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He is currently working on a project entitled Permissiveness, syncretism and fundamentalism: dissecting the new face of religiosity in Lagos, Nigeria. He currently serves as a consulting fellow of the African Center for Economic Transformation. He has held fellowships at the W. Lucy Newlyn were launched in at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
His background is in research and international development in North Africa and Ethiopia, as well as managing public health services in the UK for vulnerable groups such as street sex-workers and drug addicts.
His research interests include diasporas, migration, and development; Islamic models of development; Islamic education and development in North Africa and the Horn; and culture and health. Gus Casely-Hayford is a curator and art historian. He was previously director of inIVA Institute of International Visual Art , a London-based arts organization with a particular emphasis on international practice, which collaborates with partner venues throughout the UK and worldwide.
Prior to this he was director of Africa 05, the largest African arts season ever hosted in Britain. Ini is spending the next couple of years preoccupied with the completion of a monograph on the Boko Haram sect and another on the decolonisation of the curriculum within UK academic spaces.
