Dr Aibinuola Osunwole’s latest publication, Herbal Medicines as Home Remedies, was presented to the public on the 29th of March at Lady Bank-Anthony Hall.
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Chief Kelvin Obiegbunam, the President General of the Town Union of the ancient Nri Kingdom, paid a visit to our Institute today.
Among other matters, Chief Obiegbunam discussed with IAS Director, Dr I.A. Jimoh, and Professor O.I. Pogoson, who is Honorary Curator of our museums, plans to refurbish the Odinani Museum located in the Nri Kingdom and established in 1972 as a joint project of our Institute and the Nri Progress Union.
As part of activities to mark the 2019 edition of International Women’s Day, our Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) is holding a screening of Uduak Isong’s romantic comedy ‘House Husband’ on Thursday 7, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., Lady Bank-Anthony Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
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A team of researchers led by Dr Sharon Adetutu Omotoso of our Gender Studies Unit has won CODESRIA’s 2018/19 Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI) competition.
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Meet our 2018 award-winning students
2018 has been another great year for our students, with several of them emerging winners of keenly contested international awards.
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Cynthia Olufade Wins Leiden Thesis Award
Cynthia Aghunotse Olufade of our programme in Diaspora and Transnational Studies (DTS) is the 2018 winner of the prestigious Africa Thesis Award of the African Studies Centre Leiden, the Netherlands, with her MA thesis titled ‘Oath Taking and the Transnationalism of Silence among Edo Female Sex Workers in Italy’.
On the 1st of November 2018, the annual Convocation Exhibition of the University of Ibadan kicked off at the Cornelius Adepegba Museum of African Art (CAMAA) of our Institute. The opening ceremony of this tenth edition of the Convocation Exhibition coincided with the formal renaming of our Institute’s Museum after late Prof Cornelius Adepegba, the first Honorary Curator of the IAS Museum and a former IAS Director.
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The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Idowu Abel Olayinka, and his management team hosted outgoing and incoming Deans of Faculties and Directors of Institutes to a luncheon at the Dome, Sultan Bello Hall, on 1st August, 2018.
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On the 7th of August, 2018, Dr Abdullahi Bichi Baffa, Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), was at our Institute to commission the academic block built for IAS by the fund.
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On July 4, 2018, we were glad to have in our Institute Dr Kristen Windmuller-Luna, the Sills Family Consulting Curator (African Arts) at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
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We Welcome Our Distinguished Fellows
As part of our tradition of recognizing and celebrating excellence, we received today our three Distinguished Fellows, whose appointment to that position has been ratified by the Senate of the University of Ibadan.
Professors Dan Izevbaye, David Okpako and Biodun Jeyifo do not require any introduction, being scholars of global renown. Their appointment to the position of Distinguished Fellows of our Institute further demonstrates our interest in grounding our endeavours on solid intellectual foundations established by luminaries in the different fields that have a bearing on knowledge production and consumption in Africa.
Latest News
- Dr Olaoluwa to present Fourth IAS-CODESRIA Staff Seminar
- Public Presentation of Dr Osunwole’s Herbal Medicines as Home Remedies
- Adetoun Oyelude gives WORDOC-IFRA Monthly Seminar
- President General of the Town Union of the Ancient Nri Kingdom Visits IAS-UI
- WORDOC screens Isong’s ‘House Husband’ for International Women’s Day