AFRAB participation at conference for Professor Mouctar Bah, Maroua University, May 2024

AFRAB participation at conference in honour of Professor Mouctar Bah, University of Maroua, Cameroon, May 2024

A conference in honour of the lifetime work of Professor Thierno Mouctar Bah was organised at the University of Maroua in Northern Cameroon on 8-10 May 2024. Professor Ahmadou Sehou, coordinator of the AFRAB Cameroon Team, was one of the main organisers of the event, which celebrated Professor’s Bah contributions to Cameroonian history and whose writings and institutional commitment left a profound mark in Cameroon’s culture of peace, national unity and national development. AFRAB participated through two panels of researchers from Cameroon and Niger, who presented their work on abolitionism in their respective regions of research focus.  

Please click on the link below for the programme of the conference:


 

Photo credits: Apsatou Bagaya, Niger

A man in a blue jacket sat on a blue sofa

a man in a blue outfit claps next to a man wearing a large hat

a lecture hall filled with people

four people sat down

a group of people standing in a crowd

a group of people wearing colourful clothing stand around a person sitting in the middle

seven men and women stand in a row

a man in a blue shirt sits in front of a laptop

a woman wearing glasses and a headscarf speaks into a microphone

a man dressed in white speaks into a microphone