Sabina Brakoniecka, Ph.D.
e-mail: s.brakoniecka@uw.edu.pl
consultations for students: Monday 11:30
List of publications
Research area
Islam in Nigeria, Salafism in Africa
Academic degrees
2018, Ph.D. in African Literature: „Islamic reform in northern Nigeria according to the Society of the People of the Sunna, Mission and Jihad”; UW; supervisor: Dr. Habil. Ewa Siwierska
2014, M.A. in International Relations: „Protection of the rights of sexual minorities in sub-Saharan Africa”; UW; supervisor: Dr. Habil. Wiesław Lizak
2012, M.A. in African Studies: „Concern for the purity of faith – ’Yan Izala movement in Northern Nigeria”; UW; supervisor: Prof. Stanisław Piłaszewicz
2012, postgraduate diploma in Politics and Culture in Asia and Africa; Polish Academy of Sciences
2010, B.A. in African Studies: „The image of boka – a sorcerer, diviner or native doctor – in Hausa literature and writings”; UW; supervisor: Prof. Stanisław Piłaszewicz
Academic work experience
2019-present, assistant professor, Department of African Languages and Cultures, UW
2018-2019, assistant, Department of African Languages and Cultures, UW
2015-2018, assistant, Department of Modern Cultures of Asia and Africa, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
Research projects
2016-2019, Development of Islamic fundamentalism in Northern Nigeria. The case of Boko Haram (Preludium 10, National Science Centre, principal investigator)
2016-2017, Muhammad Yusuf and the Society of the People of the Sunna, Mission and Jihad – faces of the military fight in the name of Islamic renewal in Northern Nigeria (young researcher grants, PAS)
2016-2017, Legitimisation of the fight for the renewal of Islam in Northern Nigeria (young researcher grants, Faculty of Oriental Studies, UW)
2015-2016, Concept of Islamic reform and political system in Northern Nigeria according to Muhammad Yusuf Maiduguri (young researcher grants, Faculty of Oriental Studies, UW)
Research stays
2018, research stay in northern Nigeria
2017, library research, Bayreuth University, Germany
2017, research stay in Nigeria, library research in Kano and Ibadan
2016, research stay in northern Nigeria
Chosen conference and seminar presentations
2024, Jihadism through the prism of a troubled relationship between religion and violence, 13th International Oriental Studies Conference. Old Subjects, New Approaches?, Warsaw.
2024, Muzułmanie wobec dżihadyzmu – zróżnicowane postawy Nigeryjczyków, VII Kongres Afrykanistów Polskich, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków, Poland.
2023, Obcość religijna? Przyczyny trudnego współistnienia chrześcijan i muzułmanów w Nigerii, Obcowanie. Kultura i tradycja wobec obcości, Poznań, Poland.
2019, Background of the development of Salafism in northern Nigeria. The case of Boko Haram, Twelfth Annual ASMEA Conference, Past, Present and Future in the Middle East and Africa, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Washington, D.C.
2019, Religious and non-religious motivations to join Boko Haram, The 9th Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC 2019), Babcock University, Nigeria.
2018, Mapping the causes of radicalisation. The case of the Boko Haram adherents, Insurgency and the Phenomenon of Boko Haram in Nigeria, Centre for Islamic Civilization and Interfaith Dialogue, Bayero University Kano & International Institute of Islamic Thought Nigeria, Kano, Nigeria.
2018, Drivers of radicalisation among Nigerian Muslims. The case of Boko Haram, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2017, Boko Haram’s programme of Islamic reform in northern Nigeria, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2016, Muhammad Yusuf’s Jihad as a mahdist movement in north-eastern Nigeria, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2016, Internal migration in north-eastern Nigeria and its consequences for the dynamics of the Boko Haram development, World in Motion, Warsaw, Poland.
2016, Suicide in Islam – Nigerian perspective. The case of Boko Haram, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2015, Backgrounds of development of Islamic reform movements in northern Nigeria. The case of the Boko Haram organisation, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2015, Radical Muslim preachers in northern Nigeria and new means of publicizing sermons, African Tradition – African Modernity, Łódź, Poland.
2015, Theories of Islamic fundamentalism – How to classify Islamic reform movements in northern Nigeria, To the East, to the South, Warsaw, Poland.
2015, Islamic neofundamentalism in Nigeria – the case of the ‘Yan Izala movement, Seminars of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2014, Radical trends in northern Nigerian Islam (poster), Current Research in African Studies, Warsaw, Poland.
Lecturing
Religion in Africa, International Relations in Africa, Hausa Readings, Contemporary Issues in Africa, Human Rights in Asia and Africa
Associations
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
Polish Association of African Studies
The African Borderlands Research Network