Distinguished Personality Lecture
On Thursday, 20th of September 2018, the French embassy in Nigeria, the Institut Francais du Nigeria and IFRA Nigeria are extremely pleased to invite you to our next Guest Lecture entitled "Why are imagination and courage essential to democracy?" given by Professor Cynthia Fleury.
Book Launch: The Boko Haram Reader. From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Hurst Publishers 2017)
On Wednesday 5th of September 2018, IFRA was very pleased to host Mr. Abdulbasit Kassim, PhD student in Religion at Rice University in Texas, co-author with Michael Nwankpa of The Boko Haram Reader. From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State.
Report on Masterclass
New forms of popular transport of goods and persons in Nigeria
A Columbia, IFRA and Sciences Po Research Masterclass
July 02-07, 2018, Mambayya House, Kano Nigeria
IFRA Research Training Seminar
“Nocturnal Fieldwork and ‘Assisted’ Field Research”
IFRA was pleased to organise a research training seminar on the 25th of May in our library led by Mrs. Chrystel Oloukoi, a PhD student in African and African-American Studies at Harvard University.
IFRA Nigeria, a non-profit Institute to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities
Who are we?
IFRA-Nigeria is a non-for-profit Institute set up to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa.
First established in 1990, the Institute is operating from the University of Ibadan (Institute of African Studies).
Our goals
- Promote research in the social sciences and the humanities
- Enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa
- Subsidizing research programs
- Granting research allowances to academics and scholars
- Publishing research results
- Holding workshops, seminars and symposia
Academic Events
- Guest Lecture: Why are imagination and courage essential to democracy?
- Book Launch: The Boko Haram Reader. From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Hurst Publishers 2017)
- Report: New forms of Popular Transports of Goods and Persons in Nigeria
- Book Discussion: Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Firearms, Culture and Public Order
- Memorialisation Principles, Post-Civil War Reintegration and the Quest for Sustainable Peace in Nigeria
IFRA Publications
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