“Share the Link”: The Phenomenal Rise of Digital Prayer Platforms and Communitarianism | Abena Kyere

About the speaker: Abena Kyere is a CCNY Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMA. She holds a PhD and an Mphil in African Studies from the University of Ghana, and Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Education, Ghana. Abena’s research interest is broadly in Gender and religion, Gender and Popular Culture in Africa, African Oral literature and Indigenous knowledge systems. Abena is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar. She is on the editorial team for Feminist Africa and a co-editor for the Critical Investigation into Humanitarianism in Africa blog. She is also a member of the CIRCLE. Abena is an activist scholar and a firm believer in the enduring and boundless synergies between research and advocacy in unearthing and impacting human realities and experiences. She is also a research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana.

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