IFRA-Nigeria is hosting the book launch of Professor Rasheed Olaniyi's latest publication on Migration and Diaspora Identity in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900–1970. Accompanied by Professor Olayinka Akanle, he will uncover the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano (Nigeria) and Tamale (Ghana), forged diaspora identities. 

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The latest free-access thematic dossier of the Cahiers de la recherche architecturale urbaine et paysagère, co-edited by IFRA-Nigeria Director Barbara Morovich is out! The contributors seek to unravel the legacies of architecture and spaces produced in “colonial situations” today, and to explore the areas of tensions between cultural negotiations. 

The piece by Tokie Laotan-Brown focuses specifically on colonial buildings in Lagos State as sites of contestation.

The Ife-Sungbo Archeological Project is celebrating ten-year of working to offer new perspectives on the urbanization history chronology as well as the socio-political dynamics of West-African tropical forest societies. IFRA-Nigeria is proud to be a partner of the project since its inception in 2015.

On 5 August 2025, IFRA-Nigeria Director Dr Barbara Morovich held a lecture in the media studies class of Professor Sola Olorunyomi, to present her anthropological work, and the role of interdisciplinarity in the discipline. 

On 31 July, IFRA-Nigeria and the Institute of African Studies welcomed Linda Chernis, director of the GALA Queer Archives for a discussion on the role of archives in preserving and documenting queer voices in Africa. 

Between 27 June and 03 August, Berenice Busson organizes a free exhibition in Cotonou on the Hausa neighbourhood of the city, Zango, and the place of its population in urban dynamics. 

Our Resource Center is now open, and makes available: academic litterature on Nigeria and West-Africa (new books available), a large number of grey litteratue and a digital Lab.  Venue: IFRA-Nigeria, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm.

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IFRA-Nigeria just published its latest Working Paper on the topic "Nigeria’s 2023 general elections “from below”. continuities, transformation, and variations". A result of our Elections Observatory project, it offers a view of the elections “from the inside” and from a southwestern perspective.

Coordinated by Dr Sa'eed Husaini and Dr Delphine Manetta, this series of articles by Dr Adedeji Adebayo, Okechukwu Livingstone Ikefuama and Dr Olasupo Olakunle Thompson give a new perspective on the 2023 elections.

You can now watch the documentary "What is Egungun?" on our Youtube channel! Directed by Femi Olanrewaju, this film follows the Egungun Alapansanpa in Ibadan and gives a great presentation of this important festival in the southwest of Nigeria.

This documentary was realized as part of the Nigerian Heritage Digitisation Project, supported by the French Embassy in Nigeria.