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IAS/IFRA Cutting-Edge lecture series
Using a diachronic corpus of Yoruba press: examples of syntactic change
Date: September 10, 2012 Place: Draper’s Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan Time: 4.30-6.00 pm This presentation intends to show the kind of studies that can be done using a large corpus of words used in the Yoruba-speaking press over a period of 80 years. After a presentation of a 400,000 words corpus used for this study, we shall illustrate how one can make use of it. Two different studies will serve as examples: 1) How the frequency of the different uses of the (...)
Where is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s-1960
In the framework of the IAS/IFRA-Nigeria Distinguished Personality Lecture Series, we receive Dr. Saheed Aderinto , Assistant Professor of African History at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC, USA, who will deliver a lecture entitled: “Where is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s-1960".
Conference : Red Dust: Recovering the History of Leprosy Control in Nigeria and Ireland
Date: March 16th, 2011 Place: Draper’s Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan Time: 4.30-6.00 pm In the framework of the IAS/IFRA-Nigeria Distinguished Personality Lecture Series, we receive Dr. John Manton from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) who will deliver a lecture entitled: “Red Dust: Recovering the History of Leprosy Control in Nigeria and Ireland”. The lecture will focus more particularly on the experimentation of clofazimine in (...)
