Join us on Wednesday, 3 September at 1pm for our first Methodological Seminar of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bérénice Busson, a geography PhD student in georgraphy at the Paris Cité University (CESSMA research lab), will present her fieldwork examining the political urbanities of predominantly male Hausa workers involved in the car trade in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and the textile trade in Lagos, Nigeria. 

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On 13 August, Geo Meridien and IFRA-Nigeria held a conference day on “Heritage and Vernacular Architecture – a Foundational Dialogue”. The event, part of the Nigerian Alternative Heritages (French Embassy Fund) project, took place at the Olubadan Palace in Ibadan. 

The Geneva Africa Lab organizes a conference on  "Urban Religiosity and Politics in Nigeria: perspectives from women, students and coastal dwellers" on 8 September. It will include the presentation of three research papers by Bimbo Omopo, Salomé Okoekpen and Juliette Reflé, three PhD students close to IFRA-Nigeria.

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. 

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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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.

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.