Dr. Musa Ibrahim

Research Fellow


Dept: Centre for Cultural and African Studies
Office No. 11
Centre for Cultural and African Studies
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi-Ghana

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Research Areas/Interests

His research areas cut across Anthropology of Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies....~more


Publications

    Journal Articles

    2022    Ibrahim, Musa and Sara Katz. "Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria." Africa 92, no. 5 (2022): 663-677.

    2022    Ibrahim, Musa. "Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria." Africa 92, no. 5 (2022): 678-698.

    2022    Ibrahim, Musa. “The Formation of Muslim Minorities within a Muslim Majority Context: the Case of Shia Groups in Nigeria.” Islamic Africa 13 (2022) 220–249.

    2022    Ibrahim, Musa. "Sharia Reforms, Hisbah, and the Economy of Moral Policing in Nigeria." Journal for the Study of Religion 35, no. 2 (2022).

    2022    Ibrahim Musa. "Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria." Journal of African Cultural Studies 34, no. 2 (2022): 205-222.

    2021    Dumbe, Yunus, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, and Musa Ibrahim. "Contesting Visions of Modernity in Ghanaian Salafis' Islamic Reform." Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 6, no. 1 (2021): 1-28.

    2020    Ibrahim, Musa. Islam and Visual Culture: Sharia Implementation and Cinema as Visual Management in Nigeria. African Studies Review, 63(4), 2020:719-742.

    2019    Ibrahim, Musa. “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.

    2018    Ibrahim, Musa. “Contemporary ‘Non-ulama’ Hausa Women and Islamic Discourses on Television Screens” Journal for Islamic Studies, Vol. 37, 2018, 101-119.

    2017    Ibrahim, Musa. “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) 2017: 91-109.

    2013    Ibrahim, Musa. “Media and Religious Engagement: Sheik Seebaway Zakaria and Ghanaian Broadcasting Media.” Annual Review of Islam in Africa, Vol.11(1) 2013:7-12.

    Book

    2013    Shiota, Katsuhiko and Ibrahim, Musa. 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.

    Book Chapters

    2019    Ibrahim, Musa. “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.

    2023   Ibrahim Musa. “Religious Diversity in Sharia-Compliant Cities in Northern Nigeria,” in Musa Ibrahim and Nadine Sieveking (eds.), Religious Diversity and Modes of Coexistence in Urban West Africa. MIASA Working Paper No 2023(1), pp. 57-64. University of Ghana https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/sites/mias-africa/files/images/MIASA_WP_2023%281%29_IFG7_0.pdf#page=57.


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