Join the opening of the "Vivre le végétal en ville à Dakar, Ìbàdàn, Porto-Novo, Yaoundé" ("Living with Plants in Dakar, Ìbàdàn, Porto-Novo, and Yaoundé") at the Humathèque (Paris), on 18 December. This research-creation event marks the closing of our INFRAPATRI project, headed by former IFRA-Nigeria Deputy-Director, Dr Emilie Guitard.

On 4 December 2025, the Institute of African Studies (University of Ibadan) and IFRA-Nigeria will hold the first conference of their Imagine(d) Africa series. Dr Chrystel Oloukoï, assistant professor of Geography at the University of Washington, will be our guest speaker. Their talk, entitled "Nocturnal Lagos: In the searchlight of a police cruiser" will interrogate what a (post)colonial obsession with nighttime as a spacetime of regulation, teaches us about colonial and postcolonial sovereignty.

The National Museum of Lagos and IFRA-Nigeria are offering academic research grants for researchers to work on the documents and artifacts of the Museum, focusing on questionning the notions of "heritages" and "alternative heritages". 

Deadline for applications: 7 December 2025

Did you know IFRA-Nigeria collaborates with ENS to support research in/on the Global South? "Programme Suds" is a multidisciplinary programme organized by ENS-PSL school, in collaboration with IFRA-Nigeria and two Senegalese universities. 

Gérard Chouin, PI of the Ife-Sungbo archeological project, just published an article on our PATRINIGERIA blog highlighting the latest development of the project.

Our next methodological seminar will take place on 9 December 2025. It will feature Dr Moruff Mudasiru, affiliated with the Department of Archeology and Anthropology of the University of Ibadan. Drawing on his experience studying Jálàbí, the Islamic petitionary prayer, in Ibadan he will bring the audience through a fieldwork marked by trust-building, ethical dilemmas and unexpected events, and how to practice ethnography in such circumstances.

The latest issue of Sources on "Revolutionary Cinemas" is out.

Sources is an interdisciplinary, multilingual, open-access peer-reviewed journal focusing on publishing scientific articles with the accompanying data.

Marie Lureau, IFRA’s research project manager, will hold an exploratory panel at the Lagos Studies Association Conference 2026 focusing on focusing on 'non-religion' and 'anti-religion' on the African continent. This panel will seek to open secularism studies, largely built on the Western world, to Africa. 

Dr Delphine Manetta, IFRA’s deputy director, will hold a panel at the Lagos Studies Association Conference 2026 focusing on the role of care in the construction of masculinities in Africa, but proposing several shifts in perspective from the literature from a perspective that emerged with Western scholars to one more centered on African perspectives. 

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.

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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.