Magloire Somé at the Frobenius Institute

MagloireSomWe welcome Magloire Somé, professor of Contemporary History at Joseph Ki-Zerbo-Universität Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. During his one month stay at the Frobenius Institute he will work on his current book on Christianity in postcolonial Burkina Faso.

Somé completed his PhD at the University Paris-IV-Sorbonne on the topic of Christian conversion in Obervolta (1927-1960) which was published in 2004 at L'Harmattan in Paris. At present he continues his work in two main fields:

- history on Catholic and Protestant missionary activities in colonial French West Africa

- religion and political power in postcolonial context