The webinar will have three panelists, from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso that are some of the countries that have been affected by coups in the recent months. We invite the researchers and students at the department of political science to join the webinar and participate, ask questions and learn more about the situation leading to the coup, events during and after the coup. You can share the invitation within your networks as this is part of the Science for All initiative by JYU.
Africa Networks (JYU) - Coup Trends in West Africa
The JYU Africa Networks will be hosting a webinar on the Coup Trends in West Africa with focus on what the media is not reporting about the coup. The webinar will take place on 25.10 at 15-16.30 via zoom.
Event information
Event date
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Registration period
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Event type
Public lectures, seminars and round tables
Event language
English
Event payment
Free of charge
Event location category
Online
About the speakers
SidyLamine Bagayoko (He/Him)
SidyLamine Bagayoko attended the Arctic University of Norway, UiT.no, Tromsø in Norway. He is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Bamako, Mali. He is currently involving in a Master program in Collaborative Visual Anthropology of which he is the coordinator and the head of the Laboratory -LAVISCOL- Laboratoire Anthropologie Visuelle Collaborative. He has also directed several research films related to education and poverty in Mali. His research focuses on visual anthropology, economic anthropology, environmental anthropology, urban poverty and education in Mali. He is a political analyst for different national and international medias like Africa Radio, Deutsche Welle DW in French, Renouveau TV, RT media in English, etc.
Salimata Nah SOME/TRAORE (She/Her)
PhD student in private law and criminal sciences at the University of Bordeaux, Speaker, certified trainer in digital rights, online security and social networks. She is a lawyer by training with her thesis focusing on corporate social responsibility. Passionate about civic engagement and is an activist in various civil society organizations for development in Burkina Faso and France.
Alhassane A. Najoum (He/Him)
Alhassane holds a PhD from the University of Bayreuth – Germany. After completing his doctoral studies at this University, particularly at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies – BIGSAS – he returned to Niger to work in some “development institutions” before being employed to the Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In addition, he is also a researcher at the Laboratoire d'Étude et de Recherche en Sociologie et Anthropologie – LERSA. His current research focuses on Islam on the university campus where he teaches, the state of feminist ideology and its implications for family structures in Niamey, and the resurgence of coups d’états and their political, economic and social consequences in the Sahel and Niger in particular. He is fluent in foreign languages like German, English and French.
