On 18 June, Janet Ogundairo, assisted by Director Barbara Morovich and Deputy-Director Delphine Manetta, organized a panel on "Living at the Margins : Survival, belief, care and belonging among stigmatised groups in Africa".
Following a call for abstracts, Janet Ogundairo selected five papers on the subject of stigmatised groups in Nigeria to be presented at this session. She started by introducing her own work and the panel, before giving the floor to the panellists.
From left to right: Dr Barbara Morovich, Feyisitan Ijimakinwa, Cynthia Olufade, Janet Ogundairo, Joel Abah, Dr Bolarinwa Ogundeji and Dr Delphine Manetta.
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On 17 June, 2025, IFRA-Nigeria had the chance to present a panel at the 2025 Lagos Studies Association (LSA) Conference "Continuities and Discontinuities in African Studies", to present our activities, opportunities for researchers, publications, our resource centre and the work of our colleagues at Nigeria-Watch.
The panel included Director Barbara Morovich, Research Project Manager Marie Lureau, Deputy-director Delphine Manetta, Documentalist Olushola Babaola, and Nigeria Watch Information Retrieval Specialist Abiola Victoria Ayodokun.
The IFRA-Nigeria, as a partner of LSA, sent a delegation from 17 to 19 June, who had the opportunity to attend several panels, and the keynote lecture by Segun Adefila.
We are proud to announce that IFRA-Nigeria will hold a panel on the theme "Living at the Margins:Survival, Belief, Care, and Belonging among Stigmatised Groups in Africa" at the 2025 Lagos Studies Association Conference. For this purpose, we call on researchers to submit abstracts on the subject of marginalisation and resilience, to get a chance to be featured in our panel.
Deadline: 21 May
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From 22 to 25 April, IFRA-Nigeria’s director, Barbara Morovich, will be in Dakar, Senegal for the Humanistica symposium on “Explorer les usages et pratiques “nouvelles” en Humanités”. This edition of the yearly symposium of the francophone association for digital humanities will question the “new” to address the tools, questions and constraints that are concretely moving the lines of research in the humanities.
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IFRA is proud to announce that we are co-organizing the International Symposium "Working with Masculinities" in collaboration with the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF) and Tampere University. This exceptional event is taking place on 26-27 March 2025, at IMAF in Aubervilliers.
IFRA’s own deputy director, Delphine Manetta, will be the moderator for the “Workers, Spaces, Cultures and (Post)Colonial Orders” panel!
Open to researchers with sound field experience, this symposium aims to reassess the place of masculinities in contemporary economies, whether through a reflection on work, on men's participation in household-making, or on the lifestyles associated with conceptions of masculinity. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach, this symposium will shed light on the entangled material and symbolic dynamics that shape contemporary masculinities in postcolonial contexts.
You can scroll below to see the full program, or to download it!
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Between the 2nd and 5th of October the 9ja Language Network Conference took place at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ibadan, IFRA-Nigeria is a sponsor of the event since many years. This conference was essential as Naijá (a.k.a. Nigerian Pidgin) has evolved over the last few decades to become the largest spoken and perhaps the most influential language in Nigeria. The current estimate of its speakers and users is placed at about 150 million with distribution across various continents.
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Building from research conducted within IFRA'-Nigerias elections observatory, the institute will host a day of roundtables and a keynote lecture by Prof. Eghosa Osaghae on June 14th in order to assess the what happened during this election cycle and what it means for the political and social dynamics of the country.
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Wednesday 7th December, 6PM (WAT)
Nigeria's Fourth Republic, 1999-2021. A Militarised Democracy by Dr Michael Nwankpa published by Routledge in 2022.
This book reflects on Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, the country’s longest democratic period since it gained independence. It argues that although constitutional or political democracy has lasted for over two decades, Nigeria’s democracy remains largely militarized. This book makes a compelling argument for considering the distinct character of the Nigerian nation state’s path to militarization over the last 20 years of experimentation with democracy. Its fresh insights into the fourth republic’s path to militarization will be of interest to researchers of African politics, security and development.
Discussion: Dr Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
Online Book Launch on Zoom. RSVP : https://forms.gle/5E1tgJApLiZN5yTC9
In 2022, the biennial ASAUK Conference will be broadcast live at IFRA-Nigeria. The conference titled titled: “Diaspora Remittance Flows: Restitution, Culture and Capital” will be broadcast live from IFRA-Nigeria on Wednesday 31st August. On Thursday, 1st September the conference will be broadcast from Nairobi and the final part of the online conference will be broadcast from Liverpool on Friday 2nd September, jointly chaired by the ASAUK and RAS presidents.
This conference took place in-person and online at IFRA-Nigeria on Thursday 31st August from 10:30am to 3:30pm. With generous funding from the British Academy we were able to allow free online attendance for the Nigerian audience and to host an in-person roundtable discussion at IFRA-Nigeria at the University of Ibadan.
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Throughout spring 2022, Institut Français du Nigéria, the French Embassy in Nigeria and IFRA-Nigeria will be organising a collaborative conference series on environmental changes. To celebrate Earth Day, they organised a conference entitled: "Challenges & Practicalities for a Transition to Sustainable Societies: Insights from France and Nigeria."
The roundtable was held at Alliance Française Lagos / Mike Adenuga Center (Ikoyi, Lagos) on April 21st from 6pm to 8pm.
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