Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet, rings true for the exceptional scholar, Dr. Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo, who emerged the pioneer winner of the Rahamon Bello Award for Best Ph.D…
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (lADS), University of Lagos (UNILAG) is pleased to announce that Dr. Adebayo Kudus Oluwatoyin has emerged as the winner of the first edition of the Rahamon Bello Best PhD Thesis in African & Diaspora Studies Award. Dr. Adebayo’s thesis, entitled “Migration and Settlement Experiences of Nigerians in Guangzhou,…
There are still so many interesting aspects to the Photography Exhibition being hosted by the Lagos African Cluster Centre (LACC), Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Lagos (UNILAG). Members of the University community and the public are cordially invited to visit the Gallery at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), J.P. Clark…
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), Nigeria, is calling on suitably qualified scholars, working in the field of African Studies, to apply for its 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship. Qualified Fellows will be in residence for periods…
The Lagos African Cluster Centre (LACC), Africa Multiple, Cluster of Excellence, University of Lagos, Nigeria, is scheduled to host a Photography Exhibition, entitled “Lagos: Ownership and Identities”, from Monday, November 2, 2020 to Sunday, November 29, 2020. The exhibition, which is designed to highlight the peculiarities in the identity of Lagos State, the nationally acclaimed…
The African Cluster Centre at the University of Lagos (Nigeria) invites scholars working in the field of African Studies to apply for fellowships. Fellows will be in residence for periods ranging from one (1) to three (3) months between June and December, 2020. The aim of the Fellowship is to expose scholars to a process…
The Lagos African Cluster Centre (ACC), Institute of African and Diaspora Studies is organising a workshop with the theme: “Methodology for Doing Cutting Edge Research in African Studies” for young scholars carrying out research on African Studies. Details are as shown below: Date: Tuesday, December 10 – Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Venue: Arthur Mbanefo Digital…
The UNILAG African Cluster Centre invites application from qualified Ph.D students for Scholarship in the academic year 2020/2021. The scholarship which is Sponsored by the German Research Foundation, and through its collaboration with the University of Bayreuth and three other African partners in the African Multiple Cluster system, the University of Lagos African Cluster Centre…
The University of Lagos African Cluster Centre (ACC) is a centre within the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies set up for the purpose of research. It is one of the four African Cluster Centres of the ‘Africa Multiple’ Centre of Excellence in African Studies of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. The Centre hereby invites…