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.

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