Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Name
- Dr. A. Idrissa Abdoulaye
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3372
- a.idrissa.abdoulaye@asc.leidenuniv.nl
For an overview of Abdourahmane Idrissa's research and publications, visit his profile on the ASCL website.
Abdourahmane (Rahmane) Idrissa is a political scientist fast embracing history. His doctorate in political science, with a concentration on democratisation and political Islam in Africa, was obtained at the University of Florida. Idrissa’s research expertise ranges from issues of states, institutions and democratisation in Africa to Salafi radicalism in the Sahel and current projects on the history of state formation in Africa, with a focus both on the modern (Niger) and premodern eras (Songhay).
Before joining the African Studies Centre Leiden, Idrissa has founded and run EPGA, a think tank in political economy in Niger, training students and coordinating projects based on methodologies of political economy analysis that focused on migration, youth employment and demography. In recent years, EPGA has worked in partnership with Clingendael on projects on migration, security issues and traditional governance in the Sahel borderlands.
Idrissa is also associated with the Niamey based social science laboratory LASDEL and is on the editorial board of the African Studies Quarterly, at the University of Florida.
University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2024), Niamey nights, Granta (166): 235-245.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (7 September 2023), En Afrique, les pragmatiques sont devenus inaudibles. Le Monde.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (7 August 2023), Rule by junta. Sidecar, the New Left Review blog. London: New Left Review (NLR). [blog entry].
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2023), Sudan's repressed democracy, The New York review of books : .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2023), In Bamako, London Review of Books 45(3): .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2022), History of Niger. In: , African history. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (25 July 2022), Rêves violents au Mali. Le Temps.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2022), Françafrique: l'idée qui ne veut pas mourir, Politique Africaine 2022/2(166): 203-207.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (6 October 2022), Damiba’s ousting. Sidecar, the New Left Review (NLR) blog. London: New Left Review (NLR). [blog entry].
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2022), Coup-contrecoup : Rahmane Idrissa on Burkina Faso, London Review of Books 44(4): .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021), Yesterday meets tomorrow in Sahelian intellectual currents. In: Villalón L.A. (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 493-510.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021), Not its own man: the EU, West African migration, and the justice question. In: Ceccorulli M. & Fassi E. (Eds.), The EU’s external governance of migration perspectives of justice. London: Routledge. 117-133.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021), Europe-Africa unequal pacts: the case of West African migration. In: Fargion V. & Gazibo M. (Eds.), Revisiting EU-Africa relations in a changing world. New Horizons in European Politics . Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. 104–115 .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021), The Sahel: a cognitive mapping, New Left Review (132): 5-39.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021) Countries without currency. Review of: Pigeaud F. & Ndongo Samba S. (2021), Africa's last colonial currency: the CFA franc story. London: Pluto Press. London Review of Books 43(23).
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2021), Africa's perceptions, prospects, and strategies towards the US-China tech competition . In: Cha J. (Ed.), The future of US-China tech competition: global perceptions, prospects, and strategies. Seoul: National Assembly Futures Institute. 169-178.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), "Boko Halal" : limits to radicalization in Southern Niger Republic. In: Mustapha A.R. & Meagher K. (Eds.), Overcoming Boko Haram : faith, society & Islamic radicalization in Northern Nigeria. Western Africa series. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer.
- Villalón L.A. & Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (Eds.) (2020), Democratic struggle, institutional reform, and state resilience in the African Sahel. New York: Lexington Books.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), The dialectics of democratization and stability in the Sahel. In: Villalón L.A. & Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (Eds.), Democratic struggle, institutional reform, and state resilience in the African Sahel. New York: Lexington Books. 191-210.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), Historical dictionary of Niger. Historical dictionaries of Africa. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A., A ‘COVID revolution’ in Africa? . INCLUDE: Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development Policies. [blog entry].
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), Diary: in Mali, London Review of Books 42(13): .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), The coup in Mali is an ominous sign for Francophone west Africa . The Guardian.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2020), Islamic legal radicalism: the cases of Katsina and Maradi. In: Apard E. (Ed.), Transnational Islam: circulation of religious ideas, actors and practices between Niger and Nigeria. West African Politics and Society (WAPOSO) series no. 4. Leiden, Ibadan: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA). 39-66.
- Idrissa A. (2019), Dialogue in divergence: the impact of EU migration policy on West African integration: the cases of Nigeria, Mali, and Niger. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
- Idrissa A. (2019), Un dialogue sur fond de divergence : L'impact de la politique migratoire européenne sur l'integration Ouest-Africaine : les cas du Nigeria, du Mali et du Niger. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2019), Weakened states and market giants: neoliberalism and democracy in Niger and West Bengal, Africa development 43(3): 25-52.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2019), Mais que se passe-t-il au Sahel?, Alternatives économiques : .
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2019), Tinder to the fire: Burkina Faso in the conflict zone. RLS research papers on peace and conflict studies in West and Central Africa no. 2. Dakar: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
- Idrissa Adboulaye A. (2019) Islam and the Nigeria quandary: history, politics and reform. Review of: Kendhammer B., Thurston A., Vaughan O. & Loimeier R. (2016), 1. Muslims talking politics: framing Islam, democracy, and law in northern Nigeria. 2. Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, preaching, and politics 3. Religion and the making of Nigeria 4. Islamic reform in twentieth-century Africa. Chicago IL [etc.]: Chicago University Press [etc.]. Africa 89(2): 401-406.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A., Salafists and the missing state in the Sahel. ASCL Africanist Blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2018), Islam et politique au Sahel : entre persuasion et violence. Niamey: EPGA.
- Idrissa Abdoulaye A. (2017), The politics of Islam in the Sahel: between persuasion and violence. London: Routledge.