IADS UNILAG Receives Visiting Research Fellow & Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, African Cluster Centre, University of Lagos has received Dr. Magret Jongore of Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe as a Visiting Research Fellow. Dr. Jongore, who resumed on Thursday, March 2, 2023, will be in the University for a period of three (3) months. Similarly, the Institute will receive Dr. Elizabeth Murey of Moi University, Kenya as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 for a period […]
Lagos African Cluster Centre Hosts Workshop on Digital Research Environment
The time has come for African interdisciplinary research to thrive with the development of a Digital Research Environment (DRE). That was the kernel of deliberations held at the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, FAS, when participants of the workshop on Digital Research Environment paid her a courtesy visit on Thursday, January 19, 2023. Led by the Director of the Lagos African Cluster Centre (ACC), Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, the contingent of researcher-participants were drawn […]
UNILAG Don Advocates Renaissance of Indigenous Languages to promote Africa’s intellectual monuments
A Research Professor of Linguistics and Language Engineering in the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Professor Luqman Ayodele Yusuff has solicited a reengineering of indigenous languages with a view to showcasing and projecting the richness of Africa’s intellectual monuments. While delivering the 6th Inaugural Lecture for the 2021/2022 Academic Session, Professor Yusuff insisted that the over-reliance on the use of foreign languages for intellectual researches and other mediated knowledge production […]
“To a Diasporian, the Homeland is a Cemetery”, says winner of the 2022 Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
“To a Diasporian, the homeland is a cemetery, because he wants a decent place to be buried” – Dr. Henrietta Omo Eshalomi Those were the words of the winner of the Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2022, Dr. Henrietta Omo Eshalomi, at the formal presentation of the Award by the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. The Ph.D. graduate of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan […]
IADS Announces Henrietta Omo Eshalomi as Winner of Rahamon Bello Ph.D. Thesis Award 2022
The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) has announced Henrietta Omo Eshalomi, of the University of Ibadan as the winner of the 2022 Rahamon Bello Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in African Studies. The Director of the Institute, Prof. Muyiwa Falaiye, made the announcement on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at the IADS Gallery, J. P. Clark Building, Faculty of Arts. Henrietta Omo Eshalomi, the first female overall winner of the Award since its institutionalisation in […]
