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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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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.
27 applicants wishing to pursue MPhil and PhD programmes in the different Units of our Institute attended an interactive session with academic staff on 14 March 2018.
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On Friday, 9 March 2018 IAS-UI academic staff met with the research team of the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA, Nigeria) at the IAS Coffee Room in a conversation on research interests and areas of possible collaboration.
The Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) on Thursday, 8 March marked the International Women’s Day with a roundtable at Lady Bank-Anthony Hall on Women’s Agenda for the 2019 General Elections. The theme of this roundtable was Pragmatic Inclusion in the #PressforProgress.
24 MA students of our Institute, done with writing up their dissertations, had their oral examinations on Wednesday 7 March 2018 to determine their eligibility for the award of the degree.
IAS-UI has officially entered into an agreement on academic partnership with the African Studies Institute (ASI) of the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. This agreement is preliminary to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Georgia and the University of Ibadan.
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IAS-UI in collaboration with the IAS student body (ASSA) and APKASS marked this year’s Black History Month with a slew of programmes on 22 February, 2018 at Drapers Hall. The theme of the celebration was ‘You and the Black History Month’.
The 2018 edition of International Day for the campaign against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) was marked on Tuesday, 6 February 2018 with the collaboration of Women Research and Document Centre (WORDOC), NELINA, Splash FM, and African Rubys Rising, at St. Anne’s school, Molete, Ibadan.