Institute of African and Diaspora Studies

A throwback to April, when IADS convened a one-day seminar for World Malaria Day 2026 at the J.P. Clark Building, UNILAG. The theme, The Place of Traditional Medicine in the Fight Against Malaria, framed a day of dialogue between herbal practitioners and orthodox medical experts.

Research Professor Ayo Yusuff, Director of IADS, called for traditional medicine to be integrated into mainstream healthcare, citing the Institute’s progress in formulating herbal remedies. The panel that followed pointed to clear paths for collaboration grounded in mutual respect, standardization, and shared knowledge. A live demonstration of herbal remedy preparation brought the conversation into practice.

The seminar closed with a question worth sitting with: how much further could malaria research advance if both traditions worked as one?

Where does real understanding come from? Sometimes it starts in the body, in music, movement, and moments we share with others. For the Aladura churches, this is exactly how faith is known and felt, not just thought about.

This month, Professor Anthony Okeregbe looks at how emotion shapes the way we understand the world, drawing on the worship and spiritual life of the Aladura tradition. Come and explore what it means to know something with your whole self, heart and mind together.

Join us on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 12 Noon (WAT) at J.P. Clark Building, University of Lagos.

Virtual here: bit.ly/3SHcikL

The Africa Multiple Research Centre, University of Lagos, invites outstanding African scholars to apply for its 2026 Visiting Research Fellowship. Spend July to November 2026 advancing your research within a collaborative, cross regional community of thinkers.

This is your moment to exchange ideas, build new connections, and contribute to the evolving conversation in African scholarship.

Applications close on 15 June 2026. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/CFVF2026

Email: [email protected]

The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos, welcomes applications for its 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Studies. This fully funded, three month programme is open to scholars who earned their PhD from July 2021 onwards across the humanities, social sciences, management sciences, and related fields.

Fellows receive a monthly stipend, accommodation support, and travel funding. Proficiency in English and/or French is welcome.

Applications close on 15 June 2026. Apply today: bit.ly/CFPF2026

Email: [email protected]

Applications are STILL open at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos.

We are inviting outstanding African scholars to join two fully funded fellowship programmes for 2026: the Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Studies and the Visiting Research Fellowship with the Africa Multiple Research Centre.

Both programmes offer a monthly stipend, accommodation support, and travel funding, giving you the space and resources to pursue meaningful research within a vibrant scholarly community.

Applications close on 15 June 2026. Swipe through to learn more about each opportunity, then apply today.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: bit.ly/CFPF2026
Visiting Research Fellowship: bit.ly/CFVF2026

Email: [email protected]

Congratulations to Ibukunoluwa Akinola, Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, on receiving the 2026–2027 APDD Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Her proposed thesis, Climate Change and Medicinal Plants: Implications for African Traditional Medicine and Health Resilience in Nigeria, places African knowledge systems at the centre of one of the most urgent conversations of our time.

We are proud of you, Ibukunoluwa. The Institute celebrates this achievement with you.

TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO APPLY!

The application deadline is Friday, 5th June 2026, and that is today! Submit your application now via the link above before the window closes.
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Tomorrow, June 5, 2026, the window closes.

The 2026 AMRC-UNILAG Graduate Workshop gives you everything you need to grow as an African Studies scholar: peer feedback, research training, grant writing support, mentorship from seasoned faculty, and a powerful network of graduate minds at the University of Lagos and beyond.

This is the room you want to be in.

One form stands between you and all of that. Fill it before midnight tomorrow

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Three days. That’s all that stands between you and one of the most consequential opportunities in African Studies scholarship this year.

The workshop brings together graduate students and faculty from the University of Lagos and beyond for peer feedback, research training, grant writing, mentorship, and real academic networking. It is built for the next generation of African Studies scholars, and that means you.

Click the link below, log in with your Google account, and fill the form: https://bit.ly/AMRC1

The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies is hosting a conversation titled “The Problem of Integration: Africa’s Future in View.”

Keynoting is Prof. David Aworawo, Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Lagos, joined by Mr. Yemi-Joshua Oladeji, MD of SID Digital, and Mr. Stephen U. Omatule, President of the Climate Actors Network of Nigeria-UN SDSN.

Tomorrow. 11am. JP Clark Building, University of Lagos. Be there.