ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the emergence of female preachers in contemporary Niger, who have amassed a large media presence in both TV and radio. Challenging conventional arrangements within media and Islamic practices, women preachers have taken the role of speaking for Islam and for themselves, using spaces they have conquered and secured on TV and radio stations in part due to a committed audience and the techno-infrastructural development that reshaped the media landscape. Women preachers have now consolidated their presence in the public arena and in the process have prompted new debates and reshaped the contours of Muslim gender politics.
