2nd UNILAG-ACC Graduate Conference in African Studies holds, Sept. 20 -22
The Second (2nd) University of Lagos African Cluster Centre (UNILAG-ACC) Graduate Conference in African Studies holds from Wednesday, September 20 to Friday, September 22, 2023 at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), UNILAG, Akoka. With the theme: Developing Theories within the African Studies Research Space, the conference will be a convergence of early career scholars on the UNILAG campus with the purpose of sharing knowledge and scholarly experience. The 3-day fully-sponsored session will […]
Rahamon Bello Best PH.D. Thesis Award 2023: Call for Applications
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos hereby announces the 2023 call for applications for the Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in African and Diaspora Studies. This prestigious award seeks to encourage and appreciate young intellectuals whose Ph.D. theses address African and diaspora issues and the reconfiguration of African Studies. The award promotes trailblazing intellectual and multidisciplinary research works in African Studies. The honouree of the award, Professor Rahamon Bello, is a former […]
IADS UNILAG Receives Visiting Research Fellow & Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, African Cluster Centre, University of Lagos has received Dr. Magret Jongore of Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe as a Visiting Research Fellow. Dr. Jongore, who resumed on Thursday, March 2, 2023, will be in the University for a period of three (3) months. Similarly, the Institute will receive Dr. Elizabeth Murey of Moi University, Kenya as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 for a period […]
Lagos African Cluster Centre Hosts Workshop on Digital Research Environment
The time has come for African interdisciplinary research to thrive with the development of a Digital Research Environment (DRE). That was the kernel of deliberations held at the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, FAS, when participants of the workshop on Digital Research Environment paid her a courtesy visit on Thursday, January 19, 2023. Led by the Director of the Lagos African Cluster Centre (ACC), Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, the contingent of researcher-participants were drawn […]
UNILAG Don Advocates Renaissance of Indigenous Languages to promote Africa’s intellectual monuments
A Research Professor of Linguistics and Language Engineering in the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Professor Luqman Ayodele Yusuff has solicited a reengineering of indigenous languages with a view to showcasing and projecting the richness of Africa’s intellectual monuments. While delivering the 6th Inaugural Lecture for the 2021/2022 Academic Session, Professor Yusuff insisted that the over-reliance on the use of foreign languages for intellectual researches and other mediated knowledge production […]
