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Muslim Youth at a Crossroads: Media and Civic Engagement in Burkina Faso

Ouedraogo, Lassane
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou157547720848127

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Mass Communication (Communication).
This dissertation examines the civic engagement as well as the online and offline discursive and performative practices of faith among Muslim youth in Burkina Faso. It specifically maps out how members of Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans au Burkina (AEEMB), a Muslim student organization with over 100,000 members, negotiate the meanings of their Islamic faith and participate in debates on issues of national and global interests. Since the emergence of violent radicalism in the French speaking, Sahelian West African region over the past decade, scholars have turned their attention to political Islam with a focus on established branches of Islamic denominations such the Sunni movement, the Ahmadiyya, and the Wahhabi and salafist reformist groups. Most scholars are now widening this scope to include less well-established Muslim groups including youth associations and student militancy. One of the major underlying assumptions in this surge of research on religion in the Sahel is the persistent belief that, somehow, there is a correlation between the region being predominantly Muslim and the rise of non-state armed forces. This study challenges such assumptions and examines the communication practices of Muslim youth with a specific focus on those educated in the secular education system of Burkina Faso. It analyzes the complexity of youth activism and how youth claim their religious and other various social identities online and offline.
Steve Howard (Committee Chair)
Wolfgang Suetzl (Committee Member)
Devika Chawla (Committee Member)
Assan Sarr (Committee Member)
232 p.
African Studies; Communication; Cultural Anthropology; Islamic Studies; Mass Communications; Mass Media; Religion; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
Muslim Youth; Media; Islam; Civic Engagement; Burkina Faso; Africa

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  • Ouedraogo, L. (2020). Muslim Youth at a Crossroads: Media and Civic Engagement in Burkina Faso [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou157547720848127

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ouedraogo, Lassane. Muslim Youth at a Crossroads: Media and Civic Engagement in Burkina Faso. 2020. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou157547720848127.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ouedraogo, Lassane. "Muslim Youth at a Crossroads: Media and Civic Engagement in Burkina Faso." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou157547720848127

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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