Former Projects

The “Human Trafficking” project is a 8-months Research programme funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. It is a multidisciplinary and collaborative research programme which involves Nigerian and French researchers on the study of trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation from a Nigerian fieldwork.

The Habitele Project is funded by the ANR, in the category “innovating societies”. The project is led by the Centre d’Etudes Européennes, Sciences Po (Paris), with Dominique Boullier as project leader. It is conducted in partnership with Telecom Paris Tech (Artur Hecker’s team) and 9 teams or researchers around the world.

This partnership aims to extend the European collaborations being developed through the successful ESRC-Open Research Area (ORA) “Memorials and remains of medical research in Africa” project (2011-2014), led at LSHTM by Wenzel Geissler (GHD), to include an Africa-based partner institution, IFRANigeria, in order to develop Nigerian research, teaching capacity and scholarly production in the history of medicine, with a specific focus on the history of medical research (both clinical and pharmaceutical) in Nigeria.

Discover the project

The Health Systems in History project is a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award based at the Centre for History in Public Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The principal investigator of the project is Prof. Martin Gorsky. The project aims at providing an intellectual and policy history of ‘health systems’ thinking based on a holistic conception of the organisational structures within which medicine is financed, provided and regulated in modern states. It depicts these as an interlinked set of relationships, which, once identified and measured, may be modified in the ongoing quest for greater efficiency, effectiveness and equity. But how did this idea arise? What work has it done? And how can we apply it historically?

Main Research Directions

As part of the implementation of its research program Dynamics of Islam in Nigeria, IFRA-Nigeria organized two brainstorming sessions, the first at University of Ibadan and the second at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The aim of these workshops was to stimulate collective reflection and to define common research perspectives. We wish to thank all the scholars who joined us in this preliminary stage of the project.

Supported by the Conseil Supérieur pour la Formation et la recherche Stratégique (CSFRS) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

In July 2011, IFRA-Nigeria was awarded a 100,000 euros research grant by the Conseil Supérieur de la Formation et de la Recherche Stratégique (CSFRS) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to analyse socio-political Risks in Niger. In order to respond ton the call for project, IFRA-Nigeria formed a consortium with the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL) in Niamey.

This research programme is looking at the politics of xenophobic mobilisation across the continent. This comparative project runs across four countries: South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

Forms and Roots of the Yoruba Political Space

Coordinators: J-L Martineau & Clément Boutillier
This approach of contemporary political systems in their relationship to the Federal construction consists of the following:

ANR-06CORP (2006-2010)

Coordination Prof. Amina Mettouchi, Université de Nantes
Research partners : LLING (University of Nantes, A. Mettouchi), LLACAN (CNRS Villejuif, M. Vanhove), CREAM-LacNad (Inalco Paris , D. Caubet).
Experts : Prof Bernard Comrie (MPI Leipzig & UCSB Santa Barbara), Prof Shlomo Izre’el (Tel Aviv University).
Bernard CARON (IFRA) is part of the project for Hausa and Zaar, two Chadic languages spoken in Northern Nigeria.

This projet operates within the general field of the collection, analysis and dissemination of oral corpora in Non-European languages. Several French teams, within the CNRS and in different Universities, work on Afroasiatic languages and have at their disposal a certain amount of raw data. Within these teams, some researchers have begun publishing on line their oral data, duly transcribed and translated.