Impact of Covid-19 in Nigeria: Research Findings Presentation and Documentary Screening

Few weeks after the outbreak of Covid-19, IFRA-Nigeria launched a research project on the impacts of the pandemics in Nigeria. The project had three successive phases in the course of 18 months and was funded by IFRA and the French Embassy in Nigeria. To celebrate its closure and disseminate its findings, IFRA-Nigeria organised a conference followed by a film screening to present the research outputs on Wednesday 10th of November from 4pm to 6pm in University of Ibadan.

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"The business of the oil curse: debunking the Niger Delta’s struggles" a discussion with Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos - Tuesday 12th of October

IFRA-Nigeria organised a talk with Prof. Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Senior Research Associate at IFRA-Nigeria, on the theme: “The Business of the Oil Curse: Debunking the Niger Delta’s Struggles”. The event took place on Tuesday 12th October at 4pm, in Drapers Hall in the Institute of African Studies.

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Online Seminar in Geography - Wed 7th July - 5pm (WAT)

Dr Claire Simonneau (UMR Géographie-Cités) presented her research and fieldwork on the theme: 'Who owns the West African urban corridor? Urbanisation dynamics and local land grabs. Insights from Benin.'

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IFRA-Nigeria 30’s anniversary celebration with a conference on Digital Humanities

IFRA-Nigeria turned 30 in 2020 and in order to celebrate our anniversary, we organized a conference on June 10th and 11th 2021, in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies (University of Ibadan). The theme of our conference was “Digital Humanities: the final frontier for the decolonization of knowledge?”.

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Presentation of a Doctoral Research by Dr Sara Panata, 2nd of June

Dr Sara Panata, Senior Research Associate at IFRA-Nigeria, defended her PhD thesis in September 2020 on “Nigeria Marches On. Feminist and Women’s Movements in the National Struggle for Socio-Political Rights (1944-1994)”. After supporting her research since 2013, IFRA-Nigeria was glad to take part to the first presentation of her Doctoral Research in the Department of History, University of Ibadan on the 2nd of June. 

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IFRA-Nigeria and IAS-Ibadan initiated a collaboration with KNUST university in KUMASI Ghana

Between 3rd and 7th of May, a delegation of IFRA-Nigeria and the Institute of African Studies (IAS) of the University of Ibadan visited the History and Political Studies Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. This week of exchange aimed at creating a collaboration between the three institutions, IAS, KNUST and IFRA-Nigeria.

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Dialogue in Benin City: “What are the next steps for the restitution of African cultural heritage?”

On April 27th, IFRA-Nigeria and the French embassy in Nigeria organised a debate on art restitution in Benin City.

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Call for Abstracts - Digital Humanities : the final frontier for the decolonization of knowledge?

For its 30th Anniversary, IFRA-Nigeria organizes a conference , in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies (University of Ibadan) :  “Digital Humanities: the final frontier for the decolonization of knowledge?”. We invite researchers interested in presenting at the conference to submit their abstract before May 16th, 2021.

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Report - Symposium on Naija, Institute of African Studies (UI) June 27-29, 2019

An exceptionally successful international symposium

The Naija Symposium took place in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, June 27-29, 2019. The symposium was organised by IFRA-Nigeria around the NaijaSynCor ANR project  and was the occasion to introduce the Nigerian scientific community to the concept of Naija, as a new name identifying the language that has developed in Nigeria out of Nigerian Pidgin since the Independence of the country.

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Symposium on Naija, Institute of African Studies (UI) June 27-29, 2019

Professor Francis Egbokhare (Departement of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan) and Professor Bernard Caron (IFRA – CNR, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan) cordially invite you to the Symposium on Naija organized by IFRA around the NaijaSynCor project.

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