Research
Research programs
Five connected lines of inquiry, each feeding books in progress, teaching and public engagement.
Scriptures and social power
How sacred and secular texts are made, circulated and weaponised: in nationhood, militarism, media and everyday economies.
Witchcraft, gender and violence
The scriptural economy of witchcraft accusations, the vulnerability of women and children, and paleoviolence as a lens on security.
Comparative heritage
Comparativity as method for heritage, memory and Sankofa across Africa and its diaspora, and heritage/tourism as a framework for development.
Religion, ecology and economy
Environment, religion and extraction in the Niger Delta, and what theology has to say about ecology and markets.
Sankofa and African American Heritage
African foundations carried, broken and remade across the Atlantic, and how that inheritance is preserved, contested and interpreted at sacred sites from Atlanta to Badagry.