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Unilag African Cluster Centre invites you to a lecture to be delivered by Prof. Mawuloe Kodah, a visiting research fellow from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana on Thursday, November 24, 2022, at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos.   TOPIC: Literary Perspectives on Development Policies and Strategies in Africa: A Critical Reading of    Selected Postcolonial African Novelists   DATE: Thursday, November 24, 2022.   TIME: 12 PM.   Click here to join the Lecture

The Lagos African Cluster Centre invites you to her monthly lecture on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Christabel Aba Sam, a Postdoctoral fellow from the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.   Click here to join the lecture

Dr. Moses Yakubu, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos will deliver a lecture on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.   TOPIC: Premarital Pregnancy and Parturition in Burkina Faso and Nigeria: Prerequisites for Modern Marriage?  DATE: September 21, 2022 TIME: 12 PM    Click to join lecture

The Advisory board and the University of Bayreuth Cluster delegates visited the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos between August 22 and August 28, 2022. It was a productive week for the members of African Cluster Centres and the Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. The signing of the renewal of project agreement was also achieved on August 23, 2022.

Dr. Eleshin delivered a lecture entitled “Linguistic Pluralism and Indigenous Knowledge Production: A Preliminary Study of Eldoret, Kenya” on August 4, 2022 at the Moi University, Eldoret. This study interrogates African indigenous language and knowledge production situation among the Kalenjin group in Eldoret, Kenya. The outcome of this study is geared towards examining how the neglect of Kalenji speech codes could affect the production and sustenance of indigenous knowledge in the identified linguistic enclave.

Workshop entitled “Ancestral Time” at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos on the 21st July, 2022 by two scholars from the University of Bayreuth, Germany on mobility programme. It was an interesting interactive session at the IADS Board room today, as Prof. Dr. Viviane de Freitas and Prof. Dr. Henriette Gunkel presented their papers. All present both physical and virtual contributed to this engaging and captivating topic.

Unilag African Cluster Centre is inviting you to a lecture by Dr. Shina Alimi, a post-doctoral fellow at the Lagos ACC on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 12 PM Nigeria Time Click here to join the Lecture

  The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organises an international and interdisciplinary conference every two years. This year’s VAD conference entitled “Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives” will take place from 7th to 10th June, 2022 in Freiburg im Breisgau. The host of the VAD conference this year is the newly founded Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

Dr. Ife Atihou, a Visiting Research Fellow of the Unilag African Cluster Centre will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 12 PM. Click to join lecture

The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) received Ms Gudrun Chazotte, the Head of the Africa Dept. of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) on Thursday, May 12, 2022.