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We were honoured to be guests at ART X Lagos 2019, the fourth edition of this rich festival of artistic visions, views, and voices, which brings together in one place some of the most sophisticated and thought-provoking creators, productions, teachers, researchers, galleries, curators, collectors, and impresarios from art scenes on the continent and its various diasporas across the globe.
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Jérôme Pasquier, paid us a courtesy visit this week as part of his tour of the University of Ibadan.
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We are pleased to have Dr Megan Turnbull, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia, USA, visit us at IAS-UI.
Céline Colloud, our webmaster who built the IAS site and is in charge of its maintenance, recently paid us a visit in Ibadan.
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.
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.
2018 has been another great year for our students, with several of them emerging winners of keenly contested international awards.
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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