D. Université Laval (Canada), Department of History
2013 M.A. Université Laval, Department of History Mastodon Feed
The panel proposal "Digital Humanities ( #DH ) and #AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives" that I submitted with Vincent Hiribarren has been accepted for the #ECAS2025. The conference will take place in Prague next year. https://frederickmadore.com/conference/digital-humanities-dh-and-ai-in-african-studies-opportunities-challenges-and-decolonial-perspectives/ (2024-10-14 ↗)
I'm delighted to announce that my forthcoming book, "Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970-2023" is now listed on the De Gruyter website. It is currently scheduled for publication in March 2025, but we aim to have it published and made available in open access by the end of the year. This book, based on my research with the Remoboko project at ZMO since 2021, examines Christian and Muslim student associations at the Universities of Lomé and Abomey-Calavi. It explores their resilience over five decades, navigating authoritarianism, political change and laïcité while shaping campus life and offering a "social curriculum". The study offers new insights into the role of faith in public universities and social change in West Africa. I'm grateful to many people, especially Abdoulaye Sounaye, the project's PI, my colleagues at ZMO, and all the interviewees in Benin and Togo. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111429182/html (2024-07-24 ↗)
On 9 November 2023, the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (#ZMO) will officially launch the "Islam #WestAfrica Collection" (https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/) in Berlin. This project, which I’m directing, is a collaborative, #openaccess digital #database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, photographs, and references on #Islam and #Muslims in #BurkinaFaso, #Benin, #Niger, #Nigeria, #Togo and #Cotedivoire. Far from being the end of a project, this is just the beginning, as the database will continue to grow and will lay the groundwork for future collaborations with other scholars and institutes as more countries may be added. Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Issouf Binaté (Université Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire) and Kai Kresse (ZMO) will comment on the project. https://www.zmo.de/en/events/launch-islam-west-africa-collection #omeka #DH (2023-10-06 ↗)
Thanks to a generous funding from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, our #Remoboko research group is organising its final #conference entitled "#University Campuses in #Africa and Beyond: Training Grounds, Moral Spaces and Political Arenas" at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (#ZMO) in #Berlin next week. This conference seeks to examine how university campuses in Africa and beyond: 1) offer training for various skills and know-how which translate into key assets for the social becoming of students beyond the #campus; 2) become a site of moral activism where competing claims of social good and citizenry lead to projects of self-transformation (individual, collective) and/or even conflicts of norms; 3) feed on various forms of engagements (intellectual, religious, political) while developing their own politics (regional, religious, ethnic, ideological, etc.). The event will feature 22 papers across 8 panels, a book launch, a photo exhibition and the screening of an ethnographic film. (2023-09-01 ↗)
I'm honored to have received one of the two "2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award" by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and its partners for my work on the "Islam #BurkinaFaso Collection"! I would especially like to thank Perry Collins, the LibraryPress@UF, the Sahel Research Group and my current institution, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), for their invaluable support. I'm already working on the next phase of the project with the creation of a larger collaborative digital database on #Islam in #WestAfrica, which will include material on #CotedIvoire, #Benin and #Togo. https://etcl.uvic.ca/2023/01/17/2023-open-scholarship-awards/ #openscience #dh #digitalhistory #omeka (2023-01-18 ↗)
Publications
Books
2023. Sounaye, A. and
F. Madore (eds.),
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
2016.
La construction d’une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l’Ouest. Québec/Paris:
Presses de l’Université Laval/
Hermann.
Guest Edited Journal
2021-2022.
Madore F. and D. Schulz, eds. “
Muslim Minorities in Africa, Part 1 &
Part 2.”
Islamic Africa 12 (2) / 13 (1).
2017. Millet-Mouity P. and
F. Madore, eds. “Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique.”
Émulations 24.
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024.
Journal Articles
2022. “A Beninese Imam’s Controversial 2019 Election Campaign: Muslim Leadership and Political Engagement in a Minority Context.”
Islamic Africa 13 (1): 1–26.
https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01202004.
2021. “La
Collection Islam Burkina Faso: promesses et défis des humanités numériques.”
Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique.
https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e610.
2021. “‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017–2018).”
The Journal of Modern African Studies 59 (2): 197-217.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X21000094.
2020. “Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte d’Ivoire.”
Africa Today 67 (2-3): 17–38.
https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.67.2-3.02.
2020. “Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso.”
Africa 90 (3): 625-46.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000108.
2018.
Madore F. and Y. Traoré. “L’organisation du hadj en Côte d’Ivoire: entre facteur de cohésion et source de rivalités au sein de la communauté musulmane (1993-2010).”
Cahiers d’études africaines 229: 179–208.
https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.21880.
2017. Millet-Mouity, P. and
F. Madore. “Pour de nouvelles études sur les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique.”
Émulations 24: 11–22.
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024.001.
2017. Hackett, R.I.J.,
F. Madore and P. Millet-Mouity. “Interview with Rosalind I. J. Hackett on Religion and Digital Media Trends in Africa.”
Émulations 24: 125–33.
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.024.008.
2016. “The New Vitality of Salafism in Côte d’Ivoire: Toward a Radicalization of Ivoirian Islam?”
Journal of Religion in Africa 46 (4): 417–52.
https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340090.
2016. “L’islam ivoirien et burkinabé à l’ère du numérique 2.0.”
Journal des anthropologues 146–147: 151–78.
https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.6525.
2016. “Islam, médias, mise en place du Sénat et article 37 de la Constitution: changement de paradigme au Burkina Faso (1991-2014)?”
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 50 (1): 7–27.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2015.1101008.
2016.
Madore F. and M. Gomez-Perez. “Muslim Women in Burkina Faso since the 1970s: Toward Recognition as Figures of Religious Authority?”
Islamic Africa 7 (2): 185–209.
https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00702001.
2013. Gomez-Perez M. and
F. Madore. “Prêcheurs(ses) musulman(e)s et stratégies de communication au Burkina Faso depuis 1990. Des processus différentiés de conversion interne.”
Théologiques 21 (2): 121–57.
https://doi.org/10.7202/1028465ar.
Book Chapters
2023. Sounaye A. and
F. Madore. “Introduction: Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa,” In
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences, edited by A. Sounaye and
F. Madore, 3–21. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
2023. “Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l’Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005.” In
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences, edited by A. Sounaye and
F. Madore, 51–83. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
2023.
Madore, F. and I. Binaté. “Islam on University Campuses in Côte d’Ivoire since the 1970s: Muslim Intellectuals and Francophone Salafism.” In
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences, edited by A. Sounaye and
F. Madore, 273–307. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
2021.
Madore F. and A.-A. Brassard. “Du plan au brouillon: l’essentiel pour structurer ses idées et éviter le syndrome de la page blanche.” In
Guide décolonisé et pluriversel de formation à la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines, edited by F. Piron and É. Arsenault. Québec: Éditions science et bien commun.
2020. “Imams, Islamic Preachers, and Public Space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward New Intergenerational Relationships and a Muslim Public Sphere.” In
Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa, edited by L.J. Acquah and T. Falola, 183–213. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2019.
Madore, F. and L. Audet Gosselin. “Le religieux sur Internet et dans les NTIC au Burkina Faso.” In
Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso, edited by A. Degorce, L.O. Kibora and K. Langewiesche, 269–96. Dakar: Amalion.
2016. Couillard K.,
F. Madore and M. Gomez-Perez. “Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement.” In
Faith and Charity: Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa, edited by M.N. LeBlanc and L. Audet Gosselin, 105–23. London: Pluto Press.
Report
2022. “Lutte contre le terrorisme et sécuritisation du salafisme au Bénin et au Togo: instrumentalisations diverses d’une “‘menace étrangère’”,
Bulletin FrancoPaix 7 (8): 2-7.
https://dandurand.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-Bulletin.pdf.
Encyclopedia Entry
2014.
Madore F. and M. Gomez-Perez. “Communauté Musulmane du Burkina Faso.”
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, 66–67. Leiden: Brill.
https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_27698.
