On May 31st 2022, IFRA-Nigeria offered a workshop on "How to apply for post-doc and academic positions in Europe" for its Fellows. During this workshop, Dr Vincent Hiribarren shared his best practices to apply for scholarships, post-doc and academic positions in Europe.
"With my drawings, I have no interest in reproducing an exact ‘reality’ but in transmitting a lived experience, so it is less about exactitude and precision than narration and emotions. I see this tool as useful/necessary in my research practice: it completes my daily note taking, it is reflexive, since I include myself in the drawings."
Salomé Isibhenmen Okoekpen, a PhD student from the Global Studies Institute in the University of Geneva (Switzerland), currently hosted as a guest researcher at IFRA-Nigeria, shares in this interview about her research in anthropology on Muslim women’s engagement in religious associations and/or organisations in rural towns of South-West Nigeria which includes drawings as a method.
IFRA-Nigeria organised a Roundtable on the History Curriculum Reform on Tuesday 14 June, 2022, from 9am to 5pm. The conference took place at Drapers Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan and online. See the videos of the event below.
IFRA-Nigeria and the Center for Housing and Sustainable Development CHSD-UniLag organized a One-day Roundtable by & for Early-Career Researchers on "Urban Lives and Environmental Changes". The Roundtable took place on May 10th in the University of Lagos from 9am to 4pm.
This Roundtable was co-organized by early-career researchers from the Center of Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), University of Lagos and IFRA-Nigeria (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan), and is part of a collaborative conference series organized by the Institut Français du Nigéria, the French Embassy in Nigeria and IFRA-Nigeria.
A special issue of the internationally renowned journal Politique Africaine adresses the theme "The Moral Landscapes of Drugs in Africa". Link to special issue (2021/3): https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2021-3.htm
Based on the papers of this issue, IFRA-Nigeria organised an online seminar on Wednesday 27 April from 4pm to 6pm (WAT, Lagos & UTC+1, London).
Research on drugs in Africa has struggled to rid itself of assumptions inherited from the colonial period and the global war on drugs launched in the 1980s. Existing research on drugs (cannabis, cocaine and opiates) is often commissioned by states and is part of a primarily political and security agenda. In the context of growing public debate on the legalisation of drugs, such as cannabis, in several African countries, as well as the continued predominance of prohibitionist discourses, this special issue is timely. Contributions to the special issue aim to challenge existing research on drugs and break with an approach that remains mostly focussed on security.
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.
Between 21st and 26th March, Dr Cyrielle Maingraud-Martinaud and Dr Vincent Hiribarren attended the first conference on Digital Humanities in Francophone Africa. The conference took place at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon and gathered more than 60 participants from various African francophone countries (including Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger etc.) and other countries (including France, Germany, Australia and Brazil). 
At the beginning of 2022, Prof Adekola Kolawole, Department of Archaelogy, University of Ibadan, was hosted for one-month research stay at Craham, Center for Archaeological and Historical Research in Ancient and Medieval Times, University of Caen (UniCaen).
Based on two current fieldworks conducted in Osun Grove, Osogbo and Victoria Island, Lagos, this exhibition presented some of the materials produced during these research projects in order to capture and render the sensitive dimension of spaces. This visual and sound installation presented maps, photographs, and sound recordings. Te opening in the presence of the artist and researchers was held on April 5th, at 3pm in the Hall of the Institute of African Studies, UI.
The project PACKING "Protection of migrants and Asylum seekers especially Children and women coming from Nigeria and victims of trafficKING" coordinated by ECPAT France and funded by the European Commission ended in 2019. Following on from PACKING project, presentations of the research outputs were organized in April 2022 at Institut Français du Nigéria (Abuja) and Alliance Française Lagos. These events are part of the project "Don't Pay with Your Life" coordinated by ECPAT France, funded by Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and MAEEL and in partnership with IFRA-Nigeria, UROMI JDPCI and GPI and ECPAT-Luxembourg.
IFRA-Nigeria organised a presentation of an art and research project by Taiwo Aina (Photographer, Visual Artist, Lagos) and Claire Nicolas (Postdoctoral Researcher in History, London). They presented their residency project on Lagos women boxers. In this project, they question gendered pathways and the ‘morality school’ of the gym(s).
The conference took place on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, at 4pm, at Drapers Hall, Insitute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
Mercredi 9 mars 2022 à 16h, l'IFRA-Nigeria a organisé séminaire de recherche en ligne sur le thème "Les statistiques coloniales et post-coloniales en Afrique de l'Ouest (XIXè-XXè siècles)" avec Béatrice Touchelay (Université de Lille, rattachée à l'Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS), UMR CNRS 8529 et détachée en 2021-2022 au laboratoire TELEMMe UMR CNRS 7303 Université Aix-Marseille). Elle était accueillie en séjour de recherche à Ibadan en février 2022.
Le séminaire a eu lieu sur Zoom, le 9 mars 2022 à 16h.
IFRA-Nigeria in partnership with ECPAT France call for papers on the theme: "Researching and understanding sex trafficking from Nigeria to Europe."
Deadline for submissions: March 20th, 2022.
IFRA-Nigeria and CHSD launch a call for abstracts for a one-day transdisciplinary Roundtable on “Urban Lives and Environmental Changes” that will take place on May 10th, 2022, at Arthur Mbanefo Digital Research Centre, University of Lagos. This Roundtable is co-organized by early-career researchers from the Center of Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), University of Lagos and IFRA-Nigeria (Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan), and is part of a collaborative conference series organized by the Institut Français du Nigéria, the French Embassy in Nigeria and IFRA-Nigeria.
This call is now closed, applicants will receive updates by the end of March.
IFRA-Nigeria organized a talk with Deng Zheyuan, PhD Student from the Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Florida, on the theme: “Ahmadiyya and the Aroloya Mosque Case in colonial Lagos”. The event took place on Tuesday 15th February at 4pm, in Drapers Hall in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
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