Call for application: IFRA Funding for DATA COLLECTION on Covid-19 in Nigeria

IFRA Funding for DATA COLLECTION on Covid-19 in Nigeria

 The emergence of Covid-19 late 2019, and its subsequent spread all over the globe, have challenged both stable and fragile States, have endangered, even the strongest economies and transformed all societies. In Nigeria, the virus has, very early on, been considered as a serious threat, and the governments, State administrations and civil society actors warned citizens and put in place measures to avoid its spread. 

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Call for application, PhD opportunity with CNRS (Paris, France): "Languages of the Benue Valley Nigeria, Linguistic documentation and grammatical analysis"

Subject: Languages of the Benue Valley Nigeria, Linguistic documentation and grammatical analysis: PhD Student, CNRS, Paris, France

[French version available below]

Department: LLACAN

Web Address: http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/

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Call for application: Sciences Po Paris mobility grant - Nomination for the Erasmus + mobility program for UI masters students

IFRA-Nigeria is the official Nigerian partner of Erasmus + mobility grant for an exchange with Sciences Po Paris, a unique opportunity for Nigerian students to pursue a semester of exchange within a Master degree at Sciences Po in France. The Erasmus + program will sponsor one student to integrate one of Sciences Po many Master programs such as Law, International Affairs, Urban Studies or Management and Innovation for the fall semester of 2020/2021.

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In support of Fariba Adelkhah's released

IFRA-Nigeria’s support the release of our colleague  Fariba Adelkhah . Roland Marchal was released on March 20 but  Fariba Adelkhah is still detained in Iran.

We join the CNRS in its demand for the immediate release of the researcher detained in Iran.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: People of the Global “Backyard”: Africans and the Quest for Identity in the Twenty-First Century

KUJUA, the Journal of the African Studies Students’ Association (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan) is calling for abstract for the 1st edition of its online academic journal. 

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Call for paper: Africa 2020 "Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries'

The University of Aix-Marseilles and its peer-reviewed journal of AMU research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, is dedicating a special issue to contemporary creation in English-speaking African countries in the frame of the Africa 2020 season on the theme of "Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation"

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Call for papers for Sources: Environmental Knowledge and Nature(s) in Africa

Call for application: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2020

This year again, IFRA-Nigeria is the official Nigerian partner of the Mastercard Foundation-Sciences Po scholarship, a unique opportunity for African students to pursue a Master degree at Sciences Po in France. The Mastercard Foundation will sponsor the selected student(s) to integrate one of Sciences Po many Master programs such as Law, International Affairs, Urban Studies or Management and Innovation.

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Call for application: IFRA 2019 Conference funding

The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria) is offering grants to support valuable graduate students presenting papers at regional and international conferences in any field of the Social Sciences and the Humanities.

This grant will cover conferences that are being held between December 2019 and June 2020.

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Call for papers: Sources of Violence, How to document and study violent phenomena in Africa?

Sources of Violence

How to document and study violent phenomena in Africa?

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Call for paper: XVIIIe Mega Tchad Symposium

IFRA-Nigeria is partnering the organisation of the 18^th Mega Tchad Symposium that will be held in N’Djamena (Chad) on the 29^th, 30^th and 31^st of January 2020.

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Call for Application: Annual ARCIS Natural Language Processing Summer School 2019

Edition with a focus on: Crowd-sourcing Web Corpora of Nigerian languages

1-3 July, 2019

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Appel à candidature : Bourse pour un travail de terrain sur le programme “Supporting Entrepreneurship in Africa”

La Fondation Tony Elumelu (TEF) situé à Lagos, l’Agence Française de Développent (AFD) et l’Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique au Nigéria (IFRA Nigeria), ont signé un protocole d’échange lié au programme « Supporting Entrepreneurship in Africa » de la TEF.

L’accord prévoit la sélection d’un(e) étudiant(e) en Sciences politiques ou Economie de niveau master, inscrit(e) dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français, pour effectuer un travail de terrain dans plusieurs pays africains francophones et anglophones (Nigéria, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire) à partir de janvier 2019. L’étudiant(e) sélectionné(e) sera notamment amené(e) à évaluer les retombées du programme « Supporting Entrepreneurship in Africa » à travers un échantillon de bénéficiaires dans les 3 pays cibles.

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Latest publications about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: May - August 2018

BiblioNigeria is a watchtower for all articles and books published about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Every two months, a downloadable bulletin is published here to present an almost exhaustive list of most recent publications. Authors as well as users are invited to submit references through the link below.

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Call for Application: “Supporting Entrepreneurship in Africa”

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Institute for Research in Africa, Nigeria (IFRA Nigeria), have signed a partnership agreement on the programme “Supporting Entrepreneurship in Africa”.

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