Musa Ibrahim is a Research Fellow at the Center for Cultural and African Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He is an anthropologist who writes about various topics such as Islam and media in Ghana and Nigeria, sharia, censorship, northern Nigeria's film industry, Boko Haram, Muslim-Christian encounters, and Muslim minorities in Africa.

Dr Ibrahim holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, an MA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a BA from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.

He has been an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Henry Luce Foundation's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the University of Florida Center for African Studies and the University of Florida Center for Global Islam where he worked on the project “Islam in Africa in Global Context.” He is also an Associate Fellow at the African Research Institute for Religion Ethics and Society (ARIRES) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr ibrahim has published widely in many journals and authored book chapters, including in Africa, African Studies Review, and Journal for African Cultural Studies, among others. He is currently working on a monograph called Muslims Avant-Garde.