2021 Events and Publications

December 9 – 12, 2021: End of Year Management Retreat.

November 9- 10, 2021: Workshop “Interrogating African Contexts and Conceptualisations of Development” -Prof. Dr. Lawanson & Dr. Eleshin.

October 20, 2021: “Sexuality and well being among students in higher institutions of learning in Lagos State” by Prof. Benard Sorre – a visiting research fellow LACC.

October 4 – 8, 2021: Academic Coordinators’ Forum.

September 15, 2021: “Bandits, Warlords, or Terrorists? Analyzing Conflict Actors in Northwestern and North-Central Nigeria” by James Barnett, a visiting research fellow at IADS.

August 18, 2021: “Melvin Edward’s Diasporic Connections with the Homelands of Africa” by Prof. Dr. Adepeju Layiwola.

July 27 -28, 2021: Security Challenges in West Africa- Multiform & Perspectives by Dr. Peter Oni & Dr. Feyi Ademola-Adeoye.

July 2021: Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence: Cluster Conference.

July 1, 2021: Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence: Knowledge Lab Discourse.

June 16, 2021: “Contingent relations, cult(ure)s of respectability and youth mobilisation in the oil rich Niger Delta by Dr. Akin Iwilade – a Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of African & Diaspora Studies.

June 1, 2021: Arrival of Visiting Research Fellow- Dr. Mwori Sorre, Moi University, Kenya.

May 19, 2021: “Trans – Sociological Hybridity: Conceptualizing African Contemporary Dance Identity” by Dr. Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James.

April 21, 2021: “Is Beauty White? Interrogating the Moralities of Cosmetic Skin Bleaching in South Sahara” by Dr. Fayemi.

March 17, 2021: “Akan Ananse Stories, Yorùbá Ìjàpá Tales, and the Dikènga Theory: Worldview and Structure” by Dr. Kambo (Visiting Fellow)

February 17, 2021: “Reclaiming the self through a re reading of African Human Relationship” by Dr. Oni

January 20, 2021: “Peju Layiwola’s Dialoguing SARAHS: Multiple and Hyperlinked (Post) Colonial Narratives” by Dr. Oloko