Decolonizing the Study of Islam in Africa

Join us for a Public Lecture

“Decolonizing the Study of Islam in Africa” 

Guest Speaker: Professor Ousmane Kane

Prof Kane is the emeritus and inaugural Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and the world’s leading scholar of Islam in Africa. He is a specialist in the history of Islamic religious institutions and intellectual history in Africa and has published a number of groundbreaking publications on a range issues including migration, modernity, politics, Sufism, Islamic education and intellectual traditions, and most recently pilgrimage. Some of his most prominent books include Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (2003), Non-Europhone Intellectuals (2012), Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa (2016), and Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts (2021). He was recently awarded the African Studies Association’s prestigious “Distinguished Africanist Award” in 2024 for his work uniting, transforming, and advancing the fields of African Studies and Islamic Studies.