Martin Luther Darko, The Quest for Health in Madina: Health seeking across Religious Boundaries

On 2 June 2026, Martin Luther Darko succesfully defended his dissertation Religious coexistence in health-seeking: an ethnographic study in a Pentecostal Hospital, Madina, Accra, Ghana at Leiden University.

Martin Luther Darko's PhD research explores how different religious practitioners (Christians, Muslims and Indigenous Traditionalists) cross their defined religious boundaries in search of maternal and reproductive health in a multi- ethnic and religious sub-urban community (Madina) in Ghana, and how that creates religious coexistence. The working title of his research is The Quest for Health in Madina: Health seeking across Religious Boundaries.

His research is part of the Religious Matters in an Entangled World Project at Utrecht University.