After the Jihad, Before the Federation: Making a Senegalese-Soudanese Household in Colonial Mopti

Professor Madina Thiam (NYU) will give a talk titled After the Jihad, Before the Federation: Making a Senegalese-Soudanese Household in Colonial Mopti.

Madina Thiam is a historian of West Africa and the African Diaspora in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her work explores the circulations of West African people and ideas; social histories of Islam in Mali; race-making in the Sahel; Malian women’s histories; anti-colonial movements; and pan-Africanism. She received her PhD in African History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022 and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at NYU.