Institute for African and Diaspora Studies University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria

As one of the five African Cluster Centres (ACC), the Institute for African Fields of Research and Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos is part of the Africa Multiple International Relations Cluster of Excellence. Funded by the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments, the cluster aims at reconfiguring African Political Science Studies through an inter- and transdisciplinary approach. By working together on research projects, scholars participating in the Cluster seek to achieve Peace & Conflict transdisciplinary synergies and to develop new perspectives in various fields Sociology Diaspora of research. From the four African locations as well as from the ACC located in Bayreuth, the ACCs altogether facilitate the exchange of ideas, the mobility Economics Law of researchers, and the collection of and access to data.

Development The ACC Lagos is hosted by the University of Lagos in Nigeria and its Institute for African and Diaspora Studies (IADS). Drawing from various research Anthropology sections, the ACC Lagos contributes to the Knowledge Lab of the Africa Gender Migration Multiple Cluster across different research projects. The ACC Lagos is specialized in the fields of African Linguistics & Languages as well as Geography History Literature and Culture Studies. It furthermore enriches the Africa Multiple Cluster by its contributions in the fields of geography, sociology and law Environment among its other research specializations.

Global Health

Religions Philosophy Director Coordinator Languages & Linguistics Prof. Muyiwa Falaiye Dr. Ayo Yusuff Literature Music Professor for Socio- Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Linguistics and African Theater & Film Arts African Diaspora Languages

Psychology [email protected] [email protected]

Archaeology

All highlighted fields of research are ACC Lagos Website: https://iads.unilag.edu.ng/lacc/ represented at this ACC. The grey fields are researched by other partners within the Cluster network.

Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence | University of Bayreuth | 95440 Bayreuth | Germany Department of Internationalization | www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/global-network Network Activities § With ACC support, the Faculties of Engineering from UNILAG and UBT initiated research collaboration around 3D printer potentials, including social anthropologists. Contact: Prof. Uli Beisel ([email protected])

Further Contacts and Research Topics of the Cluster Members of the ACC Lagos Prof. Peju Layiwola Dr. Blessing E. Anyikwa Dr. Franca Attoh Professor of Arts Senior Lecturer of Adult/Literacy Associate Professor in Sociology Artifact pillage, repatriation and Education Irregular migration, crime and restitution, history, memory Adult Literacy, Literacies, Adult delinquency, gender studies, and gender Education, informal and non-formal sociology of the family, social change [email protected] education and culture and heritage [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Taibat Lawanson Associate Professor of Urban Prof. Ademola Omojola Dr. Feyi Ademola Adeoye Planning Professor of Hydrology & Resource Senior Lecturer in Linguistics African urbanization dynamics, Analysis Theoretical linguistics and language decolonization of urban studies, Environmental inventory and studies governance, spatial justice, formal- landuse and landcover change [email protected] informal linkages, understanding the detection agency of the urban poor [email protected] Dr. Anthony Okeregbe [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Prof. Olufunke Adeboye Religious life in Africa, Dr. Patrick Oloko Professor of Social History sexuality studies, public morality, the Associate Professor of Literature and Gender in Africa, pre-colonial and African predicament and governance Cultural Studies colonial Nigerian history, Yoruba [email protected] Gender in African Postcolonial society, African historiography, literature Pentecostalism in West Africa Dr. Kayode Eesuola [email protected] [email protected] Senior Research Fellow at IADS African political thoughts and Dr. Peter Oni Prof. Ayodele Atsenuwa political behaviour, deployment Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Professor of Public Law and mobility of Indigenous History of Philosophy, Sociopolitical Criminal law and criminal justice, knowledges for addressing socio- Philosophy and Postmodernism human rights law, gender and the political challenges [email protected] law, health law and migration law [email protected] [email protected] Prof. Akinola Ibidapo-Obe Dr. Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James Professor of Public Law Dr. Basirat Ashabi Oyalowo Lecturer in Creative Arts African Law Specialist in Housing & Real Estate Theatre Arts, Media, Gender and [email protected] Co-operative societies and housing African studies supply in Lagos, comparative studies [email protected] Dr. Ademola Kazeem on Africa’s housing sector and slum Senior Lecturer in Philosophy communities, real estate Dr. Paul Akinmayowa Ubuntu ethics and moral issues of sustainability Research Fellow at IADS Industry 4.0, biotechnologies and [email protected] Bioethical issues in African sexuality, Afrofuturism, repatriation Traditional Medicine of African art Dr. Abisoye Eleshin [email protected] [email protected] Research Fellow at IADS African Language, linguistics and culture, aspects of Yoruba language [email protected] Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence | University of Bayreuth | 95440 Bayreuth | Germany Department of Internationalization | www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/global-network