Bio

Fulera Issaka-Toure is a lecturer in the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Ghana, Legon after having completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. She worked on issues of gender rights, Islamic religious authorities, and legal pluralism in a secular context of Ghana. Fulera is now developing a project on Islam among African migrants in Germany as well as researching Muslim youth, popular culture, and transforming Islamic religious authorities in Ghana.