Entrepreneurship has been an endeavour carried out by people who are industry players
and whom have good intentions in achieving concrete socio-economic development leading …

Names: Howe, Justine, 1981-editor. Title: The Routledge handbook of Islam and
gender/edited by Justine Howe. Description: 1.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series …

This article analyzes the career path of Aminata Kane Koné, a highly educated Ivorian
Muslim woman, who has emerged as a female figure of success. A prominent activist of the …

Islamic and Christian societies in Africa are at the heart of thriving religious developments
amid challenging economic and political transformations. This article introduces the special …

In the Central African Republic, despite the persistence of political violence as a means of
acquiring power, new trajectories for success have emerged; however, they have received …

Over the last two decades scholars have devoted a significant amount of time to uncovering
and theorizing what has been termed the resurgence, renewal, revival, or even the return of …

This chapter explores the emergence of female preachers in contemporary Niger, who have
amassed a large media presence in both TV and radio. Challenging conventional …

Jálàbí, the Islamic petitionary prayer is deployed by Muslim clerics to render spiritual
services to individuals and groups in a manner that forges a transactional relationship …

Africa is overall a young continent, and thus youth plays a significant role in social life.
Viewed as violent, vulnerable, or creative, African youth have become since the 1990s the …

Many scholars of Islam in Africa have drawn attention to the growing significance of
preaching in the past twenty years (Miran 2007; Schulz 2012; Gomez-Perez & Madore 2013; …