Ep. 31: 'Whose Knowledge?' Education and International Development in Islamic West Africa (with Anneke Newman)

In this episode, we listen to Siobhan Bygate talk to Anneke Newman about decolonising education and international development in Islamic West Africa. 

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Anneke Newman has received an interdisciplinary academic training including an BA in Human Sciences (Oxford), a Masters in Gender and Development (Institute of Development Studies), and a Masters in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (University of Sussex) before earning her doctorate at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex in 2016. Before joining Ghent University as a FWO-funded senior postdoctoral fellow in 2022, she worked as a Teaching Fellow at Sussex and a FNRS-funded postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Newman's current research is a decolonial analysis of knowledge production and policy-making related to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage. 

• Anneke Newman, Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa: Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality

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Produced by Chris Lloyd, Catarina Carvalho, and Sara de Sousa.

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Edited by Chris Lloyd.

This show is in part made possible by an Impact Accelerator Award from the University of Hertfordshire and the Economic and Social Research Council.