o:id
	12747
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12747
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Alarama is all at once: preacher, media "savvy", and religious entrepreneur in Niamey
dcterms:subject
	entrepreneur
	media
	preaching
	Niamey
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25084
dcterms:date
	2013
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113528352 Q113528352
	iwac-reference-0000247
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	In Niger, the role of the media in the re-islamization process that began two decades ago has remained understudied. This article seeks to remedy this gap and discusses a particular example of media usage and appropriation in the urban context of Niamey. It draws on a series of fieldwork studies undertaken in Niamey during the last two years. It focuses on Alarama, a young preacher and one of the most prominent media figures in Niamey. In addition to a series of TV and FM radio programmes he hosts, he has also developed recording and distribution practices that have resulted in the Islamic discotheque, a space that helps him popularize his CD and DVD sermons. I analyse how he has gathered around himself an expanding group of followers, many of whom have developed with him a fan–star relationship. Alarama's case exemplifies the way audiovisual media are constitutive of a new urban Islamic culture, which in return redefines media appropriation and religious imagination.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1284
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2012.749782 10.1080/13696815.2012.749782
bibo:issue
	1
bibo:pageEnd
	102
bibo:pageStart
	88
bibo:volume
	25

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