Three new doctors in Madina Project interviewed by Mare

On 2 June, Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta successfully defended their PhD dissertations at Leiden University in the framework of the Madina Project (part of the wider research programme Religious Matters in an Entangled World). The Madina Project is a collaboration between the African Studies Centre Leiden, Utrecht University, and the University of Ghana.

 

Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta each examined different aspects of everyday religious coexistence in Madina, a diverse suburb of Accra, Ghana. Their research explored how Christians, Muslims and practitioners of African Traditional Religion navigate shared spaces through health care, beauty practices and food exchange.

 

Leiden University magazine Mare featured the three new doctors, alongside Madina Project alumnus Joseph Fosu-Ankrah, in an article about their research, their experiences as PhD candidates, and the significance of studying peaceful coexistence in a multi-religious community.

 

Read the article (in Dutch) by Vincent Bongers here.