Conference Revisited: Religion and Democracy on the African Continent

In early May, UVA Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, Oludamini Ogunnaike, and Robert Trent Vinson, the Director and Chair of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies, co-hosted 20+ international scholars in Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics for a series of presentations on the past, present, and future of religion and democracy on the African continent. Captured below are six recorded conference sessions, including a keynote address by Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University and author of the book, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, (Harvard University Press, 2020). In the coming year, the scholarship produced at this conference will be published in an edited volume.

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