On the 17th of October 2017, the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nigeria teamed up with the Department of History of the University of Ibadan to organise a lecture entitled “From ‘Planning’ to Systems Analysis’: Health Services and Development at the World Health Organisation, 1952-1975”. The lecture took place in Room 40, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan. It was given by Prof. Martin Gorsky, Professor in the history of Public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The event was hosted by Prof. Ogbogbo, Head of the History of Department of the University of Ibadan and Dr. Elodie Apard, IFRA director. The event also had Prof. Ademola Dasyla, Dean of the Faculty of Arts as guest of honour.
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On the 11th of October 2017, IFRA Nigeria was pleased to organise its next research training seminar at the IFRA library, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. It was supervised by Dr. John Manton, Assistant Professor in History at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It was part of a series of programmes in Ibadan together with Dr. Manton and Prof. Martin Gorsky, Professor in the History of Public Health at LSHTM. Prof. Gorsky will give a lecture on the 17th of November at the Department of History, University of Ibadan.
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On Tuesday 26th of September (2017) at 2pm occurred an exciting IFRA’s research seminar organised jointly with the Alliance Francaise at the Alliance Francaise Ibadan in Iyaganku. The seminar was run by Dr. Julien Bonhomme, anthropologist and lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Bonhomme had presented his book The Sex Thieves. Anthropology of a Rumor (2016, University of Chicago Press) the week before at the Alliance. The seminar was entitled “Media as fieldwork. How to do ethnography with press articles”. The seminar was opened to IFRA fellows, which comprises a network of more than 70 early researchers across Nigeria and beyond.
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On Thursday 21st of September, 2017 IFRA Nigeria and the Alliance Francaise of Ibadan organised jointly an outstanding book launch of The Sex Thieves. The Anthropology of a Rumor by Dr. Julien Bonhomme. It took place at the Alliance Francaise at 5pm.
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BiblioNigeria is a watchtower for all articles and books published about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Every two months, a downloadable bulletin is published here to present an almost exhaustive list of most recent publications. Authors as well as users are invited to submit references through the link below.
To send a new reference to IFRA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Latest edition is available here:
BiblioNigeria is a watchtower for all articles and books published about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Every two months, a downloadable bulletin is published here to present an almost exhaustive list of most recent publications. Authors as well as users are invited to submit references through the link below.
To send a new reference to IFRA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Latest edition is available here:
This call for application is restricted to french speaking students. If your french is good enough to read (and understand) the call, then it means that you can apply!
École doctorale itinérante en sciences sociales
Seconde édition : Circulation et confrontation des modèles
Saint Louis du Sénégal, Sénégal, 11-18 septembre 2017
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PhD title: The information Structure of Nigerian Pidgin, and its interface with syntax and prosody.
Sujet de thèse: Structure communicative du pidgin de l’anglais parlé au Nigéria. Interface avec la syntaxe et la prosodie.
Duration: 36 months; with 20 months in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Durée : 36 mois, dont 20 mois à Ibadan, Nigéria.
Supervisors: Bernard Caron (USR 3336 Ifra-Ibadan), Sylvain Kahane (Modyco, Université Paris Nanterre)
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The Journal
Sources is a collective peer-reviewed online Journal, created by the French Institutes for Research in Africa: IFRA-Nairobi, IFRA-Ibadan, IFAS-Johannesburg, CFEE-Addis-Ababa and CEDEJ-Khartoum. The goal of the journal is to promote fieldwork-based research by adding value to original sources, collected on the ground. Articles focus on primary data and first-hand documents, analysing their natures and their functions, around particular topics, through special issues and Varias. They also delve into methods and source collection contexts, as well as related ethical and epistemological issues.
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On Thursday, 13th of April, 2017, IFRA Nigeria was very happy to host Dr. Vincent Hiribarren for a book presentation and a documentary debate.
About Dr. Hiribarren
Dr. Hiribarren is Lecturer in African History at King’s College, London, UK, and a specialist of Northern Nigeria. His work stresses on spatial and borderland dynamics in an original diachronic perspective. He has done archival and field research in various locations of Northern Nigeria, including Kaduna and Maiduguri. He is also very familiar with colonial archives in Paris, London and Berlin. Additionally, Dr. Hiribarren has developed an interest in “digital methodologies” for research in social sciences and humanities, as exposed in his personal website.
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Thursday 13th of April, 2017, 11.00am to 12.30pm
Draper's Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigeria State
Dr Vincent Hirribarren
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Date: Tuesday 28th February
Time : 10am - 3pm
Place: IFRA Library (groundfloor, Institute of African Studies)
The seminar will be run by IFRA staff members Dr. Elodie Apard, Dr. Emilie Guitard, Ismael Maazaz and Sara Panata.
The goal of this first seminar will be to help junior researchers to achieve efficient bibliographical research in the library and through open online database, as well as to learn how to gather and sort these ressources in personnal bibliographical databases such as Zotero or Endnote.
This seminar is open to every master, Phd students and young researchers in Social Sciences. It is mandatory to be registered (or to renew the former registration) as an IFRA fellow, to attend it. To register as a fellow and for the seminar please download and file in the form:
Due to limited room availability (15 people max.), we strongly advise interested participants to register rapidly (imperatively before Friday 24th of February).
For any inquery about the seminar or the IFRA fellowship, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
BiblioNigeria is a watchtower for all articles and books published about Nigeria in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Every two months, a downloadable bulletin is published here to present an almost exhaustive list of most recent publications. Authors as well as users are invited to submit references through the link below.
To send a new reference to IFRA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Latest edition is available here:
IFRA Nigeria/Institut Français/IAS conference
Friday 21st October 2016, Draper’s Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
IFRA was delighted to organise the public lecture “Women on the Move: in Nigeria and Beyond. Mobilisations of Women, Mobilisations of Ideas” jointly with the Institut Francais of Nigeria and the Institute of African Studies. The event took place in Draper’s Hall at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. We had the pleasure to host a multifarious and plentiful audience comprising academics, activists and many school children. We were happy to have Adejoke Rafiat Adetoro, master student at the History Dept, as our moderator.
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The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria) is offering a series of small grants to support valuable graduate students presenting papers at regional and international conferences in any field of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The fund is designed to help participants face travel and accommodation costs along with registration fees.
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