IFRA & Thursday Film Series – Students' Mental Health and Well-Being
On the 8th of February, IFRA-Nigeria and TFS teamed up again to organise a screening and discussion on “Students' Mental Health and Well-Being”. Two short documentaries were be screened. ‘Hear Our Voices: Mental health in a developing world’, a documentary featuring the personal experiences of 5 families told from patient perspectives, and ‘What's eating my mind’, a personal story of living with mental ill-health in Kenya. The screenings were followed by a discussion on Mental Health led by Dr Alero Adegbolagun, a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist.
Taking place from January 7 to 14, 2024, this week-long workshop in Porto-Novo was aimed at taking stock of research conducted under the INFRAPATRI program. "Knowledges and attachments to urban plants in Sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Cameroun, Nigeria, Senegal)" funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) from March 2021 to April 2025 and led by Emilie Guitard (CNRS/UMR Prodig). This workshop brought together most of the members of the multidisciplinary scientific team and artists present on the African continent.
As part of both its programs on Digital Humanities and the Project of Engagement of Digital tools in the Conservation and Dissemination of Nigeria's Urban Archaeological Heritage, IFRA-Nigeria, in collaboration with the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological team has launched a research project in urban archaeology using digital tools for the conservation and dissemination of the archaeological heritage of Ile-Ife. Drawing from the fields of Digital Humanities, Archaeology, and Anthropology, the objective is to map out, research, and analyze the different types and spread of the medieval pavement found in Ile-Ife. In this context, IFRA-Nigeria is issuing the below call for application.
This panel, which will take place during the Lagos Studies Association annual conference between the 25th and the 29th of June, aims at questioning and putting into debate the idea that religion is at the core of “Africanness” and African identities through the relation between religion, geography and sociocultural change, considering that religions – such as Islam, Christianity, and so called “traditional” religions – map territories. It invites researchers to study how religions, as institutions and sets of practices and beliefs, depict not socio-geographical realities that would be “natural” and “already there”, but instead define their own place within a disputed social space, an intention to expand over historical territories, complex relations in a context of religious plurality and competition and, finally, social and power relations in local or national space, sometime used by politicians.
(French version below)
The European Union-funded project “Women at work: for a comparative history of African female urban professions (Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Ghana) 1920-1970” (WomatWork) invites applications for research and fieldwork grants aimed to support Master students, PhD candidates, and postdocs interested in the history of women of popular classes working in urban professions during the colonial and early post-colonial periods in Africa (1920-1970). The selected candidates will present their results at a summer school that will take place in Addis Ababa from 7 to 15 October 2024. Details about the application process available below.
The Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department (ESRI) of the Nigerian French Embassy is funding mobility grants for researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral students in Nigeria. These SSHN (Séjours scientifiques de Haut Niveau/ High-level scientific stays) grants allowed several researchers to go to France in 2023. This article gather interviews they gave about their trips.
AACTING (Act Against Child Trafficking In NiGeria) is a three year project run by ECPAT France, ECPAT Luxemburg, IFRA Nigeria, Girls Power Initiative and UROMI JDPCI in two Nigerian States. Its’ overarching objective is to contribute to reducing the prevalence of child trafficking, particularly for the purpose of sexual exploitation (CSE) in Edo and Delta States. This is an Action Research Project run by ECPAT France, GPI, JDPCI & IFRA-Nigeria with ECPAT International collaboration,
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos est directeur de recherche à l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), il travaille sur les conflits armés notamment au Nigeria ou il dirige le programme 
Dr Sa’eed Husaini of the Centre for Democray and Development (CDD), Abuja, participated in the Symposium of the Italian Society of Applied Anthropology. The Symposium was held in Perugia in December (14th-16th) and was focused upon ‘Social Uses of Anthropology: Heritage, Health and Territories’. Dr Husaini presented the work of the Socialist Library and Archives (SOLAR) and CDD within IFRA's Heritage research program (FSPI).
On the 8th of December 2023, the director of IFRA-Nigeria attended the soft launch event of a project IFRA-Nigeria is coordinating with the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja. The project aims at “Protecting Political Activists’ Archives to Write Another History of Nigeria”.
On the 1st of december, IFRA-Nigeria in collaboration with the French embassy in Nigeria organised a Conference at the Alliance Française in Lagos titled "Architecture for the people: for an inclusive and rooted city". The main guest of the event was Demas Nwoko who talked about sustainability, African architecture and the vision he communicated in his work in a discussion with Dr Barbara Morovich, director of IFRA-Nigeria. The recording of the full event is 
Between the 29th and the 30th of November, Dr. Elodie Apard, Historian (Research Institute for Sustainable Development), Dr. Precious Diagboya, Philosopher (IFRA-Nigeria Senior Research Fellow), and Janet Ogundairo, PhD Candidate in Sociology (University of Ibadan) animated a seminar titled: Doing research from where (and who) we are: the use of reflexivity and positionality in Social Sciences and Humanities.
Between the 6th and the 9th of November, IFRA-Nigeria organised a training in photogrammetry and 3D modelling as part of its research project on the religious architectural heritage of Ibadan. The training was provided by Marjorie Coulin, an Engineer at ICONEM. Founded in 2013, Iconem is an innovative French startup that specialises in the digitisation of endangered cultural heritage sites in 3D.
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