Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2021: Call for Applications
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos hereby announces the 2021 call for applications for the Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in African and Diaspora Studies. This award seeks to encourage and appreciate young intellectuals whose Ph.D. theses address African and diaspora issues and the reconfiguration of African Studies. The Rahamon Bello Award also promotes cutting-edge intellectual and multidisciplinary research works in African Studies. The honouree of the award Professor […]
LAGOS-ACC Graduate Conference in African Studies: Call for Abstracts
The Lagos African Cluster Centre (Lagos-ACC) cordially invites graduate students conducting research on themes relating to Africa to apply to participate in its first Graduate Conference at the University of Lagos. The Conference, with the theme:“Studying Contemporary Africa: Politics, Society and Decoloniality” aims to provide the following: critical peer driven feedback on a substantial piece of work opportunity to share ongoing research with peers training on research design and grant writing opportunities for networking and […]
IADS Wins $50,000 Research Grant
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) of the University of Lagos has won a research grant of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The feat is a collaborative effort of Dr. Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko from the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) alongside researchers in the Faculty of Arts; Dr. Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James, Dr. Francis O. Falako, Dr. Nweke, Florence Ewomazino and Dr. Paul Onovoh of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Morehouse College, Atlanta, U.S.A. […]
UNILAG ACC Awards 2 Million Naira Doctoral Scholarships
The University of Lagos, African Cluster Centre of Excellence (LACC), a Centre within the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos (UNILAG), awarded scholarships worth two million naira to two (2) doctoral students. It would be recalled that in October 2020, the Centre published a call for applications from suitably qualified candidates for its 2021 Doctoral Scholarships. This was to fulfil part of the Centre’s commitment in supporting postgraduate studies in the […]
IADS Discusses The Black Family in Celebration of Black History Month
Consistent in its drive for promoting African and Diaspora Studies in both tertiary and secondary levels, the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos (UNILAG), has for the fourth time successfully celebrated the Black History Month. The month-long event, which is celebrated around the world, received the Midas touch of Unilag IADS on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at the J. P. Clark Centre, University of Lagos. It was on this day that […]
