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.
Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th 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.
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 ».
Youssef Bouri, Research Project Manager at IFRA-Nigeria, recently published a report for the Centre for Democracy and Development titled "
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.
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.
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.
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.
On the 17th 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.
Between the 13th of June and 15th 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.
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.
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.
The 8th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference took place between the 25th and the 29th of June 2024. Throughout the LSA, IFRA-Nigeria and Nigeria Watch staff organized and moderated several panels. The theme of this LSA conference was "African Identities: Peoples, Cultures & Institutions in Motion". During this conference the IFRA-Nigeria and Nigeria Watch teams organised and animated several panels detailled below.
Between the 24th and 25th of June, film director Alain Kassanda visited Ibadan to screen two of his movies in partnership with IFRA-Nigeria and Thursday Film Series. Alain Kassanda is a Congolese French film maker, film director and cinematographer. He is known for his documentary films Trouble Sleep (2020), Colette & Justin (2022), and Coconut Head Generation (2023). He moved to Ibadan in 2015, where he shot his first medium-length film. Kassanda's works have been screened at major film festivals across the globe, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the International Film Festival and Form on Human Rights (FIFDH Geneva), the New York African Film Festival or the Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris.
On the 13th of June, a roundtable titled « Around Igi’bàdàn: What Place for Plants in Ìbàdàn ?» took place at Drapers’ Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ìbàdàn. This round-table accompanied the presentation of the arts/science exhibition "Igi’bàdàn: Living with Trees in Ìbàdàn" by the Chevalme Sisters, Dr. Emilie Guitard and Obáyomí Anthony, presented from June 13 to July 15 in the CAMAA gallery at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ìbàdàn, with the support of IAS, IFRA Nigeria and the French Embassy in Nigeria.
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