Call for Applications: 6-Months Post-doctoral Position in Humanities and Social Sciences at IFRA-Nigeria

images IFRA-Nigeria invites application for a full-time post-doctoral position starting on March 1, 2025. The role will be fixed until August 31, 2025.

Main responsibilities:

Coordinate and follow up research and research-action projects initiated by IFRA-Nigeria in coordination with Nigerians cultural institutions.
Participate in research training activities and enhance IFRA-Nigeria’s pedagogical activities, such as the methodological seminar and the conferences.
Participate in scientific activities, particularly through organizing scientific events (panel, seminar, and workshop) independently or alongside the director of IFRA-Nigeria.
Promote scientific partnerships by networking IFRA-Nigeria with Nigerian, West-African or International researchers, in line with the candidate’s personal research project.
Contribute to IFRA-Nigeria’s scientific output, by developing a consistent and innovative personal research project that aligns with IFRA-Nigeria scientific axes, potentially leading to scientific publications.

Avis de recrutement – Directeur/trice d'établissement de recherche

IFRA logo PNG transparent L’institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA) à Ibadan, Nigéria cherche sa/son directeur.trice, poste à pourvoir à partir de septembre 2025.

Methodological Seminar with Dr. Côme Salvaire

Come 1 On 21 November 2024, Dr. Côme Salvaire, a researcher at Sciences Po Bordeaux & Research Institute for Sustainable Development, presented a methodological seminar titled: “What is a Case Study Good for?”, illustrating the logic of case study research with the results of an ethnographic study conducted from 2015 to 2024 around a garbage dump in Mushin, Lagos.

Scientific Event: Sources Webinar - 26 November 2024

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On 26 November 2024, three French research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa—IFRA-Nigeria, IFRA-Nairobi, and IFAS-Research— will organize a webinar to present the work of Africa researchers and Africa-based research published in Sources, the UMIFRE’s academic journal.

International Workshop : Gender, Law and Political Activism in West Africa

unnamed 3 Wednesday the 9^th and Thursday the 10^th of October 2024, Olufunke Adeboye (University of Lagos), Barbara Morovich (IFRA-Nigeria), Marième N’Diaye (CNRS-Les Afriques dans le Monde), Sara Panata (CNRS-Les Afriques dans le Monde) are organizing two study days in the context of the GLOW (Gender, Law and Political Activism in West Africa) project. The study days will take place in person at Sciences Po Bordeaux, more information about the program available here.

Participation de Barbara Morovich au colloque 'Patrimoines invisibles'

119685 1410231201458372264eab927d38ea3f.png Le 27 septembre, Barbara Morovich, directrice de l’IFRA-Nigeria a prit part au colloque 'Patrimoines invisibles : processus, formes et narrations' se déroulant du 26 au 27 septembre entre Arras et Amien. Barbara Morovich et Judith Hayem ont présenté leur article intitulé : « Le visible et l’invisible dans les mémoires des mines en Afrique du Sud » dans le cadre de leur participation à une table ronde intitulée « Effacements des traces patrimoniales dans l’espace public ».

Publication: "Understanding the success of China’s foreign policies in Africa through the prism of African Agency"

unnamed 2 Youssef Bouri, Research Project Manager at IFRA-Nigeria, recently published a report for the Centre for Democracy and Development titled "Understanding the success of China’s foreign policies in Africa through the prism of African Agency" as the 9th Forum on China–Africa Cooperation took place in September. China has been Africa’s largest trading partner since 2008 and its leading provider of Foreign Direct Investment since 2013. Despite the economic asymmetries in their relationship, which have fueled narratives of "debt trap diplomacy" and a "new scramble for Africa", this report shifts the focus to the agency of African leaders within this partnership. Rather than concentrating on China's intentions, the report examines how China’s foreign policy principles and initiatives, such as the Five principle of peaceful coexistence, the Belt and Road Initiative and FOCAC, empower African leaders to exercise agency.

Femi Olanrewaju presentation on Ibadan's religious heritages

unnamed On the 26th of August, Femi Olanrewaju presented his research at the launching event of the Alternative Heritage program in Ibadan coordinated by The Republic, StoryMi Academy and the French Embassy in Nigeria. This creative workshop brought together a group of eleven creatives, including writers, photographers and illustrators from every region of Nigeria to meet with mentors, Diana Ejaita, Dipo Faloyin, Andrew Esiebo, and The Republic’s editor, Wale Lawal.

Visit of Jennifer Lorin to IFRA-Nigeria

unnamed 1 Jennifer Lorin (Uppsala University, Sweden) visited IFRA-Nigeria between July and August 2024 thanks to an Islamology grant. The French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the UMIFRE network (of which IFRA-Nigeria is part) support young researchers in the field of Islamology by offering field grants to doctoral students and young PhDs pursuing research in this field.

Publication: "Pouvoir, espace et transformations au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso"

unnamed Le 25 Juillet 2024, Delphine Manetta, anthropologue et et directrice adjointe de l'IFRA-Nigeria, a publié dans la collection Connaissance des Hommes (L'Harmattan) un ouvrage sur ses recherches au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso. Par sa richesse ethnographique et sa profondeur historique, elle propose une analyse renouvelée des enjeux politiques contemporains en Afrique de l’Ouest, nés dans le sillage de la décentralisation. En étudiant la place de la parenté, des générations, de l’amitié, de l’origine, du genre et du don dans la transformation du pouvoir, il montre en quoi les circulations des personnes et des richesses façonnent les dynamiques politiques au Burkina Faso.

9ja Language Network Conference

Naija Between the 2^nd and 5^th 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.

Methodological seminar - Bimbo Stanley Omopo

DSC 0174 On the 17^th of July, Bimbo Stanley Omopo a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, presented the methods he mobilizes to investigate, inter alia, the profound presence of religious identities on the University of Ibadan campus, particularly through the religious organizations that exist, which to a considerable extent, can influence who becomes what, when, and how, especially as it relates to politics and administration amongst students and staff at the university, as well as the influence of religion on the everyday lives of students. Youssef Bouri, research project manager at IFRA-Nigeria, was his discussant during this presentation.

Igi'bàdàn. Living With Trees In Ìbàdàn. An Exhibition Between Arts And Science

Keep 4 Between the 13^th of June and 15^th of July an exhibition titled “Igi'bàdàn. Living With Trees In Ìbàdàn. An Exhibition Between Arts And Science” took place at the Cornelius Adepegba Museum of African Art inside the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ibadan. The exhibition gathered works conducted since 2017, with the visual artists Delphine and Elodie Chevalme, and from 2022 with the photographer Obáyomí A. Anthony, Emilie Guitard (CNRS / Prodig) started a collaboration between arts (drawing, cyanotype, photography) and science (anthropology) in Ìbàdàn, in south-west Nigeria, on local knowledge and the relations of the inhabitants to the vegetation present in the city.

Publication of the eighth issue of the journal "Sources"

9dd8827b 6501 c3ec 66bf bd4be052fd5a The eighth issue of Sources just came out and is accessible here.

The contributions composing this special issue bring together historians and anthropologists to explore the daily realities of madness under and in the aftermath of colonialism. Drawing on institutional and personal archives, interviews and testimonies, observations and photographs, but also tackling absence and refusal, the six articles span French West Africa and contemporary Algeria, Gabon and Ghana, as well as colonial Algeria and the Upper Volta in the 1970s.

Publication of the seventh issue of the journal "Sources"

cover sources n7 3 small200 The seventh issue of Sources just came out and is accessible here.

This latest issue consists of five articles from a range of different disciplines (history, theatre studies, political science, and geography), using various methodologies and materials (ethnographic immersion and observations, interviews, archival research, and digital tools) to provide original, polyphonic reflections on the demands of African fieldwork, from Tanzania to Angola, Guinea, Kenya, and Nigeria.