In an era where falsehoods outpace truth, Nigeria and its Sahel neighbours find themselves on a perilous digital battleground ...

Does religion shape society less or more than society shapes it? Less, according to this solidly researched study of the comparative status of Muslim women in northern Nigeria and Senegal.

Al Qaeda-linked Islamists declared on Thursday they had secured full control of Mali’s desert north from separatist rebels with whom they had temporarily joined forces to seize territory earlier this ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man linked to al Qaeda tried to set off an explosive device aboard a U.S. passenger plane as it approached Detroit on Friday, but was overpowered by passengers and crew, ...

Egodi Uchendu receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She has also received funding from TETFund, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in ...

A city mosque will kick off a five-day exhibition on the connection between Islam and Black history in the United States with ...

Analysts say Russian mercenaries focus on mineral extraction rather than security in Sahel countries after U.S. and French ...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced yesterday that it rolled up an Islamic State (IS) financial network that spanned three unspecified West African countries. According to Iraqi ...

Reviewed by H. F. C. Smith, "Islam in West Africa," Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria) no. 15, March 1963, pages 31-33 https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

What’s the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted ...

Five regional scholars offer their recommendations for Christians. The world’s second-largest religion, Islam has long exercised the minds of Christians. Dating to A.D. 610, when Muhammad is said to ...

The United States is a Christian-majority nation -- but the majority here is dwindling, with only 64% of Americans now identifying as Christian, according to Pew Research Center data. Shutterstock A ...