The University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the University of Bayreuth, Germany on October 24, 2019, signed a project of agreement.
The agreement, which empowers Unilag African Cluster Centre (ACC), a branchof the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), J. P. Clark Centre, University of Lagos, aims to provide new research areas and innovations in African Studies.
Bayreuth’s project of Reconfiguring African Studies is for 7 years. The other three centres in Africa in the partnership are Rhodes University, South Africa, Moi University, Kenya and Joseph Ki Zarbo University, Burkina Faso.
The Director of the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Unilag, Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, looks forward to the heyday of humble beginnings and new turns IADS would take in the next couple of years as it partners with Bayreuth.