Areas of Specialization: Religion, Islam, media, popular and visual cultures, Muslim minorities, public Islam, contemporary Islam (Nigeria & Ghana)
Musa Ibrahim is a postdoctoral researcher for the “Islam in Africa in Global Context” project, which is funded through a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. He is jointly hosted by the UF Center for African Studies and The UF Center for Global Islamic Studies. Ibrahim writes about Kannywood, northern Nigeria’s film industry, sharia, and censorship, as well about Islam and media in Ghana. He also writes about Boko Haram, Muslim minorities, and Muslim-Christian encounters. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, his MA at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and BA at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. Ibrahim is currently working on his monograph “Islam and Media: Contesting and negotiating Muslim visual cultures in northern Nigeria.”
Some Publications
2020 “Islam and Visual Culture: Sharia Implementation and Cinema as Visual Management in Nigeria” African Studies Review, Cambridge University Press, 1-24. doi:10.1017/asr.2019.88. May 2020
2019 “In Search of a Plausible Theory to Explain the Boko Haram Phenomenon: Analysis of Intellectual Discourses on Insurgency and Violent Extremism in Nigeria” The CCI Occasional Papers, No. 2, March 2019: 24-35.
2019 “Negotiating Religion in Kannywood: Changing Dynamics of Visualising Religiously ‘invisible’ in Hausa Films under Sharia Censorship,” in Contextualising Indigenous African Language Films edited by Ekwuwazi, Hyginus and Johnson, Dul. (2019) Page 113-138.
2018 “Contemporary ‘Non-ulama’ Hausa Women and Islamic Discourses on Television Screens” Journal for Islamic Studies, Vol. 37, 2018, 101-119.
2017 “Conflict and Violence at the Crossroad of Religion and ‘New’ Media: Periscoping Faith-based Crisis through the Eyes of Camera in the Sharia-age of Northern Nigeria.” Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and its Diaspora 3 (1): 91-109.
2013 “Media and Religious Engagement: Sheik Seebaway Zakaria and Ghanaian Broadcasting Media.” Annual Review of Islam in Africa, Vol.11(1) 2013:7-12.
2013 (co-authored with Katsuhiko Shiota) Hausa Readings. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Fuchu-shi Asahi-cho 3-11-1, Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan. ISBN 978-4-86337-142-2. http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/publications/language-text.
See more of Musa Ibrahim’s work here:
https://florida.academia.edu/MusaIbrahim
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Musa_Ibrahim15