Institute of African Studies of Ibadan

: 15 December 2018; Hits: 938

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.

: 13 December 2018; Hits: 1202

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’.

: 01 November 2018; Hits: 543

10th University of Ibadan Convocation Exhibition and Inauguration of the Cornelius Adepegba Museum of African Art (CAMAA) at IAS-UI

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.

: 16 September 2018; Hits: 605

The Vice Chancellors hosts outgoing and incoming Deans and Directors as Prof O.I. Pogoson hands over the baton to Dr I.A. Jimoh at IAS

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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.

: 07 August 2018; Hits: 589

TETFUND Executive Secretary commissions academic block at IAS

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.

: 04 July 2018; Hits: 532

Kristen Windmuller-Luna of Brooklyn Museum, New York, visits IAS

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.

: 08 May 2018; Hits: 847

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.

: 14 March 2018; Hits: 470

Interactive Session with Prospective MPhil and PhD Candidates 2018

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.

: 09 March 2018; Hits: 427

IAS-IFRA Meeting

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.

2018 International Women’s Day Celebration

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.

: 07 March 2018; Hits: 397

MA Oral Examinations

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.

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