Everyday Islam in Kumasi Website Launched
MATRIX is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Everyday Islam in Kumasi: Devout Lay Men and Women in Daily Life.
This growing collection of video interviews and photographs features the voices of Muslim men and women who live and work in Kumasi, the second largest city in the West African country of Ghana. Interviewees reflect on the ways Islam influences their activities at home, with their neighbors, and at work as traders, tailors, and teachers. Gracia Clark, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, who made her field research freely accessible on this site, hopes this collection will contribute towards better understanding between Ghanaian Muslims and their neighbors in North America and in Africa.
Everyday Islam in Kumasi is part of the Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa digital library. Each collection in this digital library sheds much-needed light on how Muslims in West Africa accept religious difference and create productive interactions among Christians, Muslims, and followers of other faiths.
Funding for this project is provided by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program and by Michigan State University.
