LAGOS AFRICAN CLUSTER CENTRE PROJECTS.
2023 Short-term Centre Funded Projects
“Gender and Performance: Reconstructing Feminity through Cultural Enforcers of Widowhood Rites in Nigeria” by Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James.
“Growing up in African Cities: Focus on Low Income Communities in Lagos, Nigeria” – Stakeholders Workshop by Taibat Lawanson and Abisoye Eleshin.
“What are they Teaching Adult Learners? Rethinking the Efficacy and Value of Adult Literacy Programmes (ALP) In Nigeria” by Anthony Okeregbe and Ayinkwa Blessing.
“Moral Challenges and Technological Prospects of Computerised Ifa Divination for Traditional Diviners in South -West Nigeria” by Ademola Kazeem Fayemi and Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko.
“From Wacky Warri to Ludic Lagos: A Pilot Study of Comedy Entrepreneurship and Trans-regional Mobility of Humour in Nigeria” by Patrick Oloko and Anthony Okeregbe.
“Integration of Green Practices in Solid Waste Management in Urban Communities in Lagos, Nigeria” by Prof. Taibat Lawanson and Dr. Elizabeth Murey.
2022 Short-term Centre Funded Projects
“Appraising Kanako and Egbe -Traditional methods of Teleportation for Entrepreneurial Development and Intergenerational Literacy among Hunters in South – West, Nigeria” by Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko and Blessing Anyikwa.
“Growing up in African Cities: Focus on Low Income Communities in Lagos, Nigeria” by Taibat Lawanson and Abisoye Eleshin.
“Interrogating the Repugnancy Doctrine in African Traditional Succession and Inheritance Mechanisms” by Peter Oni and Friday Ndubuisi.
“House Wives’ coping Strategies during Covid-19 Lockdown in Nigeria: Towards Alternative Policies for Women’s Protection” by Moses Yakubu and Franca Attoh.
“Cemetery Heterotopia: Social Stereotypes and Boundaries of ‘Other Spaces’ in Lagos” by Moses Yakubu and Shina Alimi (A Postdoc Fellow).
2022 Long-term Project
“The Socio-Political Thought of Orunmila” by Muyiwa Falaiye and ‘Kayode Eesuola.
2021 short-term projects
‘‘Mobilities Across West African Urban Corridors’ by Taibat Lawanson and Abisoye Eleshin
‘Ethics Dumping: An Integrative Study of Research Ethics Governance in Burkina-Faso, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa’ by Ademola Fayemi & Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
‘Municipal Road Construction in Kenya and Nigeria: Investigating the Politics of Infrastructure Development’ by Moses Yakubu & Feyi Ademola-Adeoye.
‘Locating The Albatross in Women’s Political Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa’ by Feyi Ademola-Adeoye & Moses Yakubu.
“Approaches to African Sonic Pedagogies” by Boudina McConnachie & Anthony Okeregbe
‘Re-examining Gender, Gender Role and Identity in Nigeria: The Fattening Room Tradition of the Efik’ by Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko and Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James
(Re) Researching African Identity, Morality and Sexuality for Wellbeing among students in Institutions of Higher Learning in Lagos State, Nigeria by Bernard Sorre (Visiting Fellow) and Patrick Oloko (PI)
2020 short-term projects
‘Rethinking the Artistic Trajectory of African Women Artists’ by Peju Layiwola
‘Women as Sages: Exploring the Nature and Value of Feminine Wisdom’ by Muyiwa Falaiye & Anthony Okeregbe
‘Digitising Yoruba Folktales for Animation and Value Education’ by Ayo Yusuff & Abisoye Eleshin.
‘Intra-Africa Migration and Xenophobia: Imperative for African Integration’ by Franca Attoh & ‘Kayode Eesuola
‘Rethinking the “Informal” and Mainstreaming African Popular Arts and Entertainment’ by Patrick Oloko & Feyi Ademola-Adeoye.
‘The Informal Workers also fight COVID-19’ by Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko & Ademola Fayemi.