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

An Interdisciplinary journal on materials and their uses in African Studies
Environmental Knowledge and Nature(s) in Africa: Collecting, Producing and Analysing Research Materials (forthcoming 2021)
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.
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.
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?
Report: Roundtables “Gender of/in African cities”

IFRA-Nigeria organised two roundtables themed on “Gender of/in African cities” a the Institut Français du Nigeria in Abuja and at the Alliance Française/Mike Adenuga Centre in Lagos, in the frame of the series of events funded by the Fonds d’Alembert 2019, in partnership with the French Embassy in Nigeria and IFRA-Nigeria which focuses on “Futures of cities/cities of the future in Africa”. The two roundtables were held in Abuja on Tuesday 9th of April and then in Lagos on Saturday 13th.
Call for paper: XVIIIe Mega Tchad Symposium

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

IFRA-Nigeria, as part of a series of events funded by the Institut Français through the Fond d’Alembert, is co-organising two roundtables on “Gender in/of African cities”.
The roundtables will gather artists, activists, academics and urban actors in order to create spontaneous discussions on issues of gender in urban African contexts, starting from the case of Nigerian cities, notably Lagos and Abuja.
Report: Conference « Looking for and learning from public spaces in African cities »

Date: February 21, 2019, 10am-4pm
Location: Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development, UniLag
Report: Masterclass “Researching public spaces in African cities”

Date: 19th to 28th of February 2019
Location: Lagos and Ibadan
IFRA-Nigeria, together with ENS-Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure) organized a ten-day long Masterclass themed on “Researching public spaces in African cities” which was held from February 19 to 28, that took place in the Universities of Lagos (UniLag) and Ibadan (UI) respectively.
Report – Guest Lecture “Global Orisha: Diasporic Connections in the “Yoruba-inspired Atlantic” by Dr. Stefania Capone

Date: February 7, 2019
Time: 2pm
Location: Draper’s Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
IFRA-Nigeria opened the 2019 season of scientific events with a Guest Lecture given by Dr. Stefania Capone, themed on “Global Orisha: Diasporic connections in the ‘Yoruba inspired Atlantic’”. The event was organized in partnership with the Thursday Film Series and with the support of the Institute of African Studies (IAS, UI).
One Day Conference: Looking For and Learning From African Public Spaces

Date: February 21, 2019, 10am – 4pm
Location: Resource Hall, Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development, University of Lagos (UniLag)
Registration: The conference is free and open to all. Participants must register on Even Bright.
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
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.
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.
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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- Call for applications: Masterclass “Researching public spaces in African cities”
- Call for application: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2019
- Latest publications about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: January - February 2018
- Guest lecture “Courage in Politics” By Cynthia Fleury (CNAM/Ecole des Mines Paris)
- Book Launch: The Boko Haram Reader. From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Hurst Publishers 2017)
- Report: New forms of Popular Transports of Goods and Persons in Nigeria
- Book Discussion: Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Firearms, Culture and Public Order
- IFRA training workshop: “Nocturnal Fieldwork and ‘Assisted’ Field Research” by Chrystel Oloukoi
- New forms of popular transport of goods and persons in Nigeria
- Citizenship and Nationality. An individual and collective challenge for the nation
- Call for application: Doctoral Position (June 2018-May 2022)
- Call for application: Fieldwork grants
- IFRA training workshop: "Research Methodology and the craft of academic writing and publication" by Dr. Vincent Hiribarren
- IFRA training workshop: “Researching Northern Nigeria” Dr. Vincent Hiribarren
- Call for application: Sciences Po-University of Ibadan exchange programme
- Call for application: IFRA 2018 Conference funding
- IFRA training workshop: "Researching Religion: The Interview" by Dr. Sounaye Abdoulaye
- Latest publications about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: November - December 2017
- NaijaSynCor project: release of a pilot syntactic corpus of Naija
- IFRA training workshop: "Enhancing African Studies Research in the Digital Age: Linking Open Data of the Liberated Africans Project and West Africa Historical GIS" by Prof. Henry Lovejoy