Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

Directed by Frédérick Madore, the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) is a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire. Most of the documents are in French, but some are also available in Hausa, Arabic, Dendi, and English. The site also indexes over 800 references to relevant books, book chapters, book reviews, journal articles, dissertations, theses, reports and blog posts. This project, hosted by the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Health and Care, is a continuation of the award-winning Islam Burkina Faso Collection created in 2021 in collaboration with LibraryPress@UF.

This dataset contains all the metadata of the items in the Collection, the Jupyter notebooks that were used to create the visualisations that showcase the possibilities of digital humanities with the IWAC, and a copy of the spreadsheets that were used to create the digital exhibits using Timeline JS.