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Xavier Moyet

After a PhD defended at EHESS (France) The Expert worked at IFRA as Scientific Director. Consequently, he worked for Universities of Toronto, Kent and Leeds, notably as a research associate and was involved in several significant projects. He is presently a consultant and collaborates for instance with the National Museum of Unity in Ibadan, or Tunde Odunlade Art Gallery. He is French, with a sound knowledge of Canadian and UK societies.

Name
Xavier Moyet
Occupation
Consultant in Anthropology
Expertise

Ethnic discrimination or persecution; Religious discrimination or persecution; Trafficking

Publications
  • In progress, review of “Stephen Hunt (ed.), Handbook of Megachurches, Brill, 348 p, to be published by the journal Archives de sciences sociales des religions.
  • 2022a: Review of “Susan Williams, 2021, White Malice, the CIA and the neocolonisation of Africa”, Leeds African Studies Bulletin (83), https://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/article/review-of-susan-williams-white-malice… .
  • 2022b: with Professor Simon Coleman, “Managing the 'Sensible Secular': Dangers and Disciplines of Media Communication in a Christian Lagosian University” in Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa, David Garbin, Simon Coleman, Gareth Millington (eds.), Bloomsbury, here.
  • 2022c: Review in French of “Susan Williams, 2021, White Malice, the CIA and the neocolonisation of Africa”, Outre-Mers. Revue d’histoire coloniale et impériale, T. 111, N° 416-417 (2022).
  • 2021a, “From the South to the North, images of a circular economy: an interview with Andrew Esiebo”, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, (82), https://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/article/from-the-south-to-the-north/.
  • 2021b “Appraisal of the discourses of two Megachurch leaders about vaccination against Covid-19”, website Religious Matters, edited by Professor Birgit Meyer, University of Utrecht, https://religiousmatters.nl/appraisal-of-the-discoursesof-two-nigerian-….
  • 2020a, Pentecostalism, Public Health and COVID-19 in Nigeria, blog of Religion in Public, University of Leeds, here.
  • 2020b, review of “Jean-François Bayart, 2018, État et religion en Afrique”, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, (81), here.
  • 2020c, with Professor Taibat Lawanson, “If people didn’t throw waste into drainage, we wouldn’t have flooding” in Debunking Myths & Stereotypes, Lagos Urban Planning, pp. 17-18, here.
  • 2020d, review of “Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue and Jacob Tatsitsa, 2016, La guerre du Cameroun: L’invention de la Françafrique”, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, (81), here.
  • 2020e, review of “Ebenezer Obadare, 2018, Pentecostal Republic”, Politique Africaine, 160, here.
  • 2019, review of « Jean-François Bayart, 2018, État et religion en Afrique », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, (188), pp. 264-266, here.
Languages
English, French
Ethnic groups expertise
Yoruba, Hausa, Ibo, Fon and other groups
Religious groups expertise
Pentecostals (Christ Embassy, MFM, Winners, RCCG)
Other social groups expertise
Urban population (Lagos, Ibadan, Cotonou..)
Fees
[Private to EIN members]
Contact email
Phone
[Private to EIN members]
Address
[Private to EIN members]